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New England based software/Linux-sys-admin/cloud engineer enjoying the life of a young family.

i. love. foss.

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Unlogic, to skateboarding
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Spent the morning yesterday and today at the skate park with the kids. It feels good to be back on the board and spend some quality time with my kids. I might be old, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun still while getting some exercise :)

beepcheck,
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@Unlogic right with you!

i picked it back up last summer when my kids showed interest. even here in Vermont (small state) there are a bunch of skateparks around and we hit them up several times a week.

my ollie is coming along... yesterday landed a few rolling shuvits. the kids are doing great with balance and basic ramp tricks. after two long beautiful days at a local park my legs are like dead logs, but it feels great!

gregorni, to random
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Wooo… 👀

beepcheck,
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@mlundblad @gregorni nothing really matters

strypey, to politics
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‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’

, quoted by Cory Doctorow

https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/

beepcheck,
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@strypey I'm not able to read every article, but in every "western" society property rights are a subset of human rights. as long as they do not supersede human rights in general both the "left" and the "right" can be correct in your straw man comparison.

beepcheck,
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@strypey you last two comments ate spot on.

the rights of a property shall not supersede the rights of people.

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Do share with us 😃

beepcheck,
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@itsfoss i picked ubuntu 9.04 for a project because it was there.

i still use ubuntu, now as a daily driver for work and play. my wife uses ubuntu on her PC. my kids use it.

every now and then i dabble with debian, and i keep virt-manager installed to try things out, like kde neon for kde plasma 6 before it was fully baked, and nixos, which intrigues/confuses me.

thestrangelet, to random
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Are there any fanless laptops out there that run Linux well?

beepcheck,
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@thestrangelet @bignose @frameworkcomputer put it out of site and access it remotely... haha

if you're running a modern distro and what you're doing spools up the fans maybe fanless won't work anyway?

JoeRess, (edited ) to random
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How many fiction books do you read per year?

beepcheck,
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@JoeRess why not 1?

yakkoj, to random
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I think that senator (who probably should KNOW BETTER) should be asking the likes of GM to not cancel their Bolt EV, which, last time I checked, was a pretty good EV, instead of demanding a China ban.

While I won't be trusting China automotive output any time ever, a ban is wholly inappropriate. We need more incentive for the likes of GM to keep producing something that's competitive.

Someone needs to go back 50 years and read some history.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/ban-chinese-electric-vehicles-now-demands-us-senator/

beepcheck,
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@yakkoj it's there an open source EV CPU project?

i mean... it's motor and charge and climate control. this is a widely and often solved problem.

I'd love to buy hardware, and install open source hardware. i mean, isn't that what we do here?

MattCrumpLab, to random
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Having a bunch of fun with this set up. It’s quick and easy to record piano sketches, and the ep-133 doubles as a funky metronome or full on drum accompaniment.

beepcheck,
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@MattCrumpLab i have the EP-133 and it's fantastic.

it's so easy to put together a decent sounding beat that has enough variation to keep it interesting

beepcheck,
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@MattCrumpLab and it looks like a calculator!

dantleech, to random
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not sure who i'm preaching to here, but I feel a little bit of sick coming up if I open a file in git and it's got any sections of commented code.

beepcheck,
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@dantleech i see stuff like that from scientists and i kind of expect it.

when i see it from software devs it's like, "do we really need to have this conversation?"

dantleech, to random
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Today I'm mostly waiting for 6 minute builds. It's tempting to do something else in those 6 minutes, but I know if I do I'll be doing that thing for 30m or an hour and miss potential iterations.

beepcheck,
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@dantleech try planking. you will not get carried away!

linmob, to linuxphones
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on - edge.

Not much to say yet, but it feels quite smooth and I love the mode dark wallpaper.

beepcheck,
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@linmob that's great!

i wish i had a supported device to setup! i really just want to run linux on my phone...

I've always stuck to the pixel line which has been great for lineageos (my daily driver) and others

that said i can appreciate not wanting to support any google products

beepcheck,
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@linmob that's great, yea!

i have a 3a, currently running UBports, but AT&T (USA) is not supporting the radio in there because... well not for technical incompatibility

beepcheck,
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@linmob my cell plan is paid by my employer, so not really...

that and there is no T-Mobile coverage in my area

kati, to random
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Sitting in bed, eating ice cream, reading this. Wild. https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

beepcheck, (edited )
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@kati wut?

this reads like an exposé.

is this an exposé?

governa, to random
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11 Best Free Certificate Providers in 2024

https://www.tecmint.com/best-ssl-certificate-authorities/

beepcheck,
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@governa and here i thought there was only

stfn, (edited ) to fdroid
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Who needs iCloud or other cloud stuff when you can just backup your phone's photos to your NAS using the command line?

I'm using Termux from F-Droid.

EDIT: Step 2 is done, I generated SSH keys on the phone and send them to my NAS to login into without using a password

beepcheck,
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@stfn hooray for self hosting!

I've been using (the docker compose version) for years now for private chat, file storage sharing, and automated device backup.

It really works wonders for me, and I'm always excited to hear how others avoid big tech services in favor of reclaiming the decentralized web!

dantleech, to rust
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so is there a fancy modern (e.g. ) email TUI out there yet? or shall I tryy (neo)Mutt and friends again?

beepcheck,
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@dantleech boosting to find out!

i only have mutt.

markwalker, to django
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Does anyone know of a reputable source for an article on using python -m

I recommend it to people but lack a credible source to back it up. Just had someone say that it's "not recommend or the convention. There are no benefits."

beepcheck,
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@markwalker i use python -m [package] often!

  1. every time I set up a new dev space python3 -m venv venv

  2. in linux services when running things like fastapi and gunicorn

If you're running within a virtual environment you don't need to use -m as much because all the installed packages are at hand, like

~(venv)$ black .

vs.

~$ python -m black .

kzimmermann, to random
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Taking to a whole new level

beepcheck,
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@kzimmermann looks like a portable bag of compute nodes !

governa, to random
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A Few Reasonable Rules For The Responsible Use Of New Technology

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/03/a-few-reasonable-rules-for-the-responsible-use-of-new-technology/

beepcheck,
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@governa tl;dr

new technology should

1.not be used to shorten the lifetime of a product (looking at you Apple)

  1. not be used as an excuse to inhibit repairability (cough ... John Deere)

  2. not be tied to unnecessary services (like a watch that can't be set until it's paired with a phone and registered with the manufacturer)

  3. not be detrimental to the planet

that last one is a biggie... the ship is sinking, we need to stop drilling holes in it and start patching it up instead.

kate, to random
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British wind turbines produced a record 21.81GW of power between 9:00am and 9:30am this morning. Over the past 24 hours wind turbines have supplied 61.7% of our electricity needs. Live data can be seen on my site at https://grid.iamkate.com.

beepcheck,
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@kate as someone who has worked in the wind industry for the past 20 years this is exactly what we've been working towards!

no subsidies necessary, it's just good tech

kde, to kde
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Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! We are nearly there, but more testing needed.

Just in time for the Winter Holidays 🎄, Happy New Beta 🎉!

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

After this second Beta, there will be two Release Candidates, one on the 10th and the other on the 31st of January. All these releases are not final, they are for testing and should not be used in production...

@kde

Animations showing of the multiple desktops and wallpapers available for Plasma 6

beepcheck,
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@kde @kde is it possible to install alongside plasma 5?

I'm happy to test but would love it if I could keep my daily driver setup as well.

beepcheck,
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@kde @kde i downloaded the KDE Neon ISO and have it running in a VM.

so far, many bug reports sent out!

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