inoreader

I’ve long wanted to support this service with a small contribution — I’m perfectly happy with the free ad-supported version, I even disabled my ad blocker on their site.

Finally today I bought an annual subscription — in honor of Halloween they’re giving three months for free, so, nudged by the magic word “discount,” I sent these fine folks 15 bucks.

re:kodi again

Installing XBMC, a.k.a. Kodi, again. Remembered that I once wanted to try OpenELEC. Turned out you can’t change the root password in it, and in general it’s a heavily precompiled system. Tried it on ubuntu-server, but the graphics were pretty poor. Went with my favourite xubuntu, and now I’m tuning it up with Ansible. Photos and details will follow — stay tuned.

perepichka

Tried a perepichka. Pretty decent thing — a sausage in dough, extremely hot. It got me thinking about Ukrainian marketing: over two decades, one modification, one stall, no advertising, nothing — and there are queues. Quite interesting )