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passthejoe

@passthejoe@ruby.social

Journalist, itinerant programmer, picker, grinner. #Debian and #Fedora #Silverblue on the desktop, #AlmaLinux, #Fedora, #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD on the server. Husband, father, amateur gardener, cat herder, large appliance tinkerer.

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kims, to random
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This bumper sticker is enough to make me wish for a minivan again

BrauchC, to random

Das nenne ich ja mal gechillt 🥰

#CatsOfTheFediverse

passthejoe, to random
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Open Source TinaCMS Has Been Acquired https://news.itsfoss.com/tinacms-acquired/

jloc0,
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@passthejoe I had half setup Hugo and started using it for a hot minute, never migrated site to it but it’s still on my agenda, some day. I just read about TinaCMS the other day, and I can’t even look at it, because I don’t want any ideas. Ideas are bad news. 😂

hankg, to Humor

LOL #ElonMusk #humor #tesla #cybertruck

ai6yr, to Dogs

Man saves dog in the Hudson River https://6abc.com/post/hudson-river-rescue-video-shows-new-jersey-man-jumping-into-cold-water-to-save-dog/14843565/

sugar, to random
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actual question my friend (also looking for work) is getting when they apply to work at a local cofe shop

cheriecreationstruck, to Birds
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Standing at attention in its dress blues.

linuxtechmore, to linux
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Switching to #Linux was the best decision for my productivity. #opensource"

TonyStark, to random
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I already got one comment claiming solar power won’t work because “night” and another that made up nonsense about batteries.

Batteries are part of solidifying the renewable energy grid.

To those that say batteries aren’t clean or are costly, that might be partially true now, but they get cleaner and cheaper every year. Current deployments while maybe suboptimal are simply a step on the path. 1/2

Batteries are taking on gas plants to power California’s nights:
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/batteries-are-taking-on-gas-plants-to-power-californias-nights

davepolaschek, to photography
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Received my toy camera today. It was on sale for 20% off, which made it about $30, including three rolls of thermal receipt paper to print onto. Thanks to @rasterweb for pointing it out to me!

If you want one, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BWDWNH5G is the model I bought.

The ristra hanging by our front door. I had forgotten about dither-worms.

passthejoe, to guix
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I'm as intrigued by as I was by , but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

Even has a ratio of complexity vs. benefits that fits well with my work (and play) flow.

, and all hide enough of the nitty gritty behind the scenes — updates happen without me needing to know it.

And traditional is so familiar and reliable, it's hard not to tap it for just about any use case.

philbaker1,
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@passthejoe I’m also intrigued by NisOS. But the barrier to entry is too high for me. I’m already overcommitted.

AlmaLinux just works for me. And it keeps my RHEL familiarity level up for my day job.

Still on my todo list: migrate my home NAS/Plex server from Ubuntu 22.04 to FreeBSD.

foolishowl,
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@passthejoe I've tried using Guix a few times. It makes a lot of sense to me as a system you can spin up by specifying a few parameters in a deployment management script. It seems less suited for a personal desktop system that I'd work with daily.

monkey1,
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@passthejoe

Look at Futurile's blog for hints: https://www.futurile.net/

monkey1,
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@passthejoe

Try on Debian as a package manager: this will let you figure out if the packages you need are there.

I really like the shell feature of Guix: you can very easily deploy virtual environments for any language/tool--think of Docker without any of the complexities.

khleedril,
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@passthejoe This pretty much hits one nail on the head: configuration is programming. Not scripting, but real, hard, software engineering coding.

This is why I started the project. But it is early days and there is a long way to go. https://rdmp.org/nu-2.

The way I see things panning out is that will be the plumbing, the wholesale system, and user-friendlier versions will appear which provide a layer of porcelain over it, the consumer system, like Zorin over Debian for example.

alxlg,
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@monkey1 @passthejoe

If one wants Docker without the complexities, there are Toolbx or, even better, Distrobox. The are images optimized to be toolboxes based on every major distro, so you can in practice mix multiple distros together and access all of their packages.

For better collaboration on the same project, there is an implementation of so called Dev Containers named DevPod.

https://containertoolbx.org/

https://distrobox.it/

https://devpod.sh/

AngryAnt,
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@passthejoe Huge factors are use cases and background. With a handful of systems and existing Linux experience, it really is a tough sell.

It was a more straight forward sell for me, coming in from macOS & development, wanting something sturdy, yet flexible, for a handful of machines, a small fleet of service VMs, and cross-platform dev flows.

Over the years I've seen a lot of Linux folk bounce off NixOS hard - often frustrated by the ways traditional Linux distro experience is not applicable.

flicka, to animals
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passthejoe, to guix
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Just saw this article on trouble with Nix.

@solene, are you looking into Guix?

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-27-nix-internal-crisis.html

#nix #guix

chfkch,
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@passthejoe
The guix community is nice. Just don't ask for non-free Firmware on the official channels and you are fine.
@solene

anthk,
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@chfkch @passthejoe @solene ethically I would only suggest nonguix in case of an emergency in order to get a working internet connection due to propietary firmware.
For everything else you can modify 'base-firmware' I think to purge down every other crap.

calm, to random

You are allowed to do nothing btw. There is no need to justify your existence with some arbitrary level of productivity. You’re allowed to just…be. 🫶

aborigen, to google
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Hey, look, did it to me too.

They didn't lock up my entire drive, but they're blocking access to my manuscript. Won't even allow me to download it.

18+ aborigen,
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@passthejoe It happened to someone else (Google thought they were spamming, when they were just sharing files with clients), and then it happened to me, and I'm basically nobody. So it can happen to anyone.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

terri, to opensource
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I have a WordPress blog but honestly the interface isn't meeting my needs very well any more -- text entry on the web is just laggy enough that it makes writing frustrating, and the app did so many api calls that I got auto-blocked by my host... None of this is insurmountable but also I'm getting tired of it. And the ongoing issues with the CEO hassling trans people and the corporate AI moves have made me less inclined to work around problems.

Anyone got blog software they love? I'm debating going back to some kind of static site thing but think I need a way to write drafts from my phone and have them live on the server.

DrPsyBuffy, to random
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Somebody asked "What is the most Generation X thing you've ever done?" and I instantly remembered the time I was at work and selected 200+ songs to download on Napster and then went home, leaving Napster up to download. I apparently hung up the internet at my college that night LOL The next day I received a “cease and desist” email that basically said “We can’t think of a legitimate academic reason why you’d be doing this, but if there is one, be sure to let us know.” 😂😂

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