About 3 pm, I got a meeting invite from my manager. With HR.

This almost never happened.

The meeting was planned for 4 pm.

Not much time to prepare myself. I suppose that was intended anyway. 🤷‍♂️

As you might have guessed it, the meeting didn’t last very long. It was a fifteen minutes meeting. My manager explaining to me that

Due to organizational restructuring, your role has been made redundant.

It is said that ¹ when using the new software or a toy or a gadget, your initial impressions are always positive. You find the problems only after using it for some time.

My first impressions is that was snappy, and it still is.

But what I noticed in last two months, is about the updates.

After each login, there is a popup with multiple buttons, most important (and useful) to me is Install Updates

Alfred is one of the most important person in the life of Bruce Wayne.

Technically he is the Butler, but he was more than that to Bruce, especially since Bruce grew up without his parents, and Alfred was (probably) close to a father figure he has growing up.

After he became Batman, Alfred was (what we now a days call) his “back office” 😄

Regarding the sketch.

What I most liked about this is how simple it is to draw.

I came across this YouTube video which showed that one can generate images locally even from USB drive (Video at the end)

As I might have mentioned earlier, I have a decent machine. It is an Intel i9 with 32GB of memory. So I thought I might give it a try.

The project claims that it works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, when I tried this on my Mac machine, I found out that only Apple Silicon is supported. ¹

Spokenly

I came across spokenly via this YouTube video

At first I was reluctant to install it assuming that I will need to create yet another account just to use the app, but that was not the case.

They have two completely free options: First one where Whisper and Parakeet models are used locally. There are other models that can be run locally, but the size of these models keeps growing bigger and bigger.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I listed my site on bubbles town.

What that meant was my posts could be discovered from bubbles town.

Bubbles Town has the nice feature of upvoting the blogposts that one likes.

Now those upvotes are shown near the top of each blog post on my own website. ¹

If you have a login on Bubbles town, you can upvote the posts you like there.

My kids were using Zorin OS 17 on their very old Pentium laptop with 4GB of memory.

I understand that it is already an older version of Zorin. But it had started to feel very sluggish.

Kids use it mainly for browsing, but opening the browser itself takes really long.

But that is after they already wait - what feels like a long time - to see the login prompt ¹ after powering up the machine.

This is one of those options you don’t know exists till you need it (or sometimes you don’t know even when you need it because you were too afraid to ask lazy to search)

When I started using mac almost a decade ago, I used the built-in screen capture shortcut. It works very well.

Initially I only knew about capturing the entire screen. I would then crop it to the desired area.

Then I learnt that I can select the screen area at the time of capture itself.

Neat!

If I want to add some markup - I would do that separately, after the image is captured.