A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
November 29
Work stuff: done, or sufficiently so that I'm a bit less fried
than I have been for the last ... while.
I am continuing to have fun with Qobuz
vs. iTunesMusic. Just now I figured I'd delete a download
of one of the albums which has been matched and let iTunes
repopulate it. It ... doesn't repoulate it. It doesn't give an
error. If I try to play a track, it does nothing: doesn't error,
doesn't play the track, doesn't loop until it finds a track it
can play. I dunno, Apple used be good at this
stuff.
Meantime I am using a bit of hackery involving the Python mutagen
library to handle the FLAC downloads from Qobuz: use the Mac's
native afconvert tool to convert to ALAC, then use
mutagen to map the metadata from the FLAC to the ALAC. It's not
perfect yet, but it's doing the job sufficiently to allow me to
import a new purchase and have iTunes almost get it
right.
On the positive side, "ripping" the FLAC files to ALAC seems to
bypass the whole nonsense with Music on the phone telling me the
tracks aren't available in my country. At least, it did for one
album. I'll need to check more.
Did another round of poking the zwave network. I'm trying to move
things from the OpenHAB native zwave support to the zwave-ui-js
thingy, but the instructions on doing so are sparse and zwave is
as opaque as ever. Why is my range extender offline? Why does it
not respond to attempts to factory-reset it? Why has it
spontaneously come back online overnight while half the healthy
nodes have decided to fall off the network? I can't believe people
actually use this thing for security components like doorlocks and
alarm sensors.
Also OpenHAB appears to be chattering about temperatures in
degrees Kelvin, and the UI is showing a different set of
devices offline to what the API is showing. I have no
idea.
November 14
A bit of catch-up:
One definitely dead DVD. The Rock. There's some
discoloration on the surface that's probably some sort of
delamination or other physical degradation, and while I
think the BluRay player may be able to work with it I
don't have a computer-attached drive in the house capable of
reading it.
Finished the current season of Slow Horses; for some
reason I lost track of which episode we were on, and thought it
was wrapping up rather quickly for a show with an episode to
go... d'oh.
Down Cemetery Road is proving to be rather excellent.
DS9 season 2 opened with a three-parter, which was
fairly epic. It's still oddly cheap in its sets and effects, but I
guess this was still a bit before various booms and nostalgia jags
and, well, cheap computer-generated effects that don't look like
cheap computer-generated effects. Still, it's a far more
plot-driven show than other Star Trek franchises I've
seen, so they could have an entire episode in a bare-walled room
and it wouldn't really matter.
Voyager, by contrast, is happy to indulge in the silly
at the drop of a hat. Kes travels backwards in time! The doctor
develops a Mr. Hyde side personality! Harry is an alien! It's
fine, we're not watching it for deep intellectual
stimulation.
With all this serial stuff to watch, we haven't watched a movie in
ages.
November 13
I am exceedingly busy. Updates may resume soon, or
not.
November 2
Last of DS9 Season 1 and... it's not really a season finale,
it's just the last show of Season 1. And Kira's being a bit
mutinous again. Really now.
November 1
Took in a couple of DS9s, so we're almost done with Season 1. It
continues to be generally excellent, although right after the "No
more mutinies, Major Kira!" there was another minor Major Kira
incident...