Mostly Software

    • Android emulation.
      • Genymotion is probably the most popular android emulator for linux. Downloaded the personal-use edition.
      • Needed to apt install virtualbox first. Then chmod +x the genymotion bin and simply run it.
      • Created a desktop icon for it so I wouldn’t have to execute the binary from the command line every time (and leave the pesky terminal around). Just create a APPNAME.desktop file with a hashbang that farms out to xdg-open, including the paths to the binary and the icon.
      • Added StartupWMClass to the .desktop so the icon wouldn’t duplicate.
      • When emulating a device, my laptop craaawled. The galaxy s9 was unusable. An old Google Pixel (around galaxy s6 days) was even slow. My laptop only has 3.6GB of ram and 8GB of swap, but all ram was railed and swap was at 50%. Not sustainable, and I hadn’t even run any heavy android apps yet.
      • Ended up unistalling genymotion and virtualbox. Was too slow.
      • Looked around and found Anbox, which runs Android in a container instead of a vm, and farms many android tasks back to your native linux host.
      • Added the ppa and installed linux-headers-generic anbox-modules-dkms. Then installed the anbox snap.
      • Google play store doesn’t come automatically with android (licensing and such). You’d normally have to install apks manually, OR the better option of something like houdini. This script provisions all of that for you: https://github.com/geeks-r-us/anbox-playstore-installer/blob/master/install-playstore.sh.
      • Anbox also didn’t work. Games wouldn’t open because of Anbox’ unique configuration.
      • Lastly, looked at the Android SDK itself. It requires minimum 4GB ram and recommends 8GM. Mine is below both.
      • In summary, my laptop does not have enough memory to use a VM-based android emulator.
    • Bought an adapter to connect my phone/laptop to older hard drives and kindle and such. Usb-c (android size) male to usb-a female.
      • Remember, usb-b is the boxier one (usually printers and such).
      • Micro and mini are the other obvious ones.
      • Also, remember, usb-c comes in two sizes: android and iphone. My linux laptop is the android size, because that’s the standard. If you see usb-c with no other qualifiers, it’s the android size.
    • Bought a wireless mouse as well.
    • Reinstalled the gnome system monitor. It doesn’t open sometimes, and this seems to fix it.
    • MD. In javascript, the variable declarations are hoisted but not their values.
    • I feel like an absolute idiot for never taking advantage of this, but you can actually do curly brace expansion in bash. `echo {hello,world}` or `echo {0..10}`. You can even combine two curly brace arguments for combinations. My goodness.
    • DKMS = dynamic kernel module support. Used with virtualbox.
    • Shopped for a RAM upgrade to my XPS13.
      • DDR4 is newer and faster than DDR3L, which was a midterm upgrade for DDR3.
      • Need a T5 to open the back.
      • Unfortunately, I can’t upgrade the RAM on the 13 easily because it’s solder to the motherboard lol. On the 15″ and above models, they have additional slots but the 13″ does not. In order to have more RAM, I would have needed to upgrade at factory purchase, or replace the whole motherboard myself.
      • Don’t need the torx screwdriver anymore.
    • Brainstormed some ideas for internet companies. Nothing huge jumped out, but the immersion helps. I want to be more mindful as I go through my day-to-day about anything that is annoying, even in the slightest. These inconveniences are just opportunities for improvement.
    • YouTube.
      • Went through my channel and removed liked videos. Added a few subscribers.
      • YouTube Studio is in beta. It’s a cool dashboard for everything on your channel.
      • You can see your total subscriber count, but not the individual subscribers (unless they’ve chosen to allow that to be public).
      • You can change 3 privacy settings: your liked videos, your subscriptions, and your playlists. All of mine are not public.
      • You can livestream, but YouTube is much more geared toward recording and editing a video offline, then uploading it.
    • Motorcycles
      • Cool drag race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTL4wDAbK0.
      • Quarter mile ranks:
        1. H2R
        2. F1 Redbull
        3. F16
        4. Tesla P100D
        5. Aston Martin Vantage
        6. Plane
        7. Lotus Evora
      • Observations:
        • Off the line, the bike and F1 and Tesla were all about the same, dusting everything else.
        • The bike took the lead through the midrange.
        • At a quarter mile, the bike and F1 were about the same, ahead of everything.
        • After that the F1 would have overtaken the bike.
        • After that, the aircraft pull way ahead.
      • H2R facts:
        • Same combustion volume as my ducati, but over 4 cylinders instead of 2. About 2x the horsepower and 1.5x the torque. About 35lbs heavier also.
        • It’s currently the fastest motorcycle. It’s not street legal.
        • It can go from 0-250mph in 26s (lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_n7ru1e-rg. My ducati top speed is probably around 170mph, and would get there in around 15s.
    • Gave Ken about 5lbs pulled pork for home, and gave Allie about 5 more pounds to bring to work. I’m leaving for Texas so I won’t be able to finish all the leftovers before Wed.
    • Finals game 5 in toronto. Warriors won! Back to Oracle.