keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
Received the #PineBookPro and so far feels good with the exception of the touchpad.
The firmware update utility for that was sadly not included in the #Manjaro repos by default so had to build, and use an external keyboard while going through the steps. Definitely not for the novice user.
Once done, it works so much better.
FOSS for the win, cell phones
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I hate what computers are now, and especially hate what Apple computers are now. Here are comics that were "purchased" but can't be read, and a screen to read them on which works but can't be used,
because Amazon decided to buy the comic vendor and break their app,
and Apple insists we buy a new screen every few years or they will make apps (like unbroken Comixology) break via aggressive SDK depreciation. The new screen isn't better. They just make you pay for it because they can.
@mattcropp that works. Thanks!
@mattcropp searching the site for your name does bring up the article, with a tracking identifier tacked on it seems
@mattcropp link redirects to main page
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RT @VioletEglantine@twitter.com
@RealSexyCyborg@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VioletEglantine/status/1579732650386161664
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Before the toilet paper hoarding starts remember Bum Guns are awesome and easy to install:
https://youtu.be/iRduYc6GWHk
RT @truthisjustice2@twitter.com
Cerberus (BQ.1.1) causes vomiting and diarrhea and often turns up negative on RAT 😳
I don’t want this I really don’t want this one https://twitter.com/xabitron1/status/1579232882505420803
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/truthisjustice2/status/1579241036278554624
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20 years ago, if you ate dinner under the unblinking eye of a CCTV, it was because you were housed in a supermax prison. Today, it's because you were unwise enough to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for "home automation" from Google, Apple, Amazon or another "luxury surveillance" vendor.
4/
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RT @BrianRoemmele
It was 1939 and this technology created 3D sculptures. It took decades later to duplicate this lost technology.
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If you speak another #language and have even basic programming skills, consider contributing to #LibreLingo – a promising #free replacement for #Duolingo https://librelingo.app/
#opensource #freesoftware #polyglot #linguistics #coding #programming #volunteer
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Stlex 
Specifically the Romans measured things in "libra" (which is why the symbol for Libra is a scale), but people under the Romans who used Proto-Germanic heard the phrase "libra pondo" (Latin for "the weight measured in libra") and just started being like "haha oh yeah this thing is X pondo heavy". So the word "pound" is derived from the Latin word for "weight" ("pondus") but we use "lb" because that's how the Romans abbreviated libra, the actual unit of measurement they used.
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Tip #7
Edit your PDFs directly in #libreoffice writer.
When exporting a text document to PDF, tick the "Hybrid PDF" option. This will create a PDF that also contains the .odt file inside. This allows you to either open the PDF in any document viewer as a PDF or in a text editor as an .odt file without any formatting loss. Try it for yourself and never lose the source file to a PDF!
@brennen Frazey Ford (but that's admittedly a bit of a cheat). Wailin' Jennys, Cowboy Junkies if you stretch, maybe Kathleen Edwards or Emmylou Harris.
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what means something to me is when people actually jump in and say something when the bad thing is happening, instead of remaining silent to avoid personal blowback and then expressing solidarity behind closed doors
@joao @dos @silmathoron danger of being like OS/2 which was a "better windows than windows"... So lack of effort put into native applications. Hard to justify building twice when you can hit an even bigger market by targeting the lowest common denominator.
Hope that the libhandy adoption and similar builds faster from the other side.
@gael first line is "Top Free Apps", but that highlights popular non-libre but no-cost applications such as TikTok. Would be nice to have the default be encouraging privacy respecting (and ideally FOSS for verifiability) apps at the head, but still let people see the others a little lower down
@dthompson the system I have has the one that triggered subtly flash while all the others stay solid. A test on that one resets. Might be similar for you?
Joined Jun 2019
