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pubdate: Thu Mar 31 04:37:31 UTC 2023
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title: book marks
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slug: bookmarks
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summary: being a motley round-up of some bookmarks i found; some thoughts on computers i have owned.
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I got a new computer. It's a thinkpad (x1 carbon gen10) and came with Ubuntu preinstalled. I often say this about new computers, but I really like it. I tend to get to a point when I'm mad at the new computer and then all feels lost until the next one. This one feels different; it feels like home. This is a blog post about bookmarks but first: a tour through computing disappointments from the thinkpad I had in 2010 to today:
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- the thinkpad in 2010 did not let me down. I loved it. I lost it in a very bad breakup.
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- job gave me a macbook. it was heavy and hot. I put ubuntu on it and it barely worked. I hated it.
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- next job gave me a dell xps 13 with ubuntu. it was hot and sharp. the hard drive eventually died.
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- I actually have no idea what the next job gave me. I just don't remember at all. that's weird. probably a mac book pro.
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- next job gave me a thinkpad x1 carbon gen5. I put linux on it. I liked it mostly but it had very quiet speakers and a dim screen. Also hot.
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- job forced a switch to mac. mac book pro 2018. I hated the touchbar. heavy and hot. really bad keyboard.
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- microsoft surface go. this thing was adorable. Basically a netbook. Awkward on my lap, though, and ran real slow.
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- microsoft suface book. the worst designed laptop I have ever used. screen cracked in my bag and it cut my thumb a few times.
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- microsoft surface pro x. Also awkward on my lap and blue screened once a day. laughably unusable.
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- system76 lemur pro. I had such high hopes. terrible keyboard, bad speakers, bad touchpad, and serious hardware issue around battery consumption. gave it away.
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- job gave me an m1 mbp. I came pretty close to liking this laptop. ultimately it was macos that made it unpleasant for me. also, i did not love the keyboard.
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This new bud has a _beautiful_ screen. decent speakers. A luxurious keyboard and touchpad. Big SSD. even the fingerprint reader works in Ubuntu. Since its first boot this laptop has felt like home.
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Something about this home feeling has made me feel comfortable. Like I'm sinking into a cozy chair and taking stock of a warm, safe, familiar cottage. I set up Firefox and synced my stuff and felt like arranging my big pile of unsorted bookmarks from the past decade-ish.
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here's some that felt notable. maybe i'll add more later.
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(LINK https://www.increpare.com/ increpare.com) a large collection of interesting little games, many of which are playable in the browser. I do not know how or when I came across this.
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(LINK https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs// neo habitat) a remake of the original graphical multiplayer game.
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(LINK https://web.archive.org/web/20221218232044/https://mud.co.uk/richard/DesigningVirtualWorlds.pdf A PDF of Richard Bartle's Designing Virtual Worlds book) Unfortunately his site has gone down but the Wayback machine has a backup.
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(LINK https://alba-valb.org/ lincoln brigade database) database of americans that volunteered in the (LINK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War spanish civil war)
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(LINK https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/979810839749210112/ this da share zone tweet my wife and i reference constantly)
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(LINK https://us.v-cdn.net/6030815/uploads/983/406D7PPRTDZG.gif this gif)
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(LINK https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155636/ imdb entry for Colony Mutation) Came across this fascinating, kind of cronenberg-without-budget movie recorded onto a blank VHS tape in a thrift store.
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(LINK https://patents.google.com/patent/US1214863A/en the patent for disco balls)
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(LINK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch the wikipedia article for Leopold von Sacher-Masoch). Masochism is named for him. Though he didn't want that.
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(LINK http://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/2333/rookie.html drama in alphaworld)
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(LINK https://imgur.com/a/SkZQ4 a gallery of cyberpunk/hacker zines) some really cool stuff i haven't seen elsewhere.
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