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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I didn’t think I would ever say this, but: arch isn’t always the answer. True: the last time the entire system broke on me was in 2006’ish, but I can’t count the times certain apps have stopped working or some python upgrade messes up things. Sure: that’s the price of rolling release and AUR, and I wouldn’t be without it, but it’s a thing one has to learn to live with, and a thing that makes ‘arch’ the wrong answer to this particular question.











  • I agree that the source linking in familysearch is excellent. I’m a bit weary about using it as my main tree though: the lack of control, over the data and the architeture, the latter-day saints connection, and who knows when they will start charging? Etc. All the reasons why open source and open standards are always to be preferred. But I do admit to having a tree there … :)


  • Hehe. Sorry if I put you on the spot; that wasn’t the intention, really. (And: IDMA. “I don’t mind acronyms”)

    MOCs – I guess I use them all the time, but not in a systematic way. I’m a folder guy, so I use folder notes fairly consistently. I also try to use “landing pages” for specific projects, with links to all the various bits of contents, so that I have everything in one place. But again: fairly unsystematically.

    In general all those kinds of systems tend to make me think that they require a whole lot of thinking about thinking rather than the thinking itself