I havenāt made a blog post since July, where I made a single blog post of meowing. So now what?
Make a blog post! Iām alive![citation needed]
Well actually Iām gonna talk about recent stuff. And why thereās no blog post.
blog posts
So Iāve been writing about Taiko no Tatsujin, a rhythm game about hitting drums. Because I went to places and realized that arcade games exist (yes I played the arcade version). In that I wanted to compare that to osu!taiko, osu! version of Taiko no Tatsujin.
But uh, Iāve been trying to write works and I am not satisfied with the words. So I keep thinking about the words.
And then executive dysfunction, etc., so itās definā¦
I havenāt made a blog post since July, where I made a single blog post of meowing. So now what?
Make a blog post! Iām alive![citation needed]
Well actually Iām gonna talk about recent stuff. And why thereās no blog post.
blog posts
So Iāve been writing about Taiko no Tatsujin, a rhythm game about hitting drums. Because I went to places and realized that arcade games exist (yes I played the arcade version). In that I wanted to compare that to osu!taiko, osu! version of Taiko no Tatsujin.
But uh, Iāve been trying to write works and I am not satisfied with the words. So I keep thinking about the words.
And then executive dysfunction, etc., so itās definitely not happening this August (itās already closing in on mid August now wtf is time)
And I donāt exactly have much ideas so nothing to be seen.
website
I changed the public mailing list comment thingy to a direct email address. This is after realizing of course that I get any comments from readers of this blog. Sure, Iāve received a couple of comments and stuff, but like⦠Iāve never received anything directly about the Synapse disk space clean up, which is a blog post that has been shared in the Synapse Admin room, some comment on github, and was PRād into the Synapse documentation. Which means that my blog post was kinda useful, but I guess most people forgot about giving feedback to blog authors.
Uh, not much else? I donāt know.
Oh, I wanted to work the typography of this website maybe, like sizing of headers, spacing of the permalinks. I wonāt do it now because Iām writing a blog post. Maybe later. But do let me know what you think about the typography of the website if you think itās fine or something is hard to do.
I did things on the computer
Iām using Niri now. Well. To see if I like it here.
I still havenāt uninstalled KDE Plasma. In fact, I setup Niri in a way (with systemd wants) that allows me to switch back to KDE Plasma if I want just by logging out and back in.
I switched to Niri because the karousel script thing did not support multiple monitors well at all, which was a major down side. (It was kind of a hack after all)
Of course, Iāve got to what Iāve been dreading with window managers that arenāt a fully featured desktop environment: Setting up the rest of the components, like screen locking, idle management, information bars, launchers, and a bunch of stuff.
What Iāve found to be lacking from Niri is squeezing windows or something like that from karousel. Resizing all visible columns to fit another column from some side.
Anyways, dotfiles here. And pictures:

There is also a bunch of other tiny things I need to clean up that Iām still getting around to. The list of things I want is huge so itāll definitely take a while.
Debian 13 blu-ray report
I updated my dual-layer blu-ray discs. I also added the source code discs, which went from 2 to 3 discs from Debian 12 to 13. This burning effort took at least 2 days (download + burning) and 200 GB of storage. Also, the third blu-ray disc has become significantly bigger.
Why did I do this? Because I already did this.
The flattopās drive disconnects.
laptop-serverās alertmanager: Hey weāve got report that the btrfs is having lots of I/O errors.
Me: Is it the exact same problem again?
Narrator: Yes, it was the exact same problem again.
So flattop has external 3.5 inch HDD enclosures connected via USB. This is what I call flattop external drives.
It has a bit of history. First, it started as imac external drives, with drives made for the external hard drives market. Then imac died, so I moved it to flattop. Then I realized all the external drives I got is fucking SMR, then I had a briliant idea: 3.5 inch hard drives, which I know for certain is CMR, connected via USB (because flattop doesnāt have space and I donāt have the screws to hold it in place inside the very custom chassis with screws I donāt even recognize).
That history might not be relevant. What is relevant is that the drives never really disconnected randomly on imac, and not when I used external HDDs instead of internal HDDs (with an enclosure).
Also relevant is the location of the external drives and flattop. It is to the right of my foot when Iām at my desktop gayming. The drives are on top of flattop, and also by gayming (by itās back, precisely). And to the left of gayming is a power strip with 8 plugs. All 4 drives plug into that strip.
When another disconnection happened today, my brain started to actually think by accident. Then it was like āhmm, what if itās the enclosure having issues or somethingā.
Some thinking later, I traced the power cable for the drive that randomly disconnected. I pushed the plug in. It was not fully in.
So yeah, thereās my problem. I keep bumping into the power strip (which protects bumps to gayming, but honestly I just wanted the leg space), and that causes connection issues.
Interestingly, todayās disconnection resulted in a downgrade to USB 2.0. So I just turned the drive off and on again, procedure and scrub and yeah done.
Actually, looking at it, I can probably reshuffle things because pretty much all the cables I need from there is long enough to be put elsewhere.
anything else?
Uh. I donāt know. Oh hey look below at the new comments thing