nekohayo

pwithnall, 6 hours ago to random

Why does growth always have to be ‘explosive’?

nekohayo, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

Found yet another aluminium road #mastobike abandoned by some uncaring person: all rusted, busted grip shifters, no tape, brake levers in bottom position, flat tyre, some broken spokes, bent rear dérailleur, etc. Dual-pivot caliper brakes though! 👌

Shop owner has no idea whose it was, so we claimed it. I cleaned it up, removed most of the rust. Could look decent. Weighs ~16kg. Wondering if I could easily convert it into a light single-speed for cheap? (new ones are 400$)

#bicyclemaintenance

nekohayo, 3 days ago to photography

Whoa, the Government of Canada has an incredibly detailed page on the dark art of scanning photographs with a flatbed scanner. It is full of practical & theoretical info, incl. color theory (color space, models, gamuts, accuracy, distance, illuminance, bit depth, dynamic range, etc.), common scanning issues… and you can even the #Coloraid (Wolf Faust) "IT 8.7/2" color calibration target referenced, plus #GIMP screenshots 🤯

https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digitization/scan-reflective-objects.html

#photography #arts #digitizing #colormanagement

nekohayo, 4 days ago to Montreal

There's something incredibly enjoyable about my neighbourhood in the summer on a sunny "long week-end" when construction stops; you can hear the wind, birds chirping, playful children in the area…

I've been subconsciously traumatized by the last 10 years of uninterrupted roadworks & building construction noises; it's why in the past 2 years I often escaped the city during weekdays and come back to it on week-ends.
I hope to spend time there more often in 2025; #Montreal is lovely when quiet.

nekohayo, 5 days ago to GNOME

For the past 10+ years, I was unable to daily-drive the #Wayland version of #GNOME …
…until version 45.2+, where performance improvements landed for my specific usecases.

Since then, for the past 6 months, I've been running 45.x on Wayland.

This week, when I went back to the Xorg/X11 version for 1-2 days, I was surprised to see it now feels unbearable to me from a performance standpoint! Even with animations disabled.

I guess I can't go back after having used a no-delays no-jank version 🤷

nekohayo, 5 days ago to RSS

Welcome @lwindolf who has just joined the fediverse now!
While they appear to be a regular red squirrel, they actually are a nice human who has been benevolently maintaining the #Liferea feed reader for the last 20+ years (among other things), for y'all who are still reading #RSS / Atom feeds with a desktop #Linux application.
You should follow them if you're interested in Liferea, devops or sysadmin topics 🐿️

nekohayo, 7 days ago to accessibility

There's a nice article out there by @jzb summarizing @matt's recent #OSSNA presentation on his work on #AccessKit and "Newton", the new #accessibility architecture for #Wayland and the future of #GNOME & #Linux for assistive technologies: https://lwn.net/Articles/971541/

thomholwerda, 20 days ago to random

At least my choice to ditch GNOME for KDE turns out, once again, to be the right choice.

nekohayo, 6 days ago to email

It took me a while to realize what felt problematic with @EvolutionGnome's handling of #email signatures for #Markdown users, but I think I figured out the issue: it probably should be expanded to allow defining per-format signature variants... https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2753

nekohayo, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to GNOME

I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

#GNOME #productivity #gratitude

badrihippo, 7 days ago to random

Does #nautilus not display cover.jpg as a folder thumbnail anymore when you put it inside a folder? 📁 🧐

forteller, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to linux

I really feel like Linux distros should come with ddcutil preinstalled, and Gnome should build in some sort of functionality to control it, like this: https://github.com/daitj/gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil

Isn't having an external monitor really common? And when all laptops come with dedicated buttons for changing the display brightness, doesn't that suggest that people like to be able to easily adjust the screen brightness? Then why wouldn't we want to do it also on external screens?

#Linux #Gnome #ddcutil

nekohayo, 10 days ago to random

With #GitLab 17.0 (stated to be released on May 16th), the operating system theme preference is now respected, as there is now an opt-in setting to enable "Auto (Experiment)" support in your user preferences panel.
It can finally switch between light & #darkmode when your OS or desktop environment requests it at various times of the day! I tried it; it works.

You can find it under "User Settings > Preferences > Appearance" when running that GitLab version (it is already the case on gitlab.com)

gregorni, 11 days ago to GNOME

I contributed to GNOME Shell! It's just a one-liner, but still, it's a contribution!

I added touchpad gestures so you can now change workspaces not just with a 3-finger swipe, but also a 4-finger swipe (or any amount of fingers larger than that, if you're feeling really adventurous).

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3275

#GNOMEShell #GNOME #Touchpad #TouchGestures #Gesture

nekohayo, 11 days ago to MountainBiking

A quickie ten minutes #biking ride around Montréal to get some air and reset the mind, after spending two whole days trying to do color calibration for 4 scanners on Linux, a maddeningly tedious and confusing #colormanagement process 😌

nekohayo, 13 days ago to debian

The attitude shown by the #Debian packager who insists on going against the will of @keepassxc devs, in this comment: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725#issuecomment-2104401817 is… wow 🤦

This "packagers thinking they know better than the developers, and unilaterally patching things" mentality, along with distros often shipping outdated versions, is why many upstream software developers dislike dealing with Debian (& any LTS distro), and now ask users to test/run #Flatpak versions of their applications first and foremost.

nekohayo, 12 days ago to random

OK lads, I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm thinking of bringing this HP ScanJet 3300 on a bike ride uphill in Montréal tomorrow, possibly my first entry into #CarryShitOlympics. It's padded by some small towels, "secured" by 2x3 bungee stretch cords. Doesn't seem to move when I shake the bike.

Do you think it might hold, or am I better off just putting the scanner in a blue IKEA bag (or sturdy grocery bag) hanging on one of the sides of the handlebar, or in a backpack (it does fit)? 🤔

AxelTerizaki, 14 days ago to GNOME French

Ah oui ça marche bien gnome et ses extensions. J’ai juste pris une extension compatible pour avoir un dock anime, j’ai voulu glisser déplacer des apps pour les réorganiser et paf pastèque.

Et ça plante tout le bureau c’est impressionnant. Tu peux dire adieu à tous les trucs pas sauvegardés dans tes apps même si alt-tab ou la touche super fonctionnent et permettent de changer d’app. Cet écran les recouvre et te force à logout.

Impressionnant.

#gnome #linux

aj, 14 days ago to GNOME

Heh, I updated to Ubuntu 24.04 and gnome is not pleased about it 😅

i3 looks fine, but Regolith and vanilla GNOME are both borked. That feels like something funky specific to GNOME font handling maybe? But initial troubleshooting steps like tweaking/resetting font choices or refreshing font cache got me nowhere. I'll have to revisit this, but if anybody has ideas I'm all ears.

#gnome #ubuntu