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.

Some things would not happen to technology (tech) experts because they know how things work and what to expect (or watch out for)

N the past 2+ decades I did not lose data. Prior to that I only lost things I did not value, like old and mostly meaningless E-mails from the 1990s (not MP3s, I had those backed up). I make regular backups, I keep a spare machine in case the main one fails, and I maintain the hardware to make sure it works or be fully aware when it is about to fail. When my storage device finally failed in January 2023, for example, I had already prepared for it for about 12 months because there were warning signs. I no longer stored on it anything essential. Likewise, in 2020, I moved away from “ted” when it was giving some warnings, so when “ted” (used by me since 2013) finally died nothing of value was lost and no time wasted. I also keep external backups and we have fire extinguishing kits just in case.

People who have been around in tech for a long time and properly understand tech prepare for disasters in advance. So they don’t become disasters at all, they just involve a bit of work (to get fully back to speed).

Feels like the week ended, seriously

don’t know why, but it feels like a Friday today. Friday is still far away and it’ll be our wedding anniversary.

On Thursday we promised we’d like to spend hours with the parents, then an hour or so with the birds at the park. Friday: cards, celebrations, drinking. Saturday: day out, visit to Town. Sunday: rest. Monday: long trips to 3 places.

We’ve had a generally calm and productive month. More so after 9/11.

I think that the more I get done, the faster time passes. They say boredom “slows down” passage of time (in one’s mind of body clock).

I doubt I’ll ever become an elderly person who only gets up to open the blinds, then watches TV (or whatever) until shutting the blinds again. Such a life would be pointless.

This time for real

T seems quite safe to predict that Enzo’s first cup match with City, this coming Thursday at home, will be a breeze. The one home game after that, against Sunderland, won’t be easy based on what happened to Arsenal (it did not win easily).

Today we went past the stadium a couple of times to feed the birds as it truly felt like summer. After half an hour a toddler started chasing and scaring them (at least her mother objected to it).

It is probably the hottest day in the remainder of this year. Several hours this morning were spent gardening in preparing for ‘true’ autumn.

Winter will be a breeze. We hope all our fish will survive it.

This man’s dad is dead.

did not need a reminder that the name Roy is for very old people and very seldom given to men younger than myself.

I did – in my lifetime – meet Roys younger than me, but they’re not much younger and they are very are.

Roy Burnham has passed on, but not before seeing his son winning high honours and before enough scandals render him another “former PM”.

Time to come back

passed by the Depot twice today and it looks like the gardening work at the front end or entrance is more or less finished (sans the fencing).

I hope the birds will return there. They used to hang around there and we fed them there before the work on the new coffee shop and garden began. Now the birds have apparently migrated elsewhere.

For the birds, this garden will be vastly better than the gravel that used to be there. At one point we saw a crow eating a dead pigeon there.