feoh

@feoh@oldbytes.space

I'm a crusty old nerd who chases bright shiny things and loves playing with old computers :) Especially my Atari 800XL and Amiga.

I build castles in the cloud(s) for a living.

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lilithsaintcrow, to random
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    feoh,

    @lilithsaintcrow Yes except even shitposts in 1776 were pretty damn erudite. Have you read the Federalist Papers? :) :P

    feoh, to random

    Nerdy discovery OTD: The #tmux plugin for #ohmyzsh is DOPE! :)

    https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/tmux

    It will let you automatically start tmux up when your terminal starts, and will also reconnect you to an already running session if one exists when you spawn another shell.

    Take note of the ZSH_TMUX_C ONFIG environment variable, because they have it goint to ~/.tmux.conf and I'm more of a fan of "all configurations live in ~/.config" - so I was kinda shocked when it initially ignored all my settings :)

    feoh, to random

    Hi everyone! The rescue we adopted our Chiweenie Cookie from, Little Paws Dachshund Rescue is holding a calendar contest fund raiser.

    Please help us support this great organization and vote for our pupper! :)

    https://www.gogophotocontest.com/littlepawsdachshundrescue/entries/452909

    feoh, to random

    So TiL that @SDF actually hosts a public access TWENEX system!!!

    That is incredibly cool. It's not easy to host shared classic computing environments for people.

    nedbat, to random
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    Ugh: inappropriate ligatures in monospaced fonts:

    feoh,

    @nedbat Whew. I just checked, and Firacode mono's ligatures don't do that. Would drive me crazy :)

    I do love ligatures generally though, making != into its own different looking glyph help me notice the ! whereas otherwise I might totally ignore it with my crappy vision.

    glyph, to random
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    Public service announcement: do you edit shell scripts? Here are 2 important tips:

    1. make sure that https://www.shellcheck.net is enabled via your editor's automatic real-time linting facility (Flycheck for emacs, ALE for Vim, vscode-shellcheck for VS Code) so that you will always see the hundreds of mistakes you're making in real time

    2. stop it. don't. you have other tools. better tools. just write a program in whatever programming language you like

    feoh,

    @glyph My rule of thumb with shell scripting is: If I find I need a data structure more complex than string or integer, it's WAY PAST time to reach for Python :)

    Bash array syntax is just a bag of hurt.

    feoh, to random

    Well, I tried setting up @wallabag via docker-compose using a Tailscale MagicDNS address as the TLD and it didn't go particularly well, but no harm no foul there, I knew it was a long shot.

    I'll try again using the old school by-hand install instructions that are the default and use Cloudflare to actually tunnel out to a real honest to god internet accessible TLD and things should go better.

    fun with #wallabag and #selfhosting

    feoh,

    @cliff1976 You know, having failed once at the installation process, I'm questioning whether or not I actually need Wallabag.

    I currently use and LOVE LOVE LOVE Linkding: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

    which I feel is chronically under-appreciated.

    The only thing is Linkding doesn't archive the links you tag by default, although it now has an option to allow you to archive the content you're linking at the Internet Archive.

    The UX is light and clean, the setup is SUPER easy, and it's all in Python which is a programming language I enjoy so I could more readily contribute to the project.

    I've just created a 'toread' tag and away I go :) I moved over the ~30 articles I care about and deleted my Pocket account yesterday.

    feoh,

    @raineer You totally should, but not with Wallabag :)

    Self hosting with docker and docker-composer in particular is falling off a log simple.

    It's how I'm managing my linkding: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding installation, which I've decided will work for me just fine rather than fighting with the undoubtedly awesome Wallabag :)

    feoh,

    @AngryAnt @raineer That's super good to know. If I ever attempt the Wallabag journey again I will take the standard manual install approach.

    It's just that, as a Devops/platform engineer, hand assembling a VM is an incredible violation of "Treat systems as cattle, not pets" :)

    feoh,

    @AngryAnt @raineer Ah, the rainbow farting unicorn that is Nix :)

    It really seems like an amazing operating system, but the barriers to entry are 600 foot high cliffs with neckbeards leering over the edge screaming "DOCS? YOU WANT DOCS? WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING DOCS!" and then laughing maniacally.

    I will assault that cliff again someday, but Not Today :)

    (And if I ever do, I'll leave a crumb trail of documentation behind me so the next girl doesn't have to suffer.)

    feoh,

    @spacewizard @cliff1976 Sounds great!

    I need any of this class solution to work REALLY well on mobile, and both Linkding and Wallabag do really well at that.

    feoh,

    @spacewizard @cliff1976

    I'm kind of unusual in that I really want to do my 'reading' in the form of being read to by an actual human-like voice :)

    Pocket has a feature for this, but they've been SUPER slipping lately and 3 times in the last couple months the icon for that just vanished from my mobile app.

    That's part of what put me on this quest.

    As I mentioned I'm using Linkding for article tagging, and Speechify - https://speechify.com
    to actually read me the articles on my phone.

    The voices it has are really quite impressive and sound great. They even let you pick celebrity voices.

    Having Gwyneth Paltrow read me an article from the newspaper is kind of cool :)

    feoh,

    @AngryAnt @raineer I should have maybe tried a VM.

    I ended up installing it on my desktop, spending 4-5 hours floundering around trying to gain a foothold so I could get anything installed, and realizing I Am Not Tall Enough To Ride This Ride and going back to Manjaro Arch which I had up and running with all my software and configs in 20m :)

    feoh,

    @AngryAnt @raineer Also, the funding thing is fantastic to hear.

    I realy seriously love the concept. It's like the perfect solution to the problem of "I have a body of software I need to do a thing" problem that people have been building overly complex solutions for forever.

    cassidy, to random
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    If I have a bunch of old Windows games (circa Windows XP) on CD/DVD, what’s the simplest way to play them on a Linux computer?

    I have a USB Blu-ray drive and so plan to rip them to ISOs as a first step, then can mount/uncompress them locally.

    I imagine Wine or Proton would be the best route, but the first step is running the installers. Should I do that in something like Bottles? 🤔

    feoh,

    @cassidy WINE or Proton seems to make good sense. I know this is painfully obvious but I'd google "$GAME on Linux" and see what recipes pop up.

    Also note that some older installers could get cranky about being run from a read only volume like an ISO so keep an eye out for that and when in doubt copy to a readable scratch volume and install from there.

    shudder You're making me relive my time as a release engineer at a Windows shop writing Installshield installers.

    It was - character building :)

    feoh, to random

    For all the folks out there self hosting @wallabag - how big is your host/VM? How much RAM and disk does it need to comfortably run?

    I'm thinking of giving it an 8G VM with 4 cores of CPU on a rather beefy Proxmox server, and using the docker-compose example. Sound like a good plan?

    #selfhosting #docker #wallabag

    feoh,

    @me Very cool! I am sure I’ll go k8s one day but for now good old-fashioned docker compose is working great for me :-)

    feoh,

    @jmbmkn nifty! Pika pods look neat, but I’m desperately trying to avoid paying any kind of bill for any kind of cloud service at all and run on hardware I have at home :-)

    feoh,

    @wallabag thanks much for the boost! In addition to the excellent intelligence I’ve gathered, I also get to learn about an awesome new group of people to follow who are into #selfhosting :-)

    feoh, to random

    So it's just my opinion but I think this 'verification' feature for Masto is too cool for school :) if you own a website of any kind, just paste the <a> tag they give you in and you're verified.

    Hat tip to @cassidy for signposting this!

    https://joinmastodon.org/verification

    feoh,

    @nosrednayduj @cassidy I use Netlify’s free plan. No https worries for me! :)

    Alternatively, check out Caddy. It really does make https effortless & handles all the @letsencrypt faff for you!

    https://caddyserver.com/

    mcc, to random
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    If I turn on the "File Sharing" option in Mac OS 13.4 "Sharing", it says

    "File Sharing: On
    Other users can access… at smb://ADDRESS"

    There is no reference to AFP, and if I try to connect to afp://ADDRESS after turning on "Sharing", it does not connect.

    Did apple discontinue AFP?
    Is SMB now their sole means of mac-to-mac directory sharing?
    Is their SMB support now good enough to make this usable?

    Is what's happening here all really a big project to convince me to sign up for iCloud? >_>

    feoh,

    @annika @mcc That's interesting. Pretty sure mine still has it turned on and we have some super modern (M2 - MacOS latest) Macs, but we use Time Machine backups via the NAS so maybe that's the requirement?

    Ah. Just checked their tutorial. As of DSM 7.0 you can use SMB for time machine backup. I may redo our backups to use that so I can turn AFP off.

    https://kb.synology.com/en-my/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_up_files_from_Mac_to_Synology_NAS_with_Time_Machine

    paulkruczynski, to random
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    As Twitter turns to its X branding, I see more UX issues with it (my personal feelings about a company highlighting that site aside).

    The icon looks like a fancy X, or close/toggle button.

    If your design traditionally used text instead of icons, it will just say “x”. Facebook x Instagram TikTok…not great.

    Adding supporting text (hidden or visible) could work (“X, formerly Twitter”) for screenreaders. But it’s clunky, & there may be technical issues preventing that solution.

    💩, indeed

    feoh,

    @paulkruczynski Whoa there! I've seen PLENTY of UI/UX convos on here, and some good ones too from my non designer-y #a11y consuming perspective.

    The fediverse is what you make of it. Asking one question and getting crickets does not make it any given thing, or not :) You have to engage with the people who are interested in that and follow them. Jump into conversations with those hashtags, and you'll soon find PLENTY of whatever you're looking for.

    I know a lot of people find that process SUPER unappealing and exhausting, and I don't know what to say other than for me anyway, the price of admission is SO VERY worth not having people screaming at you about nothing and crawling up your sphincter every other second like they do on birdsite with its aggro algo :)

    feoh,

    @paulkruczynski That's interesting.

    But perhaps you're also helping make my point :) You may just need to find folks who enjoy engaging on the work-ish topics you want to chat about.

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