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i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign
@ozoned The file is just the layers I used for the Fediverse version of Be Not Afraid. Was thinking last night when I uploaded it that I’d like to double the frames on the icon only version to make it run more smoothly. But I’ll let you decide if you think that’s worth waiting for.
Given the converting Mastodon does, I could probably just DM you the original gif on Discord?
@gnilleps@mastodon.art @gabek@social.gabekangas.com anyway we can get the spinning Fediverse logo in the default Owncast? IDK about the "Be Not Afraid" as I know you have some groups that use Owncast that really might not be interested in that. lol
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
Main interests: Free Software, Neurodivergence, Veganism, Marxism, Politics, Social Justice, Environment, Vocal/Choir Music; Affiliations: GNU, FSF, FSFLA, 0G, Linux-libre, GCC, glibc, Libre-SOC, AdaCore; Languages: Portugueas; English; Espaol; learning Esperanto, French, Ukrainian, Japanese;formerly @lxo@gnusocial.jp @lxo@gnusocial.net @lxoliva@diasporabr.com.br @lxoliva@identi.ca
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It will happen on 28 January 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
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@ozoned i’ll try and make it! i’ve got an agility trial with one of the dogs that weekend, but i’m usually back home in the early evening.
@autumn@triangletoot.party AWESOME! 😄 Excited to meet you and others around Raleigh!
RE: https://btfree.social/pub/objects/01KE5F38JEHHNAT949DV53HCKW
reposting with the #triangleTootup and #triangleTootParty tags for my local folks. i’m going to try and be there. :)
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
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Special Guest: @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social
An open-source Linux-based creative commons experimental rock band. Using Ubuntu Studio, Ardour, and Github to make music.
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @ellyxir@humanwords.cc
bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages
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@ugxs@undergroundsocial.realworld.place we're not bringing music. I don't know if sir Walter coffee has music regularly or not.
Good day all! This is for folks around the Raleigh NC area.
@eric@mastodon.eom.dev and I are scheduling a meet up for any fedizens to join!
February 28th at Sir Walter Coffee, downtown Raleigh.
145 East Davie Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
Even if you have folks that are interested in Fedi, never heard of it, want to do a nerd night, come join us!
Please let me or Eric know if you're interested so we can get a proper count to Sir Walter
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@dnpdame@mastodon.social will also be there.
I know @autumn@triangletoot.party just did a Raleigh meet up a few months ago, but I sadly missed that one. So Autumn if you're available, please join us! I'd love to meet the person behing Triangle Toot 😁
#raleigh #NC #northCarolina #meetUp #fediverse #fedi #fedizen
@revk you are behind the times. Current best practice is to ship it anyway and gaslight the customer
@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @revk@toot.me.uk and thus docker was born!
Computers do this on purpose, I am sure.
- Write a change to code.
- Test a lot. Decide it is all working.
- Test loading on half a dozen local devices, all different configs. All works.
- Issue as a proper beta, and re-test on all those devices.
Yay...
- Test on customer site set to load a beta. Exact same hardware as some of earlier test cases. Nothing special in config.
- Cry!
- Pull the beta.
- Work out how to reflash at customer site without having to drive there.
- Find a sacrifice.
@revk@toot.me.uk tech Schadenfreude
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115806706662248195
Still wondering if anyone can help 🙇♂️🙇♂️
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@kianryan/115828017560130597
@feff will know more, but if I understood it all at the time, the TLDR was:
My gaming laptop was not a standard setup - it had "Raid" running whateverthatis, and like two different disks or something? My laptop is 10 years old and especially specced for Gamers(tm).
@JenJen@mastodon.art @feff@comicscamp.club let's put it this way, there was Feff and about 40 IT nerds in chat. Idk about others, but I've been on Linux for 18 years, in Linux IT for 12, worked at Red Hat for 6, worked with the systemd devs reading C and finding bugs for 5 of that, and I had NO CLUE WTF was going on with that grub installation. It gave the most generic error message. And while I'm not saying I solved it, a bunch of folks there are definitely smarter than me and couldn't solve it either. Because at the end of the day Feff ran into something that almost never happens which is a corrupted USB INSTALLER.
I think I've hit that once maybe twice in 18+ years, installing Linux literally hundreds of times. Yes there's a check when you run the USB on boot, but no one does because this almost never happens.
This was NOT a Jenjen issue. This was NOT a Feff issue. The laptop was VERY nonstandard, which threw everyone off and made us think it was the laptop. It wasn't.
Feff you did AMAZING and we all learned a lot from your experience. Thank you for sharing. Especially thank you for sharing the difficulty it took.
And thank you Jenjen for having to deal with people like "just learn how it works". Because NO ONE knows it all. I can't draw for shit. Linus Torvalds doesn't know all of Linux.
Knowing how to troubleshoot and figure things out is far more important. And knowing when to ask for help is also important and something a LOT of people, especially in Linux, don't know how to do.
“Manyfold is the best self-hosted software every 3D printing enthusiast should use” - we’ll take that as a good review!
https://www.xda-developers.com/manyfold-best-self-hosted-software-3d-printing/
@eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja No worries. I run Novara, which is GloriousEggroll's distro. The GloriousEggroll of Proton-GE. So it's definitely a gaming related distro. But with everything in computing sometimes there's just a toggle you need. 😄
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” These are words I often live by. My son recently started experimenting with #linocut printing and made me this for Xmas. I framed it and hung it on my shop wall with some other maker art. #maker #printmaking #woodworking #framing
I guess the better way is dont use flatpak?
@eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja pretty sure it's a wayland issue. At least I think it is?
Writing this for my FUTURE SELF when I need it. But anyone else, please pitch in a suggestion.
So! Just got Ashes of Creation and joined a Discord group. But Push to Talk doesn't work in Discord from what I can tell. I'm on Nobara with Flatpak Discord.
After too much searching, what I did is the following:
Created 2 custom keyboard shortcuts:
PTT Down mapped to BACKSLASH
pactl set-source-mute alsa_input.usb-Insta360_Insta360_Link-02.mono-fallback false
THEN in Input Mapper I mapped GRAVE to:
That way when I hold GRAVE it pushes the BACKSLASH which runs the Mute FALSE and when I release it pushes KEY_SLASH which enables MUTE TRUE.
There HAS to be a better way right?!?
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @carmenlisandrette@mastodon.social
"Cat lover, lesbian, free software activist, golden retriever in a dress. I'm responsible for Mission:Libre, social.missionlibre.org/@mis... In Auckland, New Zealand."
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It will happen on 12 January 2026 at 16:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
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