Another day in Mayfield

t was sunny again today. Quite warm, too. We went to Mayfield Depot/Park and Rianne said it was “not bad”; the lawns there are very nice, sort of like a PL football pitch (almost). They’ve clearly spent a lot of money on that. We didn’t buy anything as we had brought our own drinks from home.

The week is nearly over and we plan to go out again this afternoon (feeding the birds a third time for today) because we assume it might be the last warm-ish week. It’s officially autumn now and the trees are all still green. Soon they will be naked.

This year we appreciate the simplest things – even more then prior decades – and next year we believe we’ll find exposure/access to media, as our case is being escalated up the political chain.

Simple is funner

think there is a common perception or this widespread belief that when people are young they want to collect, to publicly boast about it, to keep accumulating “stuff”, then flaunt to peers and strangers. They seek affirmation. It’s not so gender-dependent a phenomenon and it has not much to do with “nesting” or “hunting”. It’s about insecurities and compensating for them.

So they hoard, they want big and complicated (extensive) things “in volume”. That is particularly applicable to habitats (homes). When people get older and more mature they may wish to give things away, want to move to smaller places for a simpler life with less maintenance to be done, less to worry about (less inside one’s mind).

The age factor is less to do with having to give things away at death; it’s not much to do with the physical difficulties of keeping intact large places or many rooms/units (sometimes with garden).

In practice it seems to boil down to mindset or mentality. The consumerism brainwash has less sway on older people, who learned from experience they can no longer conflate ownership with happiness and that having more than the minimal (bare minimum) required, e.g. life-sustaining medication, can become a burden.

What’s the point hoarding 100 pairs of shoes when you have only 2 feet for instance?

In geeks’ spheres it is the same. Young people install a lot of things (I was guilty of this too) and as they grow older they consolidate and try to simplify or cement workflows.

The human mind does not work well in parallel. It is an inherently serial machine, with ’round-robin’-type thinking relying on paper notes or memorisation.

Less is more (productivity).

already mentioned, back in July, that British police has a case (with Crime Number) for the death threats we received in connection to Americans or thugs who work for American companies (represented by hired guns in London). The person who investigates this case “has now gone off on long term sick” (according to a colleague), but the case is still open.

As of 3 hours ago, one of them who is connected to the threats issued a public veiled threat and it should not be taken lightly. 2 months ago he failed to attend his own hearing (this was wilful, he made this choice), now he is trying to compensate for it with threats made online, from America, via social control media.

Stay classy. Remember this is the man who is the principal purveyor of restricted boot and who landed restricted boot in Linux. It’s causing problems this month. It impacts many millions of people.

Plan to go to the park won’t work

planned to take Rianne to the park today (to feed the birds), but after the weather forecast said sunny afternoon, then (last night) sunny morning, it now seems to suggest little sun and instead light rain.

The likely implication is, I’ll write and publish more articles today. I have some good topic on the way, including material about the Linux kernel.

Animations that are simple work, the plot/story matters more than CG brute force

t is midnight now, so tomorrow is our anniversary and we plan to watch an old film in the weekend. We’ll be busy celebrating until Monday. Our life is simple, so we enjoy simple things; a simple life must not be conflated with a lack of productivity.

It’s sad that the “modern” and “digital” society (consumption oriented) wants us to think that the more gets wasted, the better it’ll be.

This is a fallacy.

Keep calm and fix your laptop

don’t understand why Garrett is being so open about his misery. It gives away stupidity and professional incompetence. For instance, it does not sound like he is even remotely aware of how to diagnose/debug/fix a laptop (it’s evident from his comments about it). This narcissistic know-it-all cannot bear fair criticism (he never could) and he keeps showing he’s not a Computer Scientist. “So much for spending the money to make proprietarization funny eh MJG,” someone wrote in IRC a while ago, linking to this article from 2023. MJG (Garrett) thought it would be “funny” to sue people with barely any money. My best friend in Manchester told me last month, “it sounds like he actually lost” (his words, not mine) and I didn’t disagree, I’d just say that love won.

Garrett is “broke as fuchs ain’t wanna fix that laptop,” someone said in IRC. MinceR responded: “i guess what mjg (Garrett) did wasn’t valuable enough for his backers…”

As expected, they used him, then threw him away. He was disposable to them.

In the latest and not last part I alluded to the actual, measurable outcomes. Garrett seems to have thrown a tantrum/had an “acute” nervous breakdown over this. He went ballistic only seconds/minutes after I had published it. He not only read what was published a few minutes earlier but finished reading it and then wrote about it. He’s clearly (chronically) refreshing Techrights instead of working to fix the laptop (to get actual work done) while deflecting all of the issues raised in the installment. So it is 1) true; 2) hurtful.

In many lawsuits everywhere in the world, not just in civil litigation, both parties end up broke. Garrett was warned this would happen. He was warned about it five years ago. So he’s just bitter, he refuses to accept a mistake was made. He’s not even respectful enough to show up in Court.

He hides the severity of his current predicament because he’s fully aware that trying to discharge his own debt (he borrowed money) would immediately result in foreclosure. In the US, foreclosure is extremely painful and merciless.

A quick break

inutes from now several matches will commence and today we’ve had a pleasant, calm day. I even managed to get a 2-hour afternoon nap.

So lately we started a news series concerning slop in Linux, the kernel. See yesterday’s posts [1, 2].

It’ll last quite some time as we have lots to show/share. The overall structure isn’t decided yet. There’s no clear outline, mostly lists of points to cover.