Notes for June 1–7

I decided to take a couple of days off and generally tune out, thanks to a few strategically placed bank holidays – which meant my usual mix of relaxing and dealing with a few chores. For starters, I replaced the battery on our A1466 MacBook Air, which just keeps on trucking – it’s now on its third battery (I swapped the factory one some four, or was it five, years ago). For around EUR 80, keeping that rather nice keyboard/screen/trackpad combination in use was a no-brainer, and it too now runs a Niri desktop, having been converted to Fedora a few months ago. Putting Pi on the DesktopAnd since I quite like having an AI assistant that can actually do something useful on my desktop, I did a quick hack to wire Pi into Noctalia: Pi running inside Noctalia -- here, mid-task on the shell plugin itself. This took around 30 minutes to become useful, and gave me a couple of ideas for improvements to piclaw’s UX – I had forgotten how flexible QML is. AI Can Be Entertaining TooI’ve been…