i am appealing an order that, at it's core decision, affirms the consequent.

the horrors.

this is the judiciary chosen by justin trudeau, folks.

i just called the sheriff.

there's no enforcement scheduled for today at this address. i was told there would be. it could be that the property manager doesn't understand how this works and doesn't realize that enforcement doesn't happen on the day of, but that you need to call, send a notice, etc. i guess i'll find out by the end of the day if an eviction notice comes up on the door.

i don't know the technical cause of eviction.

the heat was shut off last night, which is a characteristic of the stalkers being present. the stalkers like it to be very cold. there are some muslim migrants on the main floor, who are potentially easily manipulated, but who i am gathering have little understanding of what is going on around them, and they turned it up to 30 when they woke up. i had to teach them how to use a thermostat, as nobody else was going to, but they don't understand temperature. they understand hot, cold and on and off but they don't understand 30 or 15 or 27 or 0 degrees. i don't know if the representation of numbers is confusing to them (i thought otherwise because they're hindu-arabic numerals, right?) or if they don't know how to count. it's become extremely easy to emigrate to canada recently, and it's not outside the realm of possibility that they can't count. the kids don't go to school and nobody is working. i hope they realize that the subsidy they are getting is temporary, but there's little indication they do. it'll probably run all day. i don't blame them - it's below zero outside.

i guess i'm planning to lock myself in here, unfortunately, but i'll check the situation when i go up. 

new york city, new jersey state and virginia state are races that the democrats should take for granted and, in new york city, both of the candidates were democrats. i understand that democrats want a reason to get drunk, but this is about as flimsy a reason to start chugging as i could imagine.

democrats also won in detroit, which was a shift from an independent, who had been mayor for ten years and is running for governor. they also held mayors in seattle, pittsburgh, buffalo, minneapolis, new orleans, boston and elsewhere.

the most notable actual win for the democrats on the 4th was the city of omaha, nebraska. does that suggest farmers and the region are pissed off by the tariffs? it might. i'd keep an eye on that.

functionally, the elections provide no information about demographics in upstate new york, in the rust belt or in the great lakes areas, outside the urban centres. they consequently provide no information about upcoming elections in existing swing districts or potential swing districts.

democrats should enjoy their beer and take whatever justification they need to get drunk, but not get too giddy, as there is no good news in the data. if anything, the fact that electing mamdani is clearly a swing to the right in new york city should be a little bit alarming. cuomo was certainly the more left-wing candidate of the two. but, then again, new york city democrats have always been upper class "liberal republicans" and not really representative of democrats in the rest of the country.

keep an eye on nebraska. there's maybe a story there.

there's no story in the bos-wash except the long evasive excuse for democrats to get drunk.

i think what i'm looking for is porteus with chrome (or firefox) running.

that should let me launch the browser as an os, and then design separate images for each of the three chromebooks - one for a bedside news reader, one for uploading data to sites like bandcamp from in-studio and one for streaming video from youtube. i would potentially want to purchase a fourth device and use it strictly for online purchases and a fifth to use as a zoom device, if i can't find an acceptable videophone.

i wanted to get the court stuff done over the weekend, but i couldn't do it until i fixed the computer. i need to do that this morning, hopefully by noon, and then get back to redesigning the space.

(edit: actually, no. porteus is now requiring a paid subscription. but this is out there, i just need to find it.)

the chromebook is usable for now, after logging in with a stub account. i'll keep looking for a user agent spoofer, which is why i logged in, but i can log in to the device with multiple accounts for services for now, and just use the stub device for search, until that either breaks or google reallows older chrome browsers access to javascript in search....or until i got blocked by blogger, gmail, youtube, etc and have to figure something else out entirely.

this is no longer a mobile device like i planned it to be. i am using the mp4 player for that purpose and that is ok.

i want to continue using one of these expired chromebooks to stream youtube, one of them as a studio terminal (to connect to bandcamp, etc) and of them as an email/news reader. the major design flaw with the entire concept of a chromebook is that they force you to make your email password short enough to be able to type in with your fingers and to remember, which is unacceptable. you want your passwords to be 100 characters, or longer if they let you, and to store them on thumb keys or external drives. the chromebook won't let you do that - it forces you to type it in, and that's just not workable. then, you need to do something like what i'm doing, which is log in with a stub account with a short password (like you would use on your windows account) and then login into google to use it with a separate account. but, then, what's the point?

for that reason, it is going to make more sense to turn all of these chromebooks into non-chromebooks, which is frustrating, 

the best way to use these devices is as terminals, which means to log in as a guest and then log into the google accounts from the guest mode. you don't need local storage on a streaming device, or a device used to buy or upload things, or even on a news and email and facebook reader. you should keep your local storage in air gapped windows or linux pcs, and just use an assortment of cheap streaming devices for online interactions, each with unique online accounts that don't speak to each other. due to the fact that they're cheap, you might have to replace these devices every ten years instead of every twenty or thirty years like you do with pcs, but you really shouldn't, they should last longer than pcs.

i bought cheap/expired chromebooks because i realized that buying expensive laptops was stupid, after watching a few overheat and explode. there is no way to engineer a device to run hot in plastic and expect it not to break; laptops are what the masses wanted, but they are a stupid concept, thermodynamically. you can't make these things last. they're going to break. it's hopeless. i don't have the money to spend $2000 on a laptop every five years, so i bought a brand new expired $99 laptop expecting it to break. if i have to replace it every 3-5 years anyways, i'd rather spend $99 dollars than $999 dollars; the thermodynamic reality of laptops is that your $999 laptop has no greater a shelf-life than the $99 expired chromebook.

but then i realized that these ssd chromebooks with cheap processors actually solved the thermodynamic problems with windows (or apple) laptops. these are cheap to buy because they are cheap to make; they're cheap terminal devices that came out of the "one laptop one child" initiative intended to get silicon into the hands of starving africans, who would probably prefer a sandwich, but whatever. they don't have hard drives. there's nothing spinning. the chips don't run hot. the monitors are led screens. and the chrome os does nothing in the background. this dell 3120 i'm typing on needs a few new keys, granted, but the device itself should last forever. there's nothing in it to break and there's nothing driving it to overheat. a slightly more sturdy build construction, and a chromebook should last 300 years, not 3 years. 

oops.

so i bought some more of these and wanted to buy even more. this was the solution, not the problem. i wanted to put linux on them but i didn't have to so i didn't.

google won't let you do that anymore. google is trying to force you to buy more hardware.  you shouldn't have to replace these slave terminal devices that let google servers do all the work every five or three or two years. these are increasingly devices with little to no moving parts that should actually work for decades, but google increasingly won't let that happen.

there's two answers to this.

the first is to acknowledge that google is increasingly becoming the monopoly that the united states successfully prevented microsoft from becoming, partly by funding google as a competitor to microsoft. google was able to succeed largely due to the antitrust suits against microsoft. i think people don't understand that. those antitrust suits also stopped apple from dying. apple was dead in the 90s. who saved apple? you want to think it was steve jobs, but it was bill gates. gates brought apple back from the dead with cash injections, partly on the condition they bring jobs back, in order for gates to have his old competitor back, and that worked for microsoft. apple is not a monopoly and is really largely a joke; the ability of apple to corner the naive rich person market just brought the price of pcs down, when helped sell more copies of windows to consumers and businesses. however, google is now becoming what the ftc aggressively prevented windows from becoming, by stopping microsoft from monopolizing explorer and search.

the ftc should let google keep search and let google keep chrome, but force it to sell it's hardware and operating system businesses. the problem is not that they have all of these server apps, that's good; the problem is that they're making laptops and phones to access the servers, too. tell google to just be google and focus on server-side applications. force somebody else to build the terminals. it can be hp or compaq or dell or ibm (it won't be ibm), that's fine. it could be a different company altogether.

don't separate the browser from the search; that won't help, that will hinder. what will help is to separate the terminal/slave device from the server/mainframe device. this is a very old way to look at very new technology, but it is the truth of what google, nvidia and others are doing right now, they're bringing back the 60s and 70s model of dumb terminal machines connecting to smart super computers, and the truth is that that makes sense for the internet, while not making sense for home pcs, which you really don't and never did want on the internet.

i want to buy a terminal that connects to multiple mainframes - google, microsoft, nvidia, apple, etc. the terminals should be cheap because they have minimal functionality, and almost never need to be replaced because they do almost nothing and require almost no parts. anti-trust function should focus on that endpoint.

i knew what i was getting when i bought expired chromebooks, but google shouldn't be able to tell me i can't upgrade the firmware on the terminal, or turn off javascript from the server. the ftc should step in and break that.

for now, it works, that's fine, but i'm going to need to convert all three of these devices, and i want to convert them into devices that run in guest mode. that's the next issue. are there linux distros that have guest modes like chromebooks, and run in guest mode ike a chromebook? if there's not, there should be. go build me that, and make it for free. that's what i want to flash these devices with.

as it is, i'm going to have to barricade myself inside again until i'm sure he's gone, one way or another.

if i can generate any kind of proof he's here, the next step is to try to get a peace bond to force him to stay away from me.

islam is a brutal cult of brainwashing, and it's insular and exclusivist. it isolates and separates it's victims from the outside world in order to take advantage of them. i saw this coming but the space was what i want. there is no future in hiding from religionism. i'm not looking for conflict, i'm looking for escape, but i need to hold my ground.

if i have to move again, i've got some new furniture in here i can take with me.

i hope that the addicts are removed tomorrow. i'll have to react to that as it occurs.

it also seems as though the phony loser piece of garbage sean hansel has found his way back upstairs. he's apparently continuing to pretend he had some artistic contribution to and take credit for my art projects, despite having been eliminated from the 4 songs i let him sing on as a guest vocalist because his lyrics are juvenile and stupid. as before, the people that let him in are junkies, addicts and other types of useless eaters.

i've been told they're getting evicted tomorrow. i haven't seen any notices from the sheriff on the door. i'm actually going to call the sheriff in the morning to get a better idea of what's going on. if the sheriff doesn't confirm an eviction is happening, the next call i'm going to have to make is to police. i'm extremely agitated by the fact that this moron keeps following me around, and i'd frankly like to put a hole in his skull. or a couple. i wouldn't be too careful about it.

if anybody tries to force their way in here, they're not going to like how i react.

i hate apps.

apps are stupid. the concept is stupid.

i just want to login via the browser.

all of my passwords are 100 digits and intended to copy and paste. it tooks some time before i could log into one, and:

(1) the first account actually loads javscript

(2) subsequent accounts do not

(3) all of the user agent switchers for subsequent accounts need newer versions of chrome

this is extremely depressing. 

i have no intention of purchasing another chromebook. if they're going to block search functionality, i'll have to turn it into a linux device.

it's very frustrating. at least i have a better understanding of what's been happening, but i'm upset about this.

for now, i see no other option besides running two chromebooks sat the same time - one logged in for services and the other logged out for search. but i can do that right now on this device, logged into the stub account, and i'll have to stick with that for now.