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March 07: The Journey has been on my watchlist for a while and we finally got around to it this evening. It's flawed but fun. Meaney's McGuinness is pretty good; Spall's Paisley doesn't have the look quite right but the accent and mannerisms seem to work well enough. Blair's bumbling soundbite-heavy approach is wonderful, and their Bertie Ahern looks more like his predecessor and isn't given any useful screen time anyway. Overall I really enjoyed this.
March 06: The Holcroft Covenant is pretty much straight-up 80s cheese. It's funny looking at well-made movies from this period because then you see something like this movie and the difference is a bit stark. Anyway, Michael Caine runs around with a bunch of different people and the movie does a good job of keeping you guessing who's on which side, but that aside this is fairly forgettable stuff. Also that parade in Berlin was entirely gratuitous.
March 05: Noticed that tonight's ST:Voyager blurb didn't match the episode we were watching, so checked and ... yep, Virgin Media has found a new and interesting way to stiff us on season recordings. It looks like we're missing the end of S5/start of S6 episodes which I imagine is a cliffhanger plus resolution setup.
March 03: Managed to recover a time machine backup from the dreaded 'Time Machine has arbitrarily decided that fsck no longer fixes things'.
March 01: Finally got around to upgrading my Mac to Tahoe. First impressions: I can no longer tile 9 terminal windows on my laptop screen using default settings. This is mildly annoying - I don't usually use the full 3x3 layout, but I had been using 3 across the bottom and 2 or 3 on the right edge, neither of which works now. I'm not sure if this is font changes or chrome changes - possibly a bit of both. It occurs to me that it'd be handy to have a gadget I could feed in my desired geometry to and get back a list of settings that would allow that (font size, whatever tuning I can apply to window trim, etc.)

The upgrade itself: I shut down all my apps prior to running the upgrade. When the laptop rebooted, it appears to have reverted not even to the pre-shutting-down-apps session, but an older session from our weekend in London where I had a couple of camera-monitoring apps open. I have no idea. Also the "your laptop has been upgraded to Tahoe" box that popped up on first login after the upgrade was kinda jarring - looked unfinished, almost blunt by comparison to the usual Apple fare.

My ssh connections are warning me about "post-quantum cryptography". Clearly I'll need to read a manual or two.

Hmm. Bumping the resolution from 1710whatever (???) to 1920 gives me back lots of room for my terminals with not much appreciable difference in other things. Maybe I'll need to do a bit of font tweaking since it now looks like I could fit 3.5x3 terminals.

Definitly not enjoying "everything is round". I mean, look. The screen is a rectangle, mostly. Making huge rounded corners just wastes space.

The Markdown "support" added to Notes leaves a bit to be desired. Exporting as Markdown creates a folder and puts your note inside it; importing creates a new folder in Notes called "Imported Notes" (and Imported Notes 1, and Imported Notes 2...). I'd really much prefer if it supported Markdown via copy/paste.
February 28: Wrapped DS9 Season 3 - a very flat sort of season end, but apparently the studio caused that - and into season 4, wherein Worf.
February 25: Restart did indeed fix persistence, which is mildly annoying because if I hadn't done that and hadn't been poking at some graphs I wouldn't have realised: no warnings in the UI or anything else to tell me there was a problem.
February 24: Persistence still seems to be a bit hinky, or at least the graphs that make use of it aren't working right. I think it just needs a restart now that I've reconfigured it, but who knows.
February 23: OpenHAB was looking for an update so I took the opportunity to, once again, reconnect a stray Z-Wave device to the network. The update itself was a bit lumpy: it breaks persistence, and the automatic database upgrade tool failed to run because it couldn't find Java 21 even though that was installed as part of the bundled updates. In my humble opinion failure to run part of the update should cause the whole update to fail, but what do I know?
February 21: The Informant! felt like they never quite decided how they wanted to play it - comedy or drama. In the end, it was neither, and mostly I just wound up feeling annoyed at the protaganist more than anything else.