Mike Stone @mike@fosstodon.org
Husband, father, nerd.
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I'm testing Mint 19 with Cinnamon in a VM this morning. I haven't used Mint since Mint 12. It's a lot more refined and elegant than I remember. Unless there's an ugly secret in here somewhere, I can see this as a daily driver. I'm using MATE right now, for reference.
It's kind of frustrating coming from a family of mostly non-technical people. I showed my brother (who's visiting for the first time in 2 years) some stuff I have around the house. A Mycroft Mark I, a RetroPi Nintendo emulator, a computer I have setup for a coding workstation. I pointed out that they're all running on a Raspberry Pi (a $35 computer), which I think is amazingly cool. He didn't even seem to register how amazing that is.
Some info about the theme I bastardised to work with my site:
Penguins! Oh, and me. I'm there too.
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Next episode of Yet Another Tech Podcast: Tech Support Gore
Calling all sys/net admins! What's your best story?
General AI is probably decades away, but when we finally accomplish it, it will be revolutionary.
"OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on the transformative potential of artificial general intelligence"
I use an app called Datally to monitor my data use when I'm off WiFi. Today while I was waiting on pizza, I loaded a single mobile website. I've complained about boat on the Internet before, but things are really getting stupid now.
A broad overview of how modern Linux systems boot
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LinuxBootOverview
@Gargron I had a question about the rss feeds in Mastodon. I was using them recently, and I noticed that I'm only getting the actual posts made by individuals. I checked, and there's an rss feed on the "with_replies", but it the same. So https://fosstodon.org/@mike.rss and https://fosstodon.org/@mike/with_replies.rss are identical. Is that a bug or working as intended?
Since I don't have a desk at work anymore (a permanent one anyway), I brought my Pi workstation home and set it up here.
The people at The Cheesecake Factory added "Happy Anniversary" in chocolate to our order. Nice.
Where's the cheesecake you ask? It didn't last long.
Some deep and meaningful thoughts whilst I was on holiday.
What do you guys think?
I'm so ready for a weekend. My little brother is going to be here next week. First time I've seen him in over 2 years. Will be a nice change.
Good news.
"Linux and open-source jobs are in more demand than ever"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-and-open-source-jobs-are-in-more-demand-than-ever/
Oh, I've also tried resetting the NVRAM/PRAM. No change.
OK, Apple people, I have a question and I'm hoping you can help me.
My wife's work computer won't start. It's a Macbook Air, and we're just trying to do some initial triage before taking it to their IT group.
It shows the logo and the progress bar fills all the way, but it doesn't go further.
I've tried booting in safe mode and I've tried resetting the SMC firmware (not sure this was required).
Anything else I should try (keeping in mind I have nothing but a power cord and a laptop here)?
I've been using Pocket for a while now, but I'm thinking about using my own Wallabag instance. Does anybody have any experience with it that can give me their opinion with the hands on?
Ug, mornings. Who ever thought these things were a good idea?
