Jiří Eischmann

Red Hat desktop engineering manager, Fedora ambassador, member of GNOME Foundation, supporter of Slavia Prague.

Interests: #Linux #desktop #opensource #Fedora #football #renewables #books #hiking #travelling

Most posts in #English, some in #Czech.

Personal page: https://eischmann.cz
Blog:: https://blog.eischmann.cz
English blog:: https://enblog.eischmann.cz

Last Notes

2025-05-30 15:55:42 UTC

Many consider #Bluesky a success, but in fact its activity has steadily declined since Trump's inauguration. The #Fediverse has had similar trends. Rapid growth caused by an external event is always followed by a slow decline back to a small base of loyal users. In a world full of dopamine addiction, it's hard to be a social network without dark patterns.
#SocialMedia
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/597/586/136/890/234/original/14c87ab55258e26f.png

2025-03-21 20:21:29 UTC

A local ordinance has banned grass burning because it poisons the air and kills insects, and there are organic waste bins on every corner. Unfortunately, the effect is just the opposite. People who aren't selfish idiots didn't burn grass even before, and the rest burn even more now to show that they aren't obedient sheep and that no one is going to take away their freedom to poison the air for their neighbors.
This graph shows what it does to the #airquality. It immediately jumps from OK to unhealthy.
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/202/258/342/680/935/original/1c893c799dca6cf4.png

2025-03-05 19:40:27 UTC

Today I learned that my humble hobby project #Linux #Desktop Migration Tool is being used in a company with 600k employees to migrate to new Linux workstations.
It's amazing how far code I started writing at night to help myself can get.
#opensource

2025-03-04 18:05:18 UTC

Not working enterprise enrollment with my work Google account is probably the biggest obstacle on the way to make #GrapheneOS my primary phone's OS.
Everything else works except that and Google Pay. And I'm okay with the latter because I primarily use Garmin Pay.

2025-02-25 14:11:58 UTC

I found this slide from today's @npub1rk6…hv4q Hub 10 presentation interesting, and I can totally confirm it.
It always comes to mind when I see people marvelling at the progress of a new project, and viewing older projects as slow-moving.
At some point, all projects end up like this: the vast majority of the work is maintenance, and only a small fraction is new development.
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/114/064/883/417/681/816/original/f43184162e241f47.png

2024-11-18 13:21:53 UTC

For the last few days I've been hearing criticism about how user-unfriendly #Mastodon is compared to #Bluesky. So here's one counter-argument. The official mobile app has a lot of nice touches. Here it nicely shows what is what in the username when you tap it.
I like the app a lot.
https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/113/504/153/660/702/791/original/67acabbab03bd62f.mp4

2024-09-19 18:30:44 UTC

Today I had an introduction to #Fedora #Linux for new students at the Brno University of Technology. After the talk, one student came up to me and asked if he could take a selfie with me, saying that he and his roommate are long-time Fedora users, and that his roommate wouldn't believe that he had met a real Fedora contributor in person.
Contributing to Fedora can make you a rock star, at least in computer science schools. 😃