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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

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kwf, to random
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The Liberapay I set up to fund the hardware costs for the project has already almost raised $2k this year, and that's absolutely WILD. https://en.liberapay.com/phirephly/

It means we're still always looking for more host sites and I don't need to worry about the hardware cost of deploying additional POPs.

vwbusguy,
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@kwf I love hearing funding success stories like these!

vwbusguy, to fedora
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One thing that would certainly make the initial experience of running #Atomic #Fedora better for seasoned #Linux users is having the dnf command exist and grok rpm-ostree out of box. I understand why this is the current experience, but there's definitely room for improvement here:

dnf: command not found

vwbusguy,
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@voyager Earlier versions of Kinoite shipped with dnf and dnf search worked. dnf definitely still works in toolbox and you could still install it with rpm-ostree, but yeah, would be nice to either have a dnf plugin or something to translate calls to it similar to the podman-docker package.

vwbusguy,
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@jorge Oh, hey! Porting rpm-ostree functionality into dnf5 is definitely moving in the right direction, IMO. It would be great it rpm-/ostree were primarily commands for image builders and regular user operations happened through dnf.

vwbusguy, to opensource
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If you're wondering what forge to host your code project on, the right answer is probably going to be . If the right answer was anything else, you probably wouldn't be wondering about it.

https://forgejo.org/

Don't want to host it yourself? Then is what you're looking for.

@forgejo @Codeberg

vwbusguy, to random
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High schooler me would love to know that I made it to 40 without ever owning a mini-van.

vwbusguy,
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@overanalytcl That very much depends where you live. In some parts of the US, you can still get minivans and fifth wheels for cheap. Unfortunately, those are also parts of the country where rust and corrosion from road salt are a likely reality.

vwbusguy, to RadioControl
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Remember when the #drone tech hype train was big a decade or so ago and pitched we'd all have drones and get our Amazon deliveries on our doorstep by a drone hours after placing an order?

vwbusguy, to random
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WIRED: A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

https://www.wired.com/story/integrity-institute-nonprofit-tried-to-fix-tech-culture-lost-control/

foone, to random
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The god damn Nintendo switch doesn't support usb floppy drives? Even in homebrew?

What the hell, Nintendo? I want my money back.

Maybe I can hack this back in. I hate doing usb coding but maybe

vwbusguy,
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@Mirppc @foone What have you done, Nintendo?!!

Image from Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard

vwbusguy, to random
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What do you call a father's day present delivered to the wrong person?

A faux pa gift!

#dadjoke

vwbusguy,
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@nicholas_saunders Even the hashtag is a pun! It's a dad joke dad joke!

vwbusguy, to random
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Is there anything more magical in the kitchen than a well seasoned cast iron skillet where eggs just slide around on it without sticking, leaving them with a nice satisfying crisp and nothing much to clean up afterwards?

vwbusguy, to random
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From a personal tech perspective, one of the best decisions I ever made for myself was setting up a #Nextcloud server to store my family pictures a decade ago. It's been absolutely rewarding to be in control of my own data, having data backups I can rely on, and a way to securely share files/media with others - all on my own replaceable/upgradable devices!

vwbusguy,
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@Monstersx I use a bunch of stuff now. My journey with it started by wanting a place to store family pictures.

vwbusguy, to random
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jzb, to random
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Someday I will stop typing :wq in other text editors / programs to save and quit my work.

Someday. That day, apparently, is not today.

vwbusguy,
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@jzb I've managed to commit that, breaking some xml, and failing some tests more than once.

vwbusguy, to music
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This song is not what I thought it was going to be about. Not used to mullet referring to the fish.

vwbusguy, to random
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Back when everyone else was discovering Apple iPods, I rocked a "Dell DJ". I might have been the only one that bought one of those..

vwbusguy, to mastodon
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What #Mastodon devs imagine the bookmark feature is used for: Maintaining a list of posts you want to easily find in the future.

What mine actually represents: All the posts I've accidentally bookmarked while scrolling through my feed on my phone.

alexseifert, to linux
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Switching to Fedora from Windows full-time on my main PC was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

vwbusguy,
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@alexseifert Very glad I made this move as well! 😎

vwbusguy, to random
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Did you know that the reason why many lizard marriages don't last is because so many of them are anole'd?

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: Which clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise #Linux) are you using? Please boost for reach. TIA.

vwbusguy,
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@alihan_banan @nixCraft Correct. Fedora is the upstream of RHEL. RHEL and CentOS are based on Fedora.

vwbusguy,
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@PedroSC96 @nixCraft Nah. My home server runs Fedora. Fedora makes for an excellent server if you're OK with regularly upgrading it.

vwbusguy,
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