Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Linux updates for wife's machine. She converted many years ago from Windows and just loves it and will not go back.

1. It just works.
2. It adapts to how she works.
3. Laptop runs so much faster vs Windows.

My support work is minimal now. It usually consists of the rare 'how do I do this?' question.

New Poll: About 8 in 10 Democrats Satisfied With Harris as Nominee -- Fewer Than 4 in 10 Were Satisfied With Biden

#democratic #democrats

https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-about-8-in-10-democrats-satisfied-with-harris-as-nominee-fewer-than-4-in-10-were-satisfied-with-biden/

Nice work. No notes.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

Starship 30 this afternoon being prepared for possible static fire testing tomorrow.

7/22/24

Washington Is Giving #Tax Breaks to #Data Centers That Threaten the State’s Green #Energy Push
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In 2019, #Washington adopted legislation requiring electric utilities to go carbon-neutral in a decade.

Yet lawmakers continued to promote the growth of energy-guzzling data centers with generous tax incentives.

#News #Taxes #PNW #Environment #Electricity #Power #Government #Regulation

https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-clean-energy-washington-state

EVERY TIME YOU TACK-WELD A BATTERY INTO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, THE GOD OF REPAIRABILITY AND HARDWARE MAINTAINABILITY COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE AND PISSES IN YOUR SOCK DRAWER

My experiment with non-centered new window placement on Plasma was concluded after a week.

My conclusion: My eyes are naturally resting on the currently opened stuff. Having a window open voluntarily in a place where I don’t currently have anything is hard to predict, and invariably resulted in me having to wait for the window to appear, and then drag it to a sensible place to use it.

A bit annoying on a laptop, absolutely horrible on my ultra wide monitor. Back to centered windows I go!

We just landed support for connecting / disconnecting #Bluetooth devices via quick settings on #Phosh's current development branch:

#LinuxMobile

Earlier this cycle Teemu Ikonen added support for displaying track position / length and a progress indicator to #phosh's media player widget 🥳 :

BREAKING!

The Antifa Turtle on #Twitter shared a Twitter API okta leak that shows there is a list of "protected accounts", all of them right wing, who are allowed to break #X Terms Of Services without consequence and includes a list of whitelisted slurs they are allowed to use.

The whistle-blowing Twitter account was suspended by mods shortly after.

#elonmusk #freespeech #whistleblower #leak @UnicornRiot @freedomofpress @OffTheHook

So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!

https://gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/linux/-/merge_requests/1

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

To Boldly Go.

#Harris2024

Alpine 3.20.2 released

This release includes various bug fixes and security updates, including a security fix with low severity for OpenSSL CVE-2024-5535

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.2-released.html

#AlpineLinux

Starbase launch tower 2 module 3 was stacked this morning.

7/18/24

Congress is set to vote next week on a law that will allow industry groups to own copyright in the laws we all must follow. We need you to tell them to oppose this outrageous proposal. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law