Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Giving away books, for free

Bonanza!

Giving away books, some are good.

Photos under the cut. Grab them before others gobble them up!

Giving them away for free, in Daugavpils – you haul them away yourselves via self-pickup from me, Novy Forshtadt neighborhood. I'm home often, almost any time works for me. Real-life friends and acquaintances get priority.

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Console Linux Troubles – 2

Last time I wrote about the problems of console Linux.  The topic is highly relevant, got a whole mountain of  comments (by my standards of an unknown blog writer).

Decided to continue.

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Portal

A first-person screenshot from Portal in which the player is holding a portal gun in a concrete test chamber. On the left is an orange portal with a turret visible through it, while another turret stands in the distance on the right, aiming a red laser at the player beside a blue portal.

Yesterday I got carried away and played Portal all the way to the end. I can’t even remember the last time I played a game on a PC before that. But they’re giving it away for free, and it got upvoted on Reddit, so I decided to take a look.

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Newspeak and Doublethink

Save us from legal phrasing.

Gailītis stated that the search was conducted lawfully, yet it contradicts the law on the protection of information sources.

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