Mike Stone

Husband, father, nerd.

🌐 Blog: https://mikestone.me
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2026-04-09 22:39:18 UTC

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Yea, i've been kinda eyeing that too. I haven't implemented anything because my current hardware fits my needs for the time being. When that changes I'll do my best to con my wife into letting me do it.

2026-04-09 19:38:05 UTC

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/116375404873416915
This sounds enticing...
#Framework
#note167t…ft6g

2026-01-04 08:31:35 UTC

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I honestly don't know where I see your content more. I obviously follow you here, but I also watch your rss feed on your site. I probably spend more time on my FreshRSS instance than any other site on the Internet (with the possible exception of Fosstodon). I also follow your RSS feed here too:
https://fosstodon.org/@kev/with_replies.rss
I guess that makes RSS the best choice whether I see it on Fosstodon or via your site's RSS feed.

2025-12-21 20:24:56 UTC

I'm not a subscriber to Peacock, and it's stiff like this that guarantees I never will be. I actually watched part of a show on Amazon Prime last week, but I turned it off after less than 10 minutes because of the constant ad interruptions. These are all services that if you have them, you're paying for them. I don't pay for a service to watch commercials. I don't understand why most of the Internet hasn't hoisted the Jolly Roger by now.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/peacock-showing-ads-upon-launch-opens-the-door-for-more-disruptive-streaming-ads/

2025-09-21 20:55:39 UTC

Just watched this video on the early days of #IRC. It brought back a lot of memories of all the hours I spent there back in the 90s. I even learned some stuff about why it was called the #EFNet and things like that. I met my wife there back in 1995, so those were important years for me. I know it just isn't the same these days, but understand what they're talking about there at the end.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6UbKenFipjo

2025-09-18 15:43:29 UTC

#Vivaldi has a new release, and it's let me simplify my UI even further. It's pretty amazing that a browser with as many options as @npub19rt…adh9 has can still have such a simple bespoke interface. Nothing compares.
https://vivaldi.com/new/

2025-09-15 19:52:31 UTC

The more I play with #FreshRSS the better it gets. User queries are saving me so much time it's hard to quantify. For example, if I want to search a particular category for a particular phrase, easy as pie. I can search my Technology category for Zorin Linux. If there's something I don't want to spend time on, that's easy too. I use Android, so I can create a query for iOS and just mark everything read that it finds. Like a topic but not an author or site? You can filter on that too. Love it.

2025-09-10 19:06:13 UTC

My eldest child texted me today: "I got it"
No further context. Got what? A new car? An understanding of the meaning of life? An STD? What?
*sigh*

2025-09-08 15:28:41 UTC

Everybody's playing Silksong, and I'm still trying to finish Hollow Knight. 😒

2025-08-18 23:02:31 UTC

Every day, when my kids get home from school, I ask each of them how their day was.
Good.
Did you learn anything?
No.
For years they've been going to school and learning nothing. Yet somehow they're getting good grades in all their classes. That's so weird. 😏

2025-08-06 18:45:52 UTC

Toasty.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/983/294/854/831/177/original/edec420485b2ccc9.png

2025-08-05 15:58:03 UTC

I just played a game on my phone. Did you know I have a 600 IQ? 😏

2025-07-31 15:35:42 UTC

If you're going to be at #Fedicon, tell me all about it! I need people to live vicariously through.

2025-07-30 15:34:20 UTC

Happy Wednesday!

2025-07-28 17:36:24 UTC

I'm having to take a training course on office safety for people who work from home.
"Safety matters because you matter!"
It's just so camp. I "matter" because they want to reduce insurance costs and potential liability. They're watching out for their bottom line, and that's it. I don't doubt they'd harvest my organs for sale if they thought they could legally do it.

2025-05-25 07:09:05 UTC

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Congratulations!

2025-05-06 21:59:14 UTC

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Yep, and I learned this by a woman I work with just casually saying in a Teams meeting, "Sorry all, I've got to go spatchcock a chicken" and then she left the meeting. No one made a comment.
Me: :blobthinkingeyes:

2025-05-06 21:45:22 UTC

Today I learned that spatchcocking a chicken is actually a way to cook a chicken, not some deeply coded euphemism.

2025-05-06 18:38:16 UTC

Congratulations to @npub1hpw…cd0d on becoming an official WSL distribution. I use WSL pretty extensively at work, and am currently running Ubuntu 22.04, but I might have to give Fedora a try there.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Linux-Official-WSL

2025-05-03 23:17:58 UTC

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I'd be interested in seeing that.

2025-05-03 22:10:35 UTC

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A while back I ran i3 on Debian. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. The only problem I really had was I didn't like how i3's UI looked when a graphical browser was being used. It wasn't anything with i3 or my config, it was more of an itch in my brain that you get when you mix two things that don't belong together. Like putting tomatoes into your icecream or something. Hard to describe and absolutely a "me" thing, not something with i3 or the browser.
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-03 06:55:09 UTC

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I have something similar I'm using for a media server. It doesn't have a keyboard though. 😉
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-02 19:15:46 UTC

I'm worried about my ThinkPad. It's an X1 Carbon Gen1, so it's roughly 13 years old, but I still use it every day (typing this on it now). Occasionally the screen has been showing white streaks like momentary static. It resolves itself right away, but that's new behavior and I haven't changed anything with this computer for a while. I'm concerned it might be a sign I'm about to lose the monitor, and at the age of this computer it's just not worth it to fix. But I like it!!

2025-05-02 18:56:02 UTC

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Many, many, MANY years ago I used a Microsoft split keyboard. It had a PS/2 connector. I can't remember if it eventually stopped working or if I ran out of computers with PS/2 ports. I wouldn't mind getting a new split keyboard. I don't want to drop the price of a new computer on it though.
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-02 18:34:58 UTC

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I expect the actual fallout will be less than how it sounds, and I'm hoping that some of these people will give @npub1z3w…c039 the benefit of the doubt. Of course, they're all going to make their own decisions.

2025-05-02 16:42:03 UTC

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Oh, my wrists and posture are garbage for sure. I'm not a young guy anymore either, so one of these days I'm going to have to start taking that into consideration.
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-02 16:31:02 UTC

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Oooo. See, that's just a custom computer input device. I dabbled in keyboards a while back, but you can drop a kid's college fund on that stuff. I mostly use the laptop keyboards these days. Very cool though.
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-02 16:18:58 UTC

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But do you use emacs in a GUI form, or via the terminal? I'm in the terminal all the time. I use vi instead of emacs (a discussion for another time 😉 ), but I don't really consider that stuff to be keyboard shortcuts. In Firefox, sure, but not emacs in the terminal.
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-02 16:07:49 UTC

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It is! Welcome!

2025-05-02 16:06:13 UTC

How often do you use keyboard shortcuts?
I was reading @npub1080…cr2f's recent blog post about his @npub15f7…m7wr, and he noted that one of the hardest parts of moving from a Mac to whatever he was using at the time was different keyboard shortcuts.
I spend a LOT of time in the terminal, but when it comes to GUI tools, Copy/Cut and Paste is really the only keyboard shortcut I use. Maybe it's still early in my day and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I'm struggling to think of more.

2025-05-01 19:59:23 UTC

If you haven't read this yet, now is a good time!
https://hub.fosstodon.org/update-from-gina
If you have read that, it never hurts to read it again!
#Fosstoddon

2025-04-30 18:25:42 UTC

I just quick went to brush my hair because I'm going out for a run, and it hit me: Dude, you're going out for a run. Literally not a single person on this planet cares what your hair looks like.

2025-04-30 04:23:40 UTC

The entirety of my reality has been shattered. I don't even know what's real anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsmEl3P2vEM
Sorry about the YouTube link. Yewtu.be doesn't seem to be working right now.

2025-04-29 16:18:42 UTC

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Yep, I'm not sure my kids know how to actually answer their phone.

2025-04-29 16:07:24 UTC

I had to call a company this morning through their "Contact Us" page. The phone rang, the other end picked up, and it was an ACTUAL PERSON. I stammered and stuttered like an idiot for a few seconds before I got my feet back under me. I must have sounded like an idiot.

2025-04-28 18:59:15 UTC

This isn't an official statement or anything, just some insight into where I am right now. Sorry, it's much longer than it needs to be, but I got off on a tangent and I don't want to rewrite it.
https://mikestone.me/2025-04-28-do-what-you-love

2025-04-16 16:30:50 UTC

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Honestly I haven't even used anything else for a long time. I still have a Facebook account out there, but I haven't signed in for a year or more. I tried Threads and Bluesky when they first came out, but didn't find anything I was super motivated by. I ran screaming from Twitter (I refuse to call it X). I can't imagine myself going back to those places. Even if I didn't have Fosstodon for some reason, I'd just create another account somewhere in the Fed.

2025-04-16 16:12:13 UTC

Hm, a new social network from OpenAI?
I'm going to be honest here. I'm a fan of messing around with LLMs. They're fun if more than a little untrustworthy. That being said, I have no interest in a social network from OpenAI. I have no interest in providing training material for free for the next ChatGPT model. The same goes for Llama or Grok.
Really, a contest between Altman and Musk? I'm pretty happy to see either or both lose.
I think I'll just stick to Fosstodon.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/16/chatgpt-founder-escalates-musk-feud-by-launching-x-rival/

2025-04-02 17:26:40 UTC

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Maybe it's just me, but this feels like it's laying the groundwork for price increases for their products. I confess I don't really use them, but complaints of overworked staff and over capacity hardware sound like a plea for investment or justification for asking for more money in general. They could probably fix all those issues by releasing their models open source and letting people run them on their own hardware, but what are the odds that's going to happen?

2025-04-01 16:16:30 UTC

I forgot what day it was until I saw Warren Buffett bought Tesla for a trillion dollars in cash. Then I was like, "oh yea, it's ignore the news day". Signing off.

2025-03-27 19:45:09 UTC

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The trouble I've run into with virtually all the bosses is I play with my kids, and since there's a bunch of us there, any patterns they follow get all jumbled up.

2025-03-27 17:18:20 UTC

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I still haven't pulled off beating the Moon Lord, and I haven't even tried Duke Fishron. I think I've gotten the rest of them though.

2025-03-27 15:59:15 UTC

How do you know you're old? When you wake up after a good night's sleep and your back is so sore you can barely walk. Now I'm trying to sit in a chair, and I'm not sure I can do this today.

2025-03-19 06:06:48 UTC

Wowza, some of the random mail I'm getting lately is...... crazy explicit. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be spam trying to get a response from me or if it's hate mail attempting to intimidate.

2025-03-17 07:36:28 UTC

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What did you learn?

2025-03-17 06:40:29 UTC

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Uh, what?

2025-03-16 20:02:53 UTC

It's one in the afternoon and NONE of my children are awake yet. Not a single one.

2025-03-13 23:50:00 UTC

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It is worth noting that because this is running through an LLM, it does have a tendency to flat out lie.
Me: Turn on Amy's Lamp.
HA: Turned on the light.
Me: Turn off Amy's lamp and turn on Mike's Lamp.
HA: I'm unable to work with external devices as I told you earlier when I failed to turn on Mike's Lamp.
Me: Turn off Amy's Lamp.
HA: Turned off the light.
Me: Turn on Mike's Lamp.
HA: Turned on the light.
At least it knows todays date and time, which is an improvement.
@npub1end…rhn5 [@chris_hayes](https://fosstodon.org/@chris_hayes )

2025-03-13 23:46:48 UTC

So, I did it. I hooked up the #HomeAssistant Voice to my #Ollama instance. As @npub1end…rhn5 suggested, it's much better at recognizing the intent of my requests. As [@chris_hayes](https://fosstodon.org/@chris_hayes ) suggested, I'm using the new #Gemma3 model. It now knows "How's the weather" and "What's the weather" are the same thing, and I get an answer for both. Responses are a little slower than without the LLM, but honestly it's pretty negligible. It's a very little bit slower again if I use local #Piper vs HA's cloud service.

2025-03-13 08:23:39 UTC

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That would have been crazy right? But nope. "Sorry, I am not aware of any area called how is".
@npub1e9e…2s8q

2025-03-13 07:54:59 UTC

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I have less concern about using LLMs in general than I do about the privacy issues they represent. I don't like a cloud service knowing when each and every light in my house is turned off and on or what's playing on the TV. That's not really an LLM issue exclusively, but I don't want companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta monetizing it. I've experimented with locally run LLMs through Ollama, but I don't have a static server that can run them well. It's on my mind though.
@npub1hn2…kl6z

2025-03-13 01:03:00 UTC

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No worries. Next time I'll put something up on the status page manually, so it shows up where people expect to see it.
@npub1j7t…kn6q

2025-03-12 23:59:23 UTC

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Yes, there was an issue with our Object Storage that didn't bring the server down, but slowed everything to the point that there wasn't any real difference. It also pointed to a blind spot in our monitoring as you noted, our status page didn't reflect reality. I put up a post on the main page as a stop gap.
https://hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-status
@npub1j7t…kn6q

2025-03-12 21:33:37 UTC

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Yea, I'm using the Mycroft wake word and local Piper to get the original Popey voice (thanks @npub1axx…dy8r!) I'm still doing STT with HA Cloud because so far Whisper hasn't been as accurate. I'm running HA on a Pi5 and Whisper on device, and I'm not sure what kind of performance I'm going to get if I crank up the accuracy. I've been considering the ollama thing too, but I'm currently running it on my workstation, and I'd rather not depend on it for tasks like that.
@npub1lum…qrxk

2025-03-12 03:47:38 UTC

Oh my god @npub1hn2…kl6z, this things is STUPIDLY easy to setup. I mean, I already had HA setup of course, but I've setup Google devices and Amazon devices and Mycroft and NeonAI and others, and this is the easiest by far. Crazy easy to get setup. I'm super impressed with this so far, and beyond impressed considering it's a preview edition.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/147/394/497/546/831/original/4b1dcef867920b15.jpg

2025-03-11 21:43:49 UTC

I know what I'm doing tonight. 🤓
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/145/975/965/596/628/original/a52e513910c17ed4.jpg

2025-03-05 16:21:47 UTC

LFS is something I've always wanted to try but have never found the time. New version is out now for those who want to get their hands dirty and really control their Linux system. If you have an LFS system you use, drop me a line and let me know how you like it.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1013096/

2025-03-04 21:24:54 UTC

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2025-03-04 17:43:03 UTC

Testing @npub1vpu…608s browser right now. I use #Vivaldi for my daily driver, and #Firefox for my backup, but I can see #LibreWolf taking that backup slot. It's incredibly fast to load pages. Stupidly fast. It comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, and pages just fly open for me. If you're a Firefox user, I'd recommend giving this a spin.
https://librewolf.net/

2025-02-27 22:36:30 UTC

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It's a little embarrassing to admit, but we've had Premium for years.
We got it when my eldest was a baby. We would give them a phone to watch Mickey Mouse on when we were driving. If an ad interrupted the show, they would throw the phone.
Trust me, I sympathize.
To avoid flying phones and unscheduled stops, we paid for YouTube to avoid the ads. We've had..... many.... more babies since, and it's always been worth it to us. None of them are babies anymore, and still, worth it.

2025-02-26 17:39:17 UTC

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I'm happy to be finally out of that game for the foreseeable future. There were other things on there too, but the bulbs thing was just egregious. Things like they charged us $700 to bring in professional cleaners, less than a week after we spent $600 on professional cleaners. They're saying "it needed deep cleaning", which I know for a fact it didn't since we paid to have it deep cleaned. Either way, they still brought in cleaners, and we we still have to pay for it.

2025-02-26 17:15:28 UTC

My family moved houses in January. We bought our own home at the end of December, and moved out of the house we'd been renting. Today, we got our "Move Out Summary" where they inspect the house and deduct from our deposit things that "need" to be fixed.
They charged us $120 for lightbulbs. Fucking lightbulbs. $120.
We're not going to be contesting this because frankly it's not worth the time and expense, but that really pisses me off. $120 for fucking lightbulbs.

2025-02-25 19:40:16 UTC

Oooo, wow. @npub15f7…m7wr is coming out with a mini PC. VERY cool. I just need to find someone to buy one for me.
Anybody?
Maybe if I promise #Framework to only say nice things about them they'll send me one for free?
Wait, I'm already doing that. Crap. They're not going to bribe me to do something I'm already doing without a bribe.
I really should have thought this through.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/02/25/meet-framework-desktop-a-monster-mini-pc-powered-by-amd-ryzen-ai-max/

2025-02-20 23:01:52 UTC

Microsoft is paywalling features in NOTEPAD. Let me say that again so it sinks in. Microsoft is _paywalling_ features in _NOTEPAD_.
My god this is so stupid.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html

2025-02-17 23:39:23 UTC

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Welcome!
@npub1j7t…kn6q

2025-02-17 21:25:19 UTC

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The best part to me is she had to do absolutely NOTHING. There's been another company that's been trying to poach her for over a year, and she's been resisting for personal reasons. Friday her current company did something that pushed her over the edge. She sent a text message to the other company to see if they were still interested and she got a callback in less than 5 minutes. By end of day she had a tracking number for her new work computer.

2025-02-17 21:17:44 UTC

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I agree wholeheartedly. It's been tough just hearing the toll her work environment has been taking on her, so I'm taking a whole lot of joy from her moving on.

2025-02-17 20:20:56 UTC

Today has been a mixed day in our house. The company my wife works for is having a FAFO day. Without going into details, they've been treating her like smart and successful women are often treated by inferior management. They seemed to have assumed she didn't have other options. She did. It's been cathartic to hear the panicked phone calls and borderline groveling. 4 calls in the last 3 hours of more than 30 minutes each. You can hear the fear in their voices. Maybe I'm the asshole here, but 😁

2025-02-06 23:46:36 UTC

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I agree! I also wish there were server settings for approving posts/links by instance and of course, characters per post. Those feel like no-brainers for server side features. I have no idea why they haven't been implemented.

2025-02-06 23:36:37 UTC

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One of the joys of running your own instance!

2025-01-30 21:33:24 UTC

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It's all internal LAN. Gigabit ethernet.

2025-01-30 16:17:56 UTC

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Just get one of the "I Bought This Before We Knew Elon Was Crazy" bumper stickers so no one keys your car and you should be good.

2025-01-30 16:14:23 UTC

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That's good to know since me and most of my blood relatives share a mutual dislike. They stay in their half of the country and I'll stay in mine and we'll all be happy with the results.

2025-01-29 20:52:37 UTC

What's going on here Microsoft?
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/913/619/116/162/260/original/44b5f0ef64c70871.png

2025-01-28 15:52:37 UTC

I can't be the only one excited about this, right? I still have my old Pebble around here somewhere. It's the original Kickstarter version. A new, updated #Pebble would be AMAZING. 😍
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/google-open-sources-pebble-smartwatch-os-new-watch-planned

2025-01-27 22:11:27 UTC

Wow, #DeepSeek everywhere I look today. I feel like I need to make a post about it just so I don't get left out of the fun!

2025-01-27 15:40:03 UTC

My week started off with a whole batch of stupid. How was your morning?
https://mikestone.me/20250127-stupid-design-decisions
Day 36 of #100DaysToOffload

2025-01-23 22:30:09 UTC

I'm really enjoying the #Vivaldi dashboard. I know this is just too niche to ever be a real thing, but I wish there was a way for me to integrate cards from #HomeAssistant into the Vivaldi dashboard. I know at the least, I would love it. I might be the only one, but it would really be cool.
@npub1hn2…kl6z @npub19rt…adh9

2025-01-23 17:45:43 UTC

We need to stop just calling #LLMs #AI. They're a very specific machine learning model. That's it. There's a lot more to AI than that. This article is about current LLMs, and missing the point. LLMs don't have a poor grasp of world history, they have NO grasp of world history. They're a language model. They create sentences in a language so it makes grammatic sense when we read it. Relying on this type of construct for accurate historical information is a horrible idea.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3806840/todays-ai-models-have-a-poor-grasp-of-world-history.html

2025-01-22 18:13:39 UTC

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Ahh, that's a familiar story. It's very close to how I got my last cat. Now Huckleberry is even more travelled than before. Ohio, Boston, California, Arizona? He's lived in more states than I have!

2025-01-22 18:06:15 UTC

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He's well travelled! How did you come by him? Your introduction says you're from California, but you're currently living here in Arizona (Tucson I'm assuming based on the UofA). Neither of those is Ohio, or even close, if my geography isn't seriously lacking.

2025-01-22 18:01:03 UTC

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Hoping everything goes well today for you both. I love the name Huckleberry.

2025-01-19 18:18:33 UTC

You probably think your house is acceptably clean until you have to dig around behind your TV. Then, bring a shovel.

2025-01-17 18:00:51 UTC

I'm disappointed #AndroidPolice didn't mention @npub1xsv…q6he's #Loops. It's been growing fast, but maybe it hasn't gotten the critical mass required to make it into an article like this just yet.
Also, what the heck is up with this Rednote thing? I confess I've done pretty much zero research on it since I have zero intent to use it, but it seems like it takes all the bad things about #TikTok and arguably makes them worse. What am I missing? Why are so many going there?
https://www.androidpolice.com/6-tiktok-alternatives-you-should-consider-switching-to/

2025-01-17 17:00:25 UTC

Did you know if you stare at your keyboard long enough, you can convince your brain it's a stereogram? An empty stereogram, but still....

2025-01-16 23:40:53 UTC

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Everything else aside, it's a pretty show.

2025-01-16 21:25:44 UTC

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That's my preferred default as well, but unfortunately Mastodon doesn't have that option yet. If we block, it's blocked. There's no option for the individual to unblock. There is an option for individuals to block if we don't though, which was a big part of the decision we made. If a feature like that becomes available in some future release, I'd advocate for Threads to be opt-in instead of opt-out.
@npub1j7t…kn6q

2025-01-16 17:53:29 UTC

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I might have to look into that. I don't do any IT work for relatives, but if people are looking to migrate and need a stable system, it sounds like it could be the way to go.

2025-01-16 17:40:19 UTC

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Huh, it's been a while since I've used Mint, and when I do it's always a clean install because I'm just testing it. I didn't know they did that. #TIL I guess.

2025-01-16 16:47:56 UTC

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I'm surprised they haven't done that already!

2025-01-16 15:58:29 UTC

So, who's testing Mint 22.1 this morning?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/linux-mint-22-1-released-heres-everything-new

2025-01-08 17:21:07 UTC

I finally took the plunge and installed #Ghostty. I've been seeing it in the news all over the place and had to see if it lived up to the hype. So far it's been stable and fast for me. I'm going to daily drive it for a while and see if it holds up, but so far I'm impressed.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/793/800/771/142/395/original/bc58cb63effacfb1.png

2024-11-21 20:04:47 UTC

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The new PineCam looks really interesting, especially with potential future integration with Home Assistant. Still no updates on the PineVox though eh? I've been champing at the bit waiting for updates. I'd love to have some Pine branded smart speakers in my home.

2024-10-01 18:15:47 UTC

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Is it the same in the web UI or just in Tusky?

2024-09-28 20:17:03 UTC

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It's an interesting method. I learned in the 80s in Boy Scouts, but we always start small and stack bigger on smaller. Make use of the physics of heat. I'll have to give this method a try next time I'm building a fire.

2024-09-13 19:29:08 UTC

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I haven't heard from anybody else that they're having this issue, but I'll ask around. Is it only with the Mastodon app (sorry, I don't use it) or do you get it elsewhere too?
@npub1j7t…kn6q

2024-09-12 19:16:12 UTC

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You need to con them into sending you farther west.
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2024-09-03 15:38:02 UTC

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It took longer for larger instances to recover than the smaller ones. After the issues with object storage were resolved, there was a veritable flood of messages we hadn't been receiving, which overloaded the servers for several hours. Smaller instances with fewer users didn't have the massive queue to catch up on, so they recovered more quickly.
[@lulu_powerful](https://fosstodon.org/@lulu_powerful ) @npub1j7t…kn6q

2024-08-30 20:32:47 UTC

I'm not a huge fan of Twitter these days, and apparently neither is this judge. Do we think a Twitter ban in Brazil could result in a wave of new Mastodon users or is this just going to blow over with no change?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/lula-says-musk-must-respect-brazils-top-court-x-braces-shutdown-2024-08-30/

2024-08-28 23:03:45 UTC

Honestly, who schedules a meeting for 3:45?