Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

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Special Guest: @scottjenson@social.coop

Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team. Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time. mastodon.social: 2017-2022

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It will happen on 29 January 2026 at US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

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@elettrona@poliversity.it @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ​u liked writefreely. It confused me at first, but I had never blogged either.

Community member also recommended write.as to me.

@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!

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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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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

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Special Guest: @limebar@mastodon.social

Making electronic music:https://mastodon.social/tags/limebar He/Him/His and 100% OK with you being you. Hello new users best advice:write a short intro post, pin it to your profile and update your profile follow every interesting account you see you can and should follow interesting hashtags and use hashtags when posting home shows what you follow and what they boost follow @FediFollows & @FediTips

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It will happen on 23 January 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

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@autumn@triangletoot.party ​AWESOME! 😄 Excited to meet you and others around Raleigh!

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

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Special Guest: @ellyxir@humanwords.cc

bio.site/ellyxir Programming languages enthusiast, choir, classical singing, video game creation, retro computers, languages

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It will happen on 21 January 2026 at 10:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

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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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It will happen on 15 January 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

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@zleap@techhub.social ​correct.

@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

freestreamers.btfree.org/eve...

@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

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @revk@toot.me.uk ​and thus docker was born!

@revk@toot.me.uk ​tech Schadenfreude

@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.

@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. 😄

@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

• PTT Up mapped to FORWARDSLASH

• pactl set-source-mute alsa_input.usb-Insta360_Insta360_Link-02.mono-fallback true

THEN in Input Mapper I mapped GRAVE to:

• k(KEY_BACKSLASH).h().k(KEY_SLASH)

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!

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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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@JenJen@mastodon.art as you've pointed out, no one has time to learn everything. That's why we have an international economic system. I don't have a clue how to make a CPU processor. I pay for it. I don't have a clue how to speak another language, but I'm nice enough to ask others for help when I need it.

Yes you can argue that you won't be doing any of what I just said daily and electronics are more a part of modern day life, but I don't know how to fix a car anymore. I used to know. I don't have a clue how to run my work laptop with Windows. And I won't learn.

I thank you for being so open trying these new things, and know you have a community of folks to help you. I'd also say, as you saw last night, sometime this shit just doesn't work how we all expect. So even KNOWING Linux I couldn't have helped fixing those issues.​

@peter@thepit.social ​holy shit it's so much worse than I would have imagined and my family literally told me I'm a conspiracy theorist. That's HORRIFIC.