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RL_Dane, to random
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HOW?!?

See? "Force stop" is GRAYED OUT
Even the CalyxOS battery starts screen agrees. WHAT?! π¢°©°%|%€÷|={\°¢%¢¶`=£=@#@$_#$--@_#!!!!!

RL_Dane,
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@mogwai

I didn't realize other apps could use Firefox as their webview.

I guess the test for that is to see if chromium or some webview component comes out on top of the battery usage meter now.

mogwai,

@RL_Dane I didn't know either. I'm curious if this will be the end of your battery drain issues...

RL_Dane, to random
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The nice thing about buying cheap old in 2024 is that they already come with SSD. XD

Note to self: this would have made a great mini blogpost. XD
I need to write my "blogme" script now!!

mike805, (edited )

@RL_Dane Two E560s here, one Windows, one Linux, both with SSDs bought off eBay and installed in place of the HDD. Still work fine! Keyboards and batteries are also cheap for these. Like the 1990s Toyota of laptop.

RL_Dane,
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@mike805

Ha, my X200 is on its THIRD keyboard:

Keyb 1: Yes, I have weep holes, but that doesn't mean you can VIGOROUSLY wash me under the sink!
Keyb 2: THAT'S NOT HOW YOU REMOVE A KEYCAP!
Keyb 3: Ok, these things are getting harder to source. Better be gentle. 😆

Since I bought a beefy battery for my X260, I might see what the most advanced model it works on is and buy one of those as my general daily-driver Linux box

RL_Dane, to android
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FINE. Let's see who you blame now,

peppe,
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@RL_Dane That's taking 'Stop' quite literal 😂

RL_Dane, to ADHD
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I've got an odd graphical problem and I need the advice of some #GIMP experts.

I use this image as my wallpaper, and I absolutely love it:
https://unsplash.com/photos/purple-and-black-pyramid-wallpaper-k1bO_VTiZSs

BUT when I use i3lock/swaylock, it's off-center which is frustrating in a very #ADHD way (see screenshot)

How would I go about cropping the image to make it centered? I mean, so that the little circular login indicator thingie is centered right on the innermost triangle?

RL_Dane,
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@tripplehelix

Oooooooo.....! HANG ON!

s3rvant,

@RL_Dane

Ah, well, I'm not if this method is the simplest / best but it's how I would go about it:

Add a new layer, click on rectangular select tool and set size to screen size

Click on image ensuring entire rectangle fits on screen then fill with white (or w/e) then crop the layer to selection; set layer opacity to 50% so you can see image below

Add another layer and use pencil tool to draw a small mark then crop the layer to content

continued...

RL_Dane, to random
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Watching the element.io Matrix app slowly churn to life on my 12th gen i7, and I have to think to myself,

Was #IRC really all that bad/archaic that we need... <THIS>???

RL_Dane, (edited ) to random
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Umm... WHAT?

A screenshot of https://f-droid.org/packages/ru.tech.imageresizershrinker/

EDIT: Just for clarity, I'm expressing surprise that an android app would have lossy PNG as an option, not at the idea of pre-compressing a PNG to make it lossy (generally by reducing the number of colors, but also by doing things like pixellating unimportant regions of an image, such as a desktop wallpaper). All techniques I enjoy using, as well.

???

RL_Dane,
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@jens

lol :D

jens,
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@RL_Dane I'm glad you appreciated the pun 😬

RL_Dane, to android
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Umm, Firefox has been forcibly killed and not opened once this entire day.

, do you even know what you're doing anymore???

mogwai,

@RL_Dane Yep, have/had the same over here: kept on draining after forced shutdown. Still no clue what is causing it. 😅

It's been a few days now since the last time it occurred on my phone.

RL_Dane,
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@mogwai

has an alternate battery usage screen I can use, but I haven't been able to get a full charge in several days so I can't trust those numbers yet.

Not sure why my charger is being dodgy.

RL_Dane, to random
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wget??

bALeNa EtChEr?!?

Pffft!

Real nerds use curl | dd

$ curl -s https://gemmei.ftp.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-mate.iso |doas dd of=/de
v/sdb bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync

XD

blaise,
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@RL_Dane yeah, but what is the emacs keyboard shortcut ?

RL_Dane,
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@blaise

No idea 😆

RL_Dane, to blogging
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Ok, it's time.

Time to start writing my #blogme script.

I WILL STREAMLINE THE #BLOGGING PROCESS.

I will make it as easy and addictive as tooting.

And it will even toot for me when it's done. (Hopefully)

RL_Dane, to random
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Hey, random internet person!!

I'm so thankful that you're here.

peppe,
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@RL_Dane likewise, random tooter!

RL_Dane,
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@peppe

🙇‍♂️

RL_Dane, to random
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Man, has been archived, too?

Is everyone taking up farming? ;)

sirber,
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@RL_Dane nah, ChatGPT is doing the farming now.

RL_Dane,
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@sirber

🤣

RL_Dane, (edited ) to FreeBSD
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Hey peeps,

I'm trying to figure out what GELI stands for. (Just because it's such a cute name, I guess? lol)

I've deduced that it's GEOM_ELI (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html), but what's ELI?

(Also, I kinda wish had man -K (full text search). I need to write a todo to make my own implementation)

[[Update in reply]]

RL_Dane,
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@sbank

Ha! I'll post an update to the original if he responds. :D

RL_Dane,
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Pawel responded :D

=====
Hello:)

You are correct „G” stands for GEOM. The rest is to be discovered (it doesn’t stand for Encryption Layer Interface). It’s been twenty years and I still didn’t get the right answer:)

--
Paweł Jakub Dawidek

RL_Dane, (edited ) to random
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Strange behavior with #XOrg #xinput on #NetBSD.

Running "xinput enable 7" (7 is the mouse) causes newlines to be printed to the terminal, EVEN if both STDIN and STDOUT are redirected to /dev/null.

[Oops, wrong URL]

RL_Dane, to random
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Next #Gemini project: make a gemini version of the #KingJamesBible (already been done), but then make a version filtered through my kjvfilter (https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/kjvfilter) sed script to update some of the language. It's a VERY alpha-quality script and is not super-well vetted, but that's half the fun.

I'll call it #kjv

@amin, an awesome project for you whenever you might get bored with clew would be a project gutenberg interface for gemini. That would ROCK.

Anachron,
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@RL_Dane @amin nice idea, I do have to warn about changing the meani g b doing so!

For example shall -> will.

See

https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/will.html

And

https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/shall.html

RL_Dane, to random
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Yowza.
https://github.com/ir33k/gmi100/blob/master/gmi100.c

Avert your gaze, noble Dijkstra!!

ianthetechie,
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@RL_Dane you have intrigued Me 😂

ianthetechie,
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@RL_Dane ha!! For some reason I’ve got you in the back of my head as “geek but not a full time programmer” and yet you remembered the absolute classic Dijkstra “considered harmful” meme worthy paper, which has left me rather impressed 😂

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