bwoah

Catholic. Teacher. Linux enthusiast.

Interested in gardening, fishing, learning about meshtastic, ham radio, and permaculture.

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2026-03-02 03:40:23 UTC

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Thanks for letting me know. You saved me the effort of trouble shooting. Both times I guess I got inpatient because it seemed like the transaction had stalled.

2026-03-02 03:07:51 UTC

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Also:Tried twice to zap your response but it Failed. I'll trouble shoot and reward your patience.

2026-03-02 03:04:02 UTC

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Very interesting! Makes sense. But I find it easier to say 'emoji.'. 😉

2026-03-02 02:58:38 UTC

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Lemme guess, 'emoji' means emoji in Japanese.

2026-02-28 04:53:46 UTC

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Really impressive what you've been able to build. I bet it's gratifying! Nice work!

2026-02-28 01:51:33 UTC

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Its a fork of Termux terminal app. So, just command line stuff, but if you use the terminal, it's cool to have the same tools available on your phone. Some of my favorites are fzf, buku, newsboat, rsync, and readability-cli (which I use to save web articles and strip out ads and distractions)

2026-02-28 01:47:05 UTC

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I don't game, so I guess I don't feel like I'm missing much. Also, I'm willing to sacrifice convenience for control of my data.
I enjoy learning a little about how computers work and creating scripts. Once you get used to Linux, you get more tuned into open source projects and people's contributions.

2026-02-28 01:38:46 UTC

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NixOS on my laptop and server, nix-on-droid on my phone. I use home-manager and have (nearly) the same scripts and aliases set up on all three devices. Love it.

2026-01-07 02:31:29 UTC

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Linux Mint is a great way to start.
Syncthing is a syncing tool that will run on your computer and your phone. It's decentralized and a great way to sync folders between devices. You can even share folder with a friend if they also use syncthing. Proton Drive is a good intermediate step, but syncthing will allow you to be more in control of your data.
KeepassXC is a password manager that will also work on your computer and phone. If you pair it with syncthing, then you can synchronize keepassXC between devices, so no need for a cloud service.
Tor Browser is useful to keep around for more private web browsing.

2025-12-01 13:51:41 UTC

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Best part of waking up is earbud in your cup.

2025-11-21 17:06:49 UTC

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Crazy. That is a powerful image to compare where we now are to where we used to be.
A colleague at work said with a smile, "Vaccines are amazing!" They have become a political litmus test.

2025-11-07 05:48:32 UTC

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Great beer! Love Bell's. And Two Hearted is a reference to Hemingway and the Two-Hearted River.

2025-10-14 02:47:18 UTC

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Proof of work! ; )

2025-10-12 14:53:15 UTC

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Sounds like a good morning! I tried to zap you some sats, but you don't have a lightning address set up yet.

2025-09-30 13:13:52 UTC

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Welcome! I am interested in learning about cashu, too. I rely on more technical people to make a path. ; )
The #introduction is a good way to start. Sometimes it feels like you are posting in a void, but I think it depends on the time of day and topic.

2025-09-05 03:48:28 UTC

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K. I like "pasties" too. Cornish common fare and Yooper soul food. I will certainly go out of my way to get them. https://www.foodiewithfamily.com/yooper-pasties/

2025-09-05 03:29:54 UTC

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Don't really care about you eating a worm, but zapped for childhood memories. There was an old man im my neighborhood that had a sign posted sayimg "Red Wigglers $2." He had framed pit covered with a lid. Inside were leaves. He used a pitchfork anf a shovel to fill a plastic container.

2025-08-23 23:45:07 UTC

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Nice! A rainbow! I prefer spinning rod, too.

2025-08-22 02:59:01 UTC

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Debian is pretty reliable for servers and easy to find support.
I used Ubuntu server for years, but have used NixOS on the server for the last two years. But this would be like jumping into the deep end, so I wouldn't recommend it to start.
I'd say Debian or Ubuntu are a good place to start because you'll find lots of documentation and guides.

2025-08-21 22:58:20 UTC

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Nice. What version of Linux do you plan to use for host OS? I self host other services but haven't tried hosting Alby hub.

2025-07-25 17:09:10 UTC

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That's a good place to be: value what you have--and value what you don't have.

2025-07-17 15:23:26 UTC

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Reading is not my first language. ; ) I fully endorse your advice.

2025-07-17 15:04:28 UTC

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Joined.

2025-07-17 12:59:40 UTC

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Are you planning to carve up different partitions on that one disk? You'll want to create a partition just for /home. And you could make 2-3 other partitions in anticipation of installing different distros.
Work carefully! Double-check the partition layout with 'lsblk' to make sure you don't install a distro to the wrong location.

2025-06-14 23:35:30 UTC

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Dang. At least the books aren't damaged. ; )

2025-06-01 15:46:33 UTC

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I've been considering getting set up with fold, just as a way to bring my wife along. I like the idea of setting up payments for regular expenses and watching over time to see if it was wise to invest this money to BTC on a regular basis. Again, as a way for family members to learn about Bitcoin.
Any suggestions other than Fold? I have Strike, but something with a debit ir credit card would help since it's familiar territory.

2025-05-29 13:02:07 UTC

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The secret edits are creepy and feel dystopian. Didn't John Deer have to reverse course on their plans for essentially "renting" their expensive tractors to farmers? They wanted service contracts and were selling high priced maintence manuals, but I think some of this was undone when the onboard computers were cracked and reverse engineered.

2025-05-16 05:05:21 UTC

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Oh, man, I miss those thunderstorms in Michigan. Visiting this summer and it's when my kids get to experience a good thunderstorm when we're there.

2025-03-24 02:35:03 UTC

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I made cedar tea by steeping needles in hot water. Slightly vanilla flavor.

2025-02-21 16:10:46 UTC

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Just confirming in case I missed the context: your referring to Apple discontinuing iCloud encryption in the UK. It is *sort of* admirable?

2024-10-30 13:57:11 UTC

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I think water is created when fat and is burned (metabolic water). A camel's hump is a store of fat, not a big bag of water. Must be same with bears.

2024-10-24 13:18:53 UTC

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Maori road maps.

2024-10-16 16:47:03 UTC

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I can't find the words to express how insane this is.

2024-10-08 01:54:36 UTC

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For sure. Also, Tailscale or Headscale to tunnel back to your server if you don't want to expose services to the wider web at all.

2024-10-06 21:52:27 UTC

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At first glance, I wondered if you were trying to create a sundial with a pumpkin.
Looks like it's ripening up!

2024-10-04 14:43:50 UTC

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Been looking at hardware but haven't gotten anything. This is motivating!

2024-10-04 12:29:59 UTC

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Boom. Congrats on the book. Love your mission and am eager to see what ideas the newsletter will bring.
https://image.nostr.build/435b2699fbf4202e9857714ee96d13dce987f72a76c16471c5ccb609be1ad3ec.jpg

2024-09-12 00:44:49 UTC

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Looks nice. I set a calendar reminder to check in two weeks to see if you've shared an update. No pressure--just wanted to remind myself to check back! 😁

2024-09-10 14:01:29 UTC

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That's awesome. It's been years since I have had raw milk. Used to be able to buy it in some stores.

2024-09-09 03:45:07 UTC

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Tailscale + Umbrel

2024-09-04 14:16:17 UTC

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Good catch. That's nuts.

2024-09-03 21:40:08 UTC

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Good Lord I'm an idiot. Clicked to edit my profile and saw field for entering LN address. 🤣

2024-09-02 14:39:14 UTC

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Got five in our house right now. No, wait. Six. I forgot to count the one I use every single day. 😂

2024-09-01 17:41:59 UTC

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Any luck? We have an inflatable paddle board but I have not attempted fishing off of it.

2024-09-01 02:46:18 UTC

Finally getting around to try to link up Alby with my existing nostr account. I can send sats but don't think I can recieve. Am I better off just creating an account via Alby and starting over?
#grownostr

2024-08-08 11:30:52 UTC

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Dang. I guess the pro-vaxxers will always be with us. Especially because of the huge sums of money to be made and lost.

2024-08-05 03:02:03 UTC

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Super cool! Over the course of days you can watch the slime mold race along. Buckle up.

2024-08-04 03:57:57 UTC

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Been there. Lovely, lovely. Went there as a young man. Fond memories. Thanks for sharing!

2024-08-02 05:34:01 UTC

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Appreciated the heads up! I was subscribed to two out of three of these, but I don't listen to every episode, so downloaded each of these

2024-08-01 16:47:11 UTC

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Looks like a partridge. You spotted badgers, too? That must have been fun to witness.

2024-08-01 03:19:51 UTC

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Oh, man. I love Richard Brautigan! Trout Finshing in America and Sombrero Fallout were favorites on car or camping trips with friends.

2024-08-01 03:16:03 UTC

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Someday? How about now! 😁

2024-07-31 02:23:33 UTC

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Isn't there a cucumber sometimes called "mouse melon?" This reminds me of that. Weird that you simultaneously got a round cucumber!

2024-07-29 14:14:11 UTC

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Ahem, ***Our*** Democracy.

2024-07-21 03:31:05 UTC

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He was talking about *the future*, man!

2024-07-21 02:42:16 UTC

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This your tuck? I've been somewhat obsessed with wood gas. Pretty cool.

2024-06-30 19:23:32 UTC

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I appreciate your thoughtful response. We ran UBlue for a while, then BlendOS for about a year before we jumped to Nobara thinking that a more traditional Linux focused on gaming would be a better experience. I don't remember what made us bail, but our time with Nobara was short.
My suspicion is that using Family Share with Family View in Steam is causing issues when things update. My son is 11 and the Steam store is full of pretty questionable content for kids, so Family View is enabled. Probably if I was a gamer this stuff wouldn't feel as hard or frustrating as it is for me. I spend more time fixing things that I'd like and am now planning to move him to Windows with the hope that things will break less frequently. I have some friends from work who have given me advice on how to lock things down and disable some of the creepier Microsoft things.
I've been using Linux for about 14 years and, save two iPads, that is the only thing we use at home. I have a soft-spot for Arch and am always game for setting up a new Linux system, but I feel like I am now bumping up agains the edges of what Linux can support. My son wants to play Destiny 2 with friends and it won't work on Linux. I'd rather let him experience Windows and then maybe he'll value the things that were great about Linux, instead of Linux being the thing dad made him use as a kid. ; )

2024-06-30 16:27:41 UTC

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Ugh. I just made the decision to switch my son's desktop from Ubuntu to Windows. Prior to Ubuntu we'd also tried Nobara and Blend OS. Until now I've managed to get things to work with Proton+Steam or by stearimg him away from titles that won't work on Linux. But fixing stuff (like Steam "Family Share" frequently breaking) or random software he wanted, finally wore me down. Planning to set up isolated network just for this device, but feel defeated.

2024-05-11 00:20:49 UTC

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I can remember just taking our kids shirts off at that age when we gave them ice cream. Easier to hose off afterwards. ; )

2024-05-05 17:14:09 UTC

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The embedded sims (on both iOS and Android phones) are going to be a blow to privacy and to doing anything interesting with your phone.

2024-04-25 01:46:32 UTC

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Dang. Bet he regrets not getting vaccinated.

2024-04-18 00:21:19 UTC

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This made me laugh. Then cry.

2024-04-16 00:55:29 UTC

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Haven't paid attention to these. Is $145 a good price? (Or are they hard to come by?)

2024-04-13 05:52:41 UTC

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Nice fish, beautiful setting. I used to love /r/fishing on reddit. Guess we need more #fishing tags.

2024-04-12 19:38:03 UTC

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I'll have to check out that Pints with Aquinas episode!

2024-04-12 19:37:06 UTC

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Keep it up! I usually only pray one mystery a day, but would like to work up to doing three a day. You'll learn all the prayers by heart in no time.
I recently had an experience that made the value of the rosary apparent: I was having a nightmare and in my dream I started reciting the Hail Mary. I woke from the dream continuing to recite the prayer.

2024-04-12 14:07:02 UTC

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This is good advice. I carry a finger rosary with me every day. (And *try* to pray it every day.)

2024-04-12 02:06:23 UTC

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Looks like the right place to be! And blue skies! Good choice.

2024-04-05 02:55:23 UTC

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Sounds good. I'll have to try it. I like boiling rutabaga, potatoes, and carrots together. We also make pasties with rutabaga, potato, onion, chicken or beef, and parsley.

2024-04-04 00:07:35 UTC

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I like using readability-cli, either in combination with w3m or to nab articles for my web clippings collection. w3m is also great for later reading these downloaded articles.

2024-03-15 03:18:45 UTC

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Finally! Excited to try this out.

2024-03-01 02:52:42 UTC

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Pretty sweet. I'd buy a copy. Love the artwork and the scope for this book.

2024-02-29 09:16:46 UTC

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OKAY, I was not familiar with this book, let alone tinnuculite. This little quote sent me high speed down a little winding rabbit hole in which I learned that the last name of one of the discoverers of tinnunculite, Chesnokov, is also the last name of a Russian composer. I also found that part of the Latin name of this particular falcon means "shrill."
My son had woken me up and I don't normally look at my phone in the middle of the night. I am going back to bed and will probably dream of falcon fart bombs raining amber crystals over a firey pit.
Good night, indeed.

2024-02-28 13:59:23 UTC

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Thank you for sharing this info! I used to have a little setup for making bokashi that I kept by the kitchen sink but my wife complained that it smelled. ; )
I'm inspired to get that going again!

2024-02-28 02:20:58 UTC

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Want to know more about how you are applying fungi and biochar. Are you putting piochar into the tune of theYardYielsd and then runner ng water through it? What is the form of the fungi and how are you applying it.
I make built char at home, though its probably low quality as it is all from for trees.

2024-02-24 18:30:10 UTC

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Are you making Pot au Feu? Looks delicious, whatever you are making.

2024-02-24 02:11:22 UTC

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This morning I was reading from the letter that gave an account of his execution by being burned alive. The image of a dome of fire "baking" him was striking: "Like a ship’s sail swelling in the wind, the flame became as it were a dome encircling the martyr’s body. Surrounded by the fire, his body was like bread that is baked, or gold and silver white-hot in a furnace, not like flesh that has been burnt. So sweet a fragrance came to us that it was like that of burning incense or some other costly and sweet-smelling gum."

2024-02-23 00:53:52 UTC

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Safe travels. Psyched about the NixOS coverage to come!