Notices by Adam Williamson :fedora: (adamw@fosstodon.org)

oh hey what's up just spending the weekend hacking my smart plugs

this is a totally normal thing that normal people do right?

@bconoboy i was actually using one of those but it made for a less pithy post

you might be a home sysadmin if: your 'ethernet connection tester' is whatever laptop you could find in the junk pile that's old enough to have an ethernet port

Today, bonus weekend edition: did some highly serious and businesslike work research with this new work-focused system. I'll have no problem expensing it right @bconoboy ?

@mattdm LVT/LVP is a pretty successful branding operation. if you, uhh, for example, have a serious hgtv addiction (definitely not me!) you will hear it about fifteen times per evening.

it is actually different from old-school vinyl flooring - it has some kind of backing, and a protective wear layer over the vinyl.

today:
* ran #fedora blocker review meeting
* talk with sgallagh about getting #openqa testing and gating ELN updates, started looking into that - so far, https://pagure.io/releng/pull-request/12304 , and started research on changes needed to the tests
* sent PR to add f41 pages to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/ - https://pagure.io/fedora-pgm/pgm_docs/pull-request/75
* reported a #rawhide anaconda update failing tests - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-3773d4164e#comment-3704165
* fell down a requests rabbit hole trying to fix httpie - https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1596 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309587

@aral it's not really possible to do a UEFI native install when booted in CSM mode - it's literally not possible for the installer to write a UEFI bootloader entry, the firmware does not expose the necessary interfaces.

we could make it possible to do a BIOS native install from a UEFI boot, I guess, but it seems like a weird thing to do.

@maxamillion
It's okay. There are support groups for people like you.

@maxamillion don't worry, if it gets *really* bad you can get a job as a dracut maintainer.

@maxamillion *backs away slowly*

@vwbusguy @maxamillion aaaaaaaaaahhhh make it stop

today's embarrassing workflow confession: I *just now* switched to using `git remote add` instead of manually editing `.git/config`, which I've been doing for I think about a decade at this point

@felipe_ibarra @fedora @destructatron @aral that kind of thing is more of a job for #gnome . we don't do extensive development/customization on desktop environments downstream in fedora. stuff like making sure accessibility features work in the installer definitely is our job, though...

@doctormo @corbet @bars @marcan true, but it's not just that. my job is QA but I spend a lot of time coding. I've written fixes for GNOME, KDE, and hundreds of other projects. it is *much* easier to do drive-bys for projects with decent issue tracking and an understandable pull request system with CI hooked up to it (so I know my fix isn't totally busted). the kernel is extremely resistant to drive-by contributions. obviously this is partly due to its nature, but only *partly*.

@corbet @bars @marcan I think Hector can be a bit strident in his messaging, but I don't think he's *wrong*. From my perspective (Fedora QA) the kernel is one of the things that makes me sigh the most. Just about every other project I deal with - which is, like, nearly all of them - makes it easier to file and find bug reports, follow the progress of debugging and fixing them, and submit and follow pull requests (or whatever the system they use call it).

Now at #flocktofedora presents: A Week With @Conan_Kudo - activating the community to build cloud images

@pganssle pip is not part of python. There is no reason it should be bundled together in the core python package.