04 July 2022 ============ Its monday again... and i had a pretty productive weekend. I finally had time to set up Plan9 on my Raspberry Pi Model B and reinstall all the goodies and custom software i had on my Thinkpad R60 before it ended up in a catastrophic hardware failure. I will post another article going into detail on the setup and how to get everything running. If you are familiar with Linux or Unix, the configuration of Plan9 tends to be a bit... frustrating. But when its all done and running its a really great system. A good thing was that i could restock my fish tank a bit after *whatever* killed half the population and ruined the ecosystem in the tank after years of flawless operation. Let's hope that the system stays stable from now on. The best part of the weekend was that i could completely ignore the major news sites (and especially the comments on this sites). This is a MAJOR factor on keeping my depression and anger issues in check. I hope this week i can keep on to just look into the news once or twice a day and then leave without starting a battle with the "other idiots" in the comment section. News sites and reddit where allways my bane as i am a person who is deeply concerned with the environment, social issues and so on. This may be a good thing, but if you add to this the unstoppable urge to defend your position and try to convince others to your standpoint coupled with mood swings and at times a real nasty temper its no good for anybody involved. So my resolution to get out of this rage > depression > RAGE cycle is to avoid places where i may get involved in discussions of this kind (e.g. reddit and news sites). At least on days where i can manage to stay away its much better for my mental health...