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Kumail Nanjiani’s new special Night Thoughs, on Hulu, is great. I’m glad he’s back to doing some standup.

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 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.

A list of top podcasts for 2025 is shown, highlighting total listening times for each.

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.

A colorful, whimsical scene depicts a small red rocket with people and a dog nearby, set in a vibrant landscape with orange trees and distant mountains. Using the Sweet KDE Plasma theme on Fedora