No wonder people don't use Linux. What a joke the software installing landscape is.

Most Linux distros don’t have ARM versions yet. They need to get their fingers out.

I can’t believe I’ve lived my whole life without knowing the joy of the Apricot Fool. It’s flipping delicious.

Hard ice on the car this morning. Hard to scrape. Hot water to the rescue.

13th of December but no year specified. Must be 2022….but they look fine.

matigo.ca.

I have spied some mince pies from last year in a plastic box on top of a kitchen cupboard. Do you think they’ll be edible?

Gustave Dore — Christmas Eve

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Intrigues are as old as the hills, but once civilization sprouted, intrigue became more sophiticated, especially so with the advent of the Pharisees….

variablepulserate.10centuries.org.

""Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines.'"
-George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

As then, so now.