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I just finished Andor season two the other day and Linn and I are making our way through season two of The Last of Us. Both shows are amazing and I have a strong feeling that this is peak tv for a while and things will only get worse.

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I’ve recently gotten myself a Home Assistant Green. Up until now I haven’t used it for anything in particular. My smart home consists almost exclusively of IKEA stuff at the moment and as long as I keep it that way the Ikea’s own app works fine. I would like to be able to add stuff from other manufacturers though, so that is why I got the Home Assistant and will slowly migrate over to using it instead.

Right now I’m reading up on some ESP32/ESP8266. I would like to make my own simple home automation hardware and this seems like the way to go. I bought a cheap ESP8266 board the other day and I think I’ve managed to install ESPHome on it. It shows up in my network logs so it seems to be connecting to wifi. I’m considering this a successful first test and I’ll keep playing with this more in the future.

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It’s getting increasingly hard to use Office365 without being forced to interact with Copilot. If Microsoft love AI, good for them I guess, but I just want to read an e-mail or create a form or something similar. Don’t put your prompt in the way of me getting my job done.

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Benn Jordan’s latest video, ”You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism (YouTube)”, is a depressing but very important watch. It makes a nice double-feature with Technology Connections’ ”Algorithms are breaking how we think (YouTube)”. I would argue anyone, anyone, to watch them.

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Every time I connect an external drive, thunderbolt dock or similar to my Mac and are forced to allow it to connect, I think about this commercial. Those were good times…

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Added some Vangelis style brass to my generative piece from the other day and now I’m sitting here with a goofy smile on my face.

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Eftertanke

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I’ve spent a large part of the day today making a generative piece of music, called ”Eftertanke”. The music itself is somewhat sad, but making it has made me very happy. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it now, but I recorded a couple of minutes of it and have embedded it in this post.

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@ReaderJohn Yep, I thought Hillbilly Elegy was a thoughtful book, I’ve lived in southern OH, and for a while I imagined he’d be a voice for a neglected constituency. So there was some special pain in watching his complete moral collapse. It makes you ask, was I fooled? Was he nothing but ambition fr…

I feel the exact same way. I’ve not lived in Ohio, nor anywhere else in the US, so I have no personal experience to compare Hillbilly Elegy to, but I really liked it and thought that Vance was an interesting person. When I wrote about the book in 2019, I praised him for being ”the old school type of conservative or republican, the kind that was more prevalent before the party was hijacked by a buffoon and those power-hungry enough to sell out every single principle they have as long as they feel like they can use the buffoon in question for their own personal gain. The kind that I respect.”

Vance certainly made a fool of me for thinking that.

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On February the 26th Amazon will remove the option to download Kindle books directly to your computer. You should probably download your entire library today, and consider never purchasing anything from the Kindle Store ever again.

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The trend(?) of selling expensive frozen meals via influencers feels like an elaborate trolling or an art project.

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