TLDR:

Some outage causes a meeting with an SVP. SVP preempts the discussion with the following:

“I know that if we get into the details, the reasons will be perfectly reasonable. You'll explain what happened, I'll understand why everyone made the decisions they made, and I'll empathise with you.

Then it'll happen again.

So I don't want the details. I want to know what we're changing.”

About 2/3 in, the sentences got choppier and shorter, and you could tell some context rot was setting in.

When you go "Make longer" the text gets longer.

When you go "Make shorter", the text gets longer still.

You'd think that the original text would be the oracle for shorter(longer(original))?

Last winter I built a Matrix client for it. This time around I want to wrap Akonadi with a DBus shim and consume that model in custom calendar widgets and UX I’m making for a rotary knob ui.

I want to run the same app on an intel atom tablet on the side of my fridge, with a Griffin PowerMate hooked up to it for input.

I used Compose MPP cross-compiled to a Raspberry Pi (running Raspbian) to make my own Infotainment system from scratch. It works on the 2001-vintage factory BMW display with a retractable screen that has a cassette deck behind it.

I then wrote a Matrix Chat Client for the system. The only input device (no touch screen) is a rotary knob that can be pressed. The knob events are sent via the car's IBUS serial bus, which I integrated into the Compose MPP UI state https://e39.dev/hmi/WidgetFramework/KnobListener.html

I've been working on this project since January 2021, when Compose MPP was at the Milestone 2 release.

The Matrix page has a great video of the system in action on the bench-top car-surrogate I made. The homepage, https://e39.dev/, shows an overview of the whole system, and also has writeups on the other features I made, such as the Open Street Map viewer that I also made from scratch.

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There’s a risk with a user base and having a support organization, much like the risk calculation the insurance industry takes.

I buy electronics equipment, computers, furniture, clothes, and cars with the mindset I will be the last owner of them, and they will have no resale value.

“I bought this, and I will assume it’s instantly worthless”

It keeps me from buying the same thing twice and causes me to save up for the thing I really want, and keep it for as long as possible. It also lets me be picky about my preferences and really scope out exactly what I want on a relaxed timeframe.

Perhaps it’s a side effect of growing up with hand me downs, and knowing anything our family owned was one step to junk, but it does keep spending in check now that I am doing okay in my career.

I’d imagine the scale to be: 1. Not Meeting Expectations 2. Meeting Expectations 3. Exceeding expectations

“The best camera is the one you have with you” is common photography advice

Whether or not the author is limited by his perception of iPad’s ability is needless hair-splitting.

“What works for you only works for you, so you might not have discovered that it works for anything else, but only if you were really paying attention.”

Cue oddly specific example of “The Ukraine” and “rocket volley”.

Next, the highlight that informal communities that make their own echo chambers are more popular as distrust in established media is sown.

Finally, a personal anecdote that echo chambers curate more attention-getting articles.

Nothing in this post is especially truthy or falsey, yet it serves up mild “distrust the media” nihilism.