Nostr notes by Linux in a Bit

I only really realized I needed them on a trip to Nashville; ...

2026-04-19T04:17:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…0y76
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I only really realized I needed them on a trip to Nashville; after getting back to the hotel I realized that I couldn't *really* hear anything. Was better the next morning but clearly not great for my hearing.

Our ears have natural protection that kicks in to prevent us from going deaf. Mercedes actually uses that to stop airbags from destroying our hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfZ0pEL2Sk

My guess is probably both... I bought a pair of Happy Ears off of ...

2026-04-19T04:12:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…qdyh
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My guess is probably both...
I bought a pair of Happy Ears off of a DankPods recommendation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Svq6raXFk) and I've been using them a *lot* recently.

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2026-04-18T22:45:59Z

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/top-hyperscalers-to-boost-ai-capex-to-600-billion-stocks-that-benefit.html
combined with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbVb63qPDQ8

Assuming people facepalm on average twice a month, it currently ...

2026-04-16T05:25:57Z

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Assuming people facepalm on average twice a month, it currently sits at 370,000 facepalms per minute.

Per capita or in total?

2026-04-16T04:36:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…lt2f
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Per capita or in total?

Xbox Cloud Gaming

2026-04-09T01:56:10Z

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Xbox Cloud Gaming

"This is an Xbox"

2026-04-08T03:18:35Z

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"This is an Xbox"

Ahh, 364.46MB installed, just like the good ol' days. 💿 ...

2026-04-07T00:58:56Z

Ahh, 364.46MB installed, just like the good ol' days. 💿

If you ever see 3 on sale (https://steamdb.info/app/2020860/) ...

2026-04-06T02:47:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…57fu
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If you ever see 3 on sale (https://steamdb.info/app/2020860/) it's totally worth it :blobcatgamer:

Lowkey incredibly hyped for Rush Rally 4... There's a dev ...

2026-04-04T05:08:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…gg5l
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Lowkey incredibly hyped for Rush Rally 4...
There's a dev blog here: https://www.brownmonster.co.uk/blog/category/rush_rally_4/index.html

:blobcatbusiness: Rush Rally is like what would happen if a guy ...

2026-04-04T05:07:16Z

:blobcatbusiness: Rush Rally is like what would happen if a guy with a part in the physics for DiRT 2, F1 2009, MotoGP 10/11, Split/Second, and *both* Sonic All-Stars Racing games, decided he was tired of that, wrote his own game engine and made a few rally games almost entirely by himself.
...
:blobcatthinkingglare: Wait a moment...

Back in my day all the boys were 'ethically using' ...

2026-03-31T21:24:42Z

Back in my day all the boys were 'ethically using' Repl.it for free VPS hosting... Now it's become just another AI slop vendor. :blobcatupsidedown:

Ah how the mighty have fallen. They could've at least least just kept burning their investor's cash on letting children run jerry-rigged Minecraft servers or something, but no!

:blobcatthink: *"The more advanced a technology is, the ...

2026-03-30T02:33:55Z

:blobcatthink: *"The more advanced a technology is, the greater the population that will be unable to distinguish it from magic."*

I've been using https://yunohost.org for the longest time. I ...

2026-03-29T04:39:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…gcku
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I've been using https://yunohost.org for the longest time.
I can give it a pretty solid recommendation, given you're able to work around Debian deciding to break once in a good while.

Ok, that's cool af. :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

2026-03-28T03:55:15Z

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Ok, *that's* cool af. :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

(for the record, if you want something actually stable, secure, ...

2026-03-15T03:33:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…cpt6
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(for the record, if you want something actually stable, secure, and mature, I'd still go for https://git.quad4.io/RNS-Things/MeshChatX or https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet instead, at least for the time being)

Believe it or not, this isn't #Meshtastic or #Meshcore ...

2026-03-15T01:27:10Z

Believe it or not, this isn't #Meshtastic or #Meshcore

It's #Reticulum :blobcattoot:
That's right, Reticulum is finally running on microcontrollers and there's so many ways to do it:

https://github.com/attermann/microReticulum (C++ implementation of Reticulum; finally getting close to 100% feature complete)
https://github.com/ratspeak/ratdeck (Pictured T-Deck firmware)
https://github.com/torlando-tech/pyxis (T-Deck firmware from the maker of Columba)

Video footage is probably different, that might depend on what ...

2026-03-11T00:42:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…9haq
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Video footage is probably different, that might depend on what video editor you use.

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2026-03-11T00:41:47Z

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https://www.instructables.com/Reduce-motion-blur-in-The-GIMP/
and/or
https://www.wikihow.com/Unblur-an-Image
might help.

@npub1aeh…chz6 Re: ...

2026-02-18T04:03:48Z

Dom 🦻 (npub1aeh…chz6)
Re: https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2026-02-15-offline-world-part-1/

Some offline things I like:

'Offline' communication tools<li>For smaller-scale communication: <a href="https://briarproject.org"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://briarproject.org</a> and maybe <a href="https://jami.net"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://jami.net</a></li><li>If you wanna build your own internet: <a href="https://reticulum.network/manual/index.html"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://reticulum.network/manual/index.html</a> (I wrote <a href="https://linuxinabit.codeberg.page/blog/reticulum"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">a blog thing about it</a> a while back)</li>

Mapping tools:<li>Offline maps: <a href="https://www.comaps.app"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.comaps.app</a></li><li>Everything else you could possibly ever need: <a href="https://kylecorry.com/Trail-Sense"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://kylecorry.com/Trail-Sense</a></li>

It's over. ...

2026-02-13T00:20:54Z

It's over.

No matter how much you try to convince them otherwise, people ...

2026-02-10T01:44:46Z

No matter how much you try to convince them otherwise, people generally can't care about very many things.

:blobcatadorable: Looks pretty :blobcatthink: Fully independent ...

2026-02-08T03:58:18Z

:blobcatadorable: Looks pretty
:blobcatthink: Fully independent
:blobcatreading: Rolling release
:blobcathyper2: Doesn't fall apart when you update

https://getsol.us

( #notSponsored , I just like the distro )

What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux? ...

2026-01-29T23:39:53Z

What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

**Not** the installation process.
**Not** finding a distro.
**Not** getting programs to work.
**Not** troubleshooting.
**Not** hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

**You can't expect people to know to, or even know *how* to deal with any of that stuff.** Either walk them through doing those things step by step, or actually try answer their question.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for *most people* (especially stuff [like this](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page )), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help people who are asking for it.
If you don't want to respond in a legitimately helpful way, it's ok to take a break.

It will only be "the year of the Linux desktop" when ...

2026-01-29T22:56:51Z

It will only be "the year of the Linux desktop" when people can use it without knowing what Linux is.

I've been using my phone with animations disabled in the ...

2026-01-22T05:16:26Z

I've been using my phone with animations disabled in the accessibility settings and everything is just so fast and snappy.

I love it! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

*Note: This is on Android; iOS's "Reduce Motion" settings doesn't disable most animations, it just replaces them with crossfades.*

:blobballfetch: Just realized how good it would be to have an ...

2026-01-22T05:09:16Z

:blobballfetch: Just realized how good it would be to have an Android-like 'Bedtime Mode" on my desktop.

To tell me to "**Go to bed!**" and such.

Sad to see that KDE doesn't have the option, and Gnome requires an extension for the functionality. :blobcatnotlikethis:

KDE Feature Request: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474826

Gnome Extension: https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-bedtime-extension-greyscale-mode/

FOSS developers, hard at work saying "no excuses." ...

2026-01-20T05:44:15Z

FOSS developers, hard at work saying "no excuses."

> If it's a bubble, why is it still growing? - Some ...

2026-01-19T04:23:03Z

> If it's a bubble, why is it still growing?

- Some investor; during a bubble

...except for https://www.urbandictionary.com/ - that doesn't ...

2025-07-01T05:19:33Z

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...except for https://www.urbandictionary.com/ - that doesn't count ;)

The only real problem here is Adobe, but even that [isn’t as ...

2024-11-21T16:48:04Z

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The only real problem here is Adobe, but even that [isn’t as much of a problem anymore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Inc.#Criticisms ) 🙃

Dear LibreOffice, I believe it is time to change the default UI ...

2024-11-21T05:39:54Z

Dear LibreOffice,
I believe it is time to change the default UI layout to a design that is much more intuitive, accessible, and easy to understand for those unfamiliar with LibreOffice.
I would like to suggest changing the default interface layout to “Contextual Single,” if only for the sake of those using LibreOffice for the first time.
Thank you! :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

#LibreOffice #UI

True, but you would not be asking that question if you had no ...

2024-11-19T21:14:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…kpga
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True, but you would not be asking that question if you had no plans of doing it.

Is it ethical to ship AI generated assets in a game like, say, ...

2024-11-19T17:33:49Z

Is it ethical to ship AI generated assets in a game like, say, [@speed_dreams_official](https://mastodon.social/@speed_dreams_official ) ?

I do it a bit too, but I don’t think Mastodon is just (or even ...

2024-11-19T04:23:21Z

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I do it a bit too, but I don’t think Mastodon is just (or even primarily) for that. 😅

I see so many posts lamenting the fact that people are moving ...

2024-11-19T03:47:37Z

I see so many posts lamenting the fact that people are moving from X/Twitter to Bluesky and (to a lesser extent) Threads instead of Mastodon and the Fediverse, but I think there’s something those posts miss.

People who want ‘just another platform’ will not find what they’re looking for here because Mastodon is not one.

By comparing Mastodon to other platforms specifically competing for X/Twitter’s user-base, we are trying to make Mastodon something it’s not; a platform for people to shout at the world.

That is a concept so fundamentally opposed to the philosophy of Mastodon and the greater Fediverse that I struggle to even make the comparison.

Mastodon is a tool to form communities where genuine conversations are actually given a chance, and I think that’s something worth holding on to. :blobcatheart:

Though I’ve never taken part in it, that seems to be the trend ...

2024-10-30T04:30:22Z

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Though I’ve never taken part in it, that seems to be the trend with open protocols like ActivityPub.
Once it works, it works, and nobody ever dares to change it after that :/

:blobcatbusiness: Meshtastic and Reticulum are two popular LoRa ...

2024-09-11T16:59:20Z

:blobcatbusiness: Meshtastic and Reticulum are two popular LoRa mesh projects that, despite being compared to eachother frequently, are very, very different:

Reticulum is trying to build a mesh network capable of transporting anything, working over everything, and connecting everyone. More of a hyper-resiliant internet replacement if you want to look at it that way. :blobwizard:

Meshtastic is trying to be the best LoRa-specific mesh communication tool, and it has better overall LoRa support (more boards), and better group comms (the main advantage of flood routing), though it has limited scalability. :ablobcatwave:

Which one you choose depends on your needs and what each project can offer.

#Meshtastic #Reticulum #ReticulumNetwork

@npub1nvf…cpws is creating a brand new browser engine *from ...

2024-09-09T02:29:41Z

Servo (npub1nvf…cpws) is creating a brand new browser engine *from scratch*. :blobcatboop:

:blobcatderpy: Servo actually started at Mozilla, but development effectively ended in 2020 and it was given to the Linux Foundation (you know it’s a good project when Mozilla stops caring about it :blobcat3c: ).

:blobcatbusiness: It was brought back to life through community donations because making a browser engine from scratch is pretty hard (who knew?).
Help them out here: https://servo.org/sponsorship :ablobcatrainbow:

:blobcatbusiness: Should @npub163h…mv0n implement [STAR ...

2024-08-28T02:18:56Z

:blobcatbusiness: Should Mastodon (npub163h…mv0n) implement [STAR voting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting ) to help curb poll fraud and respondent manipulation?

#poll #polls #vote #voting #mastodon