For ilo-native-x86: I now have a functional version which loads the ROM from mass storage. So physical blocks 0-63 for the ROM, and data blocks (mapped to 0) start at physical block 64. This needs more testing, but seems to work ok.

This is pretty nice as it gets me a good step closer to a ROM- able ilo. This might have some impact on a few things in the hosted systems. More on this tomorrow I think.

It's amazing to me how stress affects glucose levels. Now that we are back to mostly normal staff at work, and I can relax a little, my glucose numbers are back where I'd like them to be.

I decided to start adding a few new things to (catalogue). Later this week it will support copying blocks, erasing them, and possibly a few other operations.

Glucose control is good this morning. I took a short walk before work, which might have helped. Will try to do this more often.

I'll be working using the Go 6 all week I think. Apart from a bit of slowness, the only real disappointment I have with this is the lack of stylus support. It'd be nice if it could act as a digital notepad. But it's great for reading on, and the Konilo under Termux is running nicely.

Using the Boox Go 6; I note that due to only having 2GB of RAM, it's (mostly) a single tasking machine. Background programs need to be restarted when switching most of the time. This isn't an issue for me, but is worth noting I think.

I also added several more pages in my wiki today.

Using the Boox for today's programming. I'm setting up a few additional programs for IRC & Fediverse access. I switched to using a lighter launcher, and have swapped over to KOReader. I wish this supported an EMR stylus (or even an Apple-style active one) as it'd be a great size for a pocekt notepad. As I do more with my eink devices, I'm finding the benefits of reading on a non-LCD to be nice.

(I might look at the Boox Tab Mini C, or the Note Air 4C as a future option; the bigger screens might be helpful for reading).

I think part of the issue is the overhead of dealing with FAT, and actual file i/o. If I can get the raw SD access working this might be faster. A backup plan: for my personal block set of 4,096 blocks, I could solder on 16MB of PSRAM & cache the blocks in RAM. This would help, but feels wasteful. I'd prefer to not resorting to this.

As of today, I'm at 656 entries in WISP, having not missed a day since I started keeping this.

Arland sent me an updated ilo.py a couple of days ago. Today I began actually reading it, and will likely merge it in tonight. A note on this: he has it stripping out escape sequences; I'd rather this be made optional. I'll ask him if he can revise to support this.

Today is mounjaro day, so glucose control is pretty good. My average is up a bit, but I'm hoping that with the end of the holiday season, it'll start dropping down once more.

Today I didn't have work, so I spent time reading, resting, and took a nice walk. It is a bit cold, but I still enjoyed the day.

Tomorrow it's back to work for a few days, and probably back to a little programming.