Notices by Vagrant Cascadian (vagrantc@floss.social), page 2

@trashheap

I run Debian Stable on mine, with a few packages from https://reform.debian.net/ if that makes any difference? :)

@jgoerzen

Loved the thread, thanks!

As to splitting up a long-form post, it kind of felt like a flood on my timeline... although it is also possibly nice to be able to reply to specific portions. So... mixed feelings!

Ever since monitoring the #CO2 levels in my office, I noticed that I need more ventilation.

But it is cold outside... while I have been using a couple #DIY heat recovery units, they are a bit loud and consume a bit of (mostly #solar) electricity, and are still a bit lossy...

So I finally decided to search for how many #plants I would need to help keep the CO2 levels down..

https://medium.com/@candidegardening/how-many-plants-would-it-take-to-produce-enough-oxygen-for-one-person-7312743ed70b

Well, that sounds like more than I can realistically manage, but still nice to have plants!

@textovervideo

I use XMPP, but with a fair number of them I am using an XMPP to SMS service.

So it is all XMPP on my end, but might not be on theirs...

@dentangle

Alonso has domesticated you pretty well by now, sounds like.

Comrades! Mastofolk! Fedizens! Federal Agents!

We've almost made it around the Sun once more without falling off, which is an achievement of some sort. Thank you to everyone for not jumping about too much. If you'd like to put your tray tables in the upright position we'll begin our descent into fascism now.

For those of you about to celebrate, have fun with that. I'm not religious myself, but if anyone who is would like to tell their god we've had Quite Enough Now Thanks, that would be great.

@InnerAlien

Sounds like an awesome program!

The creepy tracking requirement using an app is unfortunate, though.

@dmbaturin

#Tails was producing bit-for-bit reproducible live images, last I recall they had to massage somethings after processing it to make it work.

https://tails.net/

That said, not all the packages shipped in Tails are reproducible:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/amd64/pkg_set_tails.html

You can make a #Reproducible iso out of not reproducible packages, as long as you use the same exact packages. :)

@knasman

I also have grid power if needed, but try to avoid it for my office use.

Running a small system really gets you aware of your power usage ... the difference between a laptop that runs around 5-10 watts vs. 5-45 watts becomes significant!

It is that time of the year where I begin using the #PineBookPro more again...

The sun rises late, sets early, and the clouds cast a grey hue to what light makes it through.

Even though I have had relatively good sun the past couple days, it is about playing catch-up to top off the batteries...

And here I thought boosting my #Solar capacity by 50% (from 400W of panels to 600W) would be enough!

Also had some problems with my battery which probably limit the capacity considerably.

@joeyh

Some pretty unconventional angles!

Curious what directions the fence segments are facing and at what latitutde?

Guessing this is more of a larger number of panels making up for potentially suboptimal orientation scenario?

This article by @anna speaks to me.

"I speak the language of technology—and if you're reading this, there's a high chance you do too. We're living bridges of domains mysterious and unknown to many, domains that make and will continue to make a difference in the scale of oppression and horrors being spread and perpetuated into the world. What you do with that capacity and that knowledge can mean the difference between life and death. Use it to empower others."

https://notapplicable.dev/freeze-but-fight.

Improvised a #Quince #Pie yesterday, thanks to the neighbors leaving out a couple boxes of quince with a free sign on them!

Crust was almond and buckwheat, with lots of flax seeds so #GlutenFree and used olive oil and coconut for lipids, so #Vegan for good measure.

Love baking in #CastIron pans!

A very hardy crisp crust, might try making some crackers using a similar technique sometime...

#shotOnLibrem5 so a bit blurry.

Recently fixed an issue with my #PinePhone where the usb-c charging port would get instantly hot to the touch... by replacing the usb-c board, available from the #Pine64 shop!

It was by no means as easy as working with #MNTReform or #FrameworkLaptop systems that are designed for repairability in mind, requiring some uncomfortable prying, but do-able.

As a bonus prize, it appears the kernel packages in #Mobian for the pinephone are getting better support lately, yay!

Thanks!

@nazokiyoubinbou Yeah, this is an unethical tracking technique called fingerprinting

By combining together browser window size and a bunch of other browser attributes, it is sometimes possible to uniquely identify you

It is unethical, because it can be used in place of a cookie for tracking, even if the user has disabled or restricted cookie use

With the onset of cooler weather, and being unable to keep our large door open... introducing the newest addition to my #Aikido #Dojo community, a #DIY #CorsiRosenthalBox !

@civodul

Very much like the "guix build --dependents" feature!

It was sometimes kind of a painful to do "guix build $(guix refresh --list-dependents | sed ... | awk ... | cut ... | etc.)" to massage the output into something guix build could actually ingest.

Although I do wonder if "guix refresh" could still get a machine readable output format, e.g. one line per package, options for the recursive dependents rather than just the minimum set that would trigger all the builds, etc.

@josch the two little buttons in the middle of the spacebar were something I learned to live with; I think I remapped them to pageup and pagedown, but honestly, I vastly prefer the newer more traditional layout as something I do not probably need to customize much, if at all.

This hardware is about as open as it comes, so *obviously* I could just make my own keyboard...

I will add it to my long list of someday, maybe, probably honestly never, projects!

It works quite good enough. :)

https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform/-/tree/master/reform2-keyboard3-pcb

The strange thing to me was the choice to use a 1.5x key for the right arrow, left alt, and circle keys. All would benefit from leaving a small gap at the edge of the row to navigate to the corners by feel. The alt key being the same size as the two keys around it also make it harder to sense by feel.

I sometimes struggle to hit the backspace or enter keys
correctly, but probably will adapt over time.

I could do without the delete key or the function keys...

Nothing is really a deal breaker!