Paul Browne @bigbrownepaul@fosstodon.org

First ride of the year is always fun!

Proud Dad moment when your 6yo son is getting ready for school in the other room and you hear him singing AC/DC.

He's a chip off the old block!

This iFixit video reminded me how cool the FairPhone actually is and I realized it makes me a bit sad that the Linux crowd currently doesn't work much with those devices :/
https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=RCccpgposh4&feature=emb_logo

I have a Ubiquiti Unifi AP but don't like the overhead of running the Unifi controller tool, nor that Ubnt collect user metadata.

I'd like something useful for me (advanced user) that I can also recommend for "normal people", whom I can help with the configuration.

The Mikrotik cAP ticks many boxes as a replacement, but I *hate* their complicated management UI. Is it worth learning, or are there better alternatives?

Boosts appreciated #wifi #mikrotik #ubnt

I've just installed OpenBSD in an old PC. It's working great. Installation process is simple and pretty straight forward. And the number of package installed by default is impressive.

The most awesome part is RAM consumption. Only 79 MB. I'm loving the experience

#openbsd #bsd #fvwm

Aww, for some reason bsd.rd on my edgerouter4 doesn't recognize the NVME disk in an XHCI enclosure as a disk (although I booted the miniroot img off of it to do the install)

I don't often link to Twitter statuses, because.... Twitter, but this one was funny. I'll quote so you don't have to click the link, but you can if you want to.

"Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows."

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1362763793042972673

5d into using the #PinePhone +#mobian+PhoSh.

I made it mine through:

* "bricking" it (it is very HARD to _actually_ brick as it boots in priority from a micro-SDcard.. and the issue was documented)
* trying 10+ OSes on it
* apt dist-upgrade
* apt install stuff
* editing config files and boot loader with vi
* querying the baseband
* adding custom script in /usr/local/bin
* importing data through NextCloud

I feel that joy, curiosity and excitement i didn't feel in computing for a while! #Libre

#food #meat #agriculture #cows

"Lab-grown food is about to destroy farming – and save the planet | George Monbiot"

Damn this nonsense makes my blood boil. And I am of very calm kind...

See my comment in lemmy.ml:
https://lemmy.ml/post/53224/comment/34862

@bigbrownepaul

G O O D M O R N I N G ! ! !

Plan for today's afternoon is work on compressing all my image albums from google #photos and migrating them to #nextcloud... or at least get started 😂

@bigbrownepaul urgh. Sorry to hear that. You got much on this evening?

Tomorrow is #DeleteWhatsAppDay! 🚮 Despite WhatsApp’s delay of its privacy policy update, many users have decided to take a stand for #privacy and leave the controversial chat service on the original deadline of February 8. ✊

#Capitalism is meant to be about private firms taking risks and reaping the rewards. The #rail network on the other hand is about the public taking the risk and racking up huge debts, even while the private firms reap excessive rewards.

Developing an official iOS app for Mastodon

http://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/02/developing-an-official-ios-app-for-mastodon/