Started watching American Primeval on Netflix. It's brutal and gritty, I love it.
Just finished reading Longshot - An Astra Militarum Novel by Rob Young. The Imperial Guard are one of my favourite Warhammer 40k factions and I enjoyed reading this a lot. I've got Deathworlder lined-up for my next read.
I have a feeling that Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is the best show I will watch in 2025.
I've adjusted down my yearly cycling distance goal on Strava to 5,000km. I didn't manage to ride as much as I would have liked last year, not coming anywhere close to my goal of 10,000km, so I've changed it to a total that should be more achievable. It's only the 9th of Jan, but I'm currently 18km ahead of pace, which I'm pleased with considering the current freezing weather.
Longlegs is a very weird movie. It's dark and arty, which I enjoyed, but I'm not sure I'd be in any hurry to watch it again.
Happy New Year! I hope 2025 is good to us all.
Merry Christmas!
The GNOME extensions site/service has been sluggish to the point of unuseable for me lately. It's behaving like a site under heavy load, although I have no data to back that up.
Updated my gaming rig to Debian testing and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. It's not the most powerful machine in the world, but it plays the odd game of Counter-Strike ok.
Just finished watching The Penguin. It was darker than I had expected, which is not a bad thing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Recently, I've been using Startpage as my default search engine. I've known about the service for a while, but never really paid it any attention until now. Anyhow, I like it a lot and it reminds of how Google Search used to work, before all the AI stuff. The privacy features are a bonus.
So, Back To The Future Musical was epic. Back on the CHOO CHOO train and heading back home.
I’m on a CHOO CHOO train heading to London to see Back To The Future Musical.
Reading lots of chatter about how Bluesky is gaining in popularity. I think it's great that people are leaving X. I'm not bothered if people leave X for Bluesky or Mastodon, I would just like to see X gone. That said, I think Mastodon would be the sensible choice.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching RED ONE at the cinema this afternoon. Struggling to understand why it's only got a score of 35% on Rotten Tomatoes. To be fair, it's not a movie that you have to think about too much, it's just good entertainment with a bit of fantasy.
Taking a look at the current state of Debian testing. I've installed it on my old MacBook Pro and it's working nicely. It looks like Debian Trixie is going to be a really nice release.
I've been seeing this a lot tonight. There are 2 people using the Internet in our house and only 1 of them is browsing repos on GitHub.
Playing around with my old ThinkPad X220 tonight. This thing is over 10 years old and runs Debian 12 (GNOME) just fine. Also, I forgot just how good the keyboard is on this thing, it's amazing!
Wishing my friends in the USA good luck! I hope you have a peaceful election.
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