A couple of posts this week.

• Ideal Breakfast?: I doubt mine is anybody's ideal, but it works for me.

• Things to Do in April 2024: Here’s a todo list for my website; will I get to do it all?

after getting way too addicted to the videos youtube was recommending me, I felt like I had to set some boundaries with the homepage and just block all the content from loading, so I would be forced to only see videos from my subscriptions page.

Chromium browsers have a content filtering section where you can block content from loading in, so I use it to block all HTML on the homepage and the /shorts page:

which makes the page look like this:

Hey thanks a lot!!! I will try to use this (:

Dropped this a few days ago.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/good-enough-april-2024/index.html

I have stopped caring about 'work' or 'jobs' or especially 'having a career' at this point. Tired of employers and their nonesense, because it's never enough for them.

Not only that, but even the job they want you to delude yourself to enjoying, they want you to do it their way. Don't be too different, don't be too efficient, don't write a text document to help use as a reference or anything. Bet you're just wanting to slack off and not even working, or you think you just know better than them, huh? I've never had a good relationship with a boss, ever, which is why I've given up. I would rather die a NEET than live a serf.

If I was a bachelor and didn't have expensive tastes I'd feel the same.

edit

just wrote this guide on everything I personally do when spinning up a new server. Looking for some feedback on it to see if I missed anything important:

https://blog.basementcommunity.com/everything-i-do-when-hosting-a-website/

this is in support of my 2024 goals for creating some more guides coming from this website:

https://basementcommunity.com/threads/245

Just wanted to mention that while Windows has a command prompt, it doesn't come with SSH. For that you'd want to either set up WSL, or install an app like PuTTY.

Also, why does certbot have a dependency on snapd? Are you using Ubuntu in your example?

nice thanks for that. I knew about WSL but never messed around it enough to speak intelligently on it in a post like this, but I'll add that disclaimer.

And yeah. It's not super clear but I use Debian. I had a note towards the top of the blog about apt-get:

but I should probably add a top-level note about that fact that the commands might need to be tweaked for a different distro

No worries.

And it looks like the certbot devs themselves are pushing snap to make sure people have a current version of certbot since Debian stable tends to only update biannually, you don't run Sid on prod, and the Debian security team isn't keeping up with critical patches to certbot.

yep I lifted the commands from that certbot instruction page

Good old (old) Debian, up with its usual antics I see.

"${DISTRO}" gonna "${DISTRO}". Every one of them has their quirks. For example, if I want a current Emacs on Slackware I've got to compile it from source. Luckily, Slackware is set up correctly so that /usr/local/bin takes precedence over /usr/bin in $PATH so as long as I set $PREFIX when building everything turns out fine.

The only thing you can do is embrace the jank, because jank is inevitable, and distro-hop until you find a distro whose jankiness you find congenial.

I already have, I'm posting this from my Debian machine.

Slightly overdue, but here's my April IndieWeb Carnival submission for RisingThumb 's theme: "Good Enough" - the Drop in Quality's Siren call.

On the Fish in the Sea

It's about relationships, but not just digital ones, like Manu prompted about. I don't like what I perceive the Internet to have done / be doing to people's approach to them. It's most prominent online, but the digital always bleeds into the real, yo.