24 January 2024
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I have now played around with GNU Hurd and - while there are some
really cool features like the translator concept - i must confess that
i am not THAT impressed. With this i mean absolutely no disrespect
to the work of the developers or the users of this project, it is 
just that - after having used Plan 9 for a couple of years - most of
the features that Hurd has are working "a little bit better" in the
realm of the bunny. 

On the other hand: Hurd has, was Plan 9 is painfully missing: A big
chunk of the Debian / GNU / Linux software ecosystem available as
packages to simply install. 

So, where do i go from here? Well i think i will look into the 
system from time to time, perhaps i will discover a "killer feature"
for me, who knows? This little excourse was mostly about getting it
finally to run and somewhat about catching my "white whale".

Handwriting
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I have started journaling again some time ago, for one to get a
bit more in the habit of organizing my thoughts and to 
practice handwriting. My handwriting was absolutely ugly the most
time i spend in school and no time investment and patience of my
teachers could improve it in any way. At the moment where cursive
script was not a requirement any more i abandoned it as fast as
i could. Over the last ~20 years the lines written by me by hand
could possibly not fill 10 A4 pages i think. But this had some
consequences: Every time i HAD now to make some hand written notes
(or take an exam which couldn't be done on a computer) my hands
started to ache very badly. This now has improved much since i 
switched to a fountain pen for journaling and readopted cursive.

It still looks ugly, but i am working on that too...