Notices by Michael Kearns (mobiuscog@fosstodon.org)

@Joe_0237 having one ticket is still mathematically more likely to win than having no ticket.

There's risk/reward in everything you do, and sometimes you have to take a chance, no matter how small, on the dream.

#hope

@technige @mairin many communities only exist because the participants can converse in a common language.

Whilst I personally have no issue with occasional posts in other languages, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't mostly English as I am unable to read most other languages, especially at browsing speed, and translation often does disservice to the original.

I guess it depends on how you define 'community' and what to expect.

The beauty of Mastodon is that you can run your own as you like.

@mairin @technige I appreciate your points (and your posts), and I can agree that with the correct tagging and filtering - notwithstanding the moderation difficulty - that there could be more flexibility.

However, I feel that you are pinning the weights of the 'world' on one single instance's shoulders, when you are free to choose any other.

There is no obligation for any instance to support everyone in the detail they wish.

Your references to colonialism are aiso highly disingenuous.

Well, having setup Debian 12 over the last week and being really happy with it, today I realise I have to start from scratch again because ... #openvpn

It's something I require for work, and I'd forgotten to test it. There isn't a Debian 12 release, and even though I can build it locally, it refuses to launch a browser for SSO login.

I hate the thought of scrapping everything again, but little choice.

Back to square one, and I guess Ubuntu 22.04. Today I am a broken man 😢

But wait - I fixed it !

Well technically I found my problem which was not the client - building that locally did work.

I hadn't appreciated that the admins at work had turned on client UUID verification, so the profile I had used wouldn't work on a different machine 🤦♂️🤦 (it's already behind SSO so this was unexpected).

Luckily I had a second profile, without the UUID requirement and using that works !! The SSO browser page launches.

It would have been nice to see some logging though.

@stigatle it only has two main layers, but part of the reason I chose it was due to most keys being available without switching. I like the look of the smaller keyboards, but it's enough of a brain-melt just getting independent hands working.

I'm loving the design and comfort, but it will be a while until I'm confident in typing.

Challenge accepted 😅
#dev #keyboard #glove80

I've decided #nixos is not for me. It has a lot of useful capabilities, but in day-to-day usage, the complexity of passing different SDKs and development environments through to the #jetbrains IDEs that I use, is just too frustrating.

After also trying arch, void, and a few other 'new' distros, I am heading back to #Debian 12.

Along with #qtile (probably) as a Window Manager, and with #distrobox providing the ability for extra diversity, it should provide a stable yet flexible #linux setup.