Welcome to the Linux For Poets blog site. It started with my love of Linux and open source software, but these days it also includes such things as retro tech gadgets, digital minimalism, fountain pens and paper planners.
My new innovation is, get this! Listening to the radio. I feel that listening to podcasts or youtube on the phone or computer are too fiddly - they constantly need changing, or skipping ads, or some sort of interaction. It feels hectic and demanding, all these little micro-decisions about what song or podcast to play next.
I got a Panasonic RF-2400D, from Ebay, for $20 US. The sound quality is…
I have been doing a couple of weeks now of my focus challenge. It's really just an improvement in my routine, rather than a hard challenge.
I have not held exactly to the rules of my experiment. I have looked at Reddit, but not logged in, and only for very specific reasons for short lengths of time, like finding information about fountain pen nib compatibility. I am honestly fine with this.…
(Written the evening of the murder of Alex Pretti by federal officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota.)
My goodness, I don't know what to say. What I see from our country is unreal right now. I check the news each day to see what insane thing the Trump administration is doing now, and what horrors ICE is unleashing today. I wonder what kind of country I am bringing up my kids in, and what we will be…
At the end of the year, I am thinking about what to focus on for 2026, as is traditional. I am not doing anything dramatic or strenuous, as I am immersed in parenting. My first kiddo is now two, and I just had our second baby in early December. So I am trying to reset my body and mind and look forward, amidst the relentless chaos, cuteness and unpredictability that is life with small children.
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I am always trying to create boundaries and guardrails to keep myself feeling more present and less distracted. It may be different for each person, and that's great. These are things I am doing that I think help me to feel more focused.
Due to a tragic accident, my old Google Pixel 3A is now pushing up the daisies. A new phone was not on my plan for this week, but I had the old one for five or so years, and had bought it used, so needing a replacement isn't a huge huge loss.
So yesterday I got on eBay, as is my usual method, and ordered a Pixel 8A, which will be here in a few days. I always try to get the smallest phone…
It was in the news recently that Firefox has done away with the read later service Pocket. I actually liked Pocket, I thought it was half of a really nice idea. But they didn't have the missing half, for my purposes, which was RSS. I have a goal of a smooth, offline RSS eink reader. Pocket was lovely because it would sync with the Kobo reader. If it had RSS and the ability to save articles, and…