This year I replaced my work computer with a AMD Ryzen 7 8700G running Debian 12. This was mostly ok, but I was getting the most random and rare hard lockups. I was super confused and frustrated as all my burn in tests came back clean with no issues. I even tried a short stint on Ubuntu 24.10 to see it it would help, but it still happened. Then I tried a GPU benchmarking tool and it hard locked my computer every time it tried to load. Since this was a work computer I hardly ever really engaged the GPU seriously. Turns out the GPU was fine, but the drivers were not. ...

After Writing about AI and cohorts I wanted to spend time putting down where I am with AI, hopefully this is a post that grows and changes as my feelings do. Also sorry for the grammar in the title, I think it sounds clever. As a Consumer As somebody who consumes a lot of books, art, & music I want hand created content for a few reasons. Reason 1: I Buy Stuff I pay for content; I buy books by the droves, I purchase music directly,1 and I commission art from artists2 as well as have an active Patreon subscription I am always struggling to cull back. ...

I saw something about cohorts and AI usage and it got this whole idea stuck in my head so I decided to write it out and maybe it’s enough to make you think about how you feel about AI content itself and where it brings entertainment and value to you. Now that the “AI boom” has started to plateau and mature I see two broad cohorts of people when it comes to ingesting media and services. These are the consumers, not the creators. ...

Preamble Since I am brining back this blog and plan on writing a lot more I wanted to make it a lot easier. Historically this blog has been written in Vim/NeoVim, which while being a very proficient editor, is not optimal for free flow text for me. An Idea Last year consolidated my journal and all of my notes into Obsidian. In the past I used MacJournal and then Day One for my journaling and Bear for my notes, but every time I would end up locked out of my data when trying to export to a new system. ...

Oh wow. I haven’t written in my blog since the pandemic hit. Yikes. A lot has happened since then. With social media having fallen apart for years I thought I would spend some time to build this blog back up. I am going to try to spend more time adding smaller things to it, and putting more notes up here instead of only in my Obsidian document. It’s going to be a rough next four years, might as well spend it contributing. ...

The following is a stream of consciousness. It was originally meant as something more poetic, to try and share what social situations are like post transition. It is not meant as a call out post for any person or the conference I was at. I solely wish to share what my experience is like now, and offer some contrast to how it was. It’s hard to talk (as a trans person). ...