Part of a series from the travelog of my trip to Seattle in October 2022. Up spontaneously at 7:30am PDT. Jet lead. Pulled myself together and met up with Jane and her daughter at the Ballard Farmer’s Market. They’d already gotten most of their groceries, so after the meat truck, we sat at Root Cafe. …
Author Archives: Shawn
Permanently Disable Tracker in Ubuntu
Ubuntu Gnome Desktop comes with a background service called Tracker that runs a bunch of other sub-services such as tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract, tracker-store, etc., that do the job of scanning and indexing the files in your user home folder. It’s a service used by the Gnome file manager for speeding up the search bar. This is …
Thanksgiving
Just gonna say, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate.
Seattle Travelog Sat 10/22
Part of a series from the travelog of my trip to Seattle in October 2022. Flight from Austin Bergstrom International Airport was delayed 10 minutes because the ground captain failed to close the communications hatch on the fuselage after pushback. Had to hold on the taxiway for a mechanic. Seatmates kept the window shade closed. …
Masto Mentions
Currently testing the #Wordpress #WebMentions plugin. #Shoutout to @phaysis to see how this plays out. Yo. What’s the word, nord?