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This post is a response to My perfect laptop by Michael Harley. In short, the Framework 13 is essentially my perfect laptop, or damn near close to it. And I'm lucky enough to actually use it as my daily driver; it comes with me practically everywhere from bed to the train to overseas. I want to sing its praises a bit and list what boxes it checks for me, and also talk about what could be a bit improved. I have very strong opinions about the tools I use. I use Emacs for most of my computing…

Just a feverish musing. Most people are familiar with the idea that good UI/UX makes the user dumber. There was a headline floating around a while ago about engineering students not knowing what a folder was on their PC. I've been thinking about this a bit recently, also because I was helping a friend troubleshoot Nvidia drivers on Linux. Most of the systems people interact with daily are abstracted away from the actual computing infrastructure so much that they are almost completely foreign.…

The Australian government should start a theatre company. Seriously, I'm not sure what else to compare what's going on in this country to. Maybe a dystopian social science fiction novel? But it doesn't necessarily seem like malice is the key driver here. Hanlon's Razor. For those unaware, Australia instituted a social media ban. I don't use social media: I have a YouTube account (which I rarely use) and one Instagram account (which I never use, and which has no identifying information on it).…