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Released v0.1.5 of my minimalist tail-like utility staart. This version adds documentation for the underlying library crate, and removes a few unnecessary lines of code.

crates.io/crates/staart

About to register a domain to host some federating services. Probably starting with Matrix and WriteFreely.

This violin journey has been an interesting one to be sure. One that has, on occasion, made me question my own sanity. Many of the challenges stem from 30+ years of playing guitar. There is very little that translates between instruments, and decades of deeply entrenched habits that serve me well on one while making simple things very difficult on the other. When it all comes together the feeling is pretty great.

Your Phone Is Your Castle

"If your home is your physical castle, your phone is your digital castle. More than any other computer, your phone has become the most personal of personal computers and holds the most sensitive digital property a person has..."

puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-yo

Phosh Overview

"phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It’s the default graphical shell on Purism’s Librem 5 (and that’s where it came to life) but projects like Postmarket OS, Mobian and Debian have picked it up putting it into use on other devices as well and contributing patches."

puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/

And now I’ve got 3 skeins of this BFL. The most recent is 176m/112g. Has a fairly consistent weight and twist compared with the second skein. The first was my first experience on a wheel at all and isn’t nearly as consistent but I’ll still use it in whatever project this goes into.
On to another bobbin of this BFL. Once I’ve got the new one done, I’ll ply it to the one I just finished and then make skeins out of the two plied bobbins and start again. I still have about 250g of this roving to go so this is going to take a while!

Friendly reminder to the if you’re running and you split sys-net in two so you can have wireless and ethernet on two entirely different networks do yourself a favor and modify your update proxy settings so you can update your TemplateVMs.

My connchk project has a TODO item right now to execute the network checks asynchronously. I think I will do this at the same time I move much of the project into a library. Then I’ll re-roll binaries for CLI and a GUI version using so it can be used on devices regardless of form factor.

Later I may extend the GUI version such that connection test criteria can be defined in the application itself.

It looks like I can eliminate at least one machine from the stables. I’ve already ordered both a Librem 5 and Librem 14 from @purism and these will be my primary computing devices. The remaining systems will be used as servers. One local to me, and the other a backup across the pond. This ought to be more than enough to deal with all of my workloads, and get a HiDPI laptop into the hands of someone else.

Part of my downsizing efforts will be in the hardware I keep around. Rather than buying or building new machines, I’m going to see what I can do with what I have and hopefully consolidate use cases to the point where I can do what I want with fewer physical machines. Anything I free up, I hope to gift to someone else who can use it.

First post on Pixelfed. The relaxation station in my office. Tea, and a drop spindle should I need to spin some yarn during a meeting.
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