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I've simplified my office as I move back to one laptop for everything.
Firefox profiles are pretty great for splitting work and personal but the UX of using them sucks compared to Chrome. I know it's easy to take pot-shots from the outside but this feels like it "just" needs some polish to provide an experience similar (or better!) to Chrome's user profiles? (You need to visit about:profiles to create or launch new profiles).
When I am done with my Internet Archive dev VMs I will take downtime on the 1U server in the basement and steal its NVMe drive for the mini-ITX machine I built. I'll probably take the old Nook SATA SSD and add it to the 1U server as a trade? 10Gb networking hasn't been the major upgrade I thought that it would be. No further experiments with BGP for the time being, although everything that was set up is still working.
I've only done two Looptobers so far, and I really only enjoyed the first one, but I'm not letting it get me down. There's been a lot on! I've found "giving in" and using Live instead of Reaper some of the time has been good for me -- I'm too much of a purist about doing things the hard way.
I set up an IRC bouncer last month and I should have done this a long time ago. I'd like to get mentioned bridged to my phone (maybe via Pushover) -- that'd be the icing on the cake, I think?