veronica

forteller, 11 months ago to ubuntu

I switched from Windows to #Ubuntu Linux in 2006, and used exclusively Ubuntu until, idunno, maybe four years ago. In all that time, I never had a good experience upgrading from one version to the next. I always had to do a clean install, so after a while I mostly stopped trying upgrading, but still did try one more time somewhere close to the end of that period, I think. Same outcome.

Now I just did my second upgrade of #Nobara Linux, based on Fedora, and it seems to have worked fine! #Linux

veronica, 11 months ago to random

I'm sitting at the airport waiting for my flight, and trying to figure out if i can see my apartment building from here. I think I've spotted the next door six floor apartment building, but not sure 😄

I can see the ocean on the other side of the airport-ish direction from my balcony.

Patricia, 11 months ago to random

So… what are folks talking about on mastodon these days?

olafurw, 11 months ago to random

"2 birds with 1 stone."

Who is the psychopath that is not only killing birds with stones, but also is trying to optimize it?

sodafountainrag, 11 months ago to random Norwegian Bokmål

Tiktok bare: vi merker du har det litt røft nå, så her er veldig mange videoer av folk som lager te med pene te-sett, hvor teen gjerne skifter farge når de har i sitron.

Jeg: takk 😭

veronica, 11 months ago to python

I've spent a lot of time rewriting a pretty large GUI tool in my open source project. The old one has been deleted along with the tests, and the replacement consists of 2 core classes and 3 GUI classes. Now I have ~1500 lines of code to write new tests for 😅

I just finished 100% test coverage of the 2 core classes, and I have the much larger, but easier to test, GUI classes to go.

#Code #Python #OpenSource

veronica, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to StarTrek

Latest Blogpost:

With the latest episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I just had to write a post about the new era of Trek. It's about more than just this episode, but I spend some time on comparing it to similar episodes too. 😊

https://berglyd.net/blog/2023/06/star-trek-snw-is-really-good-trek/

Note: Replies to this toot can be loaded under the blog post.

#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #SciFi #Blog

veronica, 11 months ago to random

Say what you want about USA, but it's the only place in the world where I've been consistently able to find clothes that fits tall people. I'm 187 cm (~6'2").

For a year now I've been hunting for jeans I can use. I have a single pair of 34" length left, and those are technically a little short.

I was on a trip to the US once with a fellow uni student of 207 cm (~6'9"). We hunted for clothes there, and found lots.

Just got a pair of jeans in the mail that reach the floor! 😁

#Clothes #Tall

veronica, 11 months ago to random

Damn, I did not have Russia on my list of likely countries Russia would invade next.

Let's hope it benefits Ukraine at least.

mattblaze, 11 months ago to random

Really impressed by the number of people on social media who turn out to have expertise in both deep sea engineering AND modern Russian political dynamics.

veronica, 11 months ago to random

Heh, Merriam-Webster's words of the week this week are rather easy to relate to the news cycle:

1. billionaire
2. hypocrisy
3. implode
4. implosion
5. Rubicon
6. submersible

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-words-of-the-week-jun-23

#Dictionary #WordsOfTheWeek

matt, 11 months ago to random

I have 420 followers! That’s perfect, no more now, thanks.

veronica, 11 months ago to StarTrek

With episode s02e02, Star Trek Strange New Worlds is mirroring TNG, and it is no small task to try to measure up to the TNG episode "The Measure of a Man", but they really pulled it off. It is a top notch Star Trek episode overall.

It did a much better job than DS9's attempt at a similarly themed episode, "Rules of Engagement", where Worf's bloodthirsty nature as a Klingon is put on trial.

#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

veronica, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to Futurology

Pet peeve: The phrase "Mac or PC".

1. It implies that a Mac isn't a PC, which it absolutely is.

2. It usually assumes that everything that isn't running a Mac OS is running Windows, which isn't true.

It is mostly annoying when we're talking about software/hardware/firmware compatibility, because when you're not using MacOS or Windows, it's often difficult to find out if you can use whatever the product is.

(Tech journalists really love this misclassification)

#Computers #Mac #Windows #Linux

nixCraft, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to linux

Poll: How many browser extensions do you have installed on your #Linux, #macOS, #FreeBSD or #Windows desktop? Please boost for reach. TIA. 🙏