Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Apologies Salt-n-Pepa

(Hey yeah, I wanna toot, baby)
Ooh, how you doing, baby?
No, not you, you, the #federated one, yeah
What's your name?
Mastodon? That sounds sexy

Uh, here I go, here I go, here I go again
Geeks, what's my weakness? (FOSS!)
OK then, chillin, browsin, minding my business
Yo Musk, I looked around and I couldn't believe this
I swear, I stared, my tab my witness
The server had it going on with something kinda, uh
Federated, moderated,
I'm not shy, so I asked for the instance

I brought an #antique mechanical #calculator (Monroe LN-160X) to my local Linux Users' Group last night for show and tell. But even better, someone else brought their #Curta Type I! I had never seen, much less used one in person before. Everything about them, the look, the feel, the form factor, is fantastic.

@Wildbill I believe I've seen that done. I've definitely seen it used for media discussions that contained spoilers.

@jhamner The book was first printed in 1931 but my copy is from 1936.

I'm #weaving fabric for another tote bag using the krokbragd technique. What I like about this technique is that it allows for a level of improvisation you typically don't get with most weaving.

For instance, I decided this pattern in brown tones will be a bit too bland for the full side of the tote, so I'm going to improvise a banded purple diamond pattern around the middle of the tote to spice things up.

@raise-project Yes the initial jam that started it all happened about 24 hours into a print!

@raise-project Thanks for the tips! Yes that was the cause of the initial jam (this room gets somewhat dusty) and it took quite a bit of work to clean that out.

It was only after cleaning it out well and having a successful print or two that this happened with a freshly-opened spool, even after cleaning, and after scratching my head noticed the resistance in the new bowden tube.

I should really get an enclosure for this ender 5, but that would take up a lot of space!

@Wildbill Start up a new thread w/ the questions and let's go!

This past weekend I had a #3dprinting jam bad enough it was easier to replace the whole bowden tube. After a print or two I started getting equally bad jams with the new tube! The clue was noticing resistance just pushing filament through the bowden tube. A drop of olive oil on the foam in my dust filter provided enough lubrication and now prints are silky smooth!

@racheltobac For organizations large enough to manage it, having a dedicated Fediverse instance on the org's domain (say, social.aa.com, social.airbnb.com etc) would let a customer treat social media from those accounts like they would emails from aa.com or airbnb.com.

To me that would provide stronger verification than the typical Mastodon ref=me cross-link in the profile.

@micahflee I use it on my profile to verify both my company's team page (to validate this is an official account of an employee at that company, as well as my GPG fingerprint that's on that page), and to verify my personal website to link this account to me personally.

When we say the #Librem5 is a mobile computer in your pocket, this is what we mean.

One of our customers (@primalmotion) hacks on custom versions of #PureBoot firmware for their #Librem14 which always runs the risk of temporarily bricking your computer.

When that did inevitably happen, they were able to connect their Librem 5 to their hardware flashing equipment and run the same tools you'd run on your Linux laptop to re-flash working firmware.

@civilized I found in many organizations there were limits to the positive change I could make at the company if I only contributed in a technical way, and much less say in what that technical work was.

Moving into management gave me a seat at the table for important decisions that would impact technical direction and my team's day-to-day work, but I have also mostly worked at orgs that are small enough that I can still pick technical projects and contribute there as well.

@aral Happy Birthday!

@robchahin And people who lived in big cities pre-pandemic who then moved to small towns or homesteads.

@HilaryDoda I would love to read it. Please do link to it once it is published!

@freiheit Interesting, how long ago was that?

@Viss If you are concerned about posting about it because people might not want to see it, then just wrap it in a content warning so interested folks can read it and others can have it scroll off the timeline.