Nostr notes by Grunkle Moose

If you hit the flag button on the pkgs page I think it gives ...

2026-10-27T20:52:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…ffj9
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If you hit the flag button on the pkgs page I think it gives instructions on how to request freshening. I haven't tried it myself. Good luck!

I'm probably going to order one soon - need to get a new sim.

2026-10-27T20:49:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…yfpl
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I'm probably going to order one soon - need to get a new sim.

Had to use a non-hardened browser to interact with muggle ...

2026-10-27T15:46:32Z

Had to use a non-hardened browser to interact with muggle websites this week and my usual fallback is the chromium based browser, Vivaldi. Sometimes I'll use ungoogled Chromium as well.

Normally when using these browsers for the first time in many weeks, I forget that they don't respect the middle button paste buffer in the URL bar, or anywhere I guess. Today I was annoyed enough to see if I can find a work around.

As it turns out it's a GTK gsetting:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste

If that returns false then do a:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

Now you can middle click paste in Chromium based browsers!

For the uncertain, this works regardless of whether you are running a GTK based desktop or not (i.e. do this if you are running Plasma, LXQt, CoW, whatever also).

Gee, what am I going to do with myself for the rest of the day now?

#Chromium #Browser #Web #Vivaldi #gsettings #GTK #MiddleButtonPaste #SandingSharpEdgesForFunAndProfit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/117502395863174860 This is ...

2026-10-25T21:48:31Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/117502395863174860

This is the correct attitude to have regarding these predatory organizations. 💯%

RE: https://merveilles.town/@ccohanlon/117496037584729116 Hard ...

2026-10-24T15:59:51Z

RE: https://merveilles.town/@ccohanlon/117496037584729116

Hard life lessons...

quoting
note15rs…a9fj

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

– William Gibson

Did a vanilla install with auto fs layout (took 3 attempts - ...

2026-10-22T23:37:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…29ps
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Did a vanilla install with auto fs layout (took 3 attempts - /usr/local needs to be 12+GB to accommodate `pjg_add kde kde-plasma`!)

Still no joy. The errors that remain seem to be related to auth/polkit stuff. That and the kde specific app id unknown/missing errors which _might_ be related to same.

Maybe I'll investigate further tomorrow. Bordering on tiresome now. Ha.

Mmm, tortellini. So the call wasn't a total waste of time. ...

2026-10-22T15:09:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…p596
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Mmm, tortellini. So the call wasn't a total waste of time. Ha.

I did have it working on 7.9 about six months. This was in a VM ...

2026-10-22T14:38:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…myzg
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I did have it working on 7.9 about six months. This was in a VM though so never really got properly exercised.

Re: Alpine and KDE - that's my daily on multiple machines for the last ~6 months and have never had any problems, at least not with the RX6600. the RX7800 is unstable as of kernel 7.1. Haven't found the time to try 7.2 yet.

Sounds promising! I'm going to spin up a totally vanilla VM ...

2026-10-22T14:27:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…cddl
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Sounds promising!

I'm going to spin up a totally vanilla VM and see what happens.

I probably won't be able to give any deep attention to this till this evening at the earliest (work is a shit show and have a concrete pour for the garden folly in the late afternoon).

Re: QEMU, video is virtio. I think it's what defaults under Alpine, at least I didn't set up anything custom using virt-machine-manager..

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Prosybris/116830875735024558 ...

2026-10-22T03:38:25Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Prosybris/116830875735024558

Groantastic!!!11!!!

Good call out - I'll give it a try.

2026-10-22T03:34:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…z2z8
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Good call out - I'll give it a try.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@RootMoose/117480626201320622 ...

2026-10-21T19:50:52Z

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@RootMoose/117480626201320622

Anyone seen this problem on OpenBSD with KDE before? Plasmashell crashes and just leaves a black desktop. Can start apps (like konsole via Ctrl+Alt+t).

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #KDEPlasma #KDE

quoting
note1qeh…hckj

I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the startplasma-x11 stdout/error showing:

QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)

Everything falls to crap in the log after this wrt "Failed to register with host portal" -> "Could not register app ID: App info not found" type errors which is either a red herring or useful.

I've got the base config for open files in login.conf and sysctl.conf set to ridiculously large numbers so I don't think it is a ulimit type thing? Or I'm missing something elsewhere.

Maybe turning away from it for a while will help.

I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the ...

2026-10-21T19:48:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…9zex
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I'm out of time to work this today but I'm stuck with the startplasma-x11 stdout/error showing:

QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)

Everything falls to crap in the log after this wrt "Failed to register with host portal" -> "Could not register app ID: App info not found" type errors which is either a red herring or useful.

I've got the base config for open files in login.conf and sysctl.conf set to ridiculously large numbers so I don't think it is a ulimit type thing? Or I'm missing something elsewhere.

Maybe turning away from it for a while will help.

I installed today (8.0). I had to do a sysupgrade -s in order to ...

2026-10-21T18:20:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…67wr
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I installed today (8.0). I had to do a sysupgrade -s in order to fix pkg_add can't resolve errors during installing kde.

I also adjusted the .xsession file to create the tmp files outside of /tmp/run [ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/.tmp/run/$(id -u) ]

Now I can login but plasmashell is in a crash loop - working it now. Ctrl+Alt+T opens konsole so that's something, most of the way there I guess.

Intrigued to see OpenBSD will have updated Intel and AMD GPU ...

2026-10-19T21:50:05Z

Intrigued to see OpenBSD will have updated Intel and AMD GPU drivers.

#OpenBSD #RunBSD

Ha! Just realized I never got around to fixing the ash prompt on ...

2026-10-16T23:19:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…fmz3
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Ha! Just realized I never got around to fixing the ash prompt on this host. D'oh!

Screenshot of the moment just 'cuz on my main lappy. ...

2026-10-16T23:16:10Z

Screenshot of the moment just 'cuz on my main lappy.

#AlpineLinux #Linux

KDE Plasma 6.8.0 now available on Alpine Linux Edge (just ...

2026-10-16T00:10:41Z

KDE Plasma 6.8.0 now available on Alpine Linux Edge (just updated).

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #Linux #Desktop

Until FreeBSD categorically says no AI I'm sticking with ...

2026-10-15T02:42:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…awny
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Until FreeBSD categorically says no AI I'm sticking with Alpine Linux. No point switching otherwise.

I haven't messed with LF yet but... wag... kinda smells like ...

2026-10-11T19:38:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…rqgh
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I haven't messed with LF yet but... wag... kinda smells like an access or perms issue re the DB maybe? Some things work and others don't, do different processes require diff access to the DB?

Another full day of building my wife's garden folly today. ...

2026-10-11T02:07:33Z

Another full day of building my wife's garden folly today. Laid another skid of patio slabs, probably be the last for this season. This is a holiday long weekend in Canada (Thanksgiving) so the rest of the weekend will be visiting family and such.

I do love those moments when there is no man made sounds and I can hear the ravens doing raven things off in the distance. They haven't visited me directly in a several months.

No eagle spottings today, although a humming bird (late!) was really interested in my hat for a bit.

It's starting to get too cold for this kind of work.

Have you looked at some of the boutique Linux laptop vendors? ...

2026-10-09T12:41:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…cvl4
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Have you looked at some of the boutique Linux laptop vendors? Starlabs, Tuxedo, others? Don't know if their chipsets will scratch your itch though...

Oh ho! apk upgrade just updated the linux-stable kernel from ...

2026-10-06T23:54:27Z

Oh ho! apk upgrade just updated the linux-stable kernel from 7.1.5 to 7.2.9. I was just wondering about this in the morning.

Time to retest the RDNA3 GPU... maybe next week when I'm not on vacation and slaving on the garden folly. Ha.

#Linux #AlpineLinux

I really enjoyed the series.

2026-10-06T22:53:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…kx8t
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I really enjoyed the series.

It is pretty neat software. Yeah, I have two copies of immich ...

2026-10-06T14:33:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…jtrh
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It is pretty neat software. Yeah, I have two copies of immich running, same docker host but on different domains to keep things easily mentally separated.

I have stuff going way back as well. A friend of mine scanned all the family photo albums for us a number of years back. I still need to go back and correctly set the dates. One of these years. Ha!

Finally turned attention to getting Immich up and running ...

2026-10-06T05:12:27Z

Finally turned attention to getting Immich up and running tonight. I like it, seems snappy enough with tens of thousands of photos imported.

The Immich website has a handy form driven page for generating a docker compose file so it took like 30 seconds to get it running once mutated to follow my way of doing things on my server (persistent storage, naming, cert proxy, etc).

I struggled a bit with using the Immich command line tool to import my photo collection and in the process of trying to figure out why --recursive didn't work, stumbled upon the immich-go project on github. It's also a command line tool and works very well; immediately was able to recursively import photos, etc. Compiles cleanly on Alpine Linux (ofc, it's just golang).

Immich-go has a migrate function that allows you to connect to one Immich server and copy the files to another Immich server (but no delete source as far as I could tell).

I set up a second Immich instance on a different port and started to use the migrate function to finally start moving all the photos of my computer electronics and vehicle technical projects out of the whole household's photo collection. My wife will appreciate that. Ha. Managed to split out 2026-2025, only ~25 more years to go. Ugh.

Anyway, Immich (the server) and Immich-go (the CLI tool) are cool. Recommended.

Fun!

#immich #immichgo #AlpineLinux #cli #photography #photos #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

Were any of the talks from the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux ...

2026-10-05T17:26:27Z

Were any of the talks from the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference 2026 posted anywhere?

#nura #nuraeco #postmarketOS #AlpineLinux

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/117373580061691521 ...

2026-10-03T03:11:33Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/117373580061691521

[@Gammitin](https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin ) Oh wow! There's a blast from the past. Kewel!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117366759284163399 Red Hat ...

2026-10-01T17:15:38Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117366759284163399

Red Hat has been a walking zombie for a very, very, long time.

It was a dark and horsey night... #HorseIdioms

2026-09-29T00:28:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…23ac
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It was a dark and horsey night...

#HorseIdioms

Do you have linux-firmware-dell installed? That's what ...

2026-09-27T22:53:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…46l4
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Do you have linux-firmware-dell installed? That's what it's called on my Alpine powered Dell but IIRC Debian has something similar, perhaps named differently. I used to run Debian on this laptop (XPS 9700) without issues so should be a workable solution out there.

HTH

In retrospect, kinda wondering why there isn't a post about ...

2026-09-27T00:21:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…wd0g
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In retrospect, kinda wondering why there isn't a post about weaponizing pineapple on pizza... ;)

Not as of yet but planning to get my head around lvgl and arduino ...

2026-09-27T00:15:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…8rur
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Not as of yet but planning to get my head around lvgl and arduino with it.

10:30 AM in Ontario, all about the toast. Ha

2026-09-26T14:26:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…wd0g
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10:30 AM in Ontario, all about the toast. Ha

Yeah, not a fan of bulk converting thousands of files, ...

2026-09-25T14:33:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…2twa
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Yeah, not a fan of bulk converting thousands of files, particularly "source of truth" files.

There's an argument about proprietary file formats and whatnot, but there is no reason why this shouldn't "just work" as the flatpak shows. It's just really annoying!

I'm more annoyed that Shotwell from repo doesn't work with HEIC, it's much "lighter" for just browsing/snarfing images than Darktable so that's kinda been my main casual interface to photos. Gwenview is just when stuff gets moved to project directories really so not a huge pain.

Onwards...

Breakie Carbie Goodies!

2026-09-25T14:25:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…6lzh
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Breakie Carbie Goodies!

for giggles installed the flatpak version - it works perfectly ...

2026-09-25T14:22:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…v47p
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for giggles installed the flatpak version - it works perfectly fine with HEIC files.

Boo! Hiss!

LOL

Yeah, they are both there. Maybe I had to manually install ...

2026-09-25T14:20:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…cs7m
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Yeah, they are both there. Maybe I had to manually install libde265 yesterday, can't remember.

I think it's a red herring after doing a strace of gwenview trying to load the HEIC file.

It almost looks like GV is looking for image types in a flatpak directory hierarchy instead of the local file system (not using flatpak version).

But I'm very far from expert in this stuff, I could be missing something but don't see any attempts in the trace to load heif info otherwise.

That's all the time I have for this today. Oh well. Ha.

Compiling libheif from source, as one does. <le_sigh />

2026-09-25T13:51:42Z

Compiling libheif from source, as one does.

<le_sigh />

No time to play with CoW today but did log back into the machine ...

2026-09-24T23:25:59Z

No time to play with CoW today but did log back into the machine after running around on my main box (Plasma) all day.

Swaylock needs some themeing but once in and seeing the partially modified twm I was working on yesterday it gave me a big smile. Simple and sharp!

Anyway, still going to pick at this in the background. Need to figure out how to manage minimized apps and launching and stuff using waybar, waybar-wlr-taskbar, cowiconbox, sway*, and friends.

So customizable! You can make your own desktop paradigms for the most part. I love it! Ha.

Is there a way to create animations? Something like a Picom add-on but for Wayland?

I installed Budgie (iirc 10.10.2) on my test box just to have a look - launching from sddm gives a login loop so I'll ignore that for now as that's more time to debug than I'm willing to invest ATM.

Fun!

#Linux #RunBSD #CoW #RiverWM #Wayland #WaylandDesktop #Sway

I guess I hadn't looked at photos since migrating to Alpine ...

2026-09-24T21:34:21Z

I guess I hadn't looked at photos since migrating to Alpine Linux lately.

Does anyone have HEIC (i.e. Apple) formatted images working correctly under Alpine?

I've installed libheif, kimageformats and anything remotely libheif related in the repo but Gwenview still doesn't display HEIC images. Neither does Shotwell.

I installed Ristretto to compare and it also doesn't display HEIC images.

GIMP works as does Darktable.

Dolphin displays the thumbnails properly but the preview pane doesn't work.

Ideas? Kinda pulling my hair out and out of options.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #AlpineLinuxEdge #KDE #Plasma #Gwenview #libheif #HEIC #Apple #Ristretto #GIMP

Ok, that's enough nonsense in my timeline, time to switch the ...

2026-09-24T10:07:01Z

Ok, that's enough nonsense in my timeline, time to switch the language model and whackadoodle US politics filters back to "Hide Completely".

When practically every second or third unfollowed post is brain rot bullshit that you don't want to see you have to protect yourself somehow.

Very cool. Any activity that gets you "out there" is a ...

2026-09-24T02:40:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…6qtx
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Very cool. Any activity that gets you "out there" is a net positive in your life.

Monkeying around with CoW themes and mildly shocked to discover ...

2026-09-23T22:10:49Z

Monkeying around with CoW themes and mildly shocked to discover that the only packaged up flat theme is twm!

Literal LOL

Ha

#CoW #fvwm #Wayland #GUI #Desktop

I tested out Cosmic but it doesn't seem quite ready yet IMO. ...

2026-09-23T21:39:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…jv7y
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I tested out Cosmic but it doesn't seem quite ready yet IMO.

I've been experimenting with Labwc and River+CoW to replace Plasma. I have a lot of ancient experience with fvwm so CoW kinda has a soft spot for me at this time.

For OS I'm running Alpine. I switched to Alpine more over systemd than AI, but it still applies at this point. The bit of AI debate Alpine has had has been quite wishy-washy but I'm content to sit in pattern for now.

PostmarketOS (downstream of Alpine) has a strong anti-AI stance so ... I guess that's an option if for no other reason than perhaps downstream vetting.

You know about Elementary. Their moving to immutable is off-putting to me. We discussed Chimera, seems like a good fit for me but I like the larger support/scale that Alpine has - for now.

At this point I won't make any final decisions but am keeping my options open.

I'm not going to look into the BSDs further for "reasons" as i'm not convinced they won't be as encrusted in the coming months/years similarly to the Linux kernel. Well, not NetBSD - but I'm not ready to go that far back into paleocomputing at this time.

$0.02

<posted from Alpine with CoW plus Waterfox flatpak>

LXQt seems pretty ambivalent to me. ...

2026-09-23T21:26:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…4yee
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LXQt seems pretty ambivalent to me.

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/discussions/2889

I've been fussing around with Labwc a bit. The out of the box ...

2026-09-23T16:42:51Z

I've been fussing around with Labwc a bit. The out of the box Labwc config on Alpine is very minimal. Labwc uses Openbox themes, but before I go down that rabbit hole I want to explore CoW.

Following the build instructions "bouncing ball" on both the river and CoW Codeberg pages resulted in success with CoW selectable and launch-able in sddm with zero dramas.

Clicking on the empty desktop and getting the minimalist cow (fvwm!) menu to appear for the first time was a bit of a comfy old shoe moment. Ha.

Thanks River and [@thomasadam](https://bsd.network/@thomasadam ) !

Now the fun, hard, and time consuming part: making CoW look the way I want it to look and selecting tools to flesh out the rest of the desktop.

I did go looking for some of my old fvwm configs in my code repo but I guess I never saved my desktop configs - just my carputer stuff. 2008 was a long time ago. Oh well.

Fun!

#CoW #CompositorOnWayland #RiverWM #River #Labwc #Linux #AlpineLinux #RunBSD #fvwm #sddm

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@LAYERED/117305095737237949 This would ...

2026-09-23T15:13:38Z

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@LAYERED/117305095737237949

This would be great for the audio decks in my classic cars...

quoting
note10fj…rtff

I'm always amazed at the kinds of great projects some people come up with. It's just fantastic! 😍

"I made an MP3 player that only plays on tape decks”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otXrFBq0HWQ

Time to unmothball some old fvwm configs and tweak for cow it ...

2026-09-22T13:02:44Z

Time to unmothball some old fvwm configs and tweak for cow it seems...

#cow #cowwm #wm #wayland #WaylandDesktop

Cow does not use llms... ...

2026-09-22T12:53:24Z

Cow does not use llms...

https://codeberg.org/cow-wm/cow#is-ai-used-in-this-project

#ai #noai #nollm #llm #Linux #RunBSD #wm #cow #cowwm #wayland #WaylandDesktop #slop #noslop

Riverwm is also anti-AI/LLM. ...

2026-09-22T12:49:07Z

Riverwm is also anti-AI/LLM.

https://codeberg.org/river/river#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy

#ai #noai #nollm #llm #Linux #RunBSD #wm #labwc #wayland #WaylandDesktop #slop #noslop

It appears that labwc has an anti-AI/LLM stance of sorts. ...

2026-09-22T12:40:50Z

It appears that labwc has an anti-AI/LLM stance of sorts.

https://github.com/labwc/labwc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#use-of-ai-generated-content

#ai #noai #nollm #llm #Linux #RunBSD #wm #labwc #wayland #WaylandDesktop #slop #noslop

Just another day in Paradise, eh? Ha.

2026-09-21T09:37:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…wrgs
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Just another day in Paradise, eh? Ha.

Marigolds are great for planting in and around your crop plants ...

2026-09-19T15:16:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…gqal
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Marigolds are great for planting in and around your crop plants in the garden. Their scent masks your crop vegetables so they don't get get eaten by deer, raccoons, etc.

As someone that lives in Ontario and uses Plasma... Not sure how ...

2026-09-13T01:49:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…pzyz
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As someone that lives in Ontario and uses Plasma... Not sure how to unpack this. LOL!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasoneckert/117247381221483091 ...

2026-09-10T15:14:56Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasoneckert/117247381221483091

Ahem...

RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/117246583362762016 A ...

2026-09-10T13:28:47Z

RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/117246583362762016

A positive news story about climate in my timeline? How can this be?

quoting
note1x6k…pxhs

Ready for some good news?
We can do it!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/10/climate-crisis-tipping-points-energy-environment-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Latest screenshot. Still rockin' the RDNA2 GPU; should try ...

2026-09-09T16:36:17Z

Latest screenshot. Still rockin' the RDNA2 GPU; should try the RDNA3 one again, there's been a whack of kernel updates.

Things you don't think about before getting a drawing tablet...

I've setup the drawing tablet to the left of my keyboard so I can spin either way depending on what I am doing. My keyboard is on the desk in front/under the right large screen.

My two main screens are on monitor arms from behind and the small screen placed in this orientation gives mouse navigation a smooth, natural usage path.

I'm right handed so this works for me - for now. Perhaps it'll change around the more into it I go.

Oh, and if anyone was wondering - works great with GIMP too!

<I really need to get my Jeep back on the road - le_sigh>

#Linux #AlpineLinux #xppen #Drawing #hardware

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117168252914591911 I was ...

2026-09-08T21:33:22Z

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117168252914591911

I was finally motivated to pick up one of these devices after reading David's review.

Just got it working under Alpine Linux - the default driver stuff works as referenced on his website. I'll need to dig into this further to see what customization I want.

The device itself has a great feel, has a feeling of quality. I got a boring black one and it coordinates with my cheap and cheerful keyboard I mentioned the other week. Ha.

Anyway, never had one of these drawing devices before - learning curve inbound I expect.

#Drawing #AlpineLinux #xppen #Linux #Hardware
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I LOL'ed.

2026-09-07T15:18:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…sncy
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I LOL'ed.

RE: https://graphics.social/@linescad/117212816676993924 As ...

2026-09-05T14:17:38Z

RE: https://graphics.social/@linescad/117212816676993924

As someone stuck in the "I've got one last peice of Windows house design and visualization software that I can't get to run properly on Linux", this project looks very interesting!
nostr:note1v7j55tatdzc7vu5u0gleagj30qeg75v0ec9szlqdd4wr4vuhknysgwj8qf

Oh, right! Thanks for reminding me about this device.

2026-09-04T21:50:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…67a9
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Oh, right! Thanks for reminding me about this device.

Latest thoughts on mobile devices... * Done with Android. Google ...

2026-09-04T11:29:56Z

Latest thoughts on mobile devices...

* Done with Android. Google has killed any cachet it had with their recent developer registration and side loading BS. I won't waste any more time on Android messing around with embedded stuff for my projects.

* iOS phone that I currently own (13) will be my last. Apple is just as bad as Google, will leave this platform also, even if for the last 4-5 years it was a sort of pseudo-privacy respecting mobile safe space. It was all BS and is about to get worse.

* I really haven't used phone apps beyond Firefox (and now Waterfox and Librewolf since Firefox turned) in the set 10 years or so. Won't miss anything from this perspective. I've never trusted the platforms with my payment systems so I won't miss "tap phone to pay" either. CarPlay/AAuto is convenient but a huge privacy leak.

* My next phone will be something that takes calls/sms and can create a hotspot and does effectively nothing else; a decent camera that doesn't have AI BS ruining the images would be nice. Device suggestions appreciated.

* I'll probably start researching small, flip convertible, touchscreen laptops that can act as a tablet and pair it with the phone. The device needs to be able to run Linux and/or BSD (of course). The older Lenovo Tab 11 I have now is serviceable in the meantime until I find a decent lightweight convertible.

* Would consider a Linux phone but I don't care enough about this segment to put up with being a beta/gamma tester. Also, lot of money for an uneven and potentially bad experience.

* If we consider new cars a mobile device <wat!?> then I'm done with them as well. So much so that I recently bought a 2000 Volvo S70 5spd for my wife as a winter beater. No mobile telemetry there - unlike my son's new Toyota GR86.

* While navigating all this, boycotting U.S. tech/manufacturers.

* There's no fun/joy in any of this stuff any more. #RantyMcRantFace

Pretty tall order. Makes the further case for throwing the phone into the crusher and migrating from "digital man" to "analog man" and fleeing into the woods/workshop. Ha.

#Mobile #Android #ios #Apple #google #DigitalNomad #Linux #RunBSD #TMI

These "silly" Star Trek Strange New Worlds episodes are ...

2026-09-04T03:12:09Z

These "silly" Star Trek Strange New Worlds episodes are starting to get tiresome.

#StarTrek #STSNW #SNW

Oh ho! Looks like wayland+labwc are available on NetBSD. Will ...

2026-09-03T23:46:53Z

Oh ho! Looks like wayland+labwc are available on NetBSD.

Will take a poke!

#RunBSD #Wayland #labwc #NetBSD

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117202049910530265 Absolute ...

2026-09-02T15:32:41Z

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117202049910530265

Absolute truth.

quoting
note1j2c…ez34

RE: https://social.lol/@brennan/117182194255361262

Everyone wants to be "punk" because of the cultural capital being "anti mainstream" can give but doing that with LLMs really misses the whole point.

Punk is about _DIY_ and LLMs/"AI agents" are the opposite of that.
note1r83…ywkq

Long shot... Can anyone in eastern Ontario (Perth-ish) recommend ...

2026-09-02T11:22:58Z

Long shot...

Can anyone in eastern Ontario (Perth-ish) recommend a company for heritage barn repairs and renovation?

Stuff like this is a total blind spot for web search - keeps giving links for slick companies four or five hours away down near Kitchener. With so many farms around here there must be something local. SEO is a scourge.

#barn #renovation #Ontario #EasternOntario

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/117193110014624999 It would be ...

2026-09-01T16:07:24Z

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/117193110014624999

It would be super cool if this worked for ZFS also.

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #Linux #RunBSD

quoting
note146n…dq9r

KDE Linux Now Providing Automatic Btrfs Snapshots For All User Files

With the end of the month comes a new monthly status report from the KDE Linux project as their in-house distribution project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-August-2026

postmarketOS AI Policy: "We forbid the use of generative AI ...

2026-09-01T04:12:27Z

postmarketOS AI Policy:

"We forbid the use of generative AI tools in postmarketOS."

https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/development/ai-policy.html

#postmarketOS #pmOS #AlpineLinux #AI #AIPolicy #Linux

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/117190865919327574 At current ...

2026-08-31T16:27:57Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/117190865919327574

At current capitalist enshittification rates this is how we will be computing in ten years...

Been doing some exploring of alternate operating systems again. ...

2026-08-31T16:23:52Z

Been doing some exploring of alternate operating systems again.

Haiku is pretty cool. It has a lot of the default sort of apps the normal Linux ecosystem has but it is missing some things like LibreOffice for example. Or perhaps it exists outside of the default repos - didn't get that far yet.

Just installed NetBSD in a VM. As an out of the box desktop experience it is pretty much raw dogging 1990s X11. Ha. Cool, it is what it is.

If I were to spend any time on NetBSD as a desktop sysadmin terminal I'd have to do something else like fvwm or perhaps openbox (lxqt?) exists. That's some exploration for another day.

Obviously these both have their strengths elsewhere but as a seat of the pants look this is how they struck me. I may spend more time digging into NetBSD. I have some embedded appliance type projects to play around with but at this point am still all in on Alpine.

Fun!

Having recently gotten FTTF (to the farm 🙃 ) I can totally ...

2026-08-31T15:36:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…4hfm
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Having recently gotten FTTF (to the farm 🙃 ) I can totally relate after literal decades of DirectPC Sat, terrestial wifi, LTE...

I think my current connection has better throughput and latency than any connection I had in an office in downtown Ottawa in the before times.

.com has always felt kinda... icky.

2026-08-30T03:06:53Z

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.com has always felt kinda... icky.

I was actually looking for a TKL version at the store but they ...

2026-08-28T15:45:07Z

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I was actually looking for a TKL version at the store but they did not seem to have any. I haven't checked the manufacturer website yet to see if it exists.

As someone else mentioned, check used on FB Marketplace as well. ...

2026-08-28T15:40:23Z

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As someone else mentioned, check used on FB Marketplace as well.

A lot of people have good intentions of doing photography and end up with really decent and recent camera kits languishing in their closet.

Decided to 'go fer it'. I'll post about any weirdness ...

2026-08-28T10:55:57Z

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Decided to 'go fer it'. I'll post about any weirdness encountered. I don't expect any given how the various components in Alpine are structured/integrated and the lack of Nvidia drivers screwing things up.

This looks interesting as well... https://github.com/DirectVT/vtm

2026-08-28T10:39:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…tm4c
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This looks interesting as well...

https://github.com/DirectVT/vtm

There was a conversation on here a week (or two++?) ago that ...

2026-08-28T10:38:32Z

There was a conversation on here a week (or two++?) ago that ranged into the "good ol' days" of optimizing DOS 640Kb memory using emm386 and the like with MS and DR DOS etc.

I kept thinking about that conversation and invariably started thinking about old windowing systems like GEOS on the C64 and Desqview on DOS.

Anyway, that led to wondering about text windowing systems beyond what you can do with tmux or screen or whatever.

Twin looks quite interesting. Need to have a play.

#Linux #RunBSD #TUI #GUI #TextWinndows

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

As soon as vim-classic was packaged for Alpine I did bulk apk ...

2026-08-28T10:02:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…yelk
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As soon as vim-classic was packaged for Alpine I did bulk apk del/add across all my hosts. I need to go back and check availability on Debian. Probably a good Friday thing to do.

I may dockerize or just run "normally" depending on mood ...

2026-08-27T20:52:52Z

I may dockerize or just run "normally" depending on mood at the time.

I'm really looking forward to giving this a go on my own ...

2026-08-27T20:52:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…0630
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I'm really looking forward to giving this a go on my own hardware.

Boosting indeed!

2026-08-27T20:51:47Z

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Boosting indeed!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rodlie/117163576049450649 Mood ...

2026-08-26T20:19:02Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rodlie/117163576049450649

Mood

quoting
note14ty…rxjd

Looking forward to release day! I think I'll self host my car ...

2026-08-26T13:38:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…hts4
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Looking forward to release day! I think I'll self host my car socials again.

People tell me that Heated Rivalry is a really good show. ...

2026-08-26T03:01:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ees
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People tell me that Heated Rivalry is a really good show. There's going to be a second season apparently. I'm just not that into hockey.

Do I know anyone that has been running Alpine Linux Edge for an ...

2026-08-25T18:03:49Z

Do I know anyone that has been running Alpine Linux Edge for an appreciable amount of time? Like say, 12-18 plus months?

Have you ever been caught out with kernel+gpu+desktop versionitis causing issues? Other issues?

Debating whether to switch my desktop hosts to Edge. I could always roll back but trying not to shoot myself in the face just 'cuz.

#AlpineLinux #Linux #AlpineLinuxEdge

Was at the "local" computer store last night (Canada ...

2026-08-25T17:27:53Z

Was at the "local" computer store last night (Canada Computers Kanata) and while searching for what I was looking for I stumbled across the keyboard display.

The keyboard I've been using for couple of years has been an e-waste thingy lying around from an old Dell pre-built. It's serviceable and perfectly fine but...

The Logitech G-something-or-other that I had before that was too expensive given the short lifespan it had so I never got around to replacing it with like-for-like.

Anyway, I saw a really cool looking "cheap and cheerful" Chinese doo-hickey and rolled the dice (DAREU EK106 Pro).

It has a great feel and seems like decent build quality for C$66. It feels better than the Logitech too (materials, design).

It's always hard to tell if brands you don't know in your local store are worth a damn but I give this brand and model a thumbs up. I really like it after pounding on it all morning.

Agree. I quite liked it.

2026-08-21T20:58:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…4km4
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Agree. I quite liked it.

Like minds and all that. Ha.

2026-08-21T12:37:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…85y4
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Like minds and all that. Ha.

At 1:15 AM normal people are fast asleep for several hours sawing ...

2026-08-21T05:24:09Z

At 1:15 AM normal people are fast asleep for several hours sawing logs.

Meanwhile, I'm fawking around in the cellar with cover off the main electrical panel that connects the house to the barn and garage and trying to figure out the maximum number of amps that can be pushed between the buildings. I was hoping the line to the barn was over-spec'ed for the current 60A allocated. It isn't (sad face).

Why do I do this to myself? Insomnia and an active imagination are pain. Ha.

Corp website+search+db running on several Sparc stations running ...

2026-08-19T13:48:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…08ck
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Corp website+search+db running on several Sparc stations running Nextstep. Great in concept but not execution.

All eyes on the Debian vote re: AI I guess...

2026-08-18T15:53:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…55g0
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All eyes on the Debian vote re: AI I guess...

Agree, I've got FreeBSD running Plasma with very few issues, ...

2026-08-18T15:47:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…xlt2
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Agree, I've got FreeBSD running Plasma with very few issues, just little paper cut things here and there where things are not configured out of the box as expected.

The only thing that really annoys is not having a proper smb client to mount cifs shares in the fstab. It's not the end of the world, could run nfs on the nas, but I don't wanna. Ha. Otherwise there is not really a a show stopper to using FreeBSD on the desktop in my case.

It's disappointing that all these operating system teams are afraid to make a statement one way or the other due to a fear of "missing out" or whatever it is that is stopping them one way or the other.

That shows a lack of organization in the lesser case and a lack of character in the greater case, IMO.

Yeah, that's my understanding as well. I'd consider going ...

2026-08-18T15:31:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…qtuv
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Yeah, that's my understanding as well.

I'd consider going to FreeBSD just 'cause it has the broadest amount of support in community and hardware but the project seems to be as wishy-washy as Alpine re: slop so what's the point? For me, it would be kind of reducing utility to in terms of hardware support to end up in the same place.

I like OpenBSD conceptually but I find the community support off-putting the few interactions I've had/seen and it has even less hardware and software support.

NetBSD just doesn't fit what I need.

Elementary is a "safe place" currently, IMO (systemd notwithstanding 😜).

I'd like to see them re-baseline on Debian Testing the way Tuxedo is doing but that's unlikely to happen any time soon, if ever. And it's certainly not a reason not to use e. Ha.

Ah, was not aware. Sound drivers don't quite work? ...

2026-08-18T14:50:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…q7e4
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Ah, was not aware. Sound drivers don't quite work? FreeBSD-isms causing issues?

FWIW, Chimera Linux has a similar bent and it provides basically ...

2026-08-18T14:33:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…zh0h
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FWIW, Chimera Linux has a similar bent and it provides basically all the desktop environments you'd typically want - if you don't want a GTK based desktop like Pantheon you can run KDE, LXQt, whatever.

Pantheon is awesome, just a little restrictive for my tastes. I ran e for like 3-4 years back in the late-teens and it did everything I wanted at that time.

Chimera uses the FreeBSD userland, is very snappy, etc. Small dev team but I haven't seen any issues in the ~2 years I've been paying attention to it. No systemd.

These to me are the two standout Linux distros of the moment re: slop.

I'm running Alpine these days and they are kind of wishy-washy on the slop thing it seems. There's a lot of inertia for me to move to something else right now and if I do move I may leave Linux altogether perhaps.

Or maybe s/Linux Foundation/Linus Foundation/g ?

2026-08-17T21:10:49Z

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Or maybe s/Linux Foundation/Linus Foundation/g ?

Someone needs to create a web browser extension that does a ...

2026-08-17T20:57:54Z

Someone needs to create a web browser extension that does a s/Linux Foundation/Linux Consortium/g type thing.

The word "foundation" is kinda loaded and doesn't mean what people expect it to mean.

#Linux #LinuxFoundation

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Having run email ...

2026-08-17T14:33:52Z

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I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Having run email systems some 15-20 years ago for a government agency, I'm kind of on the fence about whether to bother self-hosting my own domains. It takes effort to do it correctly.

One of the things that people mention is how belligerently stupid or adversarial Google and Microsoft are to small email servers.

I think at this stage of Internet standards and evolution and email routing, etc. that now is the time to say "so what?" and if these to corps won't accept your mail then that is a problem for the recipient to (i.e. ~gmail.com, ~microsoft.com user) to resolve. Get a better email server.

The rest is just technical stuff.

I mean, email just isn't that important any more. If someone wants contact they'll figure it out. Or not. \_ (ツ)_/

To be fair, us old farts hate them too.

2026-08-17T01:58:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…vafa
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To be fair, us old farts hate them too.