Mike Stone @mike@fosstodon.org

Just so you know.

Just had a bit of excitement. My wife was out in our garage (which is a complete disaster area) looking for something, and I was upstairs browsing #Fosstodon, when I heard a horror movie style scream come from the garage. My wife comes ripping into the house like she's being chased. She says there's a scorpion in our garage that was 2 or 3 inches long. I put on shoes cuz scorpion, duh. I quickly found our perpetrator. Not a scorpion. This isn't the actual lizard, but looks close.

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Crazy. Those was 4 years ago. Shelves stocked with Pis at my local Fry's Electronics. Joe that store is permanently closed and there's not a Pi to be found, even on the Internet.

This is how I feel every damn time a new vulnerability is discovered. I'm right back where I was, and it's not where I want to be.

I haven't done a #screenshotsunday for a while. This one isn't super interesting, but I've been pretty bland for a while now. Maybe I'll have something more exciting next time.

I used to not have an opinion on #TikTok. I'm old and never bothered to look at it myself. Then my youngest daughter found it and fell in love with it. Now, I quite literally hate TikTok. It's like someone took the worst parts of #Youtube and made a new app out of just that garbage.

Me: We've been experiencing intermittent issues from one of your services.

Tech: OK, we restarted the service. Is it working now?

Me: Yes, it's working, but it's been intermittent, so we don't know if it's fixed.

Tech: OK.

5 minutes later....

Tech: Is it fixed?

Me: Well, it's working, but it's only been five minutes so we don't know if it's fixed.

Tech: OK.

5 minutes later.....

Tech: Is this issue resolved?

Me: ......

It's here!!

#Pixel6Pro

I don't want this to be a political post. This is just a testament to the strength of the Fediverse. New instances can join, drop, or any combination of the two, and it doesn't impact the Fed at large. Being a distributed social network means that one node of that network can experience catastrophic failure and it will have no impact on the rest of the network.

Just rebuilt my #PinePhone with the KDE #Plasma #Manjaro image instead of the #Phosh version. Of course, the first thing I did after that was install #Mycroft. Honestly, it works really slick. Even the GUI works for the most part. My biggest complaint is the speed. I might as well put the order in for the #PinePhonePro right now.

#appleevent

These things make me want to take a shower.

One more beta down! Next up, official release.

Today.

I hope everybody else is having a better one.

Well, I WAS going to clean my garage this weekend....

Ooo, Wednesday excitement.

#Android #beta

Yes, I'm getting a ton of actual work done today. Why do you ask?

What are you doing today?

#elementaryOS6

I don't think I've posted this one before, but since I don't have anything new and interesting for #screenshotsunday, here's one from April of 2012. It's pre-Cinnamon #Mint .

Just got an offer for an entry level call center job. You know, assuming I have this small list of skills already. If I do, they'll be willing to let me work there.

🙄 😆 😂 🤨

#delusional