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tripplehelix

@tripplehelix@fosstodon.org

Hey, I'm Tom. I love technology and all things open source.

I have a bunch of :raspberrypi:'s running my home lab, keeping my personal life off the internet. Still a way to go before I'm completely offline, a major issue being Google Home.

I run :debian: with :xfce: and my gaming computer does too! I also have a Fairphone4 which runs :lineageos2: with MindTheGapps.

:linux: 🧠 ☕ 🛏️ 🐱 :startrek: 🏳️‍🌈

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RL_Dane, to random
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Hey #tooters,

How do you buy (paper) books ethically?
I was looking at abebooks, but they're owned by #LexCorp now 🤦‍♂️

tripplehelix,
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@RL_Dane I buy second hand on wob

michaelparker, to random
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Iv thought id take a go at making a for my
Iv never made anything like this before so feedback would be welcome. https://www.michaelrbparker.com/

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker I'd maybe call the 'portfolio' something else, like 'personal projects'. The green theme is nice and stands out, but it's very hard to read the bright green on black text. Also, the font chosen is a little difficult to skim read, fine for the titles but the main text is hard, especially the larger paragraphs.

If you're showing this to employers, I might give the video section a bit more information, it could be mistaken that you just recorded the video.

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker I like to add a little overscroll to my sites as it makes the user feel a less restricted, just add padding-bottom to the html.

Why do you have a contact form and an email listed? The form is usually used to hide your email address from scrapers. Your email link's href is name@email.com which is obviously wrong ;)

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker Overall I really like it. I'd remove youtube from your title, as it's in your footer anyway. You could completely remove the navigation from the top, as there's not really much need for it. (youtube link in heading using an incorrect tag herf should be href)

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker In your DOM remove , initial-scale=1.0 from <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">. Give the html element a min-width, something that feels comfortable. This will automatically zoom the site for mobile. Currently, it just squishes to nothing. Be sure all content fits inside your min-width otherwise things will expand outside your border.

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker Hope this all helps, overall it's pretty great!

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker Oh, in terms of a11y, all links should be underlined if not obviously buttons. No idea how you'd fix this for your current header.

tripplehelix,
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@michaelparker iframes are an old, insecure method of attaching video to sites. Seems YouTube still recommends it, which is weird. If it's your own video, you can use html5's new <video> tag. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video.

This would also help remove an outside call from your site, as your calls are currently quite busy for a small site.

hobbitswife, to random
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Our holiday home wifi is so bad thats it’s better to use mobile data!

Why provide internet if it doesn’t work?

Is this what snail internet is like for those not on virgin media or the properly fast OpenReach connections???

tripplehelix,
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@hobbitswife It becomes more painful the further from an exchange you are. Our speeds used to be in the KB's when our whole village's internet cable used to wrap around an airport. But then my mobile data, even now we have FTTC is faster. I think the countries mobile data has improved much faster than cable. Too bad latency is a nightmare.

cory, to ai
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https://www.vox.com/robots.txt #AI

Fox Tv Popcorn GIF by The Four

tripplehelix,
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@Haijo7 @joel @cory Looks like they are only blocking certain bots, not all.

RL_Dane, to random
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Move over, , helllllooooo !!!

https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

I can't wait to check this out and start playing with it in my scripts

tripplehelix,
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@RL_Dane Now that's movie quality.

A terminal displaying a sequence of puke; From a multicoloured train flying off the term, then a sheep saying "take a breather" appearing from some ascii flames.

frameworkcomputer, to random
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We're excited to announce the latest Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1, an optional 2880x1920 120Hz display (ideal for 2:1 scaling on Linux), and new configurations for businesses with 3 year warranties. Pre-orders are open now.

tripplehelix,
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@frameworkcomputer What are these "Rounded active areas"? You have some photos?

tripplehelix, to random
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Phew, sorted though all my photos from the 2000's. Recovered many from an old hard drive. Now I need to remember to keep it organised each year.

revk, to random
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This strikes me as a design flaw in the fridge...

open fridge door, shit falls out.

tripplehelix,
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@revk My fridge does this, just stopped putting unbalanced liquids on the outer part of the shelf. But then my shelf isn't as useless as yours looks if you take into account the issue.

tripplehelix, to random
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PreOp, Surgery, dentist, psychiatrist, doctors all done! Opticians next. Does this list ever end?

tripplehelix,
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Psychiatrist appointment was as useless as ever. Can't wait till they hire someone permanently. Just makes you feel worse speaking to someone new every time. Upping one of my new meds.

tripplehelix, to random
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Also noticed that this show really loves killing kids and animals.

tripplehelix,
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@SecularJeffrey The little girl that was run over by a train wasn't evil, that was her brother.

RL_Dane, (edited ) to macos
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Something I miss from : Being able to command-click on a Finder window's titlebar, and seeing a pop-up menu of the entire file path.

I can't find any convenient way of doing this in , other than making the window huge so it can show the entire path, which doesn't work with my workflow most of the time.

Just for the curious, the directory I'm working on now is 127 characters long (full path) and 8 directories deep from /

Edit: Found a solution, thanks to @Tionisla

tripplehelix,
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@RL_Dane I could never leave the simplicity of XFCE, everything just does what you want it to. Thunar has a HUGE space for file path.

tripplehelix,
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@RL_Dane And you can expand it just like you would in firefox.

GossiTheDog, to random
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    tripplehelix,
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    @GossiTheDog What the actual fuck is going on? Who conducts an interview on a paddle board?

    robb, to LEGO
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    Wow they finally did it. A Legend of Zelda #Lego set https://brickset.com/article/110379/lego-the-legend-of-zelda-set-revealed

    tripplehelix,
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    @robb I hate brand markup... Looks like a great set.

    tripplehelix, to random
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    This is a reminder to update your font icon packs!

    RL_Dane, to random
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    I just noticed that my old phone had a really groovy logo, and on my new phone, its totally boring. Both running the same OS

    A screenshot of my old pixel with a groovy stylized 5G logo

    tripplehelix,
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    @RL_Dane I like LineageOS's options, just wish they had more.

    ManyRoads, to debian
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    For those who like to do 'stuff' (perform tasks) via scripts, here is a ditty I just published on a Forum LiliDog (Debian based).

    This script is designed to clean & update my Debian Sid base.

    It may be helpful or simply prove how little I actually know. 😜

    #Debian #Bash #Scripts #Technology #News #Sid

    https://forum.lilidog.org/d/897-clean-update-debian-script

    tripplehelix,
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    @ManyRoads Here's mine ;) Been evolving it for a while. Might add back nala/aptitude support.

    https://gitlab.com/tripplehelix/debianscripts/-/raw/main/up

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