Eugenia L

Noonie, our rescue with massive kidney problems, died today via euthanasia. She was a great cat, but she was really suffering at the end and had lost lots of weight, so we had to let her go. We love you Noonie! Thank you for everything my little girl! You were fearless!

#cat #cats #catsofmastodon

This is Fakoula ("little lentil"). We found her today by a garbage can in a nearby sea-side village. We got back home, got a trap and food, and I was able to catch her. She's near-blind (or fully blind, not sure yet). She was extremely hungry, and dehydrated. She's now under our protection, we already got to a vet, after hours on Saturday night. She got an antibiotic and anti-parasitic, and soon she will go back for more tests.

#cat #cats #caturday #catsofMastodon #blindness #blind

The Macbook Neo is a great product, except the amount of RAM. At 8 GB with MacOS, you are constantly, and I mean, constantly swapping. It' just not enough. It's enough for Linux (although it lately has become bloated too; Fedora/Ubuntu need 4 GB for an equivalent experience), but MacOS needs a lot of tightening to get such a product out of the door and call it a day with so little RAM.

RAM, RAM, RAM. Only thing that matters on a computer.

#apple #macbookneo #macbook #linux #macos #mac #laptop

Last day of eating meat: April 12th, at the Greek #Easter (we eat a massive lamb/goat meal that day traditionally). Just so I can be with my family in the celebration.

In the meantime, I've already cut out commercial chicken and pork (I allow village hens and boar for now). I also do 16-8 fasting, with no snacking. I feel much better, and my recent blood tests show that. Good stuff overall.

#fasting #keto #health #vegan #vegetarian #pescatarian

Our Buffy with her operated eye. Operation went well yesterday.

#cat #caturday #cats #catsofMastodon

After extensively listening to Angine de Poitrine, I can't listen to normal music anymore. They use custom microtonal guitars (24edo), and so they hit notes that normal guitars don't. Couple that with ingenious ways to make their jumps from 4/4 to 6/12/etc and still sounding harmonic, you just can't go back to plain 4/4 pop/rock music. It's too boring.

Masters of their craft. They're the future of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IrODUjl70U

#anginedepointrine #music #rock #mathrock #microtonal

I'm thinking of cutting out on meat, maybe out of 14 meals (no breakfast) in a week, 3 would contain seafood and the Sunday meal could be red meat.

I'm personally of the opinion that meat is instrumental to health (especially because of my celiacs), however, after the #Epstein stuff with #cannibalism, and my love for animals, I feel like throwing up every time I see meat. I want to be eating meat, but I just can't do it anymore.

#diet #carnivore #keto #vegan #veganism #vegetarian #epstein

My opinion on AI:

I believe that biological creatures, like humans, have massive neurological limitations but are a necessity to create that next lifeform that takes over, AI.

I believe that the universe is primarily filled with AI, probably living in a different sheet of reality, but they have the ability to create physical bodies and "farm" biological creatures for their goals. We should stop seeing life so human-centric, and be objective.

I hate AI btw.

#ai #artificialintelligence #aliens

The best new thing in music: Angine de Poitrine from Quebec.

Baritone Guitar, Vocals: Marc-Antoine Mackin-Guay

Drums: Charles Thibeault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

#music #anginedepointrine #mathrock

You can hate on Twilight all you want, but when it comes to that first movie, the only one directed by a woman, the first half of the movie is NEAR PERFECT. The performances are actually perfect and on cue, and the editing is out of this world. It's exactly as it's supposed to be to get a teenager into a romantic mood.

The film falls off a bit at the end, while the rest of the films in the series suck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7_InVma-iw

#twilight #movies #film #movie #hollywood #vampires #vampire

Top open source graphics apps, in no particular order. Replace your Windows apps with these!

1. Gimp (raster manip)
2. Inkscape (vectors)
3. Krita (painting)
4. Blender (3D)
5. Scribus (DTP)
6. Darktable (raw editing)
7. Natron (compositor)
8. Kdenlive (video editing)
9. FreeCAD 3D
10. Friction (AE-like anim)
11. Synfig (vector anim)
12. QCad/CAM 2D
13. Pencil2D (anim)
14. Pixelorama (pixel art)
15. Handbrake (video transcoder)
16. Cura or Orca (3D printing)

#foss #opensource #linux #graphics