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Larry Anderson 🕊️

larand@appdot.net

<p>Trained in history. Terrified by the present. </p><p>Sometimes posts in other languages. Yes, I’m really an American. Je suis vraiment désolé que notre président soit fou.</p><p>&quot;Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.&quot; —Salvor Hardin in &quot;Foundation&quot; by Isaac Asimov.</p><p>&quot;A glorious bearded fossil.&quot; —Randolph West</p><p>Pronouns: He/him/his</p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>

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    I don&amp;#39;t want a HomeView. I don&amp;#39;t want a smart home, or a smart hub, or any of that. I don&amp;#39;t want anyone to be able to hack into my refrigerator and set it to 50C. I don&amp;#39;t want anyone to be able to set all the lightbulbs in my house to glow purple. I don&amp;#39;t want my thermostat exposed on the Internet. I don&amp;#39;t want ransomware on my clothes washer. I&amp;#39;m perfectly capable of turning on a light switch, setting an oven temperature, and starting the...

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    Updated to iOS 27. At least they’ve tamed the Liquid Glass nonsense.

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    20 days to election: mute list intensifies

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    App Store spam notifications in iOS 27. Lovely. *turns off App Store notifications* #enshittification

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    Doing some organizing of old digital files and came across some plaintext Twitter archives from the Before Time. This one jumped out at me: 2007-04-16 12:29 So much insanity in the world...God save us all So nothing much has changed in almost 20 years, I guess.

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    A Letter to a Bulk Mailer https://larand.one/posts/a-letter-to-a-bulk-mailer

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    Apparently I had dinner tonight in Pennsylvania without ever leaving Ventura.

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    I know some people look down on it as &amp;quot;Linux for Beginners,&amp;quot; but damn if Linux Mint doesn&amp;#39;t just work. It&amp;#39;s impressive. #linux

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    “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands&amp;#39; necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.” Raymond Chandler got the feeling of Santa Ana winds exactly right.

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    This is the best icon for #tapestryapp. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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    Putting together a wish list for Tapestry 3.0 to send to @bigzaphod@mastodon.social, because I’m sure he needs more people telling him what to do. 😉

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    TIL that the New York Times now requires you to have an account even to read gift articles, and they can go f

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    RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117207898326483679 Excellent!

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    New keyboard day.

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    This is both so very, very wrong and yet absolutely perfect. Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord https://youtu.be/hkTgYiMDRHY

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    iPhone users: what’s your favorite Mastodon app?

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    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Excuse me...&quot;some guy named Glen Campbell&quot;? One of the most highly regarded guitar players and session players ever? 10-time Grammy winner Glen Campbell? If anyone needs me, I&#39;ll just be over here crumbling into dust. @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org

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    This news gives this 70s kid all the feels. 😢 RIP. https://www.tvinsider.com/1274911/randolph-mantooth-dead-emergency-loving/

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    I’m a lot more upset about what he’s done and continues to do to democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law than I am by his apparent interference with *checks notes* a fucking soccer game.

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    Larry Anderson finished reading The Faith of Beasts (https://bookwyrm.social/book/2222473)

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@jmccyoung/116545385542702801 Holy mother of God. 😳

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    Don’t mess with the locals, brah. Aloha is for those who show respect. https://www.surfer.com/news/tourist-maui-monk-seal-rock-video

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    @morrick I&#39;m impressed. Hangul is pretty cool.

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    I’ve waited 52 years to see another splashdown. 🥲 #Artemis

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    “We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” President John F. Kennedy Sept. 12, 1962 #Artemis

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    As a Gen X and Cold War kid, all of this overheated rhetoric and nuclear brinksmanship kind of feels familiar. But if the madman-in-chief sets off a global thermonuclear war tonight, it’s been nice knowing all of you. Well, most of you, anyway. 😉

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    Why I Hate Working From Home https://larand.one/posts/why-i-hate-working-from-home