Justine Smithies
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Are any cool wayland compositors out there? I know @thomasadam is trying, but aren't there like... 0 which are not more or less ports from X?
@thomasadam I mean something that is not "dwm but wlroot" or "openstep but wlroot" nor "gnome but we forgot how to make it usable".
Basically - something trully unique.
@mms Err... that's going to be very subjective. I know people go mad over `niri` as if scrolling desktops are new (they're not).
Beyond that? I guess you'll tell me when you find something unique. :)
Good luck!
@mms @thomasadam I'm the author of xuake: https://git.sr.ht/~phaedrus/Xuake
It's a stacking compositor with a built-in drop down terminal and no GUI elements. The decorations are a 4 pixel bar on the top of a window that is just there to let you know which window is active. Everything is driven from keyboard short cuts or the terminal. It has a control utility and uses lua-5.4 for configuration and runtime programmability. It's still alpha, no one packages it. I'm using it on OpenBSD to write this.
@mms @thomasadam am not the niggest Wayland fan but Niri is really interesting.
Turns out, a little black pepper really brightens up a sweet oatmeal. Maybe a bit less than I used, but still!
I only found out because I put salt in my oatmeal to make up for needing to leave out butter, and I had the intrusive thought: "I'm already putting salt in. Both shakers are right there. What the heck? Let's try it."
@MaddieM4 Wellness check Maddie - u good?
@arichtman I know it's weird, but I do really have to recommend trying it. I might try it with garam masala next. Not cumin, though. That I'm sure would be a bridge too far.
@MaddieM4
she didn't blink twice so....must be okay
@arichtman I was probably 8 years old when I decided to put a little Tropicana orange juice in my tomato soup to see if the combo worked.
So not only is today fully in-character for me, my instincts are getting better. OJ in tomato soup is incredibly bad.
If you see this what do you think i'm working on atm?
Hi! My name is Tim and this is a quick post to temporarily serve as an introduction.
I'm a fifty-something forester, working in the North Highlands of Scotland (and further south, occasionally).
I enjoy my work and count myself lucky to do it in amazing and remote places with fabulous scenery. I am less keen about the short winter days, midges, ticks and wet days spent outside in muddy and peaty conditions. It's all part of the job though...
/continued in comments.
To enable simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on #OpenBSD with the new hw.blockcpu sysctl remove the 'S', e.g.:
# sysctl hw.blockcpu
hw.blockcpu=SL
# sysctl hw.blockcpu=L
Keep the security implications in mind when enabling SMT.
A new #openbsd release is due out soon. By way of preparation, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html might be useful reading.
Some little shite called in a threat to VCF East and the place got cleared by armed police
#RetroComputing
UK people, who should I be using for broadband these days?
My contract with EE is up in a few weeks and they just keep cranking up the price.
I need a bit of upload, a bit of download, not much else. We're not streaming 4K to eight devicees simulataneously or anything!
We've got fibre to the house, so we're fine on connectivity.
Price is a major consideration - otherwise I'd just stay with EE as switching is a hassle.
But they aren't the cheapest. Expect to pay about £40/month for a 115Mbps Openreach FTTP connection (unlimited usage, 18 month contract, with IDNet). A&A are a similar price on a single month contract but 1TB per month allowance. Slightly larger, Zen Internet starts at £33/month for 100Mbps.
The smaller ISPs don't do in-contract price ratcheting like the big players do.
@nowster I don't think I've ever had reason to call my ISP's technical support whilst living in an urban environment. Billing and appointments are usually more of the problem!
@Flamekebab
There's one ISP that's actually here on Fedi, which might be helpful for customer support? They're called something like Andrews internet or something...?
@revk @edavies @ddlyh @Flamekebab @aaisp @aastatus @bloor Phone line with TalkTalk (not my choice, it was a result of takeovers), legacy broadband with eclipse. Probably need to consolidate them before the end of the year because copper wires are being discontinued. Need a fixed IP address. Tell me what you offer, I'm all ears!
@AngharadHafod @edavies @ddlyh @Flamekebab @aaisp @aastatus @bloor Well, all on https://aa.net.uk
All services are fixed IP, no CGNAT, and we can add some extra IPv4s usually. We provide a /48 fixed IPv6 as standard as well.
We offer ADSL, FTTC, FTTP, depending what is in your area, and more expensive City Fibre in some areas. We can also do much more expensive Ethernet, but I assume that is not what you want.
And we do telephony via VoIP, with or without broadband service.
I occasionally miss nice user-facing features.
Today I went to
root@freebsd# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb
and got a weird error message. Turns out that FreeBSD doesn't auto-detect the file-system type and use that, so I had to explicitly do
root@freebsd# mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb
to get it to work. Over on my OpenBSD box, it was smart enough to realize that
# mount /dev/sd1i /mnt
was a DOS drive and proceed to mount it without explicitly specifying the type.
@gumnos Mounting usb drives is a bit painful. Exfat formatted even more.
@omnicore In this case, it was just some USB/SD cards full of photos the kid took that he wanted to copy from one to the other (that he uses in his camera, and shleps between various machines he uses). But it felt…disappointing that FreeBSD didn't identify the file-system-type automatically when its type is right in the partition-table. 😑
@gumnos I ll give a try again with OpenBSD on my main laptop when I get an Intel WiFi M.2 (AX200 or AX210). Right now it has a Realtek 88xx which is unsupported in OpenBSD
@omnicore I found I had to replace my wifi chipsets in a couple of my laptops which was a cheap investment (under $10 each) since the Broadcom they came with were utterly unreliable rubbish. The Atheros chips have been quite serviceable.
@gumnos Yeap it has to be atheros or intel. I’ll look into my stock because I remembered that I had switched the WiFi adapter in my old Thinkpad
@gumnos fstyp is your friend in such cases, but yeah, it's the machine that shall do the job here.
> So you buy a SlopPhone, and it's the device where all the slop you don't want to use goes. Sometimes you turn it on, a few times every other month or so to make a mobile deposit because the ATM is down, or because Aunt Linda won't shut up about those pictures of the kids she sent you on the SlopSocial app.
@rav3ndust @rl_dane This might be where I end up.
@rl_dane
@thestrangelet @rav3ndust yeah that's basically my plan. stick to the laptop for everything except the crap that requires a device of that nature and keep it powered off until needed. kind of a bummer.
we've been in these lame spots before so I've got some hope that some smart people will help us dig out of it again.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
What was the previous lame spot that was this bad? Internet Explorer-only web heck of the 2000s? The Cold War?
I'm serious, give me some good news, main. 😂
@rl_dane
@thestrangelet @rav3ndust well "bad" comes in gradients. pre-tor and VPN boom, privacy was a mess. at one point we got "secure" boot and it was sometimes a bitch to install Linux. phone roms weren't always a thing. iphone jailbreaking craze. clipper chip, DRM, etc.
these things come and go.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
well "bad" comes in gradients. pre-tor and VPN boom, privacy was a mess.
The thing is, VPNs kind of suck, now. Major websites and folks like cloudflare have gotten really good at detecting them, and making your life miserable. I still use one on my phone 24/7, but not on my computers, most of the time. I think I tried Tor once, and it was much the same, yet more so. Almost unable to use the common web, and that was years ago. I can see how those things can help, and if someone is taking a hard-nosed stance on privacy (which I respect), they're probably essential tools, but I don't use them very much, nor do I find them particularly useful compared to just plain old HTTPS everywhere.
at one point we got "secure" boot and it was sometimes a bitch to install Linux.
This I don't really have any experience with, so I can't really comment. I just turn it off on all my systems.
phone roms weren't always a thing.
I remember seeing folks experimenting with rooting the very first Android phone (HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1) in 2008. cyanogenmod came out within a year of the HTC Dream.
iphone jailbreaking craze.
I remember this back in the iOS 3.x days. When iOS 4 came out, there was a lot less reason to jailbreak. Apple slowly, over the course of a friggin' decade gave users 90% of the jailbreak features.
clipper chip,
I vaguely remember this, but it was never a repressive thing, was it? I mean, yes, encryption backdoors are really stupid. I guess I don't know much about this, or what it was supposed to do.
DRM, etc.
Still a thing, but thank God for DeDRM tools. :D
these things come and go.
I guess, but it really does feel like the evil people have really upped their game in the last five years. :(
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust re: the clipper chip, a bigger part of it was export controls classifying strong crypto as a munition. people printed out t-shirts and stuff with algorithms on them in protest.
sony shipped a rootkit with its CDs in like 2004 or 5 or something.
before secure boot there was the palladium crap. remote attestation and hardware enforced drm.
bumping into politics, we've got the patriot act and all the snowden stuff..
right to repair fights, etc.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
re: the clipper chip, a bigger part of it was export controls classifying strong crypto as a munition. people printed out t-shirts and stuff with algorithms on them in protest.
Ah, I do remember those bad old days. But didn't that crypto classification pre-date the clipper chip? I don't think I was very aware of encryption until the early 2000s, so I might just be uninformed about that.
sony shipped a rootkit with its CDs in like 2004 or 5 or something.
Oh gosh, I remember that poopstorm, yeah.
before secure boot there was the palladium crap. remote attestation and hardware enforced drm.
Dang, that was awful.
bumping into politics, we've got the patriot act and all the snowden stuff..
Yeah, we're 25 years into our "emergency powers" stuff, with no end in sight. :(
right to repair fights, etc.
LOVING the progress on this front, thank you for reminding me of it!!! <3
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust yeah it's just that mobile is a not as structurally open as desktops/laptops are. we'll get there eventually.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
I think it's a problem inherent in the embedded engineering mindset. It came from a time of very limited resources, so you didn't faff about with things like VESA support or whatnot.
But the end result is a platform where every single device is almost entirely bespoke and locked down, and man that sucks. I do hope that changes. Stuff like the Fairphone are nice step in the right direction. I wish that the Pinephone had made more progress, but they really alienated their dev base, and that was avoidable.
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust i just think there's some recency bias here. whether or not these things are "evil" or the people are is another story.
It's just capitalism. my first brush with these feelings were back when i was dealing with winmodems on linux in 1993 or 1994.
tech has always been shitty in the name of endless revenue increases. we have a wider range of choice these days than we did then.
the new android stuff is massively annoying, though.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
i just think there's some recency bias here. whether or not these things are "evil" or the people are is another story.
Fair point.
It's just capitalism.
Ugh, three words emblazoned on the sky right now. XD
my first brush with these feelings were back when i was dealing with winmodems on linux in 1993 or 1994.
Oh, I remember folks at LUGs griping about those circa 2001 ;)
tech has always been shitty in the name of endless revenue increases. we have a wider range of choice these days than we did then.
I feel like the x86 architecture is slowly becoming as closed as the ARM architecture, which really sucks. But yes, you're right. And I'm loving how dirt-cheap 7-year-old thinkpads are basically supercomputers once you put a FOSS OS on them. :D
the new android stuff is massively annoying, though.
Yeah, the mobile space is heading towards troubled waters. I'm hanging on to my FOSS-Android-running Pixel phone for as long as I can.
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust but please don't read my responses as support for the tech companies. i'm just trying to say that it's a forever fight and has always felt consistently gross to me.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
I'm totally with you, man. No worries about being misconstrued, I value anyone who can help me pump the brakes on doomerism (even if it's 90% warranted XD )
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust everything sucks but we can still find a lot of good in the world if we just shift our thinking a little.
@hobbs @thestrangelet @rav3ndust
I'm a bit of an Eeyore by nature, so yeah, perspective-shifts are always welcome. :)
If he doesn't mind me "calling him out" too much, I always deeply appreciate @pixx's perspectives on things, and how he tends to cool off my mental flamethrower of pessimism. XD
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust @pixx the eeyore state is why i have PMA tattooed on my forearm in giant letters. i need a regular reminder.
@rl_dane @thestrangelet @rav3ndust i've stopped short of ranting about SOPA or Room 641A
When I was young, my family went to church, but I hated church. Once I was old enough to start going to the high school ministry, I started ditching church as soon as I was out of sight of my parents. I would usually go on walks and explore the area.
There was an overgrown area with heavy brush behind the church, and one time, my wanderings took me in there.
I ended up finding my way into a small dell and a clearing. In there was an unusual plant covered with translucent silver discs.
I had never seen a plant like that before.
Coming upon that plant hidden away like that is one of the few times I've ever had an experience that felt mystical.
(The plant is called lunaria annual, and it's related to broccoli.)
lopta » 💀 🔓
@[email protected]
@MLE_online We used those as play money when we were children. :-)
@MLE_online Seeing that seedpod reminded my of my parents' garden in Colchester. We called it honesty, and now I need to find a packet of seeds!
@justine I'm curious about what the announced partnership between #Motorola and #GrapheneOS will bring 🤔
@justine you can buy the latest fairphone with e/OS, a derivative of lineageOS. Here in France it's even available straight from the fairphone online shop.
In the meantime, let us rejoice removing the battery is the one thing you can do on your phone that 99.99% others can't. No need to hurry...
@justine what are you currently running on your FP4 ?
Huh! Just discovered I can use 2 eSIMs simultaneously on my Pixel 8 Pro.
I knew I could use the physical SIM alongside an eSIM, but never twigged that I could turn it of and still connect to multiple networks.
What seemingly obvious tech thing have you found out recently?
@Edent that there are people that are just not capable of understanding tech. Yesterday at a concert, a person in front of me took a picture with a flash. And she clearly didn't mean to do so. She panicked to turn the light off. Later I saw she wasn't even that old, she was mid 20's
@ivolimmen TBF, I have no idea how to turn off the flash on my Android camera and I have two degrees in computer science.
So, you mean you can turn the physical SIM off and then have two available slots for ESIMs that you can use at the same time? So the IMEI for the physical slot is released and made available for an additional ESIM?
Interesting.
@Edent exactly this realization, for my fairphone 5.
My main provider is eSIM only, and I was researching options for when I drive through Switzerland (no free roaming). Of course there are esim options and... Yeah, they work in parallel to my main provider. I thought it wouldn't be possible. I'm glad I tried.
@Edent You can have two max active, but you can have more installed, e.g. if you are a frequent traveler. This is a limitation in the modem as it needs to maintain the mobile signaling protocol with both active networks simultaneously.
I can't remember the last time I was surprised by something tech related. Perhaps I should keep a TIL diary or log to complement my failing memory.
Actually, here is one: LLVM ships with clangd, a LSP for C. I installed it in Emacs eglot yesterday, no more running etags/ctags when working on C code bases.
@Edent yeah recent-ish Pixels can use either 2 eSIMs, or one physical and one eSIM. Not so recent ones (4a, for example) could only do the latter.
Not quite obvious, but lately I keep getting amazed by just how much raw number crunching modern CPUs can do: https://mastodon.social/@grishka/116403683950968602
@Edent You can store even more than two eSIMs, but only two of them can be active at any given time. Useful if your employer pays for a SIM for outside of Europe's data roaming (which most carriers still let the UK participate in).
Also coincidentally, tmux creator, Nicholas Marriott (nicm@)'s first OpenBSD src commit exactly a year later.
@tubsta Base is not yet frozen, although were are in API/ABI lock, commits are still going in.
EDIT: 7.9 was tagged in CVS ~20 minutes ago, but things may still be cherry-picked for release.
Another #vcf score, a Tandy 1000 external floppy drive. The box looks like a herd of goats pissed on it*!
*this is not why I bought it
In Aberdeen, we stand together.
In Aberdeen, we reject racism.
In Aberdeen, we say clearly and proudly – refugees are welcome here.
And we will not be divided.
Great atmosphere at the Unity march and rally in Aberdeen today. Thanks to all who joined in ✊
Read what I said at the rally here: https://open.substack.com/pub/maggiechapman79/p/this-is-what-hope-looks-like
And just like that it's all over. Just the last section of the stand to dismantle. And so much space in a previously tightly packed car, we could give a friend a lift home.
That was a wonderful #WoollyGoodGathering
Let's hope we get in next year.
NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩
To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.
Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).
Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:
https://www.netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux
@jaypatelani my VPS running NetBSD 10.1. Has WireGuard tunnels to 4 locations with full mesh BGP dynamic routing over the tunnels. BGP runs in GRE. Exposes a haproxy load balancer and reverse proxy for my internal Nextcloud, Firefly3, Frigate.
Has been rock solid apart of a strange OSPF (frr) issue where I can't establish session through GRE tunnel. There's some awkward GRE handling in NetBSD which I can't pinpoint.
All the best to NetBSD!
@bkrawczyk niceee 
@jaypatelani @bkrawczyk
No discussion about NetBSD would be complete without including the legendary hardware compatibility. Here is one such example from a @bsdcan from 2019: https://youtu.be/e7cJ7v2lYdE
Happy 33rd B-Day to a fantastic OS. Also, @netbsd will have a Dev Summit at BSDCan 2026 in Ottawa.
boosted@jaypatelani Pix of the iconic NetBSD toaster are harder to find now than years ago but archive dot org has some.
Edit: a screenshot of mine is in there too.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190205161158im_/http://www.jp.netbsd.org/gallery/in-Action/jamesSpath-drillbit1-small.gif
@jspath55 Are you saying we should put the picture on NetBSD.org/gallery/?
@bentsukun eh, not my pic necessarily. It may be there somewhere but the toaster was the cool thing.
@jspath55 @bentsukun tbh a lot of people are understandably tired of hearing toaster jokes for 20 years.
boosted@netbsd @bentsukun Greybeards like me (started on 386BSD) know that tale well, but it's still funny to me, and maybe unknown to the younger ones.
boosted@jaypatelani Nice! This is mine box there the #NetBSD is running. Basically, this is just a main part of the cashier (without the display). CPU: Intel Atom N2800, 4 Gb of RAM.
boosted@jaypatelani None of my truly weird systems are online at the moment, so how about an early '90s HP X Terminal logged into a Rock64?
boosted@jaypatelani Here's my Acorn RiscPC booting #NetBSD 8.3. The computer is from 1994 so almost the same age as NetBSD itself.
Also quick plug, if you want to hear more about this history, come to my talk at @bsdcan this June #BSDCan
-current .Beef olives description - Thinly cut beef wrapped around an oatmeal stuffing.
Hey all. For anyone who's following along. I've just merged support for pages in #cow.
This is also accompanied with a pager.
From what testing I've done, this seems to work for me -- no doubt there's bugs.
The example config in the repo shows what you which settings to enable to make pages work.
If you're interested in giving it a go, please do!
@neil “We use invasive tracking to make your experience better.”
Meanwhile the reset password link has been going to a 404 for at least three months, nothing on the site is keyboard accessible, and there are multiple unsolicited videos playing over the top of the article all at once.
Forgive me if I’m somewhat suspicious about whether “making my experience better” is actually the priority here.
@neil @TheBreadmonkey This whole ‘internet’ thing is the where it went wrong. A copy of Byte magazine and the manual that came in the box with your micro is all we ever really needed.
@neil I read this whole post in the tone of the rant from "Network" (1976) https://youtu.be/M96UAUJWW3Y?t=72
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more!”
@neil - Reminds me of that old song with the chorus line that says "Signs, signs, everywhere signs. Blocking up the scenery, breaking my mind."
(apologies for the youtube link. hoping that one doesnt have an ad)
@neil About those "rate our service" nags, my brother says "No. I bought the thing. I'm not doing your advertising for you".
@annehargreaves Exactly! If I like something else to toot or blog about it, I will do that of my own initiative :)
@neil @annehargreaves the most ridiculous thing I've been invited to review was a jar of herbs.
No, Asda, I am not spending time or spoons reviewing my grocery shop, and especially not a single 83p purchase that happened to be part of it.
Yeah, no-one has the thyme for that.
@neil but how will our 1673 partners be able to truly respect your privacy if they can't put a cookie in your browser....
@neil Great list! It's exhausting. I keep a similar list on my /nope slash page : https://baty.net/nope/
@neil > No, I don’t want your app. You have a website. And yes, if you pretend that I can only do something via your app because I’m on a mobile browser, of course I’ll switch to desktop mode.
Then you get firms like Argos, where they've removed any ability to pay off any of your Argos card balance from their website, so you have to use the app. There is literally no other way to do it. And the app is called MyArgos, so for a while there the launcher I used to use wouldn't see it when I searched for 'Ar', meaning I had to remember its stupid, shitty name.
@neil oh heckerty heck; it’s been on my to-do list to change my blog to full-text RSS feeds. Now you’ve prompted me to actually go look up how to do that, and all it was is change one single word in the template. Everything techy is always harder than you think it’ll be… until it’s not.
@neil That reminded me of this essay. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
@neil "No, I don’t want to rate your product, let alone your choice of courier. You took my money, now sod off and leave me alone."
Well said.
@hi how do you manage to stay under 1GB data (/var/snac/data)?
Oomfies, what's more gay? The winner is likely going to be my desktop OS. Others ideas are welcome, as long as it's fairly usable, open source and not Linux
| OpenBSD: | 101 |
| NetBSD: | 155 |
@nina_kali_nina This is like asking which shovel is more like a love sonnet.
(For the record, I voted NetBSD because they have greater platform diversity, which seems philosophically gayer?)
@nina_kali_nina trans rights. :3
@netbsd @nina_kali_nina Absolutely based. That's a follow and a boost upwards in the list of OSes I like.
@mrmasterkeyboard @nina_kali_nina Don't know if I'd go as far as calling it based, it's a fairly basic stance. We have trans developers. They shouldn't suffer.
@nina_kali_nina NetBSD, but with a pride flag. 🥳✨🏳️🌈
GayBSD fork ETA when?!
@nina_kali_nina @libreleah i know you have dome thoughts on this >.>
@lucy @nina_kali_nina does netbsd have librewolf?
EDIT: someone already ported librewolf to netbsd: https://pkgsrc.se/wip/librewolf
@libreleah @nina_kali_nina hmmm i dont think so?
@lucy @nina_kali_nina then i'm installing netbsd.
EDIT: someone already ported librewolf to netbsd: https://pkgsrc.se/wip/librewolf
@lucy @nina_kali_nina i already ported librewolf to openbsd. and freebsd already had it, added by someone else. netbsd doesn't have it, so now i want to add it there.
EDIT: someone already ported librewolf to netbsd: https://pkgsrc.se/wip/librewolf
@lucy @nina_kali_nina but i recommend openbsd by default. openbsd is the best IMO, for nearly every use-case scenario.
@libreleah @lucy @nina_kali_nina librewolf is in pkgsrc-wip. It’s a start, at least.
https://pkgsrc.se/wip/librewolf
@AnachronistJohn @lucy @nina_kali_nina ah, then i will discontinue my curnent effort. i literally have a nearly complete librewolf port. but i will just delete it. cheers.
@libreleah @AnachronistJohn @lucy it might not be a bad idea to sync with the maintainer, at the very least? It's not clear who is doing that from the website, though...
@nina_kali_nina @libreleah @lucy I agree with Nina. Perhaps you’ve fixed more things, or in better ways than whoever originally did the pkgsrc work.
@AnachronistJohn @lucy @nina_kali_nina i'll think about it. got other stuff. i did notice that the netbsd effort still has some firefox things in it. but it's their work. let them get on with it.
@justine Oooh, that cut deep!
Just the thought of that makes my skin crawl.
Having your car battery die 4 miles deep into a forest road is way, way less than ideal!
Fortunately some hunters rolled by after an hour of me freaking out (I mean, I hadn’t even had my coffee 😆) and gave me a jump.
I was prepared to hike into town. Could have been so much worse and I am overflowing with gratitude right now.
But I am buying a jump starter kit ASAP. This is not a situation I ever want to be stuck in again.
@killyourfm I really like the Noco range of jump packs. Be careful which one you get though, sometimes they have the old micro-usb ones as an option in a listing that implies USB-C. Those ones are still good, but take an age to charge.
They are super reliable in my experience, and have a mode for dealing with a completely dead battery!
@reb unsolicited product advice, happily accepted!
Also devices with micro USB should be outlawed at this point 😆
@killyourfm @reb I second this brand. I have one with microUSB and it’s fine. Used it three weeks ago when I accidentally let the battery drain while I was playing mechanic for the day. Worked great.
https://a.co/d/0elEzylo
@andrewbriscoe @reb with 2 recs I’ll definitely look into it. Thanks Andrew!
@killyourfm . Get a combo with tire inflator. I have a $60 AstroAI one from Amazon and it has worked great for both. (It doesn’t actually have AI thankfully.)
@tripplehelix @tindie Even when I did this - nothing took this long!
boosted@tripplehelix @revk I can assure you that's not the case. Believe me, I know the lack of details is annoying but rest assured, Tindie is not going anywhere. The site is not gone, and there really are some awesome changes in the works. As soon as I can reveal more, I will, you have my word on that.
@tindie @tripplehelix @revk unfortunately, in a complete vacuum of information, people are going to assume the worst.
I mean... if this was planned maintenance it shouldn't take days of downtime to officially say so. And it should be possible to say... well, just about anything better than that "trust me bro it'll be amazing" email.
Honestly, at this stage just about *any* honest, comprehensive statement would be better. Even if it's "sorry, I dropped the prod DB without backups".
@revk I think Mastodon.radio was offline for less time that time I fucked up the os so badly I couldn't SSH in or run apt.
An easy way to install #postmarketOS on the #Fairphone (Gen. 6), with the UBports installer and the postmarketOS web flasher!
The UBports installer config is currently under review, and the postmarketOS web flasher support for Fairphone (Gen. 6) is already live at https://flash.postmarketos.org/ Enjoy!
@z3ntu lol i bought the FP6 last month (love it so far) with the idea that by the time the support ends, PostmarketOS will have a port for it. Now i can go ahead and try it :)
@z3ntu Wow! How is it?
@b3nis Some basic level of usability is there, you can see https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6) for the list of features that work or not work.
Most significantly audio and camera do not work at all yet.
**Update:** the UBports installer config has been merged so it should be available now with any recent version of the installer!
I just have one question, does everything work for daily use for the fairphone 6 or is it still in the testing phase?
Very nice job 👍!
@z3ntu this is great news, ever since I bought the FP6 I looked at the supported devices once in a while. Nice.
I won’t read any IETF draft until it describes IPv69 or IPv666.
Hey, fellow @Vivaldi users:
Have any of you experienced issues with installing the latest .deb on a Debian or Ubuntu? The install seems to go okay but the icon image is broken. If I install the Snap on Ubuntu or the Flatpak on Debian, everything is fine. Just can't seem to figure out why this is happening.
Edit: Sorry for the huge image.
@cmccullough @Vivaldi I also had this issue after install Vivaldi on Debian. Logging out of Gnome seemed to resolve it.
@Eggfreckles I had tried that but it didn't seem to work for me. This is a head scratcher. @Vivaldi
@Eggfreckles Strange. I'm seeing that the Vivaldi icon is being used but it just won't show, for some reason. Weird that if I installed the Flatpak, it works correctly.
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