2021-11-17                         from the editor of ~insom
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   I did some turning on the lathe. I'm starting to feel less
   like a total newbie, which is a pleasant feeling. I am not
   "good" and I'm rarely even making things that have a
   purpose, but I'm less bad than before and it's all giving me
   a better appreciation about how things in the real world are
   made.

   The Pi400 as a Linux desktop is working _pretty_ well. It's
   NFS booted which is good because it's silent and most of the
   time it's fast (because NFS-to-SSD is still better than many
   SD cards) -- but when I saturate the network and the NFS
   process hangs the whole machine becomes unresponsive -- even
   down to the mouse going sluggish. Maybe GBe shares USB on
   the Pi, still? I know it used to in the 10/100 days.

   I am obsessionless right now -- I don't really want to do
   anything, even though I ironically have time at the moment.
   I did dig out my Circuit and noodle with some music this
   evening, which was nice.

   I'm also reading the new Neal Stephenson, which is a total
   downer so far, but I do love his writing -- post 2000, at
   least.