Jonathan Hartley

@jlw_the_jobber I had a bit of a bump, trying to remount my existing RAID drives in CasaOS without losing their data. The UI doesn't support that, and trying to hack it in place myself, not understanding anything about immutable distros, I kinda sorta got it working (assembled and mounted and smb shared), but couldn't get it to show up properly in the #ZimaOS UI.

@jlw_the_jobber :waves: I just upgraded my ZimaBlade from CasaOS to ZimaOS, and figured I'd follow #ZimaOS

Wanted to show my 13yo where the parkour in #Titanfall 2 comes from, so I dug out #MirrorsEdge. I passed it by at the time, so it was a joyful, thrilling first playthrough for both of us. I'm lucky that he still engages curiously with his crazy Dad's quirky old #videogames. We discovered the game leans into themes of authoritarian overreach, protest, corruption, and illegal over-policing of dissent. As a result, in the game, acab, who you can disarm & disable, but your best defence is to run...

Ideas for Mastodon posts which I don't have time to put together:

1. Catalog of Rorschach's different facial expressions which, through Dave Gibbons' astonishingly accomplished #Watchmen artwork, are somehow discernible even through his entirely opaque mask.

I belatedly realize that when I read a book with some challenging aspects (today it's #HarrowTheNinth, which I underestimated, to my regret), I should have been using my ebook reader's highlight & annotate to mark up things that I find puzzling or remarkable along the way. A diligent application might be a workable alternative to the second reading that I'm beginning to see is required and deserved. 1/2

Tactical Breach Wizards has a lot of smart rapidfire wisecracking dialog. That's right, in this house we use the metric system. #TacticalBreachWizards

People joke about installing Python environments (https://xkcd.com/1987/), but I'm looking at #Typescript and... am I misunderstanding, but `sudo apt install npm` (on #Ubuntu2204) gives me a #node version (12.22) that isn't compatible with installing the typescript package (EBADENGINE required: node >=14.17). So I should install latest node using #nvm, which installs via curl of a script which git clones its own repo to my ~/.npm, does this sounds right so far? #newb #seekingAdvice

When I last bought a #keyboard I couldn't find any that was mechanical, #TKL std ANSI layout, >1 wireless connections, <5ms latency, backlit, hot-swappable, & w/o expensive features I don't need like configurable activation height and OLED screens.

I compromised on 'hot swappable', got a Logitech G915, and am regretting it. A 2nd switch has died & I don't want to keep desoldering them.

So I'm noping out, buying another, only 16 months later. There are more choices now than I can track!

Kiddo embarking on his first #LarryNiven #ScienceFiction novel. Started him out with World of Ptavvs, first published in 1966.

I only recently realized that I have forever erroneously conflated as one person both John W. Campbell (Singularly influential editor of the seminal Astounding #ScienceFiction magazine, aka Analog, from '37 to '71) and Joseph Campbell (professor of literature in comparative mythology & religion, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, describing his theory of the archetypal #HerosJourney, aka the #monomyth.)

I should undertake challenging #reads.
instead of these #doomscrolling feeds.
But I've no strength to face
an escape from the base
of #Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

I'm on a new project at work to create, store, and programmatically analyze datacenter building plans, eg. Calculating lengths of cable runs. I used to work in #gis, and remember just enough to know that all my approaches are hopelessly naive. Are #shapefiles still a viable option for low-ceremony vendor neutral structured #spatial analysis? (Probably from Python) cc. @sgillies