Notices by Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 20:25:14 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
I'd be more inclined to say "people voting the way the polls said they should..." -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 14:21:45 UTC 
Hubert Chathi
I have to laugh and shake my head at Smith calling it a "Miracle on the Praries". No, you were leading in the polls pretty much the whole time. You're in a strongly conservative province. I mean, if you're saying that it's a miracle that the majority of Albertans chose to ignore your terribleness, then yes, sure. But people voting the same way the polls said they would isn't a miracle. If the UCP ran with a saner leader, they probably would have won by a lot more. -
Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 17:53:56 UTC 
Brian Ó
I’ve been getting more into the game Gaslands with my son and also with adult friends. It’s a Mad Max-esque tabletop game where you’re expected to create your own game pieces by kitbashing with toy cars. I already have all the crafting, painting and 3d printing supplies I need from my other wargaming hobbies, so the barrier to entry was incredibly low. It’s a lot of lighthearted fun. Here is my latest creation.
#gaslands #madmax #cars #toys #games #wargaming #kitbashing #crafting #3dprinting #paiting #hobby
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Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 06:06:27 UTC 
Tobias
I'm in need of a little Nerd-Pr0n... what little useful thing comes into your mind as tool of at the Linux command line? Not a super-nerdy command to sophisticated resolve a problem, but a tool for actual problems that would also be useful for n00bs to take their fear about using the CLI?
So curling wttr.in is a nice trick - but yesterday I discovered v2 of the service (probably around for a million years but new to me).
curl v2.wttr.in/Berlinyt-dlp and wget to fetch files from the Intenets without having to open a browser were on the list yesterday as well, but I'm eager to (re)discover some other nice tools.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 19:08:41 UTC 
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
I have my own workaround for just this issue.
I raise my hand to the "Stop/Hold" position.
Get to a point where I can stop and leave myself a note on the next thing to do.
Then let them interrupt me.
I have even done this to my former boss and the owner. It wasn't long before they adopted it for the same reason.
YMMV -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 16:16:54 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.monkeyuser.com/2018/focus/
This is me. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 20:27:28 UTC
Bob Jonkman
I will add some love for #Ventoy. I had a fight with UEFI on $SPOUSE's new laptop, where it wouldn't boot from USB no matter what I tried. There were no EFI files set up to allow booting from anything other than Windows, Windows Recovery, or UEFI firmware upgrade.
But the laptop recognized an EFI file on the Ventoy thumbdrive, so I could boot the laptop, press F2 like a madman to enter the setup, reconfigure the boot setup to use the Ventoy's EFI, then reboot again, now from the thumbdrive into the Ventoy selector screen.
But then I had reason to boot into Windows again (so reboot, mad F2s, reconfigure, reboot) but stupidly left the Ventoy thumbdrive connected. When I was done with Windows I rebooted, mad F2s, but now the Ventoy EFI file was gone. I had to re-flash the thumbdrive with a fresh copy of Ventoy-UEFI to make it come back.
Now the laptop boots directly into Debian. I wonder the Debian EFI option will be wiped if $SPOUSE ever decides to boot into Windows again... -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 18:56:11 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@geniusmusing #Ventoy is surprisingly good. I've used it a couple of times already. But recently, I was using it on the new Armbian installation on the #Orange_Pi_5 and ran into an issue:
* It sets up the flash drive using ExFAT as the file system. The instructions say you can change it later, but I never found that option.
* The current set of OS installable programs (Armbian, but I presume Debian / Devuan / Ubuntu / Mint will be the same) does not include a version of mount that handles exfat. That was in the now-deprecated older package.
* Turns out that Ventoy has a binary executable that I was able to copy into my path and use, so now S will receive a USB flash drive with 3 live distros (Debian, Ubuntu Desktop, CentOS Stream) and one direct installer (Ubuntu Server) on it.
I was tempted to add ReactOS, just so she'd see the difference between trying to clone a proprietary system without being sued is versus writing as desired. But I know she's just doing this so she'll have a passing familiarity and be able to check that box on some HR department's screening software's checklist. #ReactOS certainly will not help there. -
clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 01:01:25 UTC 
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"Sutor, ne ultra crepidam is a Latin expression meaning literally 'Shoemaker, not beyond the shoe', used to warn individuals not to pass judgment beyond their expertise. The expression led to the term ultracrepidarianism, which is the giving of opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge."
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clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 16:15:41 UTC
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People who weren't there in the early Fedverse don't remember those shaky days when it was being written and run by Evan Devromou and later Evan Testromou.
They think OStatus and @Evan Prodromou just sprang into life fully formed.
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 03:44:36 UTC
Bob Jonkman
Oh yes, the movie was terrible. My father-in-law was an avid comic book collector, and had many original Spirit comics. $SPOUSE got me interested too, and we bought hard-cover collections, and when I went to a comic book convention and told an author I thought I saw some Will Eisner influences in his work he thought it was a great compliment! We bought a layout print (pencil sketch, some shading, no colour) from an author who was making new Spirit comics.
Will Eisner and The Spirit was the inspiration for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and there is not a trace of that prestige in the movie. For once, I was happy Will Eisner wasn't around anymore so he didn't have to see it. -
clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 03:34:57 UTC
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> Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of four stars and said, "There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material".
Ok, now I'm intrigued. -
clacke: seeking 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2023 06:02:38 UTC
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>> "Diamonds are formed under pressure" And bread dough rises when you let it rest We're all our own things. What's motivating to you may be [debilitating] to others.
> There's an old saying (I think it's Russian): the same boiling water that softens the potato will harden the egg
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