There is no better feeling than the first day of 2 weeks off work. See you in January, work laptop! 🎄
Is Firefox Firefucked?
I've been using Firefox for over 20 years at this point, but after a stream of cock-ups, I'm thinking about moving on.
Ah FFS. C'mon, #Mozilla. Can you try and stop effing up #Firefox for 2 damn minutes...
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-ai-browser-strategy
I really want to love #PopOS #Cosmic but there's a bug in the file manager that prevents me from browsing my NAS via SMB. I do that all the time so it's a deal breaker for me. :-(
This just sounds horrendous, but is a perfect example of why you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. Especially a basket you don't control.
I hope he gets it sorted out.
Watched the Dungeons & Dragons film with my wife and kids.
Utter, utter dog shit. That is except for last 15 minutes or so. That was just mediocre...
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Been waiting for the new version of #PopOS with #Cosmic for what seems like ages. Was very tempted by the beta, but now it's fully released I'm gonna be installing it.
Always loved what the team at System76 put out with Pop.
https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder
It pisses me off an unholy amount when my kids use "Santa" instead of "Father Christmas". 🎅🏻
We. Are. Not. American.
Recently I've stopped reading entirely, after randomly stopping half way through a Murderbot book.
I need to get back into it...
Utterly thrilled with the #F1 results. Won't say who just in case it spoils it for anyone. But well done, champ!
The Fisherman and The Businessman
I didn't expect a parable about a fisherman to smack me in the face with such clarity, but here we are.
Year 3 at the Smallholding
We're been living on our smallholding in Wales for 3 years now. Here's how things have been going this year.
I've always had a little Colophon at the end of my about page, but decided to give it it's own page and add more detail. If you're interested in how my site is setup, here ya go:
Wife: "Can you hold this why I get some fresh water please?"
Me: "Um, sure...?"
Also me...
How I Replaced My Son’s PC With an £88 iMac
I recently replaced my son's broken PC with a 2015 iMac from eBay. Here's how it went...
The frustrations with #Vivaldi continue. I realised last night after setting it up on my Pixel tablet that syncing doesn't really sync anything other than bookmarks and history. No settings are synced, so I still had to piss about changing my search engine etc.
Also, uBlock Lite can't be installed on my tablet, so I get ads in YouTube. That's enough to make me want to stop using it alone. 🤮
Local vs Cloud
I was listening to the Waveform podcast on my way to work this morning and they were talking about cloud vs local computing, and I have thoughts...
OK, I'm gonna try and give #Vivaldi a fair crack. I've set it as default on my laptop and phone, and will try and use it for the next week or so.
Static Site Generators
Jan talks about how static site generators are far more complicated than WordPress, despite (ironically) their output being far simpler.
So I spent an hour stripping down this iMac I bought for my son so I could do an 8 > 16gb RAM upgrade. Turns out the bloody RAM is soldered onto the board on this version, despite the listing saying it was compatible with this model. 🤦🏼♂️
Ah well, it's running #UbuntuMate on a fresh SSD like a dream and Minecraft gets ~60 FPS. That's all he cares about.
