{"id":577,"date":"2026-04-23T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/another-day-in-the-salt-mines\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:23:51","slug":"another-day-in-the-salt-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/23\/another-day-in-the-salt-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day In The Salt Mines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another day and another shift working and toiling to make someone else wealthier. There\u2019s nothing quite like the United State\u2019s definition of freedom: economic freedom only. Have you ever noticed that the same self-righteous MAGAts that advocate locking up as many criminals as possible in dragnets complain that their free<em>dumb<\/em> is being impinged if laws are passed to help them? I\u2019m sick and tired of the hypocrisy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okay well enough whining on my part. I put Arch Linux &#8211; my favorite distro &#8211; back on my laptop. I don\u2019t know why in the hell I was running Fedora. Clearly, I wasn\u2019t thinking clearly. I\u2019m happy to be back on the platform that I\u2019ve grown to love. My desktop still uses Arch though. I had some dumb ass idea that Arch would not run that well on a laptop. I was very wrong. Arch is actually more battery efficient than Fedora. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, in any case, I feel good about kicking Fedora to the curb. They capitulated to the age verification movement <strong>and <\/strong>they\u2019re allowing AI contributions. As one of my favorite cartoon characters would say, \u201cUh huh huh huh \u2026. Nope nope nope.\u201d Chicken Hawk was hilarious! I digress. AI writes very poor code. Who knows what security holes are going to open. A good distribution is going down the toilet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m having fun being back on the fediverse via <a href=\"https:\/\/joinmastodon.org\">Mastodon<\/a>. That\u2019s the only social media that I feel is quality. If you\u2019re already on it and want to follow me, just click on the link at the footer. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day and another shift working and toiling to make someone else wealthier. There\u2019s nothing quite like the United State\u2019s definition of freedom: economic freedom only. Have you ever noticed that the same self-righteous MAGAts that advocate locking up as many criminals as possible in dragnets complain that their freedumb is being impinged if laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}