On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:01:13 +0000, Another John
wrote:

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Good to see you T i m!

Thanks?

I just realised the other day I (we) hadn't seen
you for a bit. I almost asked the (these days) dread question: "has
anyone seen T i m?"

I've been playing with my Home Automation system and that's involved
in playing with lots of different hardware, installing Linux servers,
trying to get to grips with Docker / containers and running things
like Home Assistant and TVHeadend on the same mini PC etc.

Nice to see you fighting your corner, as ever.

The irony is that it's not 'my corner' as such as whilst I may 'better
off' personally health wise and I'm certainly no longer weighed down
by logical inconsistency (loving / respecting some animals but then
causing others suffering and death because of my lifestyle choices
(and many were inherited or forced upon me via social conditioning
rather than 'chosen' as such)), 1) It's something we may well all have
to be doing in the future because the planet won't be able to support
what we are doing now and 2) because it won't be socially acceptable
to carry on treating the animals that are left in such a way (because
they are *all* very much part of a previously balanced ecosystem that
we have ruined).

Cheers, T i m