nekohayo

nekohayo, 8 hours ago (edited 7 hours 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, 2 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, 3 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, 4 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, 4 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 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

badrihippo, 6 days ago to random

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

nekohayo, 6 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, 19 days ago to random

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