PoetGrant @poetgrant@librem.one
So, #Slackware is really pushing me towards a #Qt centric environment. Every time I look for deps for a GTK app, it have to compile them by hand and GNOME doesn't really document deps for the deps and all that, so I'm thinking about switching my laptop over to LXQt and my Desktop over to KDE.
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Happy Mother's Day to all those who consider themselves a mother
Even those kitteh and doggo moms!
We need to decentralize the police!
Yay, let's start a movement.
@todd hey, I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for helping to create a better world with Purism and all the Librem things out there! You and the teams behind all of this are very much appreciated!
I can't wait to get my Librem 5. It is the first mobile device I have been truly excited about.
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Hey y'all!
Today is my birthday! I'm now 29. My plans in the morning are to make biscuits and cheese, and then in the evening I'm going to be... doing what I normally do with an evening to myself, hop between doing CSS, Org-mode stuff, and working on the project of the day - which I'm planning to be qtMUD.
If you wanna give me a birthday present (money), see https://emsenn.net/#supplements-contribute
After compiling ALL night, GHC (Haskell Compiler) finally resulted in a nice executable install script... had I known it would take that long I would have looked around for a precompiled executable... NOW I can install Pandoc with its 137 dependencies.
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Say hello to Telephant!
I've written a little Mastodon client for the Desktop - called Telephant - and am currently looking for beta testers!
Want to help out and don't mind compiling the app yourself? (Don't worry it's fairly straight forward and I've added detailed instructions to the README!)
Join me here:
https://github.com/muesli/telephant
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
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Curious about the Librem One moderation policy or code of conduct?
"If you are being harassed, or witness online harassment, block and flag the offending user, and a moderator will take action. We do not tolerate harassment."
More information here:
https://librem.one/stay-safe/
Librem One Code of Conduct:
https://librem.one/conduct/
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Catch our very own Cassidy James on FOSSHub, the podcast about open source software! Show starts at 12:28, Cassidy comes in around 29:44. Hear us chat about the origins of elementary and our focus on privacy. https://buff.ly/2HbYDdn
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I have been thinking that I will sell my Laptop, Dekstop, extra phone, 3 tablets, 6 RAM sticks, other laptop, extra router, and a number of other items, and buy one laptop to rule them all.
This one:
https://system76.com/laptops/galago
Does that sound like a smart decision?
Here's an extra #showyourdesktop this week. Who likes grey? I apparently love grey.
Nevermind... it's all installed now, but UEFI fracked me. I can't get it to friggin' boot!
I have finally discovered the secret to installing #Slackware on my m.2 drive. It was silly... after cfdisk, just type /dev/nvme0n1 and bada bing! Why have I been so silly my whole life? I was just too afraid of wiping my archive HDD by accident...
So I watched this yesterday:
Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away
https://youtu.be/eEBOvqMfPoI
It is a really interesting perspective and history lesson on programming.
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What is the best Distro to learn how Linux works?
Like... *really* works?
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I'd just like to say, big props to #DuckDuckGo for this type of answer. Very cool.
This is the Unix Philosophy according to Doug McIlroy (inventor of Unix pipes):
Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
AND
Write programs to work together.
(We sometimes forget that second part I think)
To my #Slackware friends out there, how cool would it be to have a set of stickers to adorn your laptops and cars and all manner of things with the Slackware logo and other things like that? Since the Slackware store is gone, you have to make your own. It is pretty cheap on Sticker Mule, but minimum order is 50 stickers for custom stickers.
I was thinking about even if there was a lot of interest, I could order like 500 and sell them for a little profit, then send that profit to Volkerding.
Prepping for Publication
https://poetgrant.press/prepping-for-publication.html
I wrote a little article about ASCIIDoc and how it has been a net benefit to my writing career. I hope you enjoy. It is a short article, so it shouldn't be a long read. Just a few thoughts.
