Snowflake Challenge #8

[ratcreature]

Challenge #8: In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

Well, this is depressing. I didn't accomplish anything beyond survival in 2021. Even my book reading declined by more than half compared to 2020, to 72 from 150 books. I guess that I managed to stick with posting my reading in the Wednesday Reading Meme for a while was something? Before my reading fell off a cliff that is.

I baked a lot of Christmas cookies that I gave as gifts throughout December?

And not that getting Linux to work on my new laptop went particularly well, but I am proud that I managed to get both Adobe Digital Editions and Kindle to run under Linux on my new laptop via various different layers of windows emulation and several days of tinkering (because they would not both work with just one kind), and I wrangled a kernel update outside the distribution update cycle to get my wireless network controller to work. Standby/sleep is still borked though.

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[ratcreature]

The cookies were well received. I made seven different kinds (different Lebkuchen, Zimtsterne, Vanillekipferl etc. etc.) and my grocery bill skyrocketed because of all the expensive nuts, but several people commented that they were tastier than store bought.

The ADE and Kindle thing I ran into when setting up my new laptop was such a nonsense, and just because I want use my ebooks under Linux. Kindle would only run under PlayOnLinux not under wine directly but ADE only under wine itself but not in PlayOnLinux. And the underlying wine version that I got to work was different for both. It all required trying so many different combinations of versions of wine, winetricks, windows python, python crypto libraries, and the Calibre DeDRM plugin... But I can now still buy and open ebooks from both Amazon and Kobo under my Linux and in my non-Kindle reader.

But it certainly reminded me why I keep computers for their maximum lifetime, and it's not just not wanting to wreck the environment unnecessarily or being frugal, but the incredible hassle that always happens with one thing or another.

[mithun]

several people commented that they were tastier than store bought.
I bet they were! They sound amazing.

Ugh, that's a lot of hoops to jump through! I can only imagine how great it must have felt when it finally started working. :D

[ratcreature]

It ended with much trepidation because by the end I wasn't even sure anymore what exactly I had tweaked differently when it finally all worked, and I just didn't touch anything further...