Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

It was popular career advice for the last generation or so, to advise kids “do what you love”. It’s well-meaning, but the older I get the less I think it's good advice. It sets people up to seek happiness and fulfillment primarily in their careers, which for many, may not set you up for success *or* happiness.

I lean toward "do what you are good at" that can pay the bills, and then seek happiness and fulfillment outside of work, where you are more likely to find it.

postmarketOS gave me a one month BAN! What have I done?

https://ixit.cz/blog/2025-11-20-postmarketOS-BAN

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #sdm845

PSA: I'm stepping down from putting together an STF application for 2025.

Reflecting on our experiences with the STF project last year, I no longer think the GNOME Foundation is a good venue to organize development collectively. Even if the Foundation's current issues are fixed, we've seen how risky it is to centralize development in a single structure.

My hope is that we'll learn from this and find more sustainable, decentralized ways of organizing going forward.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/01/07/re-decentralizing

Seems some of phosh's features could use some marketing 😃 . Anyway: I've just added how to use swipeGuess in the manpage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-osk-stub/-/merge_requests/162/diffs#735044ffff1f81fc8d896219ab2f1b22d6d09976_268_286

Introducing Honeybee: an XMPP client to make calls!

The goal with this project is to hopefully have another option for improving call reliability on Linux (and consequently Linux mobile).

https://momi.ca/posts/2024-10-09-honeybee.html

“The less one does, the less one can be blamed for doing.”

- Ancient Corporate Wisdom

desktop icons on sway? *chuckles*

(spoiler: it's pcmanfm-qt --desktop)

@bart @cas @postmarketOS

Can we have an abstraction over these UI toolkits/libs so apps can target multiple UIs without thinking too hard about it? 😅

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idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

From editing waveforms, to simply editing text files. #Radio #journalism is changing! I've tested and tried a workflow that uses #Whisper for automatic transcriptions and #Vim for editing that is very promising and a bit...okay, very nerdy. Here's why it matters, how it works and what is still lacking:

https://zerwuerfnis.org/paper-cut-audio-editing-for-radio-journalism

#Audacity #Tenacity #Linux @zachdecook