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bcon

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I do IT stuff.

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dominucco, to programming
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JarJar is such an epic coder that he’s monitor is backwards

bcon,
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@dominucco not pictured is a mirror. Jar Jar is all about his tricks… sneaky Jar Jar

killyourfm, to random
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“Human, you have fish for me!?”

bcon,
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@killyourfm man, I need to make a trip over to Morro Bay again soon. It’s been several months now since I went.

vwbusguy, to random
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It's been zero days since my blue switch mechanical keyboard significantly disrupted a meeting at work.

bcon,
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@vwbusguy I have a few IMB Model M’s and Cherry MX Blue Keyboards in the garage now as backups/retired keyboards, but my main keyboards now are Cherry MX Browns or similar. Reason being is I got tired of spouse and co-workers complaining about the noise. I haven’t missed the Blues with the Browns like I thought I would.

system76, to random
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Behind the Scenes: New Darter Pro product photo shoot

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bcon,
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@system76 Is this an in-house manufactured laptop?

vwbusguy, to random
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It's been a minute since I've let y'all know how much I'm into this PRS guitar I picked up last year, but I'm very much still a fan. It's ridiculous how well built this thing is and the tonal versatility.

bcon,
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@vwbusguy which one? I’ve always wanted a PRS S2 Starla with a Bigsby, but can never justify another guitar.

bcon,
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@laydros @vwbusguy The last guitar I picked up was a Squire Strat in Surf Green that I intent to “hot-rod” with some pickups that are hand made/wound by my uncle. I don’t know if I can provide any other details on the particular pickups until I ask him about the current patent status of them, because they are unique in their functionality. He’s been making them for about 4 years now on a small scale and was in the patent process back then, so probably OK now.

bcon,
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@laydros @vwbusguy Obviously the “hot-rod” project went on the back burner since I bought that guitar roughly 4 years ago too and haven’t started it yet.

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@vwbusguy @laydros I have a set of Fender Tex-Mex pickups in the garage that I was going to use in another project. They sound great!

bcon,
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@vwbusguy Ah, I see. When I bought them roughly 15 years ago I thought they were the same spec as Texas Specials, but manufactured outside the US. May have misremembered or misread somewhere along the line. Time flies.

bcon, to random
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@thunderbird Any plans to add an “Unsubscribe” button in future versions? I know there is an extension that provides this functionality, but reviews say it no longer works.

vwbusguy, to Redis
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Are you a user? Unless there's something specific you need from redis-7, has a drop-in replacement for you called . Coming very soon to a distribution near you!

https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB

bcon,
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@vwbusguy and it is licenses with the BSD license! Sounds like a win!

bcon, to random
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was a blast! It was so cool to meet @killyourfm @wimpy @ChrisLAS @ironicbadger Wes, and Brent in person! It was definitely an awesome first Linux event!

killyourfm, to random
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I'm not crying at the beginning of FFVII Rebirth, YOU'RE crying.
Sniff sniff 😭

bcon,
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@killyourfm I didn’t even realize Rebirth was out. Now I just need to wait for the PC release, which should give me time to finish the remake and Crisis Core. So behind on my game library.

bcon,
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@killyourfm I kind of want to play the original again too. It’s so hard to make time to play games these days.

killyourfm, to random
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Am I doing Saturday mornings right?

bcon,
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@killyourfm that display doesn’t shoot radiation directly into your eyes, so there is no incentive to sit too close to it. Need a CRT for the full experience. /s

ironicbadger, to random
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why are we seemingly so keen to replace laptops with tablets with ever more elaborate UXs, weird accessories, hacks and workarounds for things that have been solved problems on laptops for decades?

seriously, if i only had a single device limit in my computing life it would be a laptop. everything else is just inferior.

bcon,
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@ironicbadger for me, thunderbolt finally made laptops the only computing device I need for every workflow.

soller, to random
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With the vtebench dense_cells benchmark, I am getting on average 66.35ms for cosmic-term and 62.7ms for alacritty. Not bad for a brand new renderer that adds ligatures, bidirectional text, and some GUI sugar!

bcon, (edited )
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@soller not fast enough. Who on Earth has microseconds to spare!?

Edit: Obviously joking, amazing work!

bcon,
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@soller I might have missed it somewhere, but is the goal of cosmic-term to remain as minimal as Alacritty, or is it going to include a lot of the niceties that you would get with something like Kitty?

popey, to linux

Some thoughts about buying and selling apps on the #linux desktop.

https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/there-is-still-no-linux-app-store/

bcon,
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@popey Steam? I even bought You Need a Budget on there a long time ago. But in all seriousness, eventually flathub may get there.

killyourfm, (edited ) to guitar
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I'm a 47-year-old musician who's been playing guitar and writing songs since I was 16.

I just got my first amplifier. Yes, I am a walking contradiction. But that doesn't diminish my OVERWHELMING excitement right now!

The backstory: I didn't actually start recording any of my songs until about 8 years ago, and my solution for that was simply to play through a DAW and use software effects.

I had no idea what I was missing.

#Guitar #Musician #Songwriting

bcon,
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@killyourfm I had one of the first Fender Mustang modeling amps and it was pretty sweet! I’ll haven’t tried the Boss Katana or the Line 6 Spider modeling amps, but I may be in the market for another bedroom amp soon so you’ll have to keep us posted on your experiences. Also, congrats!

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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Since macOS was really not my cup of tea, I installed @AsahiLinux on my M1 MacBook Pro.

While I was expecting it to be alpha quality and very buggy, I was surprised to find a pretty great level of support for the hardware!

So here are my impressions, in video form: everything that works, what doesn’t work yet, and how to get it up and running:

https://youtu.be/ZFx6R26aRHw

bcon,
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@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux same boat (MacOS is not for me), however I’m just waiting for Asahi Linux to be at 100% hardware support (or 100% of what I need) before I finally switch. I wish I could switch now, but that machine is my daily driver. Battery/charging thresholds and Thunderbolt are the big ones for me. My M1 MacBook Pro spends 99% of the time in clamshell mode hooked up to a dock. I follow it closely though and look forward to the day I can ditch MacOS!

popey, (edited ) to random

When will Unity roll back their new pricing?
https://www.ign.com/articles/why-unitys-new-install-fees-are-spurring-massive-backlash-among-game-developers

bcon,
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@popey Godot just became much more attractive.

geerlingguy, to random
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Just spoke to a developer building some open source tooling for RHEL today.

He was testing against Rocky Linux 9.

The nerve! He's not using one of his 16 free dev licenses for RHEL that Red Hat kindly gifted him! Terrible!

bcon,
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@geerlingguy what is your server OS of choice? I was debating testing Alma Linux on an extra server I have.

bcon,
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@geerlingguy any reason you prefer Debian to Ubuntu?

bcon,
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@geerlingguy that makes sense. The Red Hat fiasco does make a good argument for going the community based product and not relying on commercial interests. Thank you for your insight as always!

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