Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

My amazing wife gave me my anniversary present early! Check out the lines on this beautiful antique Willcox & Gibbs hand-cranked ⁨#sewing⁩ machine! It is in immaculate condition and sews well (and quietly). It is much smaller in person than you'd expect from pictures.

@sneak @purism We had a 4k screen in our past 15.6" laptop but design team deemed it unnecessary for this smaller screen. Our goal isn't to compete purely on specs and race to the bottom on price, but instead provide unique features hard to find in other laptops: hardware kill switches, ethernet, removable components that run with free software drivers, Qubes support, anti-interdiction services, and coreboot or PureBoot (Heads) boot firmware and FOSS EC firmware.

@sneak @purism Charges with either barrel or usb-c ports. I charge mine with a standard USB-C PD hub acting as a docking station most of the time, but have the option to use barrel charger if I needed the extra usb-c port and didn't have a hub.

@yaelwrites "People who like cool things."

My next ⁨#weaving⁩ project is a ~3'x5' Rep weave rug. It will be the widest project I've done and will max out my loom's width. I had to buy more heddles to handle the 880 warp ends. I also had to convert the metric pattern to Imperial, and convert to the 5/2 cotton I'm using. ⁨

Drones with tasers, what could go wrong? #thisisfine https://investor.axon.com/2022-06-02-Axon-Announces-TASER-Drone-Development-to-Address-Mass-Shootings

It was an phosh machine, it kept my data clean
It was the best Deb smartphone that I ever seen
It had M.2 Redpine, givin' me WiFis
Knockin' it out with a switch on the side
Using all free software, so the code could be shared
I wanted to GNOME, and it was already there
Cause the phone start shaking, suspend was waking
The call was taken, and devs were making it

And you, swiped it all night long
Yeah you, swiped it all night long.

Someone in chat challenged me to write a parody based on swiping the #Librem5 "all night long". Challenge accepted:

@th I very much want a draw loom, along with the space to house it. Some day.

There is a #weaving saying: "Don't tie a knot when a bow will do." The idea of thinking through a process, and spending some time now to save more time later applies to so many areas of life.

To ship #Qubes 4.0.4 pre-installed on @purism computers, I modified Anaconda scripts on our Qubes OEM installer to support changing #LUKS passwords at first boot. It took *way* more effort than I expected to port these changes to Qubes 4.1. https://puri.sm/posts/qubes-4-1-now-available-for-pre-install/

Somehow, even after a lot of stirring, and waiting many minutes before eating my oatmeal, I still manage to burn my tongue in some minor way most days. #breakfast

Yankee craft brewers
Are always earning scratch
Because brewers in America
Use seven hops a batch

Never mind the other types
Of beers a brewer could make
They'll just add some fruit or haze
Or say this one's really dank

I'm so bored with the IPA
I'm so bored with the IPA
But what can I do?

(Apologies to The Clash)

Yankee brewer
He wanna make some ale
He tried in California
But now it's all that he can sell

Yankee dollar talk
To the cicerones picking suds
In fact it's giving orders
And they can't afford to filter trub

I'm so bored with the IPA
I'm so bored with the IPA
But what can I do?

@Wildbill Didn't they close a stretch of it again due to a mudslide? I don't know if my dream of driving the Ghia all the way down 1 will ever materialize.

@Wildbill The Ghia tops out at 70 (75 if going downhill, probably 60 up the grapevine) so I can only imagine all the cars flying past me on 5.

@Wildbill I'm planning on driving, if you want to car pool, but I was going to drive up Friday and drive home Sunday evening