I drove 3000+ km from Amsterdam to Budapest in my Porsche 944.

This will be very much in medias res for regular readers of this blog (first off, if you are a regular: congratulations, you are defo more regular than I am writing it…), but if you follow me on Strava, or Pixelfed for example, then maybe not: so tl;dr I bought a Porsche. I posted about it in Hungarian, you can just go and translate that if you want my deep thoughts on the “why” and the “what” – you can also find a very quick backstory on my Porsche ownership here on Reddit too.

But this post is about my Amsterdam – Budapest trip, and it’s in English to be Reddit compatible. (I am still contemplating more than I should whether to post new stuff to my Hungarian blog or this here. I hate bilingualism.

For full immersion, I created a “944” YTMusic playlist from songs of the years when the 944 was in its prime – shuffle it, sit back, and let’s hit the road!

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Bring an extra finger, she said.

Well pain me green and call me a pickle, this is one of the funniest shit I’ve seen with tech (apart from the 500 mile email): my laptop sometimes “forgets” that 1 finger mode (to simply move the cursor) exists, and I need an extra finger for everything: 2 fingers to move the cursor, 3 fingers to scroll, 4 fingers to middle click, etc.

Well, as it turns out, it’s an issue with my filthy greasy fingers (I have a lot of coconut oil on them lately, as i’m trying to rehydrate my skin after 10 days in the 23% humidity aridity of Budapest): 1 greasy finger does not conduct enough, so Wayland does not register it as “touch”. 2 fingers however are OK — for 1 finger’s worth of “touch”. 3 fingers conduct enough for 2 fingers, and so on. Suspend an unsuspend solves the issue by the way (so does apparently anything else that resets the touchpad subsystem/driver of Wayland, like switching out to / back from a tty), so there’s a bug-like element to this, but still, how funny is this. (And yes, I’m thinking if I clean my touchpad it’ll resolve the issue for a long time.)

I’m having some new year’s day fun with my NC Deck process.

As part of using Nextcloud as our family unCloud, I’m using Deck as as personal Kanban-adjacent system. It stretches in 2 main areas (on 2 different boards): apartment related things (shared across the family and including everything from small maintenance through getting stuff from Praxis/Gamma (hardware store chains in NL) to larger (and expensive) projects like the long overdue replacement of our air filtering/circulation system; and personal stuff, for tracking things I need to plan around my life, be it something in the home IT stack, or my bike(s), or planning a holiday.

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