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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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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, (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 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 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 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 random
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Go ahead, , throw that shade! 🤣

RL_Dane, (edited ) to blogging
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#Blogging idea:

Pick a month and challenge myself to blog every time I feel like writing a random #fediverse post.

I'll even create a script as an alternative to my tootme (https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/tootme) script to create a blog post, and call it "blogme" (and alias tootme to blogme for that month.

WHO IS WITH ME?!? :D
(Read: Who is willing to verbally kick my butt if they see me not doing what I set out to do?)

#blog #blost #rlDaneWriting

RL_Dane, to random
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This was a fun bunch of wordle (https://sedecordlewordle.com) words.
Don't worry, it's not the daily sedecordle, just a random one.

'd, anyway

FUBNG
GJVAF
ZBQRZ
JURRY
JBEYQ
RYVGR
GVNEN
PNOVA
JUBEY
YNEIN
UBHAQ
PBHPU
CRNPU
YRIRE
SYHXR
HFHNY

RL_Dane, to random
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The way my brain just casualllly recollects things from 14 years ago like they were just yesterday I feel should be classified as some sort of neurological . :/



RL_Dane, to random
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Just realized that I can have a plasmoid on the desktop showing the really important files/symlinks I have in my ~/working directory, and it's kinda perfect.

RL_Dane, to random
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RL_Dane, to space
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Today's #NASA #Astronomy #Photo of the Day is nice.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240606.html

Totally made me think I was running MacOS again, as it resembled one of the classic 2010s Mac OS X wallpapers.

(I have #KDE #Plasma configured to use #APOD as the lock screen wallpaper)

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