Thomas @tfb@functional.cafe

I slightly overcooked the egg, but I'm otherwise very happy with lunch today. The vegetables came entirely from the garden, and the bread was home made.

#mastopasto

I hope she doesn't mind the trackpad, as that looks annoying to replace. And I guess I should order an AZERTY keyboard now. And another SSD to replace the optical drive, so we can boot it into Linux for personal use.

My wife's work will allow partial work from home when she goes back next month. And they're not supplying any equipment. And their IT department wants you to run windows. And they want to install things in your machine, presumably the usual corporate spyware.

So I bought a T440P with an upgraded screen, CPU, SSD, and 16GB of RAM. Those things are ridiculously good deals. Under 400€ shipped.

A cute story about a boomer friend, since I see so much generational anger here ...

A Breton teenager in the 1970's played a traditional reed instrument (bombard) and knew celtic dance rhythms. When he heard Planxty's first album, he bought a one-way ferry ticket to Ireland.

I cannot imagine how that worked. He still speaks no English and butchers Irish beyond comprehension. But he taught Breton music, and learned to play the pipes to the point that he's a reference to some young Irish pipers.

Can your imagine that? No return ticket? No plan? Crazy folk-hippie madness...

Right on, Shahid.

https://twitter.com/shahidkamal/status/1309143600912125955

@shahidkamal: Investigation launched after black barrister mistaken for defendant three times in a day... “This is not the behaviour anyone should expect and certainly does not reflect our values.” It DOES reflect your values, that's why it happens! https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/sep/24/investigation-launched-after-black-barrister-mistaken-for-defendant-three-times-in-a-day

We don't want you to launch dumb "diversity initiatives", they just alienate the people whose eyes we want to open. We just want you to stop being racist. We are good enough to do any job, stop being surprised when we are, that's all.

Ethnic minorities have been a fact of life in Britain, not for decades, but for centuries. I'd love to be able to stop banging on about this, it's embarrassing. I don't want you to notice me because I'm brown, but I don't want you to ignore me because I'm brown either. And you do

I was last at a hair salon in February. I've trimmed my hair twice since but not cut it.

I'm calling this look, Covid Folk Singer.

I know this is way too much wok for me. This is the cooking equivalent of lusting after a lamborghini that you'd just drive into a wall. But still

Did you know there are 8kW rounded induction cookers for firing a wok? 8000W!

https://a.aliexpress.com/_BTJI8b

When Firefox for Android got the latest update, I noticed that most of my add-ons were removed. What I didn't immediately notice was that there are almost no add-ons available at all.

WTF, Mozilla. You have a rich set of add-ons, and that is one of your biggest strengths. Why would you throw that out? No one is going to rewrite their extension just for fecking Firefox Android!

A little Jimmy Cliff as an antidote, ‘The Harder They Come’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhRVe4ud1E

#NowPlaying

I recently went too far down a hole of listening to depressing folk songs. This is a very nice one I was listening to recently, but ... a bit heavy.

Mary Delaney, ‘What Put the Blood?’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0BP7z_w0YQ

#NowListening #Irish #Trad #Folk #MurderBallad