Updated the firmware on my Meshtastic radio today. New firmware is nice and updating the Heltec v3 was a breeze. I’m hearing the v4 firmware updates are a pain.
I really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man.
I did enjoy playing with other Linux distros, especially Zorin 18, but it’s nice to be back to the stability and performance of Linux Mint. Fedora Plasma was the worst. Of course, it could be the hardware I was running it on, but it was really slow and buggy. Plasma would crash constantly on me.
Just installed iOS 26.2 and already had one springboard crash.
FYI, if you’re an Apple One Premier subscriber you can get Peacock Premium Plus for the price of Premium when you subscribe through the Apple TV app.
Picked up a Dream Router 7 during the Black Friday sale. So far, I love this thing. So much geeky stuff to play with. Also upgraded the OS on my Pi Hole and set it up from scratch. Set up conditional forwarding so I can get device names too. Last step was setting up Tailscale to use the Pi Hole too.
Fedora KDE Plasma was not for me. Decided to go back to the trusty Mint for now. Zorin 18 had too many bugs that were annoying me.
My top podcasts of 2025. No surprises here.
I decided to give Fedora KDE Plasma a chance. Wiped my Zorin OS install and am test driving the latest Fedora for a bit. You can customize so much more in KDE than Gnome.
I’m officially at the “Adjust the screen resolution on your laptop” age.
30 years. Feel old yet?
I picked up a new phone today. T-Mobile, in their infinite wisdom, thinks it’s a smart idea to text the phone number you’re activating in order to approve the activation. What a cluster fuck that was.
The YouTube app just started downloading videos without me asking. I have never used the feature. I never watch without internet access. Had to drill into setting to turn off settings that were turned on by default including auto downloading suggested content.
The YouTube iPad app keeps getting worse. Now, navigation buttons don’t even work half the time. Click Home, nothing happens. Click Shorts, a short’s audio start playing but black screen. Have to force quit the app.
I’m only one episode in and I can already say Michael Shannon will win an Emmy for Death By Lightning.
Attempting to upgrade the OS on my Raspberry Pi. I’ve never done this before. Hopefully Pi Hole and Unbound come out fine on the other side.
I finally found a good use for AI.
The first two episodes of Pluribus were very good. I cannot wait to see where this show goes.
Die My Love had great performances but little else.