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A few days ago I set up test accounts on several password managers/wallets on an …

A few days ago I set up test accounts on several password managers/wallets on an alternate Gmail account, to get a sense of how they work without interfering with my regular accounts. I’ve been getting marketing emails from them.

Today I got an email apparently from LastPass on my *main* gmail account encouraging me to continue setup… 🤔

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Some possible explanations:

1. It’s a coincidentally-timed phish.
2. I entered the other email somewhere in LastPass as an alternate contact or something.
3. LastPass somehow figured out how the accounts are connected.
4. LastPass somehow ended up with the info from the phone’s primary account when I installed it on the secondary account.

I’m really hoping it’s #1 or #2…

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I write my main gemlog by hand since the code is so simple…

Replying to @ajroach42 asking how people manage their gemlogs:

I write my main gemlog by hand since the code is so simple, and I wrote a perl script to manage the tags, categories, lists and next/previous links.

For another blog that’s in 11ty I wrote a shell script to send each page to md2gemini, which is a really useful markdown-to-gemtext converter: GitHub: md2gemini

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My super-awkward but fully self-contained gemlog management script, still full of too much hard-coded stuff specific to my own site that I intend to eventually generalize: GitLab: gemloginplace

I think until they can make higher-res displays, a lot of it depends on finding a gameplay/use case that works better with the interface.

Reply to a post on VR and screen resolution

I think until they can make higher-res displays, a lot of it depends on finding a gameplay/use case that works better with the interface. I’ve tried a bunch of games with VR modes, and a bunch of games that are VR-based but could easily be screen-based, but only a few that are actually better in VR.

Beat Saber’s one of the best. You slice cubes with lightsabers in time to music. It really wouldn’t be as effective on a regular screen, even with something like a wiimote.

I imagine FPS and stealth games would work pretty well too. I played a demo of a Star Wars game at the mall a couple of years ago that was impressive, at least for the first experience.

Robocall

Robocall from power company apologizing for the 2-hours-long-and-counting outage at my address, assuring me it’ll be fixed soon and they’ll keep me posted.

Me: What power outage?

My best guess: Either someone reported the wrong address for an outage, or there was an outage nearby that didn’t impact my building. But I didn’t see any repair trucks when I went outside, either.

computer trouble, being dealt with, just annoying

1. Had to take the laptop in due to imminent battery failure. Apple apparently designed a laptop that their own techs can’t service, so they had to send it in to swap the battery.

I remember an older model MacBook where I was able to order the replacement battery, have it shipped to my home, and then swap it out using a coin to turn the latch.

2. Had to pull recent stuff off the storage drive in the desktop due to imminent drive failure (thank you SMART warnings!), which is manifesting itself in a drastic collapse of data throughput, which is of course slowing down the process of getting those recent files onto a drive that’s in better shape.

At least I don’t have to run out and buy a replacement drive on a holiday. But it’s still not what I wanted to do with the afternoon.

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4 days later

Laptop has been shipped out and back with a new battery, seems to be working fine. 🎉

New HDD should arrive tomorrow, but I’ve got all the data off of the one where SMART was indicating likely failure within 24 hours 😱 and was able to wipe it before it died.

And now my desktop monitor is dying. 🤦‍♂️ Admittedly it’s 12 years old and isn’t even full HD, but FFS, the timing…

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