28 July 2025
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Well, things are moving in the right direction again. After
cleaning up (most of) my parents financial misadventures 
(or at least sorting so much out that a there is a light at
the end of the tunnel) everything calms back down a bit. 

I also got a moment for trying to reanimate the DevTerm 
again which - surprisingly - had some success: With a 
newly written SD card it boots up again (but only with the
R01 core) but weirdly, after a couple of boots, the (newly
bought) SD card is dead. A behaviour that can be replicated
as i found out while killing another freshly bought card.

Weird... something i have to keep digging into... later. 

In the meantime, i am quiet happy computing on with the 
Thinkpad again.

After a long time i also got back into cooking, the result
of the first try [1] was quiet a success and was devoured
by my wife and son. 

Over the last couple of weeks junior is driving us crazy...
He is a kid with a very, very strong will, a thing that he
likes to demonstrate when he wants to do something (or wants
to have something) and flies into an absolutely nuclear fit
of rage if he doesn't get it NOW. 

At the first occurences we made the mistake of giving in, 
but we learned better and are now trying to get him to calm
down... which is especially fun when he decides that it is 
best to enter berserker mode when in the midst of a filled
shopping centre. But it gets better... at least this is
what we are telling ourselfs.

On a positive note: He extremely quickly learned how to use
a toilet (he just decided that he doesn't want diapers any
more) and now only wears them at night and when on a longer
drive. Not bad for a 2.5 year old!



Another try at keeping things smol...
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After my initial plan to follow the "smol web july" trend
(which absolutely failed) i personally now set myself the
goal to get my heavily relapsing social media addiction
back under control during august.


Rules
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- No Reddit or Lemmy
- No doomscrolling on news sites
- Everything that can be used with Dillo and Lynx is fair
  game
- IRC is ok
- Usenet is ok
- Firefox may only be started when absolutely needed (say
  banking / insurance stuff)
- News only via RSS which is checked at max. three times a
  day


I write everything down this way because, perhaps, it will
put a bit of pressure on myself to really go through with
it. I really hate it that my bad habits krept back into my
daily life and i surely want to get rid of that stuff 
again.

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[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/ralfwause/recipes/spicy_codfish.txt