2026. May 20 Wednesday🔗

I unstuck World Community Grid in my smartphone's BOINC client. The trick was to change its resource share in Boinc Account Manager from "project default" to a certain number. I'm so glad that it's working again. The same doesn't work for Rosetta@Home. This project isn't stuck, but is out of work units.

I've just learned that in bash you can set the Ctrl+Left, Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Del combinations, if they are missing from the initial config. The solution was adding this to the ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc):

bindkey "^[[1;5D" backward-word
bindkey "^[[1;5C" forward-word
bindkey '^H' backward-kill-word
bindkey '^[[3;5~' kill-word

I knew that it could be solved, but I've never looked for the solution until now.

Sources: [1] [2]

While I wrote the previous paragraph, I also learned that Ctrl has its own rarely used symbol: ⎈. So, instead of Ctrl+Del, I can write ⎈+⌦. But I wonder who would understand it.

2026. May 18 Monday🔗

• My blog has been listed by bubbles.town.

2026. May 16 Saturday🔗

• I published a new post today: Mobile OSes (featuring Fairphone 5).

• A new plugin I wrote for my blog also went live. It automatically generates links for all headings in my posts. If I set a TableOfContents property for a post it also generates a table of contents widget at the top of the post.

2026. May 15 Friday🔗

• We visited an art fair in The Cable Factory. I enjoyed it more last time.

• I saw some wild animals today. In the morning, a fox decided to lie in the sun on the road. It wasn’t afraid of our bus. It stayed there while people got off at the bus stop, then slowly walked away to let the bus pass. On the way home, I saw a deer walking between the trees. At home, I also saw a squirrel roaming around the parking lot. It must have looked the same as I did when I forgot where I parked my car. (That was back when I still had a car.)

2026. May 13 Wednesday🔗

• Today was a gloomy, rainy day. Although I felt impatient and grumpy all the time, I made it through the day without being a jerk to anyone. This effort is worth celebrating.

2026. May 12 Tuesday🔗

• I greeted a new member on the Fediverse, Lori_noctis.

2026. May 11 Monday🔗

• Pi3 is back in business: my Navidrome is up.

2026. May 10 Sunday🔗

• My only achievement today was moving my Raspberry Pi 3B+ half a meter away. It had been dropping its connection ever since I booted it up two days ago. My first thought was that the issue was caused by interference from the new Wi-Fi card in my desktop PC. I didn’t trust myself. I tried to find a software or configuration fix. Two days and two reinstalls later, I simply moved the device on my desk. No dropped connections since. I should trust my instincts more.

2026. May 9 Saturday🔗

• I feel a ray of hope since a shameful era seems to have ended in my home country.

• I managed to fix my Steam Deck thanks to this article after it locked itself into a boot loop, unable to access BIOS, boot device selection mode, or recovery mode.

2026. May 8 Friday🔗

• We visited the Japanese cherry tree gardens in Helsinki.

2026. May 7 Thursday🔗

• Finished Across the Grooves for the first time. It’s a game with a great story and a unique mood.