Reading a book (hopefully)

France is 2 days away from an election which will see the Far Right grab the most seats ever in Parliament, the only question (hope really) is “will they get absolute majority or not”.

Holland fell not so long ago.

Belgium kinda holds through “sacred union” that vows to never sign an alliance with it, but at cities level it’s too late.

And Hungary is deep into it with Orban since a while now. Hungary which turn it is to lead the European Parliament (a rotating position). First political act? Go shake hands with Putin.

It’s gonna get complicated over here.

LG OLED55C31LA

LG OLED55C31LA

…sorry… work was crazy

Aw crap, completely forgot, worked another part of the building all day didn’t ever got near the exhibition rooms.

Better luck tomorrow I hope, sorry.

It does not, I know it because I have started them multiple times.

We use them as dumb players with an USB drive inserted, playing video on a loop all day long.

I’ll fetch you the ref tomorrow.

We just got 3 LG tv’s at work for an art exhibition. There’s no network available here (it’s a Napoleonic Fortress lol), and while they ask for it, dismissing all accounts/updates/online services is straightforward. You can delete all pre-installed apps (disney, netflix whatever) but LGtv and amazon. I can dig the model number tomorrow if you want.

OTOH I haven’t owned a tv since 2001.

Birds. These jerks stared 4am this morning, and their way of announcing the bird-world (and the whole planet around) their morning urge to fuck RIGHT NOW and get fucked ASAP is annoying me seriously.

A lovely, sunny morning indeed. I want to barbecue these Priapic Jerks. Or make a Quetzalcoatl carnival costume of their skin or something.

Don’t ask me what I do not look forward to.

My reaction when reading the post’s title: nothing.

I am not tired.

Funny story the other way around: the year is 2002 and I live in Laos. Bootlegs Everything Galore, all movies games music cost $1 or about. I discover a game, and then begins a quest to buy The Real Version because it’s a small studio and I really like it all, the storytelling, the modding tools, the community… A quest that would end up in Bangkok looking like the proverbial insane foreigner looking for the most stupid way to spend his money.

I found it eventually, in a shop that didn’t look any different among all its brothers in Pantip Plaza. Took me a while lol.

I know everybody always grandly takes on the High Seas, sailing them with lots of "arrrr“ and stuff, but I’ve found that small, quick flowing rivers oftentimes do yield a good catch.

Yup, there’s many of them. I use DDG all the time, but this feature probably works in other search engines too - I just don’t know

From any search bar configured to use DDG, just type !ai followed by your query

You can do this from the DDG website too of course. Other useful “bangs” include !w for Wikipedia, or !aw for the Arch Linux wiki, or even just !img for image search.

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

Or Claude ; the choice is yours.

It all works quite smoothly ; the install process is a breeze of a single .sh script to run directly from macos. The amount of software available for Arm64 is surprising, tho gamers will be disappointed there’s no Vulkan / Steam available yet.

That “Default” install is really just Fedora, shipped with KDE for it’s superior handling of fractional scaling. There’s the dnf package manager, flatpaks, the works.

I’m 80~90% of the time on the Asahi side of things on my device. Showstoppers today are sleep battery drain (50% a day) and pure “ooomph” - performance of an M2Pro chip is more akin to a 12th gen i7 than the same chip under macos. Rendering in kdenlive or blender is noticeably slower on Asahi. But it’s a huge reverse-engineering undertaking, and it will be getting better.

There’s now a privacy-respecting offer on DDG, use the !ai bang to get to it.

To answer your question, any “natural language” query of modest importance, where asking a question like “will there be any more movies in that series by this director?” is easier than checking the usual movies websites.

It’s a blog post on how to get Netflix and Spotify to work on Asahi Linux, the project to run Linux on new “M” chipsets 64bits Arm apple computers. Their solution (and widevine hack) is now integrated in the Fedora Linux Asahi Remix project’ default distro. You still have to do the user agent mod tho.

I’d cross the Alps with Hannibal. I can’t imagine, living right now right where he went straight through, what it looked like at he time.

Belgium: French Fries, yes. Common Tourist Etiquette Mistake: don’t put ketchup on it, just don’t.

Laos: Laap (of fish preferably) and sticky rice, the dry on eyou make a ball with your fingers, grab a tiny bit of extra-spicy Laap, and let it explode in your mouth. Chew lengthily to allow the rice to restore balance in your innards.

Morocco: Couscous. Not a joke, so good and also kind of mandatory on Friday Noon. I love my Fridays!

I’ll fight you!

• Cheese: France, évidemment
• Chocolate: Belgium, potferdomme
• Rösti: …'mkay, I’ll leave you the potatoes leftovers fried in a greasy pan, but ffs not the dried-out thingy from Migros please