Anyone here have experience with the framework 12" running Linux?

That was unexpected. I picked up the Daylight DC-1 again for grins. I decided not to push it too hard and use it primarily for web apps and social media It is quite pleasant to use if that’s the case. The handwriting recognition is quite decent. I may just keep this bugger.

I’ll still occasionally dip the toe in the Linux pool, but I’m at the age where I need to keep things running and be fishing all the time for new solutions. I’d much rather spend my time with my feet up reading a good book or maybe walking in the park nearby with my camera.

My Daylight Computer experiment has ended and the unit will be returned. I really liked the hardware form factor, responsiveness, (expected) battery life, and the warm orange glow but Android was its undoing. Just did not play as nicely as I needed it to with my other hardware.

And the “black, cyber, small business, giving” day deluge shows no sign of stopping.

I’m done with various web site updates for a while. Now I can concentrate on other things: caregiving, personal health, Advent, and work; somewhat in that order.

Also moved back to SmugMug temporarily for the photo gallery. I thought I had to move by December, but found that my renewal date is in June. Plenty of time to figure the best approach for hosting on M.b. I have the beginnings of a script for posting photos with text ripped from metadata.

Settling in more comfortably on micro.blog as a hub for social presence. No longer cross-posting to mastodon or bluesky but using accounts there as a springboard for populating my timeline here. One stop shopping.

Turns out (for me) that having more than one blog on m.b runs the risks of posting to the wrong blog about 50% of the time. Better limit it to one for now until I find the right discipline.

Playing around with various themes for my photo blog. Temporarily at an impasse. Pondering. Probably need to put this away for a few hours.

Aydrien left last evening. He has a Black Friday shopping date with his sister. Our food stores have been depleted by this 21 year old male. My job this morning is to remedy this condition.

Attempting to automate photo posting using the micro.blog API. Used Dia to generate a python script to extract metadata for the post content. I think the underlying ChatGPT is hallucinating bits of the API docs. Manual fixup needed.

Made pancakes for the first time in ages since we had buttermilk in the fridge that had to be used. Bittman’s basic recipe from “How to Cook Everything” with some mods by Ann. Aydrien approved.

Wrong about the sushi. BBQ was on the menu this time.

Rumor has it that there will be sushi from Ootori this evening!

Made our pulled pork ragout for tomorrow while I was on the call. Who says I can’t multitask?

I spent 2 hours today helping a client upload our product to his IBM i system. IBM uploader stalled. SFTP stalled. Even plain old FTP crapped out. The problem was buried somewhere in Windows 11. Probably a local firewall setting. He switched PCs and we were done in 10 minutes with both the upload and install. I hate Windows.

Eeesh. A nasty day. High winds. Cold. Feels like 3ºF as a result. A smattering of snow so far. Roads seem OK for now. It’s going to slow down holiday travel a tad.

Grandson Aydrien is driving down this evening. If the winds die down a bit he should not have much trouble.

Finally looking at getting a really good office chair for the home office from the Steelcase dealer in town. It will replace the stool I’ve been using for 2½ years. My neck says “thank you!”.

I have been back and forth between Safari and Dia. I am leaning Dia. It feels lightweight compared to Safari and it seems to strike a nice balance with AI features. I wonder if it will ever be cross platform or even if it will survive against the likes of Atlas.