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Can you imagine much easier things would be if I…

• Used (only one) digital camera
• Put my photos in one big Lightroom Classic catalog
• Or maybe just used my iPhone with Apple Photos

I saw a post where someone complained that the timeline for some community was “…a sanitized version of reality.” My question is, must every “community” always, no matter what, include content from every possible awful corner of the universe? If I wanted “reality”, I’d go read about it, or visit just about every other timeline on the internet. I know shit is terrible, that’s why I’m hanging out in this nice space for a spell…as a respite. Is it not OK to want to be mildly entertained and amused for a little while? I mean, we don’t bitch about, say, The Disney Channel existing, do we? I don’t believe people have the right to demand that every space conform to every situation.

I turn 61 years old, today. That seems like a lot.

 

Too hot for chores, today, so I’m in my air-conditioned office, futzing with AI tools, server options, and my Emacs capture templates.

For some reason, I can’t get a markdown-mode-hook to fire and call olivetti-mode when I open a Markdown file in an Emacs buffer. I’m using the exact method that works with org-mode files. It’s a small annoyance, but this is why I sometimes want to quit.

 

Posted: Roll 037

Ozzy died today. For a long time, I expected this to happen any minute. He didn’t exactly live a healthy lifestyle. After a certain point, though, it seemed like he might live forever. His “Blizzard of Ozz” tour in 1981 was one of the of the first concerts I saw. I remember leaning my head into a speaker cone, because LOUDER!

 

The other day, I converted my entire TiddlyWiki into an Obsidian vault, just to see if I could. Since I still spend most of my time in Emacs, I thought it would be nice to search the vault from there.

The post, From Obsidian to Emacs, by Mike Hostetler, mentioned using the Xeft package, so I thought I’d try it. Here’s my config:

(use-package xeft
  :ensure t
  :defer t
  :config
  (setq xeft-recursive t)
  (setq xeft-database "~/.deft.db")
  (setq xeft-directory "/Users/jbaty/Documents/Notes/Vault/")
  (setq xeft-ignore-extension '("png" "jpg" "jpeg"))
  (setq xeft-extensions '("md"))
  (setq xeft-title-function #'file-name-nondirectory))

Xeft relies on Xapian for searches, so a module needs to be downloaded or built locally. I didn’t have any luck with the downloaded version, so I deleted the package, started over, and had it compile locally. The trick there was entering the prefix “/opt/homebrew” during installation, since I’d already installed Xapian using Homebrew.

Here’s what a search for “linhof” looks like: