rav3ndust

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by rav3ndust 24d ago
daily challenge and keyboard yoga were very cool. thanks for sharing, bookmarked.
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by rav3ndust 2mo ago
haha, that is certainly one way to achieve the goal. :)
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by rav3ndust 2mo ago
i remember seeing this thread. will be cool for windows users to have a webkit option again (are there any webkit-based browsers there since safari quit being made for it?). i will certainly be interested in trying out the android version w
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by rav3ndust 2mo ago
it's been in beta on linux since early this year
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by rav3ndust 3mo ago
indeed! this is pretty much exactly how i feel about mine as well. i blog for myself, mostly. i enjoy the act of writing, just about whatever is on my mind at any point in time and inspires me to write about it. i know that i have some read
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by rav3ndust 3mo ago
if you're running ubuntu, and the app uses a systray icon, you just click on the systray icon. ubuntu has appindicators out of the box.
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by rav3ndust 4mo ago
i saw this video the other day on youtube (veronica's yt channel is great if you haven't watched!), and cool to see other people doing it as well. it reminded me of a similar setup i have, dubbed 'protocol7', which is a
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The Mac mini just became infrastructure(thenewstack.io)
5 points by rav3ndust 4mo ago|1 comments
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by rav3ndust 4mo ago
oops, disregard. i just saw that the machine was also previewed on "the android show". i'd missed that until i saw it on YT a few minutes ago.
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by rav3ndust 4mo ago
a little O/T, but i suspect these screenshots might be some of the first look at the upcoming aluminiumOS.
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by rav3ndust 5mo ago
little offtopic, but speaking of, someone just made a coding agent plugin that makes it save tokens by speaking like caveman
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by rav3ndust 5mo ago
that song is going to be stuck in my head all day now. lol
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by rav3ndust 6mo ago
cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list. submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been se
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by rav3ndust 6mo ago
to quote the old meme: > hey, i'm in a picture with all my friends!
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by rav3ndust 6mo ago
haha! my cats would love this. thanks for sharing
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by rav3ndust 8mo ago
> Don't do it like "let's play this game because it runs on Linux" do it like "let's play this game because it's fun". Indeed! i have some online and irl buddies who aren't on linux that i&#x2
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by rav3ndust 8mo ago
i like a few multiplayer shooters, fortnite being one of them. i also exclusively use gnu/linux on my machines, so i got around this issue of games like fortnite/battlefield/etc issue a long time ago by simply doing what i&#x
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by rav3ndust 8mo ago
very cool, always enjoy seeing people's personal sites. here's mine, simple blog/now/digital garden/link directory, all that fun stuff! https://rav3ndust.xyz
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by rav3ndust 8mo ago
> You cannot even buy Pinephones anymore Sure you can. The Pinephone Pro is discontinued, sadly, but regular Pinephones are able to be purchased, I just double checked the PINE64 store: https://pine64.com/product/pin
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by rav3ndust 8mo ago
> but I have my dad who is very non-tech savvy who after about a day with gnome actually said it's the first desktop environment that he liked more than Windows 95. more anecdotes, but I had the same experience with getting my moth
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by rav3ndust 10mo ago
indeed, been preaching this kind of thing for ages. the main apps i keep on my mobile are my web browser, my comms apps (element, telegram and signal), and some other stuff from f-droid like retro music, ffupdater, newpipe, termux and stuff
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by rav3ndust 10mo ago
not exactly, fitbit acquired pebble in 2016, and google acquired fitbit in 2021. so while google did end up with the IP in the end, they did the Right Thing this year and open-sourced PebbleOS. i don't normally praise google, but i am
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by rav3ndust 10mo ago
I plan on picking one of these new Pebbles up in the next batch. I loved my original Pebbles (I still have my old Time Steel). Before the Pebbles came back and PebbleOS open-sourced, the only real open smartwatch option we had around that I
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by rav3ndust 1y ago
I've somehow missed The General Magic (something I'm about to fix!), but Halt and Catch Fire was certainly great, enjoyed it very much
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
quite excited for this. i had two pebbles back in the day (the original pebble, and the pebble time steel, which i still have in a drawer at home). i've been using my pinetime as my only watch for several years now, and it does everyth
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
hey, this is cool. i had no idea sandisk was making mp3 players these days. thanks!
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
> an adapter where one end plugged into an audio output jack and the other end was an imitation cassette that went into the tape drive When I was in my teens and early 20s, I used to have a 1997 ford ranger, and this was my setup in it.
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
> coke(!) in the South Haha. Can confirm. I am from Arkansas, and before they passed on, my grandparents usually kept a variety of soda in the house for us grandkids (they never drank it, they of course loved their coffee). it didn'
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
i'd say, in a way, we have 'informally' agreed upon a default desktop. the flagship edition of ubuntu? GNOME. the flagship edition of fedora? GNOME. RHEL? GNOME. installing debian with its defaults? GNOME. while KDE ships on
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by rav3ndust 2y ago
a small anecdote: in 2019, my wife finally got fed up with windows 10. she used no software that was 'windows-only', so she asked me if i'd help her begin the move over to gnu/linux. i made her live-drives of several dif

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