I have gone through and updated tags on all existing and future book reviews, with the hope they may be easier to find in the future. First, all book reviews (even short ones) now include the tag book-reviews. That is, if I'm telling you what I think about a book, it is a book review. There are also short-book-reviews on some. If my general impression of a book is that I enjoyed it, I've included the tag, recommend....
Every time I ever try to do anything with Google cardboard - apart from the demo itself - the entire thing is a horrible experience. Take something that seems like it should be relatively common: VR video. Go into cardboard (the app), request the VR video channel. Find a video. Start that video. THEN hit the cardboard icon that will put it into cardboard mode. Then pause it. Put my phone into the cardboard-compatible viewer and hope it doesn't touch anything on the way in....
This is a link to my notes on how I run my web servers at home, hosted on my home servers. https://www.home.vollink.com/gary/setup.html
The company I work(ed) for has been planning a division sell-off for most of the year. Weeks after that division spin-off into Private Equity, I was notified that my last day will be 29 October. The last time I was laid-off, it was similarly driven by a corporate action. Upper management had been talking about a flatter organization, and cutting out management levels, so I was well prepared mentally. I actually expected that I would take it much worse than I did....