Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

My day started very badly, with an argument with a road flagger who told me I had a 'bad attitude'. I arrived at the lane he was controlling; he had his back to me (big no-no) flag down, and a phone to his ear. I waited for about 30 seconds, then grew irritable as nothing was happening (the road was clear). I put my window down and yelled 'Good morning!' He turned around and pointed at the road.

I don't have the issues with the snap ecosystem, by and large they are fine, but a browser really ought to be a perfect example of what you want your product to look like.

Snaps in particular: Canonical, this has been a known problem for years. Get your act together. #Linux

If you dogfood Linux you learn to deal with most problems but it is a constant reminder that trying to be something you're not is not going to work unless you put real effort and backing into it.

Now, I have seen this before (along with rest of Earth) and an update fixes it, but what a bad first impression. Along with the initial flurry of Ubuntu oops report dialogue boxes (again, just something you come to live with) it does not scream polish.

I have the good fortune through work to get to try a few bits of hardware here and there. Today's is the XPS13. I used the 2014 original for a long time. Build quality feels much improved (the original was pretty cheap'n'cheerful) but ordered this with Ubuntu as on OEM image, and there's problems with the Firefox snap almost immediately.

I'm surprised at the amount of Apple consoomer cheerleading on the fediverse. Maybe I shouldn't be.

One of my old PhDs is now faculty elsewhere and she's been in touch for a project. I always like working with these people. Best part of the job.

My boss is making ominous noises about AI and its impact on staffing, which means he's hearing that from his bosses.

Great.

Just watched Jamie Chadwick make history at #IndyNXT Road America. The first woman to win on a road course in the series history. Fantastic stuff, and a long way from her difficulties last year. She did the work over the winter.

Happy Friday everyone. Hope your weekends are good and you all get the rest you deserve.

Campus is at it's quietest in June. Although this ostensibly suits my grumpy introverted nature, I much prefer it when all the kids are about.

Absolute peak Reddit.

By this mentality, the entire shorts market would not exist. Investments go down as well as up. They even say that in the ads.

There is actually a movie about how the banks got cleaned out (along with the rest of the world). Internet investors are such fools.

It's only about 80F here but it's that horrific sort of humid where it feels like stepping into a sauna when the front door is opened.

So you could actually - if a home user - save yourself a pretty penny by ordering with Windows and doing what you want with it once you get it.