Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

I mark the passage of time by how often I think "computers were a mistake".

I think what excites me about things like #gemini is that it's simple enough I can wrap my head around it and a nice community around it. Gemini will probably never "take over the world", and I question if that's even desirable. It's just fun to play with and I like seeing what people can do with it.

I think I'm going to try to turn a raspberry pi into Spotify appliance for my stereo. I have one laying around that I got from a job interview 2 years ago that I never took out of its box.

Happy May day / Labor day ya'll!

@weirdwriter Other the other hand though. The consumer tech support industry seems to be a total mess, so maybe normies aren't usually getting support anyway 🤷. Idk it's complicated.

@weirdwriter I think expecting volunteers to provide free tech support is unreasonable. But, that can leave users with no support, which isn't good either. Blinding pushing normies toward foss can be naive and leave users in a spot where no one will support them.

@weirdwriter I caught your toot about foss and support before your other account got deleted and I just wanted to respond briefly:

I agree that foss can be somewhat hostile to non-technical users and that's something we should care about. I think at least part of the reason for the conflicting messages is that they're coming from different parts of the community.

#Florida up in here like we need to look at kids genitals to "protect them". Shit's whacked yo!

I released a new version of my #linux app launcher launcher, Poki Launcher! It now has optional #kde #krunner integration. https://sr.ht/~zethra/poki-launcher/

Given @sir negative opinions of #rust I find it pretty funny that rust is the second most popular tag on #sourcehut 😆

Anything using tokio takes *forever* to compile! The pervasiveness of async in the Rust ecosystem has been hell for compile times. Async should *not* be the default in most cases. If you're writing a cli app with an http client you probably shouldn't be using tokio. Long compile times are an anti-feature.

As a developer I love Rust. As a packager I hate Rust. Compile take soooo long.

https://youtu.be/lC6JtoSN-KQ