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passthejoe, 4 months ago to random

I kept my #GoToSocial server going for about four months. I just killed it. It was in the Oracle Cloud, and the upgrade of #AlmaLinux from 9.2 to 9.3 was taking a long time. I thought it was hanging, and I hit ctrl-c. That stopped a "scriptlet." I reran the upgrade, which said it completed. I should have know then to remove the new kernel. I rebooted, and that was it.

I hadn't yet set up backups for this server because I considered it experimental.

I'll start a new one soon.

passthejoe, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to fedora

My 7-year-old laptop runs as if it's new. Thanks #Fedora (and #Debian and #OpenBSD)

#linux #bsd

passthejoe, 1 day ago to random

Now that I have my first company computer since before COVID, my use of Linux and BSD will be more extracurricular.

On Friday I kept the personal laptop running OpenBSD all day because it's better behaved when it comes to reliably suspending and resuming.

Again, if you haven't run OpenBSD on the desktop in years, things have come a very long way.

passthejoe, 5 months ago to random

#Thunderbird people, convince me why I should donate when #Mozilla Corporation is swimming in Google money

passthejoe, 11 days ago to guix

I'm as intrigued by #Guix as I was by #NixOS, but ultimately I'm not sure the complexity is worth it for me.

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

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

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

passthejoe, 4 months ago to random

A win against enshitification:

We have a #Vizio Smart TV, maybe 5 years old, that we never used as a smart TV because we have a Roku.

Over the years, the TV has continually received software updates from Vizio, and has gotten slower and less usable. The hardware can't handle the software.

The most recent update REMOVED the mode for viewing over-the-air TV without going through Vizio's Watchfree+, which is the shitshow of shitshows.

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passthejoe, 1 year ago to random

Are #Mastodoners really annoyed by too many #hashtags?

passthejoe, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to RedHat

The hosts of @DestinationLinux seem like very nice people, but they are 1000% buying what #RedHat is selling.

They do point out RH's communication issues, but they don't admit to the bait-and-switch nature of the company's moves.

They're trying to make the case that #CentOS Stream, #OpenSUSE Leap and #Ubuntu LTS are roughly equal in not being the "bug for bug" source of the paid products.

There's a lot more nuance there, and that should be acknowledged.

https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-329/

passthejoe, 5 months ago to fedora

Does anybody know when updates will start flowing again to #Fedora #Silverblue?

passthejoe, 5 months ago to random

You CAN compile and run code with the Geany "mini" IDE Flatpak if you check the "Execute Programs in the VTE" box under Preferences--Terminal.

So far I have tested C++ and Ruby, and they both work. I don't think you'll be able to add Ruby Gems, but for some simple things, it might just work (until Flatpaks can interface with Toolbox/Distrobox containers).

passthejoe, 11 days ago to guix

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

passthejoe, 4 months ago to TeslaMotors

If major auto manufacturers continue reducing their commitments to #EV production because prices are softening, China is going to come into the US, take the market and end the competition.

Established makers' reluctance to make almost any cars -- gas or electric -- under $25K in the post-pandemic era will allow this to happen.

passthejoe, 1 month ago to random

Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-8gb-ram-mac/

passthejoe, 4 months ago to random

I bought my current HP laptop SEVEN YEARS AGO. It wasn't super expensive, and it had a 1920x1080 screen.

As I look at laptops today, most still have 1920x1080 resolution. How is that still a thing?

Shouldn't everything be UHD/4K by now?

passthejoe, 1 month ago to RaspberryPi

I moved my Shinobi blog to the home server (Raspberry Pi 4B)

https://stevenrosenberg.net/feed.xml

#RaspberryPi #HomeLab

passthejoe, 1 month ago to random

How OpenBSD is dealing with the xz problem (as seen on the OpenBSD.ports mailing list). This package is not in the base system (it is on my laptop, though):

'Re: archivers/xz: update to 5.6.1' - MARC https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=171174950828153&w=2

#xz #openbsd

passthejoe, 1 month ago to random

I spent just $30 on a mechanical keyboard to prove you don’t need to waste your money | Tom's Guide https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/peripherals/i-spent-just-dollar30-on-a-mechanical-keyboard-to-prove-you-dont-need-to-waste-your-money

passthejoe, 2 months ago to random

@killyourfm Thanks for chatting with me on Saturday at the @thunderbird #scale21x booth.

I've been playing around with the folders that are created in Thunderbird from tags in Gmail.

If you have an email with two tags in Gmail, it appears in two folders in Thunderbird.

But if you delete the email from one of the folders, it disappears from the other.

If you want to "remove" from one folder but not the other, the solution I see is to "move" it. (You don't get multiple copies.)

passthejoe, 4 months ago to RaspberryPi

How long do you think Raspberry Pi OS will continue to provide support for 32-bit boards?

#raspberrypi #raspberrypizerow

passthejoe, 2 months ago to random

Just learning about this from @vwbusguy in the Fedora Atomic Desktop talk at #scale21x:

The easiest way to build your own desktop Linux images. | BlueBuild https://blue-build.org/

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passthejoe, 4 months ago to fedora

#Fedora #Silverblue #Toolbox tip:

Install #Vim inside your Toolbox. Then it will recognize your .vimrc, and all of the magic you put in there will work.

passthejoe, 1 month ago to linux

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktop | ZDNET https://www.zdnet.com/article/almalinux-9-4-beta-is-out-4-reasons-to-consider-it-for-your-desktop/

#linux #AlmaLinux #GNOME

passthejoe, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I think Amazon doesn't so much ship faster for Prime members as it deliberately ships slower for non-Prime customers who elect "free shipping" by delaying the packaging of their orders as a sort of twisted "marketing" for Prime.

It's just a theory, and I'm kind of happy Amazon isn't on the Fediverse in the usual Twitter customer service shaming fever.

In the past I'm sure I brought this up on Twitter and got pounced on some Amazon flunkie telling me how I'm wrong.

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passthejoe, 4 days ago to random

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

passthejoe, 2 months ago to random

After I finally upgraded my 2011 iMac from Debian 11 to 12, I lost the ability to adjust the screen brightness in GNOME.

I traced the issue to the kernel. Screen brightness could be adjusted in the Debian 11 kernel (5.10.209) but not in the Debian 12 kernel (6.1.76).

I tried the Backports kernel (6.6.13) but that didn't work (though I need to try it again to be 100% sure because along the way I simplified my kernel parameters).

With the 6.7.11 kernel from Liquorix, it works perfectly.