This time I have only been playing Super Smash Bros Ultimate on my Switch. I feel like there is always a lot to learn in that game.

Enderal and Tetris 99

I don’t remember that concept being talked about in the book.

That QAnon book is really great, I read it a few months ago. The book gives more variety to how QAnon thought destroys families in how the backgrounds are different and not all families have a happy ending where the QAnon-infected family member suddenly becomes a totally normal and grounded person. It also gives good insight on how cults like QAnon attract people who have gotten themselves into a personal crisis and who may get rattled by other significant events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

I just read ‘‘The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism’’ by David Golumbia. The book analyzes really well the ideological roots and assumptions that are baked in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. It also debunks many of the arguments crypto-enthusiasts make. Even though I have invested in various cryptocurrencies, I find the crypto community icky because of its general right-wing libertarian sentiment. I don’t view crypto as money, more like gambling with a volatile asset.

What else? Got a new SSD for my laptop server and restored my backups into it. A little bit of tinkering and now I am again syncing my files with Nextcloud.

The bigger your backlog of games is right now, the better. No need to buy new games for a looooong time.

Been playing Enderal for the last three weeks or so. Downright impressive RPG, blows Skyrim out of the water easily. Made by indies, but AAA quality, and free of all things!

He was inconsiderate when he made edgy jokes, tried to test if those two Fiver guys really would put up a sign saying “gas the Jews” and once said the N-word in a livestream – controversy ensued for obvious reasons and he since apologized for his actions. I haven’t been really following him in the last few years but after those controversies he left any Nazi jokes out, I think he learned his lessons. He has since settled down with a family and it has been pleasant following his life, especially now that he has gotten into Linux.

But don’t tell anything like that to the average Internet leftist! Even if PewDiePie apologized and left edgy jokes out, changed and moved on, in their eyes he is eternally a Nazi or Nazi-enabler who can never redeem himself! No matter how many years have passed, no matter how many apologies, any time PewDiePie gets mentioned in a post or is the main topic, this happens.

Those two are real GG Allin songs.

To think of it, “Cyanide Ice Cream and Cum Soup” would fit really well right next to “Needle Up My Cock” and “Expose Yourself to Kids”.

“Cyanide Ice Cream and Cum Soup” sounds like an album title for a GWAR-style shock rock band.

Somehow Stevie T’s video about making a song like Imagine Dragons came to my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkyHYD8VSeo

As I previously told, I decided to RMA my netbook server’s SSD and send it to Denmark for repair. In the meantime, I put the server’s original HDD back, installed Ubuntu Server and now it runs several other things, except for NextCloud. It clearly looks like the laptop’s SATA port isn’t at fault, as the laptop’s been running for over a week with no interruptions and errors whatsoever.

What else? I may try to code several of my Angular projects.

And a guestbook, just like in the old times! I sent my regards.

The problems I described eventually happened again after 3 days or so. I got pissed, so I decided to RMA the drive and ship it to Denmark where the store I bought it from has its HQ. As a temporary solution I formatted the laptop’s original HDD, put it back and installed Ubuntu Server. A bit of setting up and now things work. In the meantime I won’t be running NextCloud though, as the drive’s only 250 GB.

I even ran MemTest86 and it showed things to be all fine. I recently bought new memory (2 GB) for the netbook.

Last week I released the blog post I mentioned previously. It’s now in Finnish and English.

I have an old netbook from 2011 that I have used as my home server since 2017. It has a 1 TB SSD, and for some time it had weird problems such as “Remounting filesystem read-only” and “EXT4-fs error”, usually leading to crashes. After rebooting, Ubuntu’s boot screen would not always appear. According to SMART, the drive was however all fine. At first I replaced the file system’s journal and ran fsck. That wasn’t enough, and the problems persisted. I was about to RMA the SSD, when I put Gparted Live on an USB stick and used that for fixing the file system. And it worked, now the home server has worked all fine for over three days!

Since Lemmy has gained a bit more traction in Finland recently, I started writing a guide in Finnish that will later be published on my blog. The structure is as follows:

• What Lemmy is, short history
• The 2023 Reddit blackout and its consequences, my own experiences
• Communities and how to find them
• Lemmy’s interoperability with Mastodon and other Fedi platforms
• Instances and communities to be recommended

I may have used Skype for the last time in 2014 or so.

Didn’t know this is his first PC build, I assumed he had built one before.

And it’s going to be sold out in no time with that kind of lineup.