Updated 03-Aug-2025 W14/2025: Monday 31 March - Sunday 06 April 2025 Caption: midnight snack Work Managed to distribute a lot, though this depleted much of our stock. Paid the printers. Trump's stupid tariffs are going to make it impossible to ship goods to the United States, as we have less than a 37% profit margin, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The 19th century phenomenon, has different (distinct) implementations but is generally the same. One (or usually more than one) person move a glass or marker of some kind across a board (wood or paper) with letters and numbers on it, spelling out different answers to questions that are posed. A spirit supposedly guides ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This information is specifically about Thailand and the United States, though it may later be expanded to other countries, their rules, and traditions. United States Allows dual nationality. Thailand Allows dual nationality. Two passports (from the United States) Sometimes this is called concurrent passports, though usually second passports. Under certain conditions it is ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W13/2025: Monday 24 March - Sunday 30 March 2025 Work Ah, so much. Tech What about Phoenix as a web framework? Uses Elixir and LiveView instead of Javascript abominations. See more here. Maybe overkill (or simply too different), and something like Svelte (which can also be used to build things like Obsidian plugins) ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 (Pictured: Kindle Paperwhite 2018, 2022, paper Manga) See also Ebooks and where to buy them which discusses DRM from each ebook seller. Kindle and other Ebook Readers Calibre Ebook Library, De-DRM, Conversion Jailbreak Kindle KOReader open source ebook reader Top Note: This page needs to be reworked as it is several articles concatenated ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W12/2025: Monday 17 March - Sunday 23 March 2025 Caption: Which one of these is white? Hint, the one on the left is cream, the one on the right is not silver. The one in the middle is light gray. Note, these BYD Dolphins are the best selling BEVs in Thailand in 2024, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 See also Ebooks and where to buy them which discusses DRM from each ebook seller. Kindle and other Ebook Readers Calibre Ebook Library, De-DRM, Conversion Jailbreak Kindle KO Reader open source ebook reader Ebook formats Ebooks are ubiquitous, though generally the are in the form of pdfs, .epubs, .cbr (for manga), and a ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Venture Capital has a way of despoiling a product or service by focusing only on growth and (ultimately) profits. This means that the typical approach is to invest a lot of money (edging out less-endowed competitors), and then jacking up the revenue streams, usually by lowering quality and increasing enshittification. Cory Doctorow used ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W11/2025: Monday 10 March - Sunday 16 March 2025 Caption: Ben is now (age 9) nearly as tall as his nanny, who took care of him from 1-2.5 years Work Still working out the switchover to new products, and trying to get a large distributor to reorder. Tech Updated page on budget Android ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 There are many choices for PDF readers and editors for the Linux platform. I've used a variety over the years. Lately I had preferred these two: Xournal++ (xournalpp), which is a reader and editor, and is touted as a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support ... supports pen input from devices such ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W10/2025: Monday 03 March - Sunday 09 March 2025 Work Figure out how to learn Japanese (and Thai), put together basic outline of what is needed, what is different Produce IPA comparisons between English and Thai, English and Japanese, Japanese and Thai Tech Need to get serious about getting RSS feeds organized and ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W09/2025: Monday 24 February - Sunday 02 March 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Tech Still figuring out how to de-DRM Kobo and/or Nook, so that I do have somewhere to buy ebooks, that I can read on my ebook reader (currently a Kindle Paperwhite 2018), and ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Three kinds of Cacao / Cocoa Dutch processed (increases PH) cocoa Natural (bitter / alkaline) cocoa Raw (less processed, aka cacao) Two kinds of Cacao / Cocoa 10-12% butter fat 22-24% butter fat The main thing with Dutch vs. Natural is Dutch does not react with Baking Soda (so when baking, usually uses ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W08/2025: Monday 17 February - Sunday 23 February 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Not much accomplished, sadly, not unexpectedly. Tech Still finishing up rebuilding my Debian 12 Stable desktop. In love with all the open source (and a few proprietary) apps I use. Great article ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Looks like Library Genesis has been hit hard by some courts. And so we turn to Anna's Archive. Libgen and related news Publishers Ramp Up Pressure vs. Anna’s Archive, Sci-Hub, Z-Library & Libgen (Torrentfreak) Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? (Torrentfreak) Copyright reform is necessary for national ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Upon installing XFCE, the xfce4-screenshooter is also installed. Create keyboard shortcut for screenshots Note that the Below will initiate a selection screenshot so that one may select the appropriate screen area using the crosshairs. It will also automatically save the screenshot in the Downloads directory and name it appropriately. In order to have ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 W07/2025: Monday 10 February - Sunday 16 February 2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Some progress, though much left to do. Tech EMF blocking clothing? Great idea. Horrible prices. The venerable Kiwi Browser is no longer getting updates, and it is no longer in the Android ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 From health officials, it is clear that the main causes of obesity (beside genetics) are: Sedentariness (how much one is in active) Portion control (how much one eats) Food choices (what one eats) Avoid processed foods Avoid sugar/added sugar Avoid fried foods The above sounds quite simple, and one might say this comes ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 06/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Work Started changing metadata and organizational information across distributors. First things first, one at a time (Drucker, Effective Executive). Bookshop.org now has ebook distribution, and a 10% affiliate program. Health Feeling better, ramping up activity Able to run 3.5 kms ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Week 05/2025 This is one of the ongoing weekly notes, as per Thej. Actually this note also accounts for the previous week, which is without a note. Four things impacted me at once which took away most motivation and a lot of energy and inertia, and it took a week to get back ... Read more