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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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Grocery & takeout run yesterday, first since Tuesday’s CA “reopening”

Grocery & takeout run yesterday, first since Tuesday’s CA “reopening” (i.e. no more restrictions on what can be open or what capacity, masks only required if unvaccinated, but venues can still have their own requirements if they want to.) Most people are still masking indoors, even in the mall (I forgot which entrance the restaurant was next to).

Holding out hope that in this area at least, people are taking it slow this time instead of throwing caution to the wind again.

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Telling Firefox to open Lagrange for Gemini links

Response to a question about telling Firefox to open Lagrange for Gemini links

I don’t remember exactly how I set that up, but I’ll see if I can configure a fresh profile and write it down this time!

What I remember: I either pasted a gemini: url into the Firefox URL bar or clicked on an actual hyperlink to a gemini: url and it asked what application to open it with.

Firefox also has a per-website security setting on whether a website is allowed to open links in other protocols.

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Yeah, that’s basically it. Paste the URL into Firefox, choose the application (either from the list or from the file picker), and check the “always…” box. Then gemini: links in web pages will open the confirmation box and you can click always-allow per site.

(It won’t work on Mastodon, unfortunately, because Mastodon doesn’t turn gemini: URLs into links.)

I’ll write this up on the #gemini capsule too!

Dialog box in Firefox: Choose an application to open the gemini link. Lagrange is selected. There is also a button to choose another application, and a checkbox for always using this application to open gemini links.

Dialog box in Firefox: Allow this site to open the gemini link with Lagrange? There is a link for choosing another application, and a checkbox for Always allow https://www.hyperborea.org to open gemini links.

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Here it is: opening #gemini links in your preferred client from Firefox.

hyperborea.org/howto/follow-gemini-links-from-firefox.gmi

“Hi, I loved your article on [subject I’ve never written about]…”

“Hi, I loved your article on [subject I’ve never written about] at [link to tag archive and/or a blog post on another subject entirely that might have included two words separated by a half-dozen paragraphs that could conceivably have matched a search vaguely related to the subject they are talking about]. I really think my article at [spammy site] would be a big help to your readers!”

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Anita Donut

Sign stack at a mini mall with various business names including

Yeah, I could use one too, but it turns out they don’t have any at this time of day.

#puns #signs #donuts

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Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve had a donut since last March. I used to only have them when someone brought a box in at work, or occasionally I’d stop by a donut shop on the way to work. Neither of those have happened for a while.