Oy, what happened today? Slept late last night, 1 or so. Woke up a little late, 8:45 or so. Shaved, which took up some more time. Finished getting ready around 10, had some leftover beef stew and an egg bagel for breakfast. Youngest uncle drive out twice today for a haircut and a doctor's appointment which really worried me but he said his recovering knee doesn't hurt much. Had some quinoa salad for a late lunch, and then another bowl (not much rice though) of beef stew for dinner. And, I had that nap from 5:30 to 7:30. (Welp.) Mostly used my new ThinkPad today, trying to get used to it. My main issue with it is the plastic Mylar trackpad which tracks a little weirdly and skips inputs from time to time, though I've upped the tracking speed a little and it seems to be a bit better. It could just be an adjustment period on my part. I know for sure I had to adjust to my iMac trackpad, after the essentially perfect tracking and gesture experience on my Pixelbook's glass trackpad. That I still consider the best tracking experience I've had since I've constantly heard in 2016/2017 that Windows touchpads (pre-Precision drivers) plain suck. Actually on the computer though I had the visual equivalent of junk food (AI presidents), which honestly was a decent break from otherwise trying to note-take everything. I did read more of Scheper's Antinet book, and add my own marginalia, but I'm seeing the project-first mode more clearly again. The process of note-taking, and learning, and trying to apply my knowledge to what I see around me -- that's just me. It's just me. So that was nice. Near the end of the night I also installed LM Studio to run Llama-3-7B and it runs just fine, though slightly slower than I thought. I'm still debating whether I need all this power -- battery estimates in software are ~6 hours, though I need to test myself -- since the new Copilot+ PCs are seriously knocking it out of the park in battery life, which I think is a pretty appealing feature for university life. Again, we'll have to see.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391