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Quiet before the storm

Its not as windy as previous weeks, but there is another storm on its way.

Feeling too tired for exercise over the weekend, need to pace myself at work a little better.

Hopefully as the weather gets warmer or at least sunnier it will be easier to do more outside activities.

Warmer weather

Practicalli AstroNvim User Config changed to be as additive as possible, leaving the template as unchanged as possible.

The sunnier weather is a boots to motivation, although its still very windy. At least I can get into the garden without sinking.

Another Saturday morning ride, a tough experience although not completely exhausted afterward.

A freezing start to a new year

GitHub is currently rolling out a change to make Ubuntu 24.04 the default image when running a workflow on ubuntu-latest. As some packages have been removed to save space, then its prudent to give the Practicalli GitHub workflows a test on Ubuntu 24.04.

Organising my digital music and audio books so they all fit nicely on my smart phone (using Opus audio format and VLC to play the music).

Arch Linux recommends not using pacman -Syu to update all packages and today I experience why. I can no longer login to the desktop 🤦 EDIT: this seems to be specific to the NWG-shell configuration, as the vanilla hyprland desktop does work.

I assume this is a breaking change of hyprland that NWG-shell has not resolved. This is another reason to start again with hyprland and build my own config (although this will be a big time sink, so can wait).

Its freezing temperatures outside in London, UK at the moment, so I am trying to get outside when the sun is still shining. The paths are slippy and so are the roads, so even if I felt up to cycling outside, then it could be quite tricky.

A new year... a new me

Going back to work for a rest... from all the exercise of winter solstace

Continuing to love using Neovide, although havent figured out how to use Neovide from the MacOSX launcher with AstroNvim. It works fine under Linux.

End of line... for 2023

My personal plans for 2024 are not set in stone, but I would like to relocate to the countryside by the summer.

Predictions for 2024:

  • the year of the AI lawsuits as more companies and individuals realise they content has been used to train AI models without permission or recompense.
  • Anthropocene is declared a new geographic era in the history of the earth, marking the significant change humanity has made to the planet (not for the good).

Neovim updates and Neovide

Enjoying the new role as there is so much to do that I can get involved with.

Also enjoying Neovide GUI for Neovim, although its more convienient to simply run astro for Neovim in a terminal. When I am comfortable setting the base directory or working with multiple project, then Neovide will be more convienient to use.

Weekly journal & Neovide

The Practicalli journal will move to a weekly cadence now I have a full time job with Griffin Bank.

I do write a daily journal for my activities in Griffin and will share information that is not sensitive or business valuable.