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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 4h

In other news I got a hair up my ass and put signs up at some cafes for a writing group

Got three people and we’re all on the same wavelength

Just had to make the flier a bit confrontational to scare off the memoirists and MFA dorks

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah rolling up all excited for the sauna just to find some confused guy in the driveway was not the best way to finish a six hour drive

And salmon fishing is fucked tomorrow cuz of this (maybe can still hit trout tho, salmon Friday/saturday, so all is not lost)

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 5h

Uncle Ben: 0/1

If Uncle Ben is killed in combat, put a 4/4 counter on Spiderman

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 5h

Dude told me the prior owner screwed him too and he’s taking her to small claims court lmao

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing like showing up at a VRBO and meeting the guy who closed on it the day before in the driveway

Hotel tonight and rolling the dice on another place tomorrow, a fireplace and real kitchen and actual comfortable furniture is worth it

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t take it very often but today was a special day

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6h

I dunno maybe it’s the massive dose of Ativan talking but maybe things are going to be ok

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 1d

Ok I’m going back in

This will be a great puzzle game

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

Great memories of high school though

Back when having an operating system that was a hobby unto itself was fun

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

After playing with two different Linux distros today I now know why apple can charge so much

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

For those interested:

www.qubes-os.org

I wish it worked as sexily as it sounds

Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system

Qubes is a security-oriented, free and open-source operating system for personal computers that allows you to securely compartmentalize your digital life.

www.qubes-os.org

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

OK so my review of Qubes:

-- It is super fucking cool
-- I don't smoke enough crack to run this

Been banging my head against getting the internet to work on it and took a step back like man, if this is THIS difficult then I don't even know if I want to go down this path

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

I really thought I hard bricked this bad boy but I think it was just recovering from the absolutely brutal show of force I just used to shatter its rancid display of hubris

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

update: I hard bricked it

well they did say there as a 15 day return window in any condition I guess

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

I don't want to connect my Windows account! I want to get the actual big boy BIOS settings so I can eradicate your awful pestilence off of this machine!

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

In order to install Qubes you need to enable virtualization in the Bios

But they hide that option from you so you have to jump through hoops just to (maybe) see it

Anyways the hoop I'm jumping through now is it not recognizing that I, the administrator, am administrator

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 2d

Got a cheap Windows machine to install Qubes on

Holy shit how does anyone use this cancer

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 4d

Time to make the annual Adirondack salmon pilgrimage

My spey cast is getting better

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 5d

I'd like to believe he's been working on a final doorstop we have yet to see and Inherent Vice / Bleeding Edge/ Shadow Ticket are more fun to him

And maybe that's just it - maybe he's just having fun while winding down his days

But that fourth of the Big Four he set out to write - hmmm

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 5d

Pynchon's Big 4 - have they been published? He's said he has "four big books" he wanted to do

I always ask myself what they are - obviously there's Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day

What's the fourth? V? Not convinced. Almost certainly not Vineland. Not IV, BE, or ST.

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6d

Good to know!

popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6d

I didn’t see it in vista vision, is it really that hot?

Not really a nerd about image quality but folks made it seem like it was the only way to watch it

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6d

MFA writing: the JK Rowling of literature

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6d

With Krasznahorkai winning the Nobel we have to consider one searing question: what if so-called “brodernist” fiction is, in fact, good, and MFA slop is bad no matter how well marketing schools disguised as writing clinics push it

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popoulis @roden.bsky.social · 6d

America’s poet

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