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2026-07-29 21:42:54 CEST

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2026-06-16 14:31:33 CEST

#NetBSD guys,
Is there a way to set battery charge thresholds?
I'm looking at installing it on a Thinkpad X265.
Thanks!
P.S., how does this look to folks? — https://github.com/mdehling/netbsd-thinkpad-battery

2026-06-05 03:38:50 CEST

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@nprofile…h3v3 @nprofile…q6qh
There is technically a loophole in the NetBSD rules because the rules state that LLM code cannot be added "without permission."
But that permission has never been granted.

2026-05-31 16:45:14 CEST

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@nprofile…q6qh
I think it's fair to say,
"It was the best of OSes, it was the worst of OSes." ;)
There are actually some parts of the GUI I really love:
Bitmapped fonts :BlobCatThinkLove: :MiraLovesYou:
Clean (sometimes utterly sterile 😆) interface
The whole experience of DRAWING new windows feels very zen
But the whole idea that the mouse is the very best way of manipulating text is, shall we say, wrong.
But I still want to read that Ballesteros book and learn more. :)

2026-05-31 00:26:36 CEST

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@nprofile…q6qh
9? 7.9? 9front? 😄

2026-05-30 14:29:37 CEST

TIRED: Using VSCode like some kind of monster
WIRED: Using (neo)vim like a proper human being
INSPIRED: Using vi/nvi like it's 1979
TRANSLATED: Using ed(1) like it's 1974

2026-05-29 15:10:42 CEST

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@nprofile…q6qh
Yaaaas, fam. ;)
I'd type this in ed if I could, but tut doesn't let you dynamically pick the editor, so I leave it on vi by default. ;)
Also, I edit my .exrc in ed.🅷🅰🅲🅺🅴🆁🅼🅰🅽

2026-05-26 13:09:20 CEST

2015 scam: I am a Nigerian Prince, I have fifteen million USD for you
2026 scam: Oh hey, in totally PayPal, here's my literal two cents: email meeeeee!
😂
cc: @nprofile…q6qh

2026-05-24 06:19:09 CEST

Dang it, I looked up something to share with someone to help them find some software they were looking for, then noticed it was a bsky . bridgy account.
Sheeeeeeesh.
Look, I understand you folks are trying to be nice/helpful, but could you please stop boosting that crap? I'm not going to agree to the bridge's terms or whatever, and I'm hella not going to pretend that some corpo "we're not as bad as fascist X, even though we basically helped make it what it is by courting apartheid clyde" bsky is a part of the fediverse, c'mon.
PLEAAAAASE stop this. 😞

2026-05-23 17:09:35 CEST

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@nprofile…kkfs
A little better, but it still kinda reads like,
"I was fine with overthrowing democracies, boosting fascism, and enslaving humanity, but when you fired thousands of my coworkers, that's a bridge too far! I'm OUT!"
😅
Cheers

2026-05-23 16:59:59 CEST

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@nprofile…valu
Seems I get the same error no matter what I try to do
rld@Intrepid:src$ CC=gcc LD=/usr/local/bin/ld gmake
...
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x33b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x35a): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.FlushFrames+0x379): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o: in function `WebPAnimEncoderAssemble':
anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x197): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: anim_encode.c:(.text.WebPAnimEncoderAssemble+0x20b): undefined reference to `__assert2'
/usr/local/bin/ld: webp/anim_encode.o:anim_encode.c:(.text.OptimizeSingleFrame+0x43b): more undefined references to `__assert2' follow
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_default_error':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_default_error+0x1c): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_warning+0xe9): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_chunk_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_chunk_warning+0x73): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: jpeg/jerror.o: in function `output_message':
jerror.c:(.text.output_message+0x31): undefined reference to `__stderr'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:26: paltool] Error 1
rld@Intrepid:src$ CC=gcc LD=/usr/local/bin/ld gmake -lc
...
pngerror.c:(.text.png_default_error+0x1c): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_warning+0xe9): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: apng/pngerror.o: in function `png_chunk_warning':
pngerror.c:(.text.png_chunk_warning+0x73): undefined reference to `__stderr'
/usr/local/bin/ld: jpeg/jerror.o: in function `output_message':
jerror.c:(.text.output_message+0x31): undefined reference to `__stderr'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake: *** [Makefile:26: paltool] Error 1

2026-04-21 03:14:35 CEST

https://copy.sh/v86/ is one hell of a playground — #microblogging #MicroToot: 48 characters

2026-04-16 23:27:04 CEST

Help, I have zero idea what I'm doing.
What have I gotten myself into?!?
#plan9 #9front #TheFrontFellOff #LostUnixNerd #AmICoolNow
Read the hashtags, ya lazy bum. ;)
CC: @nprofile…clkd
P.S., cleaned up a sample script I found online for downloading and launching 9front via qemu, and posted it [here].
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KPC2ZFYF0RB5QX586Y57R0FN.png

2026-04-05 19:26:47 CEST

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@nprofile…hth5
It was over the top before hitler's mini-me took over.
I can't imagine it now. 🤣

2026-04-05 17:43:25 CEST

Posting this, because I'm always forgetting them 😄
#Esperanto ki- (question) words
kial : what for, why, for what reason
kiam : as, when
kian : what kind of, what sort of
kia : what a, what kind of, what sort of
kiel : as, like, such as, how, in what way, such a, what a
kien : where to
kieo : whereabouts
kies : of which, which one’s, whose
kie : where
kiom : how many, how much
kio : that, which
kiuj : that, which, who
kiun : which, which one, that, who
kiu : that, which (one), who
Source: http://denisowski.org/Esperanto/ESPDIC/espdic_readme.html

2026-04-03 15:10:04 CEST

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@nprofile…f83y
That can also be done as a bash alias, but for some reason, I've never felt the need to.
Maybe if cd had been changedir all along, or something. XD
I think I commented elsewhere on this thread being surprised that unix's mkdir wasn't md like in DOS.
I never aliased that, but I do have a very useful alias called mcd (actually, a function):function mcd {
#mkdir & cd
[[ $1 ]] && mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"
}

2026-04-02 19:59:23 CEST

I'm not saying you should all go out and set up aliases to enable your various typos and slip-ups, but I honestly don't know why I didn't do this 25 years ago.alias cd..='cd ..'
#bash #UNIX #Shell #UnixShell #POSIX

2026-04-02 05:41:40 CEST

I don't go in for a lot of the so-called #KurtzmanTrek hate online, because a lot of it has an unpleasant political smell to it, but...
If these people are still propagating the insane fallacy of the bridge of a starship having a WINDOW in the front, they're just irredeemably stupid. I don't give a rip how cool the visuals are. And yes, I obviously know about transparent aluminum... But NO.
#StarTrek #BraveNewWorlds
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KN6495ZY06XQT76RFP18CVC9.avif

2026-03-26 05:09:45 CET

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@nprofile…f83y @nprofile…sq2g
Holy crap, that's strike two.
AGENTS.md was strike one. I didn't see it until someone else pointed it out. I was searching for "claude" and "llm," but didn't know to look for "agents."

2026-03-26 00:35:34 CET

@nprofile…sq2g
I noticed you have a very nice-looking alternative client for Keepass and BitDefender.
I couldn't find any statements on LLMs on the project page.
Do you have a policy? I think some folks would be very interested in a no-AI keepassxc alternative.
Thanks!

2026-03-21 18:05:29 CET

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@nprofile…wslp
I'm going to test out Mint Mobile's "Home MINTernet" in the coming weeks to see if it's as good as their parent company's offering (T-mo), as it's nearly half the price. :D
I can't believe I'm paying $20 for 15GiB of cellular data. What a time to be alive. XD

2026-03-20 21:59:45 CET

Gotta say, for $20/mo, this is pretty flipping incredible!
#LOSSYPNG #monochrome
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KM6GJJXW6Z0D76RG7HHDNRVB.png

2026-03-20 13:23:18 CET

Could someone please tell the maintainer of https://openports.pl (#OpenBSD Ports search) that the cert has expired? 😥

2026-03-19 16:00:27 CET

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@nprofile…hth5
Same, been using FF since before it was called FF! (Mozilla Milestone 16 / M16) ;)
https://web.archive.org/web/20000815052646/http://mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/

2026-03-19 15:42:00 CET

Trying out #Waterfox now.
So far, really liking it. Not too great a departure from stock #firefox.
I may make it my default!

2026-03-03 16:58:25 CET

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@nprofile…ml9f
I mean, if it worked for Thoreau and Jesus, you're probably on the right track. ;)

2026-03-03 16:18:53 CET

WHAT THE FUCK.
https://www.rawstory.com/military-2675544403/

2026-03-02 18:37:50 CET

Samsung 870 EVO SATA III SSD 1TB 2.5” Internal Solid State Drive
Price on 2025-10-04: $ 94.99
Price on 2026-03-02: $179.99
🙄
#AI #RAMShortage #SSDShortage #Enshittification #LateStageCapitalism

2026-02-22 01:58:21 CET

Well, this is forking intolerable.
#Firefox is officially #enshittified.
It turned on the horrid "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories" without me asking.
Those stories are the last dadgum thing I ever want to see. I don't want more news about USFASH.
Smeg #Mozilla. I hope Google bumps them off the money-nipple and they crash and burn.
I'm going to try #WaterFox and #LibreWolf again.
#enshittification #e14n
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KJ1DNGW7SRQBEHPQ7S8091ZD.webp
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KJ1DNH5KPNA7HW003PSHC45C.png

2026-02-19 20:11:42 CET

I was coming very close to switching to Rossmann/Merrill's new #privacy-focused #cellular carrier, #Phreeli, but it has a #BindingArbitration clause, too.
* Long, soul-rattling sigh
So, I guess I'll just switch to #MintMobile instead and pay half as much.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
cc: @nprofile…q4cr

2026-02-19 15:17:51 CET

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@nprofile…ml9f
Man, that quote (and the Dr. Soran quote that it refers to) gets deeper and more intense as I age.

2026-02-17 04:16:36 CET

Tooting publicly what I recently said in a direct message:
I really, really want to see a linux distro that says,
"Ok, we're taking all of the components out there, picking a core set of needed components, and OWNING THEM. We will contribute upstream, fork when necessary, and will ship an absolutely complete and well-documented OS."
(Also, "We will not chase the latest trends, nor will we adopt the latest geegaw from Poettering, et. al., unless it actually fixes something that needed fixing.")
'Tis the dream.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA
cc: @nprofile…8u0e
P.S., YES I BASICALLY MEAN BSD, but maybe with the Linux kernel and GNU utilities? XD

2026-02-12 16:27:23 CET

#TIL you can use vim/nvim as a pager directly, like
some_command |vim
Even better than that, you can redirect a file into vim like
vim < some_file.txt
The advantages of this over view/vim -R are twofold: one, it is literally impossible to overwrite the file, unless you manually type :w exact_filename within vim. Second, you can safely edit the buffer without getting any warnings of being in read-only mode, because you're editing an ephemeral buffer, not the file.
Disclaimers: I did not actually learn this today, but within the last 12 months. Also, this doesn't work in vanilla vi/nvi.

2026-02-10 22:40:52 CET

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@nprofile…f4r9
Raspi is better than most ARM software by virtue of the fact that they value openness (to a limited extent), and that their hardware is very popular.
Apple, on the other hand, is extremely popular (as ARM goes, anyway), but they do not at all value openness, so you have herculean efforts like Asahi.
Other manufacturers like #Pine64 value openness (more so than Raspi), but they're not as popular.
The truth table ends up looking like this:
manu- | values | is | end
facturer | openness? | popular? | result
---------+-----------+----------+-------
RasPi | yes | yes | good
---------+-----------+----------+-------
Apple | NO | YES | meh
---------+-----------+----------+-------
Pine64 | YES | no | meh
---------+-----------+----------+-------

2026-02-10 15:16:52 CET

I'm looking at two #ARM devices sitting on my dresser, both tablets.
One is a locked-down piece of garbage, designed to be a locked-down piece of garbage. I regret buying it, because its utility is obscured by the horrible software stack on it, but it was stupidly cheap, an easy fire-and-forget purchasing decision.
The other is a lovely piece of open hardware, designed for openness, designed for linux. It was graciously sent to me by a #fedifriend last year. It is sadly out of support from the distro that supported it, and is basically stuck at nearly 10-year-old software versions without any path for an upgrade, unless I do some insane skill levelling-up and do an ARM #LFS on it, or something else nearly as hacky.
Both devices are sadly useless to me, even though one was designed to be a closed surveillance helldevice, and the other an open platform.
This is because ARM sucks. It has always sucked, and it will always suck. There are no open hardware interface standards, no easy way to address the hardware with FOSS drivers, and even when you do have FOSS software for it, it rarely finds its way upstream. The hardware itself is inspired, but the software/firmware/driver stack is utterly Kafkaesque.
I'm not going to belittle folks who get Apple Silicon devices to run linux on them, nor would I ever besmirch the heroic, herculean efforts of the #Asahi team to get linux working on that hardware, but please never forget that those are herculean efforts, and should they ever cease, your hardware support is dead in the water.
As for me, I'd rather have a thermal-belching, potato-performant Intel Atom-based brickphone than a sleek, battery-sipping, crazy-performant ARM laptop. 😅

2026-02-08 19:07:21 CET

New #blog #post: Paper Books vs. e-books vs "librebooks?"
https://rldane.space/paper-books-vs-e-books-vs-librebooks.html
1210 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #media #books #ebooks #amazon #kindle #kobo #rakuten #DRM #deDRM

2026-02-08 18:16:41 CET

Just curious: can anyone who has used both kindle e-readers and the kindle store and kobo e-readers and the kobo/rakuten store compare them for me?
I'm thinking along these lines:
selection of books
price of books
evilness of the company ;)
physical properties/features of the e-readers themselves
Any ideas? @nprofile…hy4k?
#AskFedi #HiveMind #eBooks #eReaders

2026-02-03 00:14:03 CET

Soooo...
There doesn't appear to be a single US #cellular carrier that doesn't have a #BindingArbitration clause in their #ToS.
Shazbat. 💢🙄
#Arbitration #BindingArbitrationClause #Chicanery

2026-02-02 14:20:58 CET

Haven't read it all, yet, and unfortunately I didn't save the toot that brought it to my attention, so I'm unable to credit/thank the person who originally linked it, but the Pope's statement on AI is actually kinda great:
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html
#Pope #NoAI #NoSlop

2026-02-01 23:28:33 CET

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@nprofile…valu @nprofile…pfyz
There is a linux compatibility layer, and it can be containerized/Jailed, but it's not necessarily like running a full native linux container AFAIK.
I would really love to get #KerbalSpaceProgram (Linux native) working in #FreeBSD, but last I tried, it didn't want to work with compat_linux.

2026-02-01 23:15:10 CET

New #blog #post: Examining The Ethics of Media Consumption and Sharing
https://rldane.space/examining-the-ethics-of-media-consumption-and-sharing.html
937 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Media #Movies #Piracy #Sharing #Streaming #Disney #Netflix #Amazon #Bezos #Melania

2026-01-30 02:07:40 CET

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@nprofile…z6pq
Does it taste like the original?

2026-01-30 02:06:56 CET

Updated my blog's CSS so that <code> segments don't look like garbage.
The problem is that the way the theme is set up, it doesn't differentiate between in-line code snippets (defaulting to a white background) and code blocks, and the default code block color is very dark, and the default code color is also kind of dark, and it was miserable to see, before.
I started off picking IBM 3270 colors from cool-retro-term, but the default foreground color was too bright for in-line code blocks, so instead I picked an almost-black super-dark green for the foreground color, and a very light green for the background color. So hopefully it's vaguely reminiscent of a green-screen, but light instead of dark, and hopefully doesn't look like... key lime pie, which is what I think it looks like, but oh well. XD
Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20250618121134/https://rldane.space/unix-data-compression-shootout.html
After: https://rldane.space/unix-data-compression-shootout.html
#rlDaneWriting #blog #blost

2026-01-30 00:27:46 CET

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@nprofile…z6pq
WHAT!!! THIS EXISTS AGAIN?!? Where can I get one? XD

2026-01-23 21:42:48 CET

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@nprofile…t05x
Ever run it on bare metal? I've thought of trying it as a desktop OS. Not sure how well suited it is for that.

2026-01-21 05:17:27 CET

Totally random #TheGoodPlace quote:
MICHAEL: If soul mates do exist, they're not found.
They're made.
People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work
building a relationship, like your parents.
They didn't magically stay together because you proved they should.
CHIDI: It wasn't my logic or my representation.
It was... the feeling they got watching me,
this scared little kid telling them that he needed them.
MICHAEL: It was also what you made them remember.
You know, they loved each other.
Sometimes people forget.
You reminded them of what they already had.
...
CHIDI: Turns out life isn't a puzzle that can just be solved one time and it's done.
You wake up every day and you solve it again.
MICHAEL: Terribly inefficient.
CHIDI: Wow, (voice breaking) what a time to learn.
#TheGoodPlaceQuotes #S04E09 #TheAnswer

2026-01-19 22:24:16 CET

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@nprofile…yhqn @nprofile…m0rx
"If you need bold and colours, it means you can’t write."
* glances at his markdown-formatting-heavy toots and blog posts 🫣
lol, love this Over/Under. :D
"We forget that a filesystem is, by definition, a database."
Preach that, yoooo!
I maintain my own file search system using find, grep, and zstd, and it is far faster than either Gnome or KDE's file index database.

2026-01-13 20:23:28 CET

New #blog post: The Scenes that Made Me: The Good Place (2016)
https://rldane.space/the-scenes-that-made-me-the-good-place-2016.html
440 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #TheGoodPlace

2026-01-13 18:56:56 CET

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@nprofile…nw6h
@nprofile…9atz @nprofile…vf35 @nprofile…hl5m are good starting points. 😁

2026-01-11 22:42:40 CET

New #blog post: Monocultures Considered Harmful or: Why Linux Nerds Should Give BSD and Other "Weird" OSes a Try
https://rldane.space/monocultures-considered-harmful-or-why-linux-nerds-should-give-bsd-and-other-weird-oses-a-try.html
545 words
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EdsgerDijkstra #Dijkstra #monoculture #monocultures #ConsideredHarmful

2026-01-08 21:07:47 CET

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@nprofile…hl5m
Can your mind train my mind to be nicer to me? 🤣

2026-01-03 03:31:30 CET

Hey @nprofile…sftd,
I love how you're helping folks get off of windows with Nixbook.
How can I find a group near me that volunteers to do the same? Is there any group structure like the LUGs of old?

2025-12-17 20:21:42 CET

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@nprofile…x4wz
Heya! I've been daily-driving it for nearly a month on my main at-home laptop (Thinkpad X260).
It's pretty great! ZFS is darn near bulletproof, and after some initial challenges of getting wifi and GUI configured, it was pretty "boring"... until I tried upgrading to 15.0, lol
Figured out how to roll back to 14.3, and I'm now waiting for 15.1 before I try again (although I believe the issues I had have now been resolved, but I'm still going to wait ;)
Package availability is amazing (better than Debian in some cases!), and most things compile without any issues, although some things that don't have very well-written Makefiles are iffy and I got stuck.
Been having fun with Dosbox-X, playing games I loved 20-30 years ago. I couldn't get the Linux version of Kerbal Space Program to run under compat_linux, but I didn't really expect it to.
#OpenBSD definitely gets my vote for noob-friendly #BSD, since it has X11 in the base install, and it configures itself, but I now have sway (Wayland) running under #FreeBSD just as if I were still on Linux, so as long as someone is willing to skim through the pertinent parts of the handbook, it's a great OS.
The only downsides to #FreeBSD vs. Linux is that S3 resume takes a little longer (8 seconds instead of 1-3 seconds), and I have occasional hiccups, which I'm sometimes not able to recover from. Loading some websites in Firefox will make everything hang for several seconds at times (even though I'm launching Firefox via nice (1)), and there are some times that sway never quite recovers from S3 suspend, although that's rare. The good thing is that sometimes it will catch the power button and shut down cleanly, and even when it doesn't, #ZFS is so bulletproof that it just takes it all in stride.
There are occasional Linuxisms that feel a bit odd, like some of my packages (the swaync notification system and the duckstation console emulator are notable examples) require #pulseaudio of all things, which sometimes eats up my CPU. That's... really weird to me. I liked how minimal sndio on OpenBSD is.
Both major BSDs have very sane syntax for the config file that governs Wifi access points, and that's very refreshing to me after using a TUI to join networks on #Debian (although it's definitely possible to uninstall #NetworkManager on Debian and use the native interface config files, but they're not as nice/simple as the BSDs').
One really fun (if a bit cartoonish) way of comparing the BSD philosophy to the Linux philosophy is to look at doas vs sudo, specifically man doas.conf, then man sudoers.
The manpage for the sudoers file is pretty long and convoluted, as is the syntax for the file itself. doas.conf is super brief and to-the-point, and its manpage is pretty concise.
I think once they add the GUI setup tool to the FreeBSD setup wizard, that will be a real game-changer.
P.S., I haven't really daily-driven OpenBSD in a while, but I'm planning on getting an adapter so I can power my OpenBSD Thinkpad X200t off of a power bank, instead of the very dodgy OEM battery, so I can experiment with OpenBSD some more. I know the latest version has fixed the problems I was having with Emoji support, so I think that OS deserves another look. With the little bit of experimentation I've done in the last week, I've been pleasantly surprised with even Firefox' performance on that little Core 2 Duo. The only bummer about OpenBSD to me is the lack of ZFS or any other modern filesystem, so the occasional power losses or hang-ups become much more dangerous.

2025-12-13 15:02:49 CET

Hey #FreeBSD fam,
What is wrong with my setup? %)
(Emoji works fine, normal latin diacritics seem fine, but Japanese is non-existent. I'm using the same fonts and terminal config as in Linux, and I've tried it in foot (the terminal shown here), lxterminal, and xterm. All the same.)
https://polymaths.social/fileserver/01HCMX6M1CZNEVJ4F5H58TT5XJ/attachment/original/01KCC0AWPZRNXJ8NN924ZACC8G.png

2025-12-06 23:48:06 CET

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@nprofile…hpz8
My Linux laptop on the same network wasn't having any issues, though.

2025-12-03 01:12:54 CET

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@nprofile…s7qj
You made it through 92.05% of 2025 with your sanity intact?!?
HERO!!! XD

2025-10-13 01:16:02 CEST

After conversations about "A.I." over my vacation (blog post to follow this week), I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I'm turning off DDG "AI" features in all my browsers (via a cookie setting).
Follow virtue, friends.
#AI #LLM #Ethics

2025-10-05 16:38:19 CEST

GOING ON SABBATICAL
See y'all in about a week!

2025-10-03 04:00:53 CEST

Me: browses to a site
Website: "Well HELLO!"
Dillo browser: "Hi, can I have your very finest plain HTML?"
Website: "PPP-PPPWWEEEEASE ENABLE JS AND DISABLE YOUR AD-BLOCKER, UWU"
Me: Twirls moustache and laughs maniacally

2025-10-02 20:12:23 CEST

Just in case anyone out there is still on #CalyxOS and wondering what to do while they're on hiatus, #IodéOS has been treating me pretty good. I'm even paying the ~$3/mo for the enhanced features (basically like a nice firewall plus TrackerControl-type features for your phone, that still lets you use a VPN as well)
#Iodé

2025-09-08 16:13:06 CEST

Hank Green talking about caffeine.
This is primo internet stuff, yo.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=p-Dy2pcdBSU
P.S. I love #tea

2025-09-06 17:43:38 CEST

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@nprofile…7thd
Just FYI, I've also noticed that some websites have a tendency to want to scroll left and right (have text just a little bit wider than the display) when Use remote CSS is turned on, no matter how wide you make the window.
My own https://rldane.space is an example of this, but I didn't write the CSS, nor indeed actually know anything about it, sorry. XD
I've also noticed that with some sites, if Use remote CSS is turned on, links don't show up colored or underlined, so something is somehow screwy with what they're doing with the CSS or how it's interpreted by the browser.
For example, the listings on this page don't appear linkified unless "Use remote CSS" is turned off: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=thinkpad%20t25

2025-09-06 17:13:35 CEST

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@nprofile…7thd
I'm using Dillo 3.2.0 on Debian 13 with KDE Plasma Wayland.
I can paste with Ctrl+V, but neither selecting nor copying with Ctrl+C seem to change the system clipboard or primary selection at all.

2025-09-06 05:35:38 CEST

Viewing the PDF version of an html file (sans images) in #Zathura, my favorite keyboard-friendly #PDF reader: 157.5 MiB RAM used
Viewing the same original html file (with images) in #dillo: 40.0 MiB RAM used
in #NetSurf: 74.6 MiB
in #GnomeWeb / #Epiphany: 397.0 MiB (wow, kinda lean!!)
in #Falkon: 541.1 MiB
The same file in #luakit: 623.1 MiB RAM
in #firefox / #LibreWolf: 1.31 GiB (YEP)

2025-09-06 05:10:38 CEST

I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD
I still fire up #LibreWolf (#firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.
I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD
#SmolWeb

2025-09-03 19:42:58 CEST

#Underrated #KDE #Plasma feature: #Activities
Folks get these confused with virtual desktops, but think of it more like a totally separate environment for different tasks/projects.
You may use any number of virtual desktops to help organize the various subtasks or applications within a given job, but let's say you wanted a whole 'nother set of desktops for a different tasks.
Let's say you do your main work in your main activity, and you've got 6 or more desktops all firing on all eight cylinders with all kinds of terminal windows, browser windows, whatever. But let's say you've set aside a day for training, and you want to have a totally clean environment just for training/classes, without closing out all of the other stuff you have going on in your work Activity, because you want to jump right back into it tomorrow after training's done.
No worries, just go into System Settings, Apps & Windows -> Activities, and create a new activity. You can name it and give it its own icon, etc.
I use Super+~ to switch between activities — I confess I forgot what the default one is, but you can find it under System Settings, Input & Output -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts and either look it up there or change it to whatever you like.

2025-08-26 02:24:40 CEST

Finished season 1 in my third watch-through of #TheGoodPlace last night.
I think I'm going to give it a rest for a little bit so I can see if I can get a family member to watch it with me instead of watching it on my own.
Also, I want to do more constructive things with my evenings than just watching TV, maybe? XD

2025-08-25 19:53:53 CEST

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@nprofile…qz4x @nprofile…a474
Thank you so much. She fought really hard and gave us an extra four years to enjoy with her, even though she was in a lot of pain. She passed peacefully (thank you, modern medicine!) two weeks ago.
Truly a marvelous person. 💗

2025-08-25 19:48:54 CEST

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@nprofile…a474
Reminds me of the time that I loaded up the Library of Congress audiobooks for the blind program on my mom's phone with @nprofile…qz4x's audiobooks.
She really enjoyed listening to them, and we had interesting conversations afterward.
RIP Mom. 🥹

2025-08-25 00:17:44 CEST

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@nprofile…el4d
Still a little on the thin side, but acceptable. Let's see, it's 1/80th of the screen, so translated to 1080p, that's 24 pixels wide. Yeah, quite respectable, actually.
The original MacWrite had some CHONK scrollbars. :D

2025-08-24 21:29:36 CEST

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@nprofile…t4qe
@nprofile…fkj4's the #qutebrowser superfan. XD
For me, I've tried it and found it very usable for even fairly modern/intensive web sites, but the Blink (Chromium)-based backend (a sad limitation of modern Qt) keeps me from adopting it. Personal call.
For #dillo, it's never going to replace a modern web browser, but think of it as a great browser for the smol web. I can read any decent text-based page with it, even with a little bit of CSS formatting. It's far from perfect, and doesn't even pass the Acid2 test at this time. But it's a wonderful smol browser for the smol web. ;)
For every day heavy web stuff, I use #LibreWolf with the Vimium-C extension.

2025-08-24 21:08:42 CEST

My ~/.dillo/keysrc for vi-like/less-like navigation, in case it helps anyone :Dspace = screen-down
b = screen-up
<shift>space = screen-up
j = line-down
k = line-up
h = left
l = right
/ = find
#Dillo #DilloBrowser #25YearsOfAwesome

2025-08-24 20:48:16 CEST

Scrollbars belong outside a window's content, not as an overlay, and should never disappear or be thinner than a shoestring.
I will die on this hill.

2025-08-24 17:10:56 CEST

I remember reading a comment 10-20 years ago that said something to the effect of, "The Star Trek holodeck would be humanity's last invention."
There's nothing more potently addictive than a room that can conjure up every conceivable place, person, thing, whim, or desire.
I think what we're seeing with "AI" is a kind of "dialectical holodeck," where people enter in, wrap themselves up in a fantasy world created by a twisted algorithm designed to satisfy the user's curiosity and cater to their every verbal whim, and think it's their greatest reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_psychosis

2025-08-24 02:43:49 CEST

Just ordered my #Commodore64 Ultimate.
Here's to you, mom. 🥹
Thanks for getting this party started... 43 years ago :D

2025-08-22 05:16:12 CEST

Now halfway through season 1 of #TheGoodPlace on my third watch-through.
The more I watch this show, the more I am convinced that the people who run the world actively want it to be as unjust as imaginable.
Like, I've heard respectable moderates say things like, "Running things is hard and everyone is trying so hard to do the right thing," and I'm like, "Absolute poppycock!" The people who can really change things only care about making their own lives better. They're moral zombies (sociopaths) that should be in jail or six feet under, I dunno.

2025-08-21 21:33:35 CEST

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@nprofile…t4qe
I just wish for complete Unicode support.
ZFS would be nice, too, but that ain't happening. 😂

2025-08-21 13:49:58 CEST

New #blog post: Just a quick note...
https://rldane.space/just-a-quick-note.html
CW: Loss
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @nprofile…twp5 @nprofile…zppp @nprofile…kgaw @nprofile…uej9 @nprofile…y4z0 @nprofile…s82r @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…68n3 @nprofile…5ryt @nprofile…7qn8 @nprofile…rtnf @nprofile…sh5g @nprofile…7nq4
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #loss

2025-08-21 05:26:38 CEST

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@nprofile…4d9x
Only a wee bit. 😁
Being able to fit a terabyte of data inside your nostril is kind of cool, but I missed the standard SD form factor. It was about perfect.

2025-08-19 17:27:15 CEST

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@nprofile…4d9x
Fantastic write-up! :)

2025-08-19 02:16:54 CEST

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@nprofile…h9qy
What is checker?

2025-08-19 02:08:16 CEST

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@nprofile…h9qy
I made my own say script which attempts to use mimic, flite, gtts-cli, pico2wave, espeak, or espeak-ng, depending on what's available:
https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/say
gtts and pico2wave are definitely worth checking out, as they sound pretty nice. gtts does require an internet connection, though.
Helpful article: https://thelinuxcode.com/command-line-text-speech-apps-linux/

2025-08-18 18:19:15 CEST

Potentially #UnpopularOpinion: The floppy disk icon should continue to be the universal save icon, even if most people alive today have never seen an actual floppy. The icon itself is the symbol, not the actual object. It's a lot easier to understand (even for new users, IMO) than something abstract, like an arrow pointing to a line (or a chip).
At the very least, I think it's more understandable than any symbolic icon I've seen thus far.

2025-08-16 21:32:05 CEST

Doing much better now, today. Had some good quality time w/ the fam today after being holed up in #adhd / #depression heck yesterday. thx4luvs #microblogging (142 characters)

2025-08-16 14:28:10 CEST

Just now realized (three and a half days later) that I'll never again get a pep talk phone call from my mom, and it absolutely guts me.
This is right around the time that I'd get a phone call, after spending a day in an unproductive, depressive mood.
She'd be sad and frustrated that I let things go for so long without talking to someone about what I was feeling or dealing with it, but would always end the conversation saying something incredibly loving and kind.
I'm over 50, and I had three years to prepare for the loss, but it's still absolutely devastating. It's a very, very slow burn. No explosive weeping (yet), but a long-term, deep soul-owie.
I don't talk about my family or personal life too much on here, because it's the internet in 2025, duh, but man, I miss her. She was such a gem. More so than she ever knew, no matter how much we tried to tell her.
Wish I had tried a little harder, maybe.

2025-08-12 06:16:15 CEST

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@nprofile…4d9x
Oh, definitely man, it's really well thought-out! <3

2025-08-11 23:46:59 CEST

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@nprofile…4d9x
Dude, legit list!!! Love it!
Kudos for including #Zathura, it's one of my all-time favorite viewers!

2025-08-09 21:34:38 CEST

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app
https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html
361 words
Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.
Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @nprofile…twp5 @nprofile…zppp @nprofile…kgaw @nprofile…uej9 @nprofile…y4z0 @nprofile…s82r @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…68n3 @nprofile…5ryt @nprofile…7qn8 @nprofile…rtnf @nprofile…sh5g @nprofile…7nq4
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄
P.P.S., @nprofile…wtwk informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!
#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

2025-08-08 22:59:38 CEST

New #blog post: What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS
https://rldane.space/what-i-do-and-dont-miss-about-macos.html
1853 words
Part rosy-tinted retromemories, part acerbic political polemic, 99% UI kvetching.
Absolutely go eat a bushelful of eggplants, Tim Cook. And by eggplants, of course I don't mean the vegetable.
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @nprofile…twp5 @nprofile…zppp @nprofile…kgaw @nprofile…uej9 @nprofile…y4z0 @nprofile…s82r @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…68n3 @nprofile…5ryt @nprofile…7qn8 @nprofile…rtnf @nprofile…sh5g @nprofile…7nq4
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#100DaysToOffload #49
#rlDaneWriting #blost #Apple #Macintosh #RetroComputing #USPOL

2025-08-08 17:41:49 CEST

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@nprofile…ddv0
That's wild!
Speaking of 3d printing innovations, why are 3d printers stuck with only 3axes?
Just imagine how smooth a print you'd get with a 5-axis 3d printer. Every surface could be the top layer!!!
#3dPrinting

2025-08-06 22:32:22 CEST

Linking, rather than boosting, because this thread is way more hilarious than the OP would lead you to think.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/114982598034239717
Title: "Free software people I am begging you to stop naming your software"

2025-08-06 19:09:29 CEST

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@nprofile…4d9x
Great read! I can't imagine life without a car, unfortunately, although I'd be willing to drive it if I lived in a not-automobile-oriented place.
Also, I lived with family for most of the last decade, and my car was my teensy little domain. It's a little hard to get away from that mentality.
P.S., haha, I meant to say "willing to try it," but "willing to drive it" is a great #FreudianSlip ;)

2025-08-06 17:06:32 CEST

Just got all new tires for my car.
$ouch$

2025-08-05 22:37:43 CEST

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@nprofile…elc8
Time to scour the DVD bargain bin at walmart/tesco/whatever big cheap shops are called wherever dear reader is at and start building your Jellyfin library.
The Internet Privacy Ice Age is upon us.
#InternetIceAge #PrivacyIceAge #InternetPrivacyIceAge

2025-08-05 20:33:07 CEST

I'm going to leave this here with no comment other than "this is why we can't have nice things," and, "don't yell at me for using grep, some implementations of find -name are wonky."
[rldane /home/public]$ uname
FreeBSD
[rldane /home/public]$ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
18
[rldane /home/public]$
[email protected]$ uname
OpenBSD
[email protected]$ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
52
[email protected]$
[email protected]$ uname
NetBSD
[email protected]$ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
173
[email protected]$
~ $ uname
Linux
~ $ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
672
~ $
Ok, fine, here's the punchline:If you feel the need to capitalize stuff in /etc, YOU HAVE LOST THE PLOT.
#Windowzification #Macification

2025-08-04 23:35:22 CEST

Ok, this looks groooovy:
https://terminaltrove.com/new/
#TUI

2025-08-04 04:08:57 CEST

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@nprofile…pqrf
AI lies. Constantly. I mean, so do politicians, but they're made out of goopy carbonic matter, so they have something of an excuse.
The fact that techbros made computers lie fills me with rage. You slimy jackwagons destroyed the one thing in this world that is pure, logical, and beautiful.
It's like someone took Mr. Spock and force-fed him so much weed that he turned into Pauly Shore.
THE HORROR!!!!!

2025-08-01 16:05:39 CEST

Dadgum, why did https://MacintoshGarden.org have to go down today? I needed to research for a #blost. :P :BlobCatDerpy:

2025-08-01 13:42:51 CEST

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@nprofile…25dv @nprofile…968f
Been meaning to ask you, Kev,
Do any of your Casio calculator watches have a game? I remember the calculator watch I had in the 1980s had some kind of a game that I could never figure out. I've been wanting to get one again. 😅

2025-08-01 00:35:40 CEST

New #blog post: Why Do We Blog?
https://rldane.space/why-do-we-blog.html
296 words
Pretty short and sweet, but I enjoyed writing it. :)
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @nprofile…twp5 @nprofile…zppp @nprofile…kgaw @nprofile…uej9 @nprofile…y4z0 @nprofile…s82r @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…68n3 @nprofile…5ryt @nprofile…7qn8 @nprofile…rtnf @nprofile…sh5g @nprofile…7nq4
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#100DaysToOffload #48
#rlDaneWriting #blost #writing #blogging