It's just gatekeeping. Linux is used in over 90% of web servers and SteamOS already normalized it on consumer devices. Not seeing Linux hipsters running LFS / custom kernels.
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It's just gatekeeping. Linux is used in over 90% of web servers and SteamOS already normalized it on consumer devices. Not seeing Linux hipsters running LFS / custom kernels.
I take it back, Reddit changed their mind lol
This is cool, I wanted to use this as a fridge note thing with my waifu but she wasn't enthused about installing Tailscale π
Reddit / hackernews didn't really care but fedi people seem to like it, know your audience I guess
Yo you got to stop winning so fucking hard my dude... π―β€οΈ
Thanks, bot-tan! Not really relevant but maybe you'll get it next time?
At least Duolingo has a sense of humor about it π€ͺ
Software design is weird. Wrote this article about implementing the most minimal possible version of a software kanban, and what that might say about software design. fd93.me/minimal-kanban #productivity #programming
One thing I like about this one is it's a lot more chill than Habitica, which I used years ago and gave me huge anxiety because of the psychological tricks it uses.
No problem, great minds think alike π€ͺ
Thanks, bot-tan!
I've been trying the advice in Atomic Habits to exercise and meditate more. But habit tracking on paper or a knowledge base can be painful. So I found this open source app for habit tracking, you can get it on Google Play or F-droid. π github.com/iSoron/uhabits #opensource #productivity #android
DevOps / true crime series: In search of the OOM killer #devops #linux
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It goes a bit beyond that: Byung Chul-Han argues that Hegel is _incapable_ of understanding Buddhism because his theory of history and ontology makes Christianity the "highest" form of religion. Hegel's thought is incapable of apprehending Zen accurately.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure if you installed XFCE / Cinnamon / Budgie with a Windows skin you could even make it look and feel like Windows for people who really hate change. Budgie probably being the closest to modern Windows.
Witness: Byung-Chul Han rips Hegel a new one because Hegel doesn't understand Buddhism. goodreads.com/book/show/62... #philosophy #zen #buddhism #books #booksky
Join us, I'm sticking to Fedora for the same reasons.
I changed it on a Samsung S24. Wonder if any OEMs do not allow reverting to the old, normal way.
Actually this is a One UI 7 thing, thanks #samsung
"You wanted to restart your phone? Have you considered using Gemini instead?"
One of the most egregious examples of shoehorning #ai into everything: the #android power button NO LONGER CONTROLS POWER. IT QUERIES GEMINI. #Enshittification #Gemini #Google
Try Pinta if you miss Paint.net π
My hatred of #PHP burns like the fury of 1000 suns #programming #SelfHosting
It's really annoying how the only lightweight #selfhosted options for viewing #git repos use PHP / Perl / CGI like it's 2005. This gives me trauma flashbacks of being a MyBB forum admin as a teen. #SelfHosting
Or you could try Bazzite, which is a Fedora distro designed specifically for gaming.
One of the lightweight Fedora spins like XFCE might be good. Fedora is rock solid because it's the consumer variant of RedHat Enterprise Linux. XFCE is about as light as you can get with a relatively normal desktop experience.
Which distro? I'd recommend Mint if it's your first install.
Wrote this little kanban CLI tool this week. It stores everything in plain text (markdown / yml). Used it for a couple days and I'm happy enough to share it (very v0.1). Full article about it tomorrow. codeberg.org/fd93/plainban #Codeberg #OpenSource #kanban
[rubs cat's belly] Cat: wow that feels good [rubs] Cat: oh yeah, so good [rubs] Cat: [whips out gun] ENOUGH
I'm on #codeberg now! Managed to snag the cool url: codeberg.org/fd93 #OpenSource #GitHub
Just heard about someone using machine vision + electrodes on their hand to get an "aimbot" effect. I wonder if it would be viable to just have "bot", "augmented human" and "unaugmented human" brackets in sports / eSports. No idea which one would be most popular. #ai #gaming #sports #eSports
acta non verba
Some say British food is fit only for dogs, but perhaps we just like our dogs too much.
Want to change my primary git provider from #GitHub to self hosted. Looking for a hosting provider in the EU, ideally with no commercial ties to the US. I need a VPS but would be nice if they offer DNS, edge functions, storage etc. Any recommendations? #devops #OpenSource #SelfHosting
Sure, it's usually like cooked white rice, eggs, and broccoli or something
Turns out really high end dog food is just mashed up human food #dogs #pets
This seemed worth sharing; a collection of resources related to ethical / humane tech. codeberg.org/teaserbot-la... #Fediverse #OpenSource
fwiw this kind of output is not *impossible* for a human writer - many journalists can publish 2-3000 words a day - but it's unlikely for someone who doesn't make their living by writing
I use RSS to follow a blog. Imagine my surprise to find the author writing a 2500-word article every day! On clicking through found it was AI slop with a quick edit by the author, and so was most of the content since 2021. I have now removed this blog from my RSS feed. #AI #AISlop #writing #blog
Not sure what "better" means. Certainly, many amazing companies have been created with a "cheaper" strategy. But most profits in an industry generally go to the more expensive things. Here's why, and also some numbers about that:
I wonder if this is down to the user base. Not saying that Bluesky / fedi users are more attractive, charismatic, and intellectual but...
So, I was getting coffee and one of these monstrosities walked in. This is a giant centipede. It's 30cm long. It has painful venom and will bite. One of the other customers stamped it out and kicked it into the street. I am always surprised by how fast people here will dispatch bugs. #asia #china
GitTea is good for self-hosting. GitLab is good if you're serious. CodeBerg is trendy.
Demand for AI has been varied, to put it mildly. But if it's impossible to turn a profit from it, that will be much worse than a consumer-led bubble burst. More like the dotcom bubble. Siri, play 'Disco 2000'. blog.kilocode.ai/p/future-ai-... #ai #tech #business
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
You can easily get started with trash hardware or a Raspberry Pi. Linux needs less than half a gb of RAM to run acceptably.
As a control freak, I love WMs, especially AwesomeWM, which is scriptable. (Actually the reason is more that I like to build up my config over a long period of time and scriptable tools let me do that.)
PSA: Python no longer behaves the same way in #Vercel Node 22.x images as Node 18.x. If you are using 'pip install -r requirements.txt' you'll now need to install in a venv and use pip3. Took me a while to figure out last night. #DevOps #Python
I've recently been exploring Zen Buddhism and read 4 books on it in quick succession (also took a class). I like Thich Nhat Han especially. Hope this article might be a useful summary for others. fd93.me/four-books-o... #books #booksky #mindfulness #buddhism #zen
Stargazing is a pretty chill hobby, but one year ago tonight it was very nearly the death of me. Literally. Long storytime thread!
Most of the systems I use are either Debian or Fedora / RHEL based - on my laptop I just can't deal with Debian being good for 1 year and stale for a year. I wish they'd move their release cycle up to 1 year instead of 2.
By Bo Peep, Debian 13 'Trixie' is out! Feels like only yesterday I was installing Bookworm. Tempted to distro-hop but so far Fedora is too good. www.debian.org/News/2025/20... #linux #news #debian #debian13
Suspect that both Google and media outlets - who make money from CTR - are telling the side of this story that makes them look good. Neither is particularly trustworthy. "It's difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on not understanding it."
Google claims that their AI summaries don't affect click rates. They're telling the truth. However, the reason it's true for me is because my content is getting more impressions, so the lower CTR is cancelled out. This is... meh. #google #ai #tech #blog #data
As far as I know the major costs for restaurants in the West are rent and labor. These are both way cheaper in Asia, and restaurants can get bulk / commercial discounts on ingredients. So eating out is cheap. tl;dr economics has weird outcomes
Not this specific one but similar stuff, yes, DAISO sells a ton of them: shop.daiso.com.tw/pages/daiso1...
I live on this island off the coast of Fujian which you may have heard of. You can get a biandang (rice box with vegetables and meat) for around 100 NTD or $3 USD. To compare, buying a pack of raw chicken breast is 80 NTD. Dining out is often cheaper, often like 20% more expensive than cooking.
One thing I like about Buddha as described in the Pali Canon is that he talks to his followers casually: "Monks, a monk knows when he is going 'I am going'; he knows when he is standing 'I am standing'; he knows when he is lying down 'I am lying down'..." Would tune in to this podcast. #buddhism
I also like to cook, but most people here do not cook because eating out is cheap. Never really settled on one hobby but the one people always notice is that I build mini brick models
I do, in fact, talk about Linux all day but I also have other hobbies π€
X gon give it to ya is much funnier if you imagine it's about the social media platform #music #rap #hiphop #dmx
Inspired by a project I'm currently working on (and another I'm currently procrastinating π ) Day 3/21 of drawing something each weekday in August! β¨
Good to see that Taipei is paying attention to the lack of government foreign language services, especially for blue collar workers (who are more likely to be exploited). www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/... #taiwan #news #Labor
For me the most important part of this article is that CloudFlare is now actively policing web standards regarding AI, which is interesting. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i... #AI #genAI #CloudFlare #SysAdmin
My cat tries to scam me out of food. We have an automatic feeder that dispenses at 6am, noon, 6pm, and midnight. I wake up at 6am and every day he is gesturing to his empty food bowl and crying. Everyone knows you already ate, enough with the theatrics. #cats
Bad people are doing bad things! π’
Sorry for being dramatic I'm a theater kid sentenced to computers
Personally I am OUTRAGED #politics #uspol
I have many issues on Linux but they are all self inflicted because I use window managers and delete apps I don't like, consequences be damned
(it was ~/.config/gtk3/settings.ini)
Woof Woof! #booksky
Going to try to start meditating morning and evening, because doing that makes the rest of my day make a lot more sense. #Meditation #mindfulness
Really wish theming between different #linux desktops wasn't so cringe. Why can't I see icons in gnumeric? Is it xdg-desktop-portal, lxsession-daemon, .gtkrc, or dark sorcery?
I kinda want to just do both at once but there is only one app I know of that can do that. Might write a CLI tool / basic web app to do it when I have the time
Finally trying out bluesky after spending time on #mastodon. Hi, I'm Frank, I like #linux, #books, and #zen. I was a philosophy major but now I'm a software engineer. Hoping to meet some interesting people on here. What's different about #bluesky? #new #intro