My partner and I got a 1 year old rescue schnauzer a few weeks back, so we are learning to dog while trying to teach her to sit, stay, and come.

Tech thoughts: this week I decided to move to a new to me NameBrand™ Arch distro. Even though I’ve been daily driving Linux for more than 10 years I still can’t get a new install up on the first try. This time the boot loader wouldn’t load. No error, no log, and no boot loading. A few reinstalls later, I picked a different choice and was finally booting. But then the next problem was the login display manager doesn’t want to sleep the monitor if nobody logs in. Learned this after an overnight power flicker caused a reboot. The monitors running full tilt for several hours waiting for someone to log in. While I would like to say this issue is another joy of the Wayland-way of Linuxing, I have found that other display managers offer the same defect.

Anyway dogs are great, I shouldn’t have waited so long to get one.