Notices by R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)

Does anyone use #AlpineLinux on the desktop as a daily driver?

If so, why, and what's it like?

@MediaActivist

#TIL about RadioDroid!
Neat program!

@lanodan @mirabilos

I wish I had done it six months prior.

One year was a too long to wait.

#oversharing #fomo #LossyPNG #GiancarloEsposito #WeAreNotTheSame #meme

cc: @libreleah
(You might find this humorous, in a train-wrecky kind of way)

Reading this feels like a fever dream:

https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/

#malibal vs. #coreboot

1.2GiB RAM for Signal desktop on a fresh bootup.

This is not the way.

@MattTheQuick

If you're in the US, hamstudy.org is great prep for the test.

If you're looking for more general info, look for "hoshnasi" on youtube

@clacke
Forgive me, but the hashtag needs to be #KTHxbai 🤣

Sorry, just some random circa-2007 internet sillies still working its way through my nervous system. 😆

@dexter

How the heck is JS lighter than Perl?

Get the pitchforks and torches! XD

P.S. What the crap, Rust is #2? Have they ever tried compiling rust?!? It requires its own nuclear reactor!! 😄

@me @dexter

I figured, but man, that's annoying.
It's one thing if it's compiled "once" and run a million times, but when compiling it yourself is the only option (like in the case of a lot of minor projects), rust is decidedly *not* environment-friendly, I don't care what the hype machine says.

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Relative: Amazon Prime
Me: (Oh shazbat.) Umm, forget it. You'd have to pirate it, first.
Relative: I ended up just turning on closed captioning.
Me: Yeah, that's about the only option in that case.

#DRM #DRMsucks #DefectiveByDesign

At the lunch table:

Relative: Is it possible to reduce the volume of music in a video to make the speech more intelligible?
Me: Well, maybe?
Me: (Looks up ffmpeg options, sees that there's a bandpass filter with examples for speech boost)
Me: Actually, yes! I can even batch-convert it.
Relative: Oh, wonderful!
Me: Where's the video at? Youtube? That's not too hard to get a copy of. (Thinking: please not facebook)

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@tedchoward

Someone still uses GNUStep!! :o

Can any neovim experts tell me how to change the ':set spell" colors?

Typos have a bright pink/red background and punctuation errors have a bright green background, and they're both pretty hard to read with my terminal color scheme.

I tried all of the colors schemes that come with neovim, and none of them changed the spelling highlight colors.

I'm on NVIM v0.7.2 on Debian Bookworm

#vi #vim #NeoVim #nvim

@hyde

I'm a total vim noob (24 years and counting, lol)

I have no idea where that is set.

Yes, KDE Plasma Discover, thank you so much for notifying me that I have updates ready the second after I run `apt update` and the second before I run `apt upgrade`.

Your vigilance is appreciated. 😄

@akeem29 @kalleboo

Some appliances make assumptions of what is hot and what is neutral.

And especially when there's no grounding plug, you might have hot AC on the outside of a metal appliance. Especially old toasters.

Utilities throwing dotfiles/dotdirs under ~ are the 2020s *niX equivalent to 1990s/2000s DOS/Windows programs putting directories directly under C:\

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

20 years ago, I was blown away with the smoothness and stability of Linux while doing intensive tasks.
Today, on fairly recent hardware, my bluetooth mouse stutters while performing a backup (with nice +19 and ionice -c3).

Umm... what happened?

P.S. The bluetooth adapter and USB HDD are not on the same USB bus. I just checked ;)

$ lsusb |grep -ie blue -e seagate
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bc2:2344 Seagate RSS LLC Portable
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0033 Intel Corp. AX211 Bluetooth