So many creator platforms are becoming slop factories.

1. To migrate my hand-rolled HTML site over so I could publish it with Quartz.

2. To research a large multi-hundred git repo code base and build up personal. internal documentation I can search and reference.

Oh. my. gosh. This has been driving me NUTS recently. Please please please here me out. The first dozen or so records I bought were of albums I already owned digitally, as FLAC so I was one of those kinds of people that didn't redeem the downloads. I wanted to buy my faves, stuff that I knew I'd love to listen to on vinyl forever. Now that I'm buying brand new stuff, that I don't have digital copies of I've noticed they rarely, rarely, if ever include a download link and so I had to renew my dang apple music subscription to listen to albums I already own when I'm away from my record player and its started to really turn me off from buying any records outside of bandcamp (where you always get the digital version too.)

I use Rhythmbox to listen to files on my PC (Linux) - I think they have/had a Windows port at some point. VLC works too but is more cumbersome for large libraries on desktop IMHO. But VLC is actually pretty good on Mobile (iOS/Andriod.) besides the pain of syncing files over to iOS.

I splurged on a dedicated DAP (Digital Audio Player) last year that I'm mostly happy with: a HiBY R1 (my two complaints are: 1. for whatever reason it refuses to pair to my car's bluetooth, no issues pairing to numerous other devices. 2. It doesn't remember what you were last playing when it shuts off.)

The one place I would still use it, if I ever find myself in this situation again, is on long trips involving an international flight where after being shot across the ocean I'm expected to show up in a disoriented state in front of customers and work together on something.

I think this is by far, my favorite thing about LLMs. As a person who prefers self-learning I can significantly increase depth, breadth, and speed of learning or researching any topic now. Its absolutely terrible for a large number of topics but in the very least it can usually point me in a general direction faster than anything else.

For years after I would only buy Atheros WiFi cards, these days its usually Intel ones.

I was just enjoying a bit of nostalgia for that old clunky grey laptop.

I also have an X1 Nano, which I love too, its the around-the-house laptop and a great little machine but whenever it dies, if I replace it at all, it will likely be with another Framework (perhaps the 12")

The real test will be in 2-3 years when I'm itching for an upgrade, assuming Framework is still around, I'll be able to swap out the MoBo and leave everything else as-is. We'll see.

The thing is, I usually don't find the work "boring", I'm feel uncomfortable handing off the thing I enjoy doing to a bot.

Like let's say I enjoyed playing video games, AI can play video games for me I'm sure, but I actually enjoy the challenge, the grind, the ups-and-downs. Why would I give that to AI to do for me?