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Linux_in_a_Bit

@Linux_in_a_Bit@linuxrocks.online

👋Hi, I'm Aaron, nice to meet you!
📽️ I (sometimes) make videos on the internet that vaguely resemble good content.
📸 I also sometimes do little photography experiments.
🐧Of course I run Linux, it's in the name :)
🦣 I wanted to try out Mastodon about 2 years ago, and I ended up here. Never used Birdsite!

Alt: https://mstdn.social/@Linus_in_a_Bit

Hashtags for https://fediverse.info/: #fedi22 #linux #tech #foss #floss #technology #opensource #privacy #nobridge #nobot

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Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited ) to random
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Yes that is RGB on an "official" Atari product.
I will take no further questions.

brooke, to random
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is Linux old enough to be retro computing? >:-D

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@brooke
Yeah, I mean it ran on the PS3...

scottjenson, to ChatGPT
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My experimentation with #ChatGPT #Gemini + programming has been a mixed bag:
Pros:

  • It often gets it right the first try
  • It's faster to change the prompt than edit the code
  • it can explain code fairly well

Cons

  • I can ask the exact same prompt and get different code that WONT work!
  • After several iterations, the code just stops compiling
  • I frequently save revisions of files so I can upload a working file and iterate from there.
  • It's SO SLOW to wait for it to type out
Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@scottjenson
Once you've learned the basics, it's actually pretty easy to make working web UIs using the standard HTML/CSS/JS stack.
The most time consuming part is getting it to look good, but that's why basically everyone uses tools like https://penpot.app/ to prototype designs first.
The other thing is doing it enough to have an intuitive sense of how things should function, but it just takes practice.
Doing it yourself will produce better results faster once you get the hang of it :)

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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This is cursed.

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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I recently watched a performance of Shakespeare's Othello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAuqkY6kQhU) and wondered if anybody had done an in-depth OPSEC postmortem on the play. :blobcatthink:
It feels like the kind of thing that someone on the internet definitely should've made, but I couldn't find anything. :blobcatgooglyshrug:
The internet has failed us once again... :blobcat_thisisfine:

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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This is 100% serious btw.
I actually want to see somebody do that.

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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To this day, I still find it absolutely hilarious that Asahi Linux makes the only certified OpenGL driver for Apple Silicon Macs. :blobcat3csmirk:

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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"If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present."

I must've done more time travel than Marty McFly if you look at where I've been living :blobcat_thisisfine:

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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The 90s: Oh no, McDonalds burgers are made of Kangaroo meat instead of actual beef!
Now: Oh no, McDonalds burgers are made of actual beef!

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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Website with a .ch top level domain :blobthinkingeyes:
It's actually from Switzerland :ablobcatmelt:

tomasekeli, to random

i just realised that if the european nations no longer feel they can rely on the united state of america for defense an expectable response it to develop their own nuclear weapons

i may be slow

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@tomasekeli The UK and France both do.

Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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"I use Arch btw"
vs
"Don't use Arch btw"

BrodieOnLinux, to linux
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Linux Mint Wants To Revive GTK3 Applications https://youtu.be/7jAygGe5XRM

Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited )
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@BrodieOnLinux
"No, absolutely no chance [of Budgie 11] being GTK or using any part of the GNOME stack."

  • Joshua Strobl, May 7th, 2024
Linux_in_a_Bit, to random
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:blobwizard: You don't need a $1000 camera or an hour of traveling to take a good Aurora photo.
:ablobcatbongo: You need a tripod, patience, and a decent point and shoot that with a manual mode and RAW output.
:ablobcatwave: Set the exposure time to "forever", the ISO to "grainy" and the F-stop to "eyes dilated at optometrist."
:blobcatsanta: This one was taken in the Chicago suburbs with a tripod and a Canon PowerShot S100 at ISO 80, F2.0, and 15 second exposure, then processed in RawTherapee.

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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Obviously it absolutely did not look like that in person, but it was still really cool to actually experience an aurora like that right in my backyard.

Sidenote, If you're wondering how to use RawTherapee, all I did was follow the "Basics" section of this tutorial: https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Getting_Started

Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited )
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@grey
You clearly live in a better location, my parent's Google Pixels looked like this (Photo from my phone because I don't have theirs readily available, trust me, it only looked a little better):

Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited )
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For the record, here's the JPEG the camera spits out.
This is closer to what it looked like in person.
Still pretty good, but you can get better results if you do it manually with the RAW file in RawTherapee (and it's even better with the lossless 60mb PNG that I had to compress to upload here!)

Edit: Also for the record, all I did was change the exposure curve and apply noise reduction, no color work.

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@grey
No computer magic can ever fake a tripod and a 15 second exposure unless you essentially AI generate the whole image...

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For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@realtegan
And -40 is just -40

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@msbellows @realtegan Ooh, I'm saving that one!

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Say what you want about Tesla, but at least they use amber turn signals. :blobwizard:

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Hey, which app allows an to be used as a ?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/112414539433136490

#❓

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@smallcircles
I can search up #❓ on Mastodon but it doesn't show any posts.

Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited ) to random
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Linux /ˈlɪn.əks/
Noun

  1. A piece or collection of software incorperating the Linux kernel; Android.
  2. A piece or collection of software resembling the common Linux distribution; GNU/Linux.
Linux_in_a_Bit, (edited )
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Because a majority of people now use the second definition of Linux, the use of "GNU/Linux" is discouraged as it often comes off as redundant, pedantic, and uninviting, unless specifically referring to Linux distributions that use the GNU Core Utilities.

Notable Linux distributions that do not use the GNU Core Utilities include Alpine Linux and Gentoo in some cases.

Linux_in_a_Bit,
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@anjum
See https://linuxrocks.online/

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