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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 28/09/2026

Ah just in the US. Gotcha. I still have the 2 on my radar for my next car!

Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/09/2026

Those old enough will remember when Windows first gained traction and every bloody app was "Win" something-or-other. Now Omarchy has taken off and every app and plug-in is "Oma" something-or-other.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/09/2026

How about instead of subsidising batteries and putting the onus of storage on the customer, we force electricity companies to pay us for electricity at a rate closer to what we pay them? I pay them 50c per kWh, but they pay me on average around 5c. It's crazy. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/09/2026

I can't even play an instrument, Ed. But regardless, the answer is no.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/09/2026

The noun should be spelled "promice". Don't at me.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/09/2026

If you run a YouTube channel, there's still time to rethink that AI-generated thumbnail before I click "don't recommend channel" on your video and never see you again.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/09/2026

You can stop now. The cows have come home.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/09/2026

The complete (for now) set of Dan Da Dan Funko Pops!

Photo of the full set of Dan Da Dan Funko Pops in my display cabinet.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 10/09/2026

I admit to being a little spoiled by Omarchy's update procedure. It takes seconds. Windows' takes minutes.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 10/09/2026

There's a human designer somewhere who historically has made flyers with a yellow/red/brown pallet, paint brush strokes to highlight text, and bold fonts, and Chat GPT has completely ruined their life.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 09/09/2026

Back in Windows on my home PC for the first time in two months. Mostly just to make sure updates are applied, but I could do with some grown-up power management from an OS for a change. 😅

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/09/2026

Yeah I went with Omarchy because of Hyprland. I really like the tiling window manager approach but of course didn't want to set the whole thing up from scratch myself. :)

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/09/2026

There's a degree of cognitive dissonance, for sure. Especially since I investigated Linux after Nadella helped fund Trump's ballroom. Omarchy is a good fit for me and I don't personally have to fund any billionaires.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/09/2026

Yeah I'm aware. But funding "for Omarchy" I take to mean funding for the various OSS components that make up Omarchy. As much as I dislike the guy, I don't think he's skimming off the top of the foundation.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/09/2026

The "funding" is for the Omacom foundation though, which sponsors open-source projects. So I'm not concerned about that. They've already committed to funding Hyprland and Quickshell, for example.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/09/2026

Coming up on two months using Omarchy now. Haven't booted into Windows since installing. DHH is inspirational when talking about computers, but abhorrent when talking about politics. I'm taking solace in the fact that Omarchy is not a commercial venture so I'm not funnelling money to fascists.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 28/08/2026

Getting lots of micro NBN dropouts this morning in North Albury. Internet connection drops for 5-10 seconds and comes back. No reported outage ... frustrating.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/08/2026

Oh look it's another AI-generated YouTube thumbnail! *plonk*

Me clicking "don't recommend channel" on an AI-generated YouTube thumbnail.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 15/08/2026

Hello from Omarchy Quattro! 😀

Screenshot of system info and about screens on Omarchy Quattro.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 09/08/2026

Honestly, tinkering with Linux has been the first good use of LLMs that I've found. Letting OpenCode read logs and suggest changes/fixes has been a very cool experience for this Linux newb.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 07/08/2026

Managed to kill my Omarchy session tonight with an OpenCode-generated script so thoroughly that the PC wouldn't even boot. I had to unplug the mains power and hold the power button in for 15 seconds to drain the motherboard. Never seen anything like it before.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 02/08/2026

Met a neighbour on our walk.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 01/08/2026

Now I'm intrigued as to what a "worst-case" attribute would do!

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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If the Australian Labor Party just did what was good for the majority of the Australian population and ignored how absolutely shit the opposition and ON were, they’d be even further ahead in the polls with less to worry about. #Auspol.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/07/2026

Omarchy is absolutely not targeted at non-technical people, but I can see a future where an OS doesn't need a whole suite of settings dialogs and instead has a simple voice/chat interface. "Make Visual Studio Code always launch on workspace 3" - and the appropriate config files are updated.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 16/07/2026

LLMs ("AI") tend towards the global average of everything, so they're horrible for creative tasks and produce slop. However, I'm coming around when it comes to things that you *want* to be average. I've been using OpenCode to help me configure/diagnose Linux. I don't want creativity for that.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 15/07/2026

I was in early high school, but my fun fact is that I got my copy from Big W for 57c. Bargain!

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 15/07/2026

More and more of my work day is being spent marking Teams chats as read because bloody Facilitator has posted junk into them.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 14/07/2026

Hot take: Magneto being a holocaust survivor didn't even make sense back when the original X-Men movie (set in the "not-too-distant future") came out in 2000. It'd be dumb to do it again now and hand wave it away with some stupid "he's a mutant so he's long-lived" excuse.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 12/07/2026

The only way this Lindsay Graham thing could be more suss is if he fell out a window.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 11/07/2026

I think I might be an #Omarchy boy now. ❤️

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 05/07/2026

Took some finagling to get it working, but I have completed a game of The Binding of Isaac: Repentance on Omarchy. So that's something.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 05/07/2026

Hello from Omarchy! Finally got it installed on my new PC. Early days but it seems to be running pretty well!

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/06/2026

It's weird, the pride you feel for doing things many people would consider mundane. I haven't opened a desktop PC in decades so that was scary for me.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/06/2026

As much as I hate generative AI, I am finding the built-in Copilot app quite handy for answering questions like "what the hell does this mean?"

A prompt asking me to choose between GPT and MBR to initialise a newly installed SSD.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 21/06/2026

It's done! I did have to unplug the 5070 because the M2 ports were underneath it, but overall it was more fiddly than difficult.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 20/06/2026

Confirmed! Picked up a $20 Logitech mouse and it does not keep the PC awake. It's a flimsy little thing though. At least I know I can buy a better quality dongle-based mouse and it'll do the job.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 19/06/2026

And yeah, I tried turning the mouse off too, to no avail. The dongle itself is the issue.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 19/06/2026

So annoying! I'm hoping a more modern mouse might have better shielding in the USB dongle. Fingers crossed.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 18/06/2026

It was the mouse dongle. 2.4GHz interference strikes again. Even plugged directly into the PC it still prevents sleep. Will drop $30 on a new mouse this weekend in case it's a dodgy dongle rather than just a technology problem.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/06/2026

A ghost? In ... the machine???

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/06/2026

Something I've plugged into my Dell ultrawide (which is also a USB dock) is preventing Windows from turning off the screen. The screen turns off after three minutes, but immediately turns back on. I have some sleuthing to do on the weekend. I suspect it's the mouse dongle.

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Matt Hamilton @mabster.net · 17/06/2026

I got a new keyboard - the Nuphy Air75 v3. One tiny thing I didn't realise would take time to get used to is that the F keys aren't grouped together in sets of four with gaps between them, so my muscle memory of finding F5 has been disrupted.

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