A geek, who no longer likes tech

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  • I’ve tried all popular and popularized ways to do it, and I’ve been having hard time with it a lot. Here is a short list I can think if off top of my head:

    • paper journals — structured (bullet journal), unstructured
    • Obsidian
    • RoamResearch
    • evernote
    • vimwiki

    I’ve noticed that to me, the tool must be a perfect fit, otherwise I will just forget about it and stop using it.

    So, now I use a paper notebook with Lamy Safari, and keep literally no system (except for writing down date and place — I don’t even write things down every day!). With that, I can keep journaling and taking adequate notes at work with at least some level of consistency — that I don’t miss any information in the process. That is what worked for me :)






  • RCS is a really nice thing in principle, because SMS/MMS infrastructure is just awfully outdated from security standpoint.

    Though, replacing SMS/MMS infrastructure which is internetless yet cross-carrier by making it a internet-first and tied to a single meta-carrier under the hood kind of defeats the purpose overall. There was an attempt to build an independent carrier-deployable implementation of RCS, yet it turned out to be bought off by Google :(



  • If it is a Zoom meeting, than I just allow myself to run around the room, listening to the meeting on the background.

    Otherwise, if it is an in-person meeting, I do lots of things

    • watch around, try to make notes of important things
    • practice active listening, trying to validate my understanding by parahprasing statements I heard as questions to validate correctness of my understanding. Even if I can’t ask them — I write them down, this also forces the muscle memory to make me recall more
    • if it is a presentation, I sometimes run further ahead, riding the content like waves — so when presenter gets to some point,

    The most important thing, though, always is to accept the fact that you can miss some parts. Neurotypicals miss bits and pieces of information too — they just don’t think it is a bad thing, so it is fine if you miss something, or hear something incorrectly. It is completely fine to ask to repeat something, or to get some information later by asking your colleagues.




  • I’d prefer not to dual boo, but it might be the safest way to start? If I dual boot, get used to Linux and (hopefully) get everything I need working, can I then go from dual boot to erasing the Windows partition and recombining so I then only have Linux installed and can keep the work and programs I already installed on Linux?

    My personal experience says: try dualbooting first, because it will make you to have a working machine continuously. Taking into account that all Linux-based OS behave vastly differently from MS Windows, it is possible to break things, when learning a new way of doing things.

    The drives for my server are NTFS. Does anyone have experience with this format on Linux (I use Emby)?

    I’ve been using an external NTFS drive for compatibility and big files storage: works as charm. The worst case scenario is you will need to install an ntfs-3g driver, although it is usually included with the distro.


    As for production: I don’t have much experience with that, although I can recommend you looking around tooling that solves the problem. You will need quite a bit of patience and trying things, because switching platform will definitely require you to make some shifts in usual processes you have now. Don’t expect things to be obvious 100% replacement: unfortunately lots of people have this expectation, and get frustrated.

    As for hardware, just looking the model up on the internet with adding “linux”, or “ubuntu”, or “fedora” should do the trick of figuring out if it will work.