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SirBoostALot

@SirBoostALot@hear-me.social

I tend to boost a lot of content, in three categories:

Technical - mostly computer related stuff, mostly Linux or MacOS related. I particularly like things that make life easier for users.

Political - Mostly USA/Canada related although I may occasionally boost posts from other areas of the world. I oppose fascism and the politics of the extreme right.

Religious extremism - Particularly Christofascism and similar attempts to co-opt religion as a tool to advance fascism, hate and intolerance.

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Uraael, (edited ) to linux

Given the importance placed on CLI usage by many in the Linux community it's weird that a terminal isn't open by default on many Distros. Today I remembered that while on Antergos a few years ago I'd installed a terminal that you could call simply by pressing a hotkey.

Enter Yakuake ("Yah-quake")

Yakuake smoothly drops down from the top of your screen in response to the hotkey (the default is F12) and voila!: a ready to use terminal! Add it to Autostart and it'll run whenever you run a session of Linux, forever saving you having to load Konsole (or whatever) every time you want to use it.

And as I'm running KDE the fact it uses Konsole tech means it has that familiar look and feel, but shows Session tabbing by default foregrounding the ability to run separate terminal sessions and putting it within easy reach of GUI users and a mouse-click.

What Terminals do you folks run with?

SirBoostALot,
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@Uraael On a #Mac OS desktop I use #iTerm2 and I really wish someone would port that to #Linux, or make a clone of it, because in my opinion it is far better than any native Linux #terminal program I have seen. The best cross-platform terminal app I have found is #Tabby, which has some of iTerm2's functionality (including tabs, if you can't tell from the name) but I still prefer iTerm2, which I have set to automatically restart after a reboot on my Mac.

SirBoostALot,
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@sageofredondo @Uraael I don't use KDE so not familiar with Konsole. Is gnome terminal what is used in Ubuntu? If so I have never seen tabs in it but then I haven't really played with it that much.

You would have to use iTerm2 to really appreciate it (and maybe you wouldn't, it is not for everyone) but the thing I like is that first you can have profiles for the various systems you connect to, and you can have them listed in a side panel so all you have to do is double click on them to make a connection in a new tab, which is incredibly convenient (please don't suggest options that involve memorizing keystrokes, my memory is terrible!).

But also, just below that side panel is another panel that shows a history of everything you have copied from one of the terminal tabs, and you can paste any visible item just by clicking on it. So you can go to one session in one tab and highlight a few separate items, then switch to a completely different session (maybe on a completely different machine) and paste any of those items just by double clicking on them.

And those are just the things I find useful. I have read comments from several people who are much more into terminal usage than I who say they love iTerm2 and wish there was a Linux version. They are using features that I don't even understand. I just normally log into a system, do some task such as using apt to upgrade the software, and log out - I'm not a programmer. If I have to move files around I use Midnight Commander which works very well in iTerm2.

I'll have to see if I can find a video tutorial on gnome terminal but if it doesn't let you easily set up profiles for systems you connect to then it would not work for me. Tabby does let you set up profiles so at least it has that (but no side panel you can click to instantly select a profile). It does not have the clipboard history panel though.

TechDesk, (edited ) to twitter
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“No other American megabillionaire businessperson has so publicly fostered ideological relationships with world leaders to advance personal politics and businesses.”

The @nytimes looks into Elon Musk’s use of X to build influence with nationalist and right-wing politicians, publicly backing their views, aggressively confronting their enemies, and even personally intervening in X’s content policies in ways that appear to aid them — and all to the benefit of his other businesses. Here’s more.

https://flip.it/J77dC7

[Subscription may be required]

SirBoostALot,
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@TechDesk @nytimes Paywalled.

SirBoostALot,
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@Mir @rhymepurple Another place you can get free domain names is freedns.afraid.org - they have been around nearly forever and all you have to do is log into their site and go to any page once every six months (I guess so they know you are still alive) but they will email you a notice a couple weeks before that time is up. And at least for me they have always been very reliable.

GottaLaff, to random
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I’ve been on phone w Verizon all this time. Mr. Laffy’s been on with them for 2 1/2 hours on his phone, been disconnected 2x, being sent to diff numbers which lead him back to the original. We were JUST told that oops! They don’t cover the Internet connection! Frontier does! Wrong number, folks! So Mr. Laffy called Frontier. Guess what? Frontier’s tech support is not working today! GAAAAA!

He’s now calling again & trying a different extension. So, covering #TrumpTrial is, well, on hold. 🤬🤦🏻‍♀️

SirBoostALot,
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@GottaLaff Wonder if it could be tied to this: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/232242/frontier-communications-shuts-down-systems-after-cyberattack

admin, to random
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I just updated https://phanpy.hear-me.social to the latest production version.

Updates are listed here: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/compare/2024.04.17.b6cf53c...2024.04.19.5145730

@cheeaun

SirBoostALot,
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@admin @cheeaun The thing I like about #Phanpy is the ability to quote a toot.The one thing I don't like is the inability to boost with just a single click. Why can't we have one client that does both?

SirBoostALot,
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@admin @cheeaun One other thing I am not finding in #Phanpy is any way to mute someone. I tend to mute people who post in languages other than English because I can't read them, and there is too much in my timeline already, so I am just trying to remove some of the clutter. But there is no way (that I can find) to mute in Phanpy without reporting someone, and I don't want to report them, I just want to mute them.

SirBoostALot,
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@admin @cheeaun Thanks, I found it. Not really obvious but at least it is there.

SirBoostALot, to USpolitics
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Ted Cruz Slapped With Campaign Finance Laws Violation Complaint
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/04/ted-cruz-slapped-with-campaign-finance-laws-violation-complaint/
#TedCruz #GOP #USPolitics #uspol

SirBoostALot, to threads
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My opinion is that the correct response to Fedi Garden (or any other instance that says they won't federate with an instance that federates with #Threads ) should be:

"You go to hell!"

This is no different than if you throw a party and invite several people and a few of them say "we won't come if certain other people you've invited are there." If you are polite, you might say "Sorry, we'll miss you." If, however, you think they are just a bunch of assholes trying to tell you who you can or cannot associate with, you might tell them to just f**k right off.

I get it, they all hate Zuckerberg, but they're not punishing Zuckerberg. If anything, they are driving Mastodon users to create Threads accounts so they can communicate with their friends there, rather than communicate with them through Mastodon. Zuckerberg couldn't care less. It is your USERS you are hurting if you block Threads.

I get defederating an instance if they are doing something really bad. But wanting to be able to follow Threads users in and of itself is not bad. Zuck is arguably bad, some other individual Threads users are bad, but the bulk to Threads users are probably not bad and I for one would like to be able to read what they post without having to set up an account on Threads. And if the #FediGarden people don't like it, they should be told to stick their #authoritarian nonsense where the sun don't shine.

Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/block-threads-to-remain-listed/
#fediverse #Mastodon

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