I am still writing the ai call lower case and call agents “clankers”. Because writing “AI” is too bold and calling clankers “agents” assumes some degree of agency. And this is simply not true. As it always was with Open Source Software (OSS) my only request to the world is to choose alternatives over proprietary. And with ai we have entered another level of proprietary dependencies and vendor-lockins. Let me elaborate.
This post exists to simply share a link with you: https://ascii.rest
This website collects “ASCII Art”. Which are pictures drawn with symbols from the ASCII character set.
I am currently reading “The Man in the High Castle” by Philip K. Dick (PKD). This and other stories have been turned into tv series and movies. The work of Philip K. Dick had huge impact on culture and media. Even though he is often labeled as a science fiction author, I think his stories go well beyond.
Just when I had my new Arch installation up and running I deleted the boot partition. Luckily, I did not reboot the computer. There was a high chance of fixing the issue.
Many eons ago I decided to get rid of Vercel and welcome Kubernetes into my life. Entering the world of Vercel is very easy (even ai can do it). Kubernetes is the very opposite. You have to unlearn a lot of stuff and learn even more new stuff. Let me give you an introduction.
Installing Arch Linux is a thing that you hope you’ll do once and then never again. Despite this hope, I bricked my system and was forced install it again. With this blog post I document the process of installing Arch Linux.
By default the SteamDeck boots into game mode. Game mode also called big picture mode is a view of the Steam client optimized for handheld and TV screens. Then there is the desktop mode. It is a full KDE environment. You can actually use the SteamDeck as a desktop computer. But I would not recommend it. As many other SteamDeck users I wanted it boot directly into desktop mode.