Mike Stone

Husband, father, nerd.

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2026-07-27 08:03:02 UTC

#Musk: "We are 1,000% going to go bankrupt as a country and fail as a country, without AI and robots."
This is the shit that annoys me. We NEED AI and robots or we're doomed! Coincidentally, #Elon sells #AI and robots. I don't think AI is evil and should be avoided at all costs. I think it has its uses if handled properly, but I also think #ElonMusk is full of shit and just trying to add even more money to his coffers. He'll say what he thinks needs to be said to do it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/elon-musk-flags-america-1-113500554.html

2026-07-25 20:22:00 UTC

Well, that's uncomfortable.
#ItsADryHeat #Arizona #Phoenix
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/982/459/991/663/406/original/332a3a010ccc2400.png

2026-07-17 23:11:06 UTC

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I went with "Yes, but", but it could just as easily have been "No, but". I've met some truly great people here who I consider friends. It also seems to house more than its fair share of assholes. I find myself reluctant to talk to people unless I've known them for a while. These days, if I interact, I tend to keep things clinical.

2026-07-13 01:20:41 UTC

My security cameras pick up a surprisingly large number of Waymos driving past my house when you consider I don't live in an area Waymo covers. I have confirmed they are driverless and don't seem to be carrying any passengers. It's like they're going for a drive.

2026-07-09 17:12:58 UTC

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Oh, OK. That's a notification of the impact of Google's retirement of Manifest v2. Unfortunately not something that Vivaldi specifically has control over. Version 8.0 of Vivaldi was based on Chromium 148, which still had the old code in it to run the Manifest v2 stuff. Vivaldi used that "retired" code to keep things going for extensions like uBlock Origin. Vivaldi 8.1 bumps the Chromium version to 150, and Google has stripped out that legacy code so Vivaldi can't do that anymore.
@npub1e35…d5me

2026-07-09 16:30:26 UTC

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Can you elaborate on that? I don't have uBlock Origin installed (Vivaldi's integrated blocking has always been sufficient for my use), so I haven't noticed any issues like that.

2026-07-09 16:20:36 UTC

#Vivaldi just released version 8.1 today! This update isn't as flashy as the last one. The last one had some of the biggest UI updates in years and years, but this one is all about nailing things down and tightening up the code. No major visual or feature changes, just stability and bug swatting.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-1/

2026-07-08 20:58:10 UTC

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I'm taking from this particular instance that it was filler words. It was a list of 3 things we need to be doing, and one of the words was "deliberate" and another was "intentional". I think the 3rd was "motivated", but I honestly can't promise that. Still, 2 of those 3 words mean basically the same thing. I don't know if he needs a thesaurus, or he thinks we do.

2026-06-29 17:28:14 UTC

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In the United States (I'm not sure if this is true in other English speaking nations), "Let me make this easy to understand" implies the conversation as it has occurred so far is obviously too complex for you to grasp, so let me dumb this down for you. It's akin to saying, "I'll use small words so you understand." It's especially insulting when this kind of response comes from a peer who is probably less experienced in the field than you are.

2026-06-29 17:11:32 UTC

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And that's fair, but you're not going to get a receptive response if you insult them to their face. I imagine that's true in most of not all cultures.

2026-06-29 17:06:06 UTC

I don't know who needs to hear this, if anybody, but when you're talking to Americans using the phrase "Let me make this easy for you to understand" is EXTREMELY insulting. You might as well just start your sentence with "Hey moron". If that's your intent, OK. It's probably not a good idea to do it in person though. #FYI.

2026-06-29 00:34:21 UTC

My wife sent me this because she knows how small details like this annoy me. I'm not OCD (or at least I've never been diagnosed as OCD). I get the joke, and it's funny, but I think it's fake. If it were me, that backwards pill would have been the first one out of the pack. It's center aligned, so it would have come cleanly out of the package without messing up the order. The second one would have been the other middle, and then work my way outwards until the only pills left are the outsides.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/830/566/239/230/120/original/83e5cd267f03ae0d.jpg

2026-06-22 22:31:35 UTC

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I looked at it a while back, but never got so far as paying for it so I don't think I got any of the fancy features. I keep testing AI summaries, but so far I haven't found any that don't cost half a years salary that keep things accurate. Unfortunately I'm not hugely trusting of human summarizers either, which is why I hit a bunch of sites with the same news to make sure I'm not just getting someone's perspective on things.
@npub1080…cr2f

2026-06-22 21:41:08 UTC

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Ah, I spend an embarrassing amount of time each day just keeping up on the current events. I like to cover the same things from different sources to try to understand perspectives. A hypothetical AI (this doesn't exist) that could summarize news reliably and combine facts from multiple sources would be a huge time saver for me.

2026-06-22 18:45:31 UTC

I was reading this article about instances and ATProto.
https://overreacted.io/there-are-no-instances-in-atproto/
I was hoping to get some good information about how Bluesky and other services using ATProto worked. Instead, it lead with "I know RSS is still being used somewhere (podcasts?!) but its heyday is arguably behind." This kinda lost me. I use RSS all the damn time. Arguably more than the actual web. I've legitimately considered removing the front end of my site and just doing RSS. Am I the only one? Is RSS over?

2026-06-22 18:08:59 UTC

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Depends on what I'm reading. Especially news. So many of these news sites want their authors to just wax philosophical for 1000 words when I just want the facts so I can get on with my life. I rarely use an AI in even those cases, I just skim and try to dig out what's pertinent, but I can absolutely see where an ACCURATE summary would save me some time.

2026-06-19 16:35:26 UTC

Happy Friday everybody!

2026-06-13 22:35:51 UTC

I'm not sure who turned me on to @npub1wkr…yvj6's blog. I think it was @npub1080…cr2f, but I could be wrong on that. Regardless, I really liked this post of hers, especially with the world today as context. I highly suggest giving it a read. I'd like to think she writes the way I would. You know, if I was smarter and actually a good writer.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/

2026-06-11 17:20:12 UTC

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Well, it says they went live last year based on technologies that have been redesigned since 2023. I'm not really sure what that means. If I was looking for independence from the United States I'd probably have gone with Mojeek. As I said before, I'm far from an expert on these matters. It just seems weird for a Digital Sovereignty movement trying to escape USian tech to migrate to a service that's still 50% Microsoft with a European veneer. I don't know if there's a better choice.

2026-06-11 16:49:18 UTC

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Yea, but they started that in 2023 didn't they? According to Wikipedia their results are still 50% Microsoft if we're being generous, and their ad revenue is almost entirely dependent on Microsoft. Is Wikipedia out of date or are they still that reliant on American tech?

2026-06-11 16:26:14 UTC

I've been spending some time researching the EU's Digital Sovereignty movement lately because it seems like a real opportunity for Open Source software to get a foothold in some markets where it's traditionally faced challenges. I'm not from the EU, and I'm far from an expert on these matters. One of the recent decisions that's confused the holy hell out of me is the choice of Qwant for search. Nothing against #Qwant, but they're HEAVILY dependent on Microsoft last I checked. Not true anymore?

2026-06-08 19:17:12 UTC

I usually make an effort to watch #WWDC, but this year I didn't. Google's barrage of AI exceeded my bullshit quota for the year. Anything from Apple I should care about in the slightest? Did they finally do the thing with Siri?

2026-06-07 00:10:05 UTC

I've been using alternatives to Office for years. I started with Star Office in the late 90s or early 2000s. I stuck with it when it became OpenOffice, but moved to LibreOffice when Oracle got their claws into it. I've pretty much stayed with LibreOffice. The recent push for digital sovereignty from the EU has done a lot to move technology in a direction I like. I'm interested in Office EU. I was surprised it was built on Open, not Libre though. It does look nice. Anyone have experience with it?

2026-05-24 05:27:44 UTC

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There's times you want to use light mode? Weird. 😉

2026-05-21 17:46:23 UTC

Ads are pretty much everywhere these days, but some of the worst ads have to be on phones. Maybe it's something advertising people have figured out about me specifically, but why is every ad for a game where a person playing the game is SO BAD at the game they can't possibly exist in the real world? If you can't line up three blocks of the same color in less than a minute, surely you'd have been eaten by wolves by now, right?

2026-05-20 17:33:16 UTC

I've been on-again off-again learning Python for a while now. Just some really basic process automation stuff. I think anybody who looked at my code would come to the conclusion that I'm still pretty garbage at it. I admit all this.
Still, the number one syntax error I make almost every frackin time is forgetting the stupid : after an if statement. Every stinkin time. I know, old dog new tricks. I get it. Just didn't think I was THAT old.

2026-05-19 20:06:59 UTC

Oooof, I watched #GoogleIO today. Wall to wall AI. Other than announcing their fugly spectacles, which powered by AI so still really just AI. I'm not sure what I was expecting. I think even the crowd was bored with it all. I lost track of the built in "pause for applause" moments in their presentation that awkwardly didn't get any applause.

2026-05-19 08:26:11 UTC

Ummm, what?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-its-first-server-linux-distribution-azure-linux-4-0/
#AzureLinux #Microsoft

2026-05-15 18:09:27 UTC

Oooo, @npub19rt…adh9 has released a #Vivaldi 8 release candidate. It's getting exciting now! Not too much longer before the 8.0 release!

2026-05-13 23:01:08 UTC

My kids are going to be finishing school for the summer here in the next few weeks. Today I talked to each of them individually about their current grades heading into finals week. I played the Jaws shark theme in the background the whole time. I'm a bad person.

2026-05-13 18:24:17 UTC

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Ya, that would be nice, but right now we have government where the POTUS personally sued his own IRS for $10 billion, is instructing them to settle out of court with him, and the party currently in charge of all branches of government are giving that a collective shrug. From what I can tell, Musk's suit is baseless and he's just pissed he's not in charge of OpenAI and xAI is getting its digital ass handed to it in the market. I'm not a lawyer though, so grain of salt.

2026-05-13 15:54:48 UTC

I hate this. I don't want OpenAI to win, but I definitely want Musk to lose. It's like watching King Kong vs Godzilla. No matter who wins someone's going to go stomping around and destroying everything.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/openai-trial-updates-sam-altman-set-to-testify-in-musk-suit.html
#OpenAI #ElonMusk

2026-05-08 18:06:51 UTC

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Looks up to me? I'm just looking at the front page though.

2026-05-08 15:36:23 UTC

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Oh god yea. That was so annoying because the keyboard would still work in the mouse port but the mouse wouldn't work in the keyboard port (I think that was the order, might be the other way). I can't remember how many calls I got back then that one peripheral was working but not the other because they'd swapped ports.
@npub1z3k…3q7s

2026-05-07 20:40:36 UTC

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Probably not? All reports go into a single queue where they're grouped by the individual being reported and the general time frame of the report. There's no technical difference between a report originating on instance or one from elsewhere. The moderators may prioritize local reports over remote, but that would be policy based, not functionally. I don't think the moderation team on Fosstodon does that, but I could be wrong. Just my impression.

2026-05-07 19:07:10 UTC

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It probably would have bothered a much younger me having things shift like that under me, but since I got married and had a horde of kids, I'm just kinda used to things moving around. The other morning I opened my refrigerator and one of our cats walked out of it like it was no big deal. Didn't seem the least concerned. I have no idea how long she was in there. Not super long since I'd seen her around that morning. She just snuck in when one of the kids was digging around in there.

2026-05-07 18:48:37 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116534344017679084
I'm not sure how anybody thinks this is going to work. It seems to imply a massive misunderstanding of what VPNs are and how they work. I mean, I can stand up a Pi at my brother's house in Nevada and there's no way any service is going to be able to detect that. Even if I'm using VPN service like Proton, the sites I'm going to can't tell for certain where I'm coming from. Honestly, this is just a beat my head against my desk level of stupid.
#note1xs6…gy53

2026-05-07 18:30:29 UTC

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Historically there's been instances where I really enjoyed having the new features. I'm not even sure what's new in Android 17 though. Nothing has really jumped out at me. If I'm being frank, being in the beta program is almost like having a rolling release of Android. I sometimes find a feature and it catches me off guard. "Huh, how long has that been there?"

2026-05-07 16:26:02 UTC

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Yea, but I've got a Google phone, and you know that tested every way imaginable on their own hardware before this stuff gets out into the world. If I was packing some obscure brand from a backwoods company I'd be worried about all kinds of stuff, but since everything is in house? It's almost always solid.

2026-04-17 16:44:22 UTC

I don't understand how this is supposed to work, even in theory. In my house, everybody has their own computer so I guess age verification could sorta work (again, in theory), but I also don't think my home is typical when it comes to computer ownership. I haven't confirmed this, but I would imagine that most homes only have one or two computers in them. Soooo, if that's true, what would stop my kids from using my verification? Individual profiles? That won't happen.
https://www.osnews.com/story/144803/nationwide-bill-to-put-age-verification-in-operating-systems-introduced-in-the-us/

2026-04-10 16:08:25 UTC

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I'm halfway through a 0 Days to Offload challenge. I think I just might make it this year!
Congratulations!

2026-04-10 16:06:00 UTC

I know it's Friday and not Saturday, but can we all just get this weekend started please?? I'm ready for a Saturday.

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

2026-04-09 17:48:08 UTC

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It really is a power users browser. I enjoyed your feedback. One of if not the best thing about Vivaldi is almost every time you ask the question, "can I change that?", the answer is going to be "Yes." Vivaldi is customizable in the extreme. I'm attaching a screenshot of my current configuration, which I'm sure is different than pretty much everybody else's anywhere. It's a really good browser, and a little time spent configuring it to your preferences makes it great.
@npub19rt…adh9
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/375/991/048/520/345/original/dc1fdfa70516a377.png

2026-04-09 17:02:41 UTC

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I gave this a spin, and it does work. I have two profiles setup. I had to setup the second profile just like a new install, but after I logged in it brought my settings from my account no problem. I don't have any custom key bindings, so I can't confirm that stuff, but my settings seem to have come across. I can also access my workspaces and tabs in the other profile from both the tab drop down and the side panel. It treats that other profile just like a different computer.
@npub19rt…adh9

2026-04-09 16:49:44 UTC

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Maybe? I've never tried since I don't use profiles. Hopefully @npub19rt…adh9 will correct me if I'm wrong, but it might be possible to have the different profiles sync to the same Vivaldi account? I know you can sync settings that way as I do that between computers, but I've never tried it with profiles on the same computer. If you're syncing to the same account, that should (HYPOTHETICALLY) give you access to the tabs and workspaces on a read only basis, but dunno for sure. Grain of salt.

2026-04-09 16:04:47 UTC

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Yea, unfortunately that's something that Vivaldi has inherited from its Chromium base. They don't have a middle ground on the Profiles/containers. You're either in the same profile/container, or completely and entirely different. Personally, I don't use profiles. I do use the heck out of Workspaces though, and I've gotten better about it but I still have over 100 tabs open on multiple devices. Vivaldi is better at handling tabs than any browser I've ever used.
@npub19rt…adh9

2026-02-08 04:33:19 UTC

Oh, wonderful. Someone is spoofing my email address to file a ton of support tickets with various companies. I'm getting spammed by the automated "Thank you for your inquiry" messages.
:masto_rage:

2026-01-29 17:11:28 UTC

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Because it's a continent away and there's no chance I can go to any of them??

2026-01-29 17:01:51 UTC

After a few minutes of toying with the new #Vivaldi, I have some quick thoughts.
I think a point that needs emphasis is this: "While other browsers add AI summarization and Edge pushes Copilot integration, Vivaldi 7.8 ships features users have actually requested."
There are a couple not huge, but super useful updates in this new version. Opening links in tiled tabs. Love that. I don't think they even mentioned opening links in different workspaces. Great feature.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-7-8-launches-with-message-to-big-tech-humans-dont-need-ai-babysitters/
1/?

2026-01-21 18:09:48 UTC

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I can see where those kind of features would be helpful. Creating Shorts with an AI version of yourself? Not so much. I'm already not a fan of Shorts even when real people make them. This just feels like abuse waiting to happen.

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.

2025-12-29 16:08:08 UTC

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Well, centralization is a problem, but Fosstodon didn't even block Threads. Historically at least, Fosstodon has left most of those kinds of decisions to the individuals. Since I can see @npub1dlz…uxsy's profile, I doubt it's something that Fosstodon has done.

2025-12-26 02:54:31 UTC

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Yea, it's still not in a full, production ready version with Firefox so I'm giving them a lot of slack. If it still works like it does now when it's billed as being fully ready, I'll be disappointed.

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/

2025-11-19 22:26:36 UTC

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How many is that?

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 15:40:00 UTC

Yesterday I was sitting in this meeting I had no business being in, bored out of my mind, when I ran across this post from @npub1x74…ruph.
https://fosstodon.org/@joel/114942666808163058
I've been using Feedly since Google Reader bit the dust, but I've been looking for an excuse not to (meaning I'm lazy and haven't gotten to it).
With some time on my hands, I fired up #FreshRSS in a #Docker container, imported my feeds, and away I go!
It seems really nice, even just base features. Just need a nice Android client now.

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.

2025-06-18 15:46:01 UTC

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I'm not an expert on Dutch food, but I absolutely think you're right!

2025-06-18 15:37:47 UTC

I'm a grownup. I can have Stroopwafels for breakfast if I want to.

2025-06-10 16:19:51 UTC

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We run MatterMost on a droplet from DigitalOcean. @npub1krv…94c6 has done most of the heavy lifting on that one, but it runs us around $15 last I looked. It's not stressing the droplet, but the community we have on there is pretty small.

2025-06-09 18:56:34 UTC

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The transparent menu bar is pretty surprising to me. I've had the feature for I can't even tell you how long in Linux, and I absolutely hate it. I never ever make the menu bar transparent. I understand that this is purely subjective, but I wouldn't have thought there were enough fans of that look to warrant Apple going with it. Is it something that can be disabled?

2025-06-07 21:28:36 UTC

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I do. Ahwatukee.

2025-06-03 01:44:16 UTC

Potato Salad

2025-05-25 07:09:05 UTC

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Congratulations!

2025-05-14 21:30:35 UTC

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Yup.

2025-05-13 01:14:19 UTC

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I remember going to my school to meet my kindergarten teacher for the first time, and she asked me if I wanted something to drink. She offered me a V8, and it's been love ever since.

2025-05-09 15:58:05 UTC

The most surprising part of this is that someone didn't do it sooner.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/clippy-resurrected-as-ai-assistant-project-turns-infamous-microsoft-mascot-into-llm-interface

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 07:50:38 UTC

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emacs seems to be a special case. It has a GUI, but it was originally written for the CLI, so keyboard functionality is a real focus for it. For something like emacs I'd probably use the keyboard a lot more, but I'm a vim guy so I don't really use emacs all that much. I installed it tonight for the first time in a really long time, and realize I know almost nothing about it anymore.
@npub1080…cr2f @npub15f7…m7wr

2025-05-03 06:58:27 UTC

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Yea, emacs is one of those apps that designed with the terminal in mind, so it's keyboard heavy. I know there's a GUI for it, but still. Browser wise though, I'm pretty much all mouse all the time. Pretty much the only keyboard shortcut I use in my browser (other than copy and paste) is Ctrl-Tab to cycle through tabs.
@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 21:23:14 UTC

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I've seen a lot of people say they use keyboard shortcuts to move windows around, and I can't imagine moving windows like that. I mean, I get it in environments like i3 or something, but on a modern Mac/Windows/Linux not using i3 or similar window manager, it just seems entirely foreign to me.
When you say you're using them to move windows, are you talking between desktops or in a snapped view or what?
@npub1xsa…utnx

2025-05-02 19:59:10 UTC

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That just sounds like so much to remember. I was tired just reading it!

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 15:51:41 UTC

So, uh, did everybody see this?
https://hub.fosstodon.org/update-from-gina
You should read it. It's good.