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Invisible

Denny June 3, 2024 No Comments

In the real world, I’m seemingly invisible. If you passed by me. Looked directly at me with eye contact. You’d forget me just as quickly. For the most part of grown used to that. I actually kind of enjoy it. Being invisible. Being forgettable.

Currently I’m in a local coffee shop doing my weekly writing. Outside of the person who took my order, no one has even noticed my presence. I’m just a person in the corner with a laptop. By the time they get in their car, I’ll not even be a slight memory.

I’ve wasted too much time trying to be a special someone. Times when I just wanted to be the most important thing in someone’s life. A dream I’ve spent way too long chasing. Until the past year. So many years of my life wasted when I could’ve been honing my skills as a musician, comedian, writer or tech guru. Instead, I have had more than one failed marriage and more relationships than I care to admit to.

It seems being invisible suits me. Sure I have friends. Well 2 friends. Only one of which checks on me regularly.

When I’m at work, I make people laugh daily. I’m good at it. But there’s just something about me. Those same people can see me in the store and not recognize me at all.

Thing is. I’ve pretty much stopped worrying about all that and now I’m finally working on me. I have so much to be thankful for. It’s time to love myself. I’ve heard that when you stop looking, that connection will find you.

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Keep AI Out of Linux

Denny May 27, 2024 No Comments

Recently there are two letters that when said together, do nothing but raise the hair on the back of my neck in absolute rage. It’s far more irritating than life was when everything was HD or Extreme or 4K. Those were just terms for creating hype for high quality or at least to fake you into believing because it had such terms that is was automatically a good product.

I’m talking about AI or Artificial Intelligence. I can’t stand the idea of computers thinking for themselves. They pass it off as AI is only here to help humanity. While that’s partly true. It’s more a tool for making people even more lazy and stupid than ever before. It’s also a tool they will inevitably use to spy on people. I can’t imagine a world with even more ignorance, indifference and demotivated people than we have now. People don’t want to work. People don’t want to cook. They don’t want to do or clean up. As a person who visits many homes daily, and works overtime consistently, I seen this degradation in humanity increase over the last 45 years.

When it comes to privacy. I’ve spent the last 5 years removing myself from the public to a certain degree that now people only see what I want them to see about me. I have never been the believer that everyone should know everything about everyone else. What I do in my home and my private life is no one else’s to know. When I made the move to Linux 2 years ago it was to stop Microsoft from spying. They’ve been doing it all along with telemetry. Now they are ramping it up with Recall. Promising that it’s all kept local on your computer. I give it 6 months before someone tracks down where all your data will be going.

I moved to Linux to get away from Telemetry and regain freedom on computing. As well as join the massive community that respects privacy.

So when I heard that some open source developers wanted to include AI, I got mad. But I can’t explain it any better than Troy does from eBuzz Central did in this video.

In short, keep AI out of Linux!

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Happy About My House

Denny May 13, 2024 No Comments

My job has me going all over. Lots of apartments and houses that have been cut into apartments. I’ve lived in my share of those dwellings. I don’t miss the noise, having to listen to the arguments and drama from the neighbors. The obnoxious cars, kids screaming up and down the hallways and parking lots.

The smoke. Oh my freaking God the smoke. The chain smoking, the legalized pot and other dumb shit. The smells of people who eat the most awful things crowding my air space. Since I quit smoking I can’t take bad smells. I can’t even deal with incense. Makes my stomach turn.

I get to come home to a clean, and good smelling home. The yard is clean and tidy. Grass is cut and the sun shines in beautifully! Love when all my curtains are open. It’s mine and it makes me happy even though it’s not yet looking the way I want. This will keep me busy and comfortable for what’s left of my time in this world.

The only thing I hate, is spending 5-6 days a week working 10-12 hour days and not enjoying what I pay for. But that’s a work problem. Not my house. Upside it affords me to save and fix it up 😀

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New Hobby – Cricut

Denny May 6, 2024 No Comments

LIke playing drums, guitar, refurbishing my house, learning Linux and playing all my favorite games wasn’t enough… Now I’ve decided to invest fully into and learn how to use Cricut devices. Thus, I can make my own shirts, mugs, hats, vinyl decals and stickers. Let me explain why.

So you likely know if you’ve been here before. I sell such things promoting my love of Linux and Gaming. As well as my fear of stupid people. Honestly I only make enough money to get a free shirt once a year. It’s not a money maker. Never was. It’s cool and it gets me all sorts of conversation and fun reactions 😀

Then I made some hoodies. Then I decided to buy one. It’s over $65 before my $5 profit. The biggest profit item I have. Others are $2. For $65 this should be a very high quality item. Even if the zipper and tie string is white while the hoodie is black. Odd, but OK.

I buy one on sale for $57. Yeah I had to buy it too. Just like anyone else. I get this thing and immediately let down. It’s insanely thin and kind of small for an XL. It fits and it’s soft. But snug. Not like any of my other XL hoodies. They are less expensive (like less than $20) and are heavier duty. This is like a thick t-shirt with long sleeves and a hood. The printing is not nearly as good as the shirts I sell. I sincerely over paid for this. I won’t be surprised if I don’t sell any others using the third party printer I’ve chosen.

Plus I really wanted to get some die-cut stickers made for I Game on Linux! New business cards for Geeks Den. Vinyl decals for my car. Then I realized I can do all this myself if I get and learn a Cricut. So that’s what I’m starting to do.