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Check out my blog! :D
https://rldane.space
My scripts
https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts
Pronouns
he/him/my good fellow
Politics
justice and mercy
Faith
Christian, but not the angry, cringey, tragically hilariously oblivious kind
My alts:
@rl_dane (former alt account, now migrated here), @rl_dane (BSD.Cafe #snac server), @rl_dane (Pixelfed), @RL_Dane (bookwyrm)
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Snarky, but kind

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My blog: https://rldane.space/
My scripts: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts

#Fediversian since late 2018, full-time #fediholic since early 2022.
First-wave #twexodee.

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Imported profile from fosstodon:

Involuntary time-traveler, recipient of offensive grace. Quasi-technical Linux and FOSS enthusiast. Armchair privacy advocate

Profile pic is my own, copyright me.

Header image courtesy of NASA: https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8

My #interests:

#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Linux
#UNIX
#Bible
#Christianity
#Jesus
#AmateurRadio
#Bash
#Dallas
#Writing
#Poetry
#Space
#KSP
#Tea
#FountainPens
#Journaling
#TabletopRPG
#RetroComputing
#ClassicMac
#uxn

#fedi22

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Parphrasing some conversations/emotions on #Fedi the last few days, for clarity:

> "Ah, I see. Someone failed your arbitrary purity test, and now you are angry and want to hurt them with your words."

"No. I'm angry that greedy corporations have executed one PsyOp after another to make a morally clear issue murky and allow abuses to continue, and I will use what seems on the surface to be ridiculous-sounding exaggerated syllogisms and polarized statements to restore clarity to the fact that we are somehow debating just how much baby-shredding should be allowed in Open Source projects, for flip's sake.
I understand that the people who have made tragically obtuse and seemingly clueless statements in defense of the indefensible are also human beings who have mummys and daddys that love them very much, and I wish them no harm or ill.
This is not rancor, it is rectitude. Maybe look it up in the dictionary sometime."

@stefano @gabe_saltar @lcruggeri @as400 @justine

Now I'm pondering the alternate reality where I didn't spill tea all over my beloved MacBook Air in 2019. I wonder how long I would've continued daily driving MacOS. The hardware would've been supported by Apple until 2021, but I wouldn't have been motivated to buy a new one at that point.

I guess I'm glad the events worked out the way they did.

I have a hard time relating too much to me-from-ten-years-ago that happily used Google Chrome, Google Drive, and typed all his notes in Microsoft Word. 😝

  • Loads #Fediverse notifications
  • @Tusky whimpers
  • Phone bursts into flames
  • Spacetime folds in on itself
  • I'm playing Pasur with Dave Bowman in the hotel room at the end of time
  • The unnerving space fetus is keeping score
  • Captain Picard's 42 palms are simultaneously placed on his forehead
  • The universe is singing its song to me:
    "Oooolwayyyz look on the broight soide of loife....!"

#Hellthreadia

@twizzay, I feel this toot was worthy of you.

As it is also his birthday, I cannot let it pass without also honoring his memory. He would have been 18 today. (Ok, that breaks my brain a little 😅)

To my dear #FloofSon Hobbes. My very own Puss in Boots. 😸💗

 A photo of the most amazing ginger tabby to ever grace the Earth with his pawsteps.

Recent posts

Spent way too long painstakingly scanning #FloofSon #Sunny's adoption and veterinary records (and optimizing the PDFs, performing OCR, etc), only to realize that the vet didn't email me, their "service" did.

And of course, when you click on the link, you have to accept the #ToS, which includes a #BindingArbitration agreement.

Well, I guess I'm just going to bring paper records with me.

Foxtrot this stupid timeline.

Just remembered the Z-Hop* setting in #Cura. Now my C64 keyboard dust cover should hopefully print without incident. :D

* Causes the print head to jump up whenever moving over a printed layer to prevent the print head from snagging the part being printed and yanking it off the build surface (print/print head collision)

#3DPrint #3DPrinting #3DPrinter #Sovol #C64 #C64U #Commodore #Commodore64 #Commodore64U #Commodore64Ultimate

It's 2026 and there's still no way to type #emoji from a shell script (such as my [emoji-picker]) in the #KDE #Plasma #Wayland session.

Not with kdotool
Not with ydotool
Not with dotool
Not with wtype

Nothing.

NOTHING.

Just use KDE's own emoji picker? That still only copies the emoji to the clipboard. It doesn't enter it.

This works perfectly in X11 (with xdotool) and Sway (and presumably all other wlroots compositors, with wtype).

One thing you never, ever hear anyone say about Wayland: "Man, they really thought of everything!"

Disclaimer: this toot is not an endorsement of any X11 project, nor a suggestion that we should keep patching a 42-year-old weekend hack in perpetuity

#WaylandGripe

What the website presents:

+--------------------------------+
| Do thing                       |
+--------------------------------+

What you think you're seeing:

+--------------------------------+
|<-----clickable------area------>|
+--------------------------------+

What the website is actually giving you:

+--------------------------------+
|<-click-><-----dead space------>|
+--------------------------------+

Waaaay too often. 🤦‍♂️

The [website] of one of my favorite musicians growing up now redirects to some random crap, and one of their facebook pages has a comment that says, "I didn't hear him on the radio this past Sunday."

[Ed], I really hope you're ok. I really, really, really wanted to see you in person one more time in this life.

#SongsOfScotland #FolkMusic #Scottish

Update: Thanks to @Haydar, the solution (hopefully) is Deskflow: https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

Ok, y'all, are there any actual, working, mature #Barrier-like #KVM solutions for #Wayland?

I've poked around, but just found a lot of what looks like beta and/or abandonware.

I'm looking for something that works between both Wayland and #X11.

New #blog #post: My Failed Tech Predictions

https://rldane.space/my-failed-tech-predictions.html

1637 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #computing #phones #smartphones #enpoopification #retrocomputing #programming #slop #MacOS #Macintosh #data #InformationAge #SCSI #Mobile #TuringTest #LLM #LLMs #ChatBots

Good grief, the third-party external battery I got for this #Thinkpad x260 is only lasting 59 minutes on an 80% charge now. I better do a full charge to calibrate it, but I think it's dying.

Crappy batteries are the scourge of the otherwise delighful experience of buying old #Thinkpads. :P

I really am thinking about buying a couple new batteries from #Lenovo for a current model Thinkpad T-series, and then waiting 5-7 years to buy the actual laptop, used. 😂

#Confession: It's slightly difficult to tell people not to use LLMs to summarize search results when actually dipping into a webpage for the information you need is so flipping painful and annoying. :/

Someone needs to write a searchbot kind of like #FrogFind that does a web search for you and presents you with a static html version of any usable results. Kind of like having a #Dillo front end to the web minus all of the typical JS nonsense.

One of the weird things about #ADHD is how you relate to #time.

I don't just mean #TimeBlindness, #procrastination, being late, and other typical things.

I have an insane long-term memory, can recall and categorize events by year, as long as they were at least a decade ago. But last week?
No idea.

Tomorrow? What the heck is tomorrow? No idea, whatsoever. No plans, other than things I need to do for work.

Laundry? Housework? I do those things when I have to, I never schedule them in my head in the least.

But here's another one:

My #FloofDaughter (#cat) #Mira has been growing. I never quite knew her age: at the city shelter, they said they thought she was 2 years old (judged based on the teeth), but she was quite small when I first got her, and she's a very sizeable cat, now.

But I could really only tell when she'd grown when comparing her to previous pictures, or by feeling her weight, or noticing things like how tall she stood when she was on my lap. But just by looking at her, I could barely tell the difference.

My aunt had been telling me that she had been growing for the past few months, but I said it wasn't possible, that I've had her for nearly 2 years, and I didn't think she was all that young when I first got her.

But when I got adopted by #FloofSon #Sunny (who's about three months old), I looked at Mira, and my eyes bugged out! Is that really Mira? Did someone replace my cat with a Racoon? She's suddenly HUGE to me.

When did she grow this much? I have no idea. It's like she grew by 25% overnight. Some of that might be due to being annoyed at having another cat in the house now (poofy fur), some of it might be due to overfeeding (she stays with my aunt most of the time, and she's not as measured with feeding as I am), but either way, she looks like a pretty big cat to me, suddenly.

The funny thing is that I weighed her, and I don't think she's actually any heavier. Maybe a pound, max. 🤷‍♂️

(I will say that the method of weighing is very imprecise, as I'm stepping onto a scale while holding her, then stepping off, letting her go, then stepping on again. I'm also comparing weights made by two different scales)

#ThisCouldHaveBeenABlogPost, really ;)