Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social

Who doesn't like the Babylon Bee?😂 Going to actually play this BINGO tonight.

“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples inside a seed.”
-Robert H. Schuller

Didn't think I would care much about the 4k on the new TV, but I am loving my FoxtrotGPS maps in all their high definition.

ALSA is doing some annoying popping after I updated it and my kernel. I'm assuming it's ALSA because the problem persists across Pulseaudio and JACK. Sound on Linux is a rabbit hole, and if you ever get everything working like you want, a party is in order.

Found my first cellphone while looking for my multimeter. I really didn't want one at the time, but it was getting socially awkward. Definitely didn't like smartphones because they seemed like a Swiss Army knife; could do a lot, but nothing well. Then the iPhone pretty much changed that. Talk about being wrong! How many devices does a phone replace these days?

Watching No Safe Spaces by Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla. Have always liked Prager. Many of you people on the Fediverse are liberal, but you guys see that there are a lot of ideas being used in your name that are poisonous. Free speech is of the utmost importance. If Hitler wanted to give a speech on a college campus, you should be able to listen to it and determine it to be the BS that it is. Dark times ahead I'm afraid.

Liberty
In God We Trust
E Pluribus Unum

Good thing I have a bigger one lying around🙂

Proud owner of a new graphics card that doesn't fit in the case...

Take notice of heavenly things while you can...

My 55" TV/computer display went on the fritz yesterday and started blinking on and off. Pretty confident that I could repair it in 2/3 hours, but I bought a new one today anyways. Probably will give it a go next week, but it would be nice to give it to a motivated kid to fix. I wonder where I can find one of those? I now realize that many of the "wasteful/lazy" things I saw adults do when I was a kid were really just opportunities thrown to me.

For me it began when when I was 7-10 and came almost exclusively from movies and books, though my librarian had been part of the civil rights movement and told us stories. Freedom was something mentioned often in church, but at that age it didn't really click. The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Little House Books, Roots, Snow Treasure, and The Dairy of Anne Frank all seemed to have had a profound impact on me.

A lot of you are advocates of freedom and privacy. People aren't born valuing these things, but must learn one way or another. Many people never learned, and younger generations don't miss what they never had. When/how did you learn to value freedom and privacy?