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JLW_the_Jobber

@JLW_the_Jobber@fosstodon.org

Howdy y’all! Josh here. I’m a special educator by trade and hobbiest tech-tinker. I enjoy toying around with #SBC, #MiniPC, and trying out various #OS on bare metal. Oh, and I like building #MechanicalKeyboards and collecting #MacroPads.

#BroDad4Life #Oldtaku

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JLW_the_Jobber, to sbc
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Yeah buddy! I got up and running on the Quad!

I am posting this from the Mango Pi. I am so impressed on what can run on this little .

I can even attach stuff toooooooooooo!

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As an aside, I am not much of a fan of Plasma DE but I have to say KDE's stand alone applications have been super solid.

has been a solid and fast browser.

has been a great desktop solitaire game

and has been the most reliable and easy app that I have used on the desktop.

thelinuxcast, to random
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It's true. The file mangers for GTK are sub par across the board.

Thunar should be it. But it doesn't remember closing position well. It's supposed to, but it does not. At least past 5 tabs. Also, it has this odd behavior where you open a tab thinking one pane is in focus, but it opens it in the other pane. Very annoying.

Nautilus is still the slowest thing I've ever seen because it does not like that I have my open home folder and the regular location of XDG-DIRS are empty.

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@thelinuxcast what about Nemo?

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@thelinuxcast this might help:

https://itsfoss.com/file-managers-linux/

JLW_the_Jobber, to random
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Man, I like the idea of having a suckless system but when I read over the documentation I just start to think that the suckless crew are a bunch of dicks. Which makes me not want to be associated with the lot.

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@thelinuxcast that’s not a club I want to be associated with….

JLW_the_Jobber, to xfce
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I spent a good chunk of the day slimming down my Debian install on the . I moved from (and uninstalled) to . I wholesale uninstalled many preinstalled apps (such as Libre Office, Emacs, Bluez, and much, much more).

I installed and I gotta say, it is running smooth. I am even able to run with out maxing out the CPU or RAM!

All in all, its been a good day.

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@Wyatt IDK. I am just treating Neofetch as feature complete.

When push comes to shove, I will more likely move to Fastfetch since I can install that on all my devices.

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@Wyatt outside of compiling myself, I do not think it’s available at this time for riscv

JLW_the_Jobber, to random
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Might right shoulder has been pretty fucked for the past 2 days. I wish I knew what I did to cause this; is this what aging feels like?

JLW_the_Jobber, to mechanicalkeyboards
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Here is my little hint of the madness in my mind…

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@Wyatt wait till you see the final product. Took me awhile to sort out all the keycaps.

Currently taking a break, then I will flash the board and post some pics and the layout.

JLW_the_Jobber, to random
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Which one do y'all think is a better gaming-ish lay out?

"Current Set up" or "Other Idea?"

Current has a more traditional left side keyboard layout.

Other idea has more distinct sections: Media, Numpad, and left hand gaming section.

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@Wyatt I get a bit too overwhelmed with a lot of buttons when it comes to gaming.

In all actuality a standard keyboard will still be attached in case it is needed, like for putting in commands in Minecraft or chat

thelinuxcast, to random
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Bought me a Zima Board. Dunno what I'll do with it yet, but I will find something.

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@thelinuxcast thats the way to do it! Hardware first, then figure it out.

Thats pretty much every sbc purchase for me 😅

JLW_the_Jobber, to linux
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It looks like I might be a bit of a #GTK fan boy. Looking at my #linux devices that run a DE, all of them are GTK based (#Gnome, #Cinnamon, and #XFCE).

thelinuxcast, to random
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The Bloodhound Gang has a movie? How did I not know this?

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@thelinuxcast

video/mp4

JLW_the_Jobber, to random
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@thelinuxcast did you find that ideal screenshot program/ app?

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@thelinuxcast

video/mp4

JLW_the_Jobber, to random
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I just want to #SSH into all the things just to do #neofetch

:mastodon_oops:

Wyatt, to random
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@JLW_the_Jobber here is a check in for you.

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@Wyatt I love the wallpaper!

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@Wyatt thanks for sending it my way!

JLW_the_Jobber,
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@Wyatt I'm still going strong on #Nobara

thelinuxcast, to GNOME
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I think the lack of a good screenshot utility is what's going to get me to leave behind. The default one is not great, and none of the others that work on Wayland work for me on Gnome. Get the same errors with grim/slurp and flameshot.

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@thelinuxcast that’s weird, I have had no issues with Gnome Screenshot. Im running mine on Nobara; could it be a Suse issue?

adamsdesk, to wallpapers
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Slice of Life Wallpaper: Part Six

Bring calming and peaceful energy into your life with this selection of slice of life artwork for use as a desktop or mobile device wallpaper.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/slice-of-life-wallpaper-part-6/

#SliceOfLife #wallpaper #wallpapers #artwork

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@adamsdesk very nice curation

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