I always forget to disconnect my headphones from my PC and they drive me nuts trying to reconnect in the living room so I wrote a script to find all audio Bluetooth devices and disconnect them and set up a shortcut on my phone to ssh in and run it it brings me far more joy than it should #linux
question for my #Linux folx... I've done all sorts of Debian - great but suffocating on stable and if I'm gonna run Sid then why not Arch? lol but that wants full upgrades... Flatpak vs Snap?? 🤮 eww my heart says "do containers all the way down"... NixOS? something else? help me
I GOT TO HELP SOMEONE INSTALL ARCH LINUX TODAY!! It's weird how much more joy that brought me than my actual Linux-based job... 🫠 it was a real messy install too. had to modprobe.blacklist amd. there were like 6 drives and partitioning was wack. then hyprland shit the bed trying to launch kitty...
am I missing something or is the complexity of maintaining Kubernetes wildly overblown? I keep hearing you need a whole team for it. but at this point I'm running k3s on my Linux desktop just cuz Docker is kind of obnoxious now I keep wanting to use k8s for smaller projects and I get push back
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
I am once again posting, nay *begging*, let me help you with Linux!! I have waited YEARS for Microsoft to screw up so bad that Windows normies want to try Linux THIS IS MY MOMENT hell if you're in the PNW I'll drive to your house with an Ubuntu installer on a goddam USB stick let's fking gooooooo
Mossback@trollbot.bsky.social · 9mo agoI want to help make it the year of the Linux desktop! ARE YOU NEW TO LINUX? HIT ME UP!! I'm an IT veteran with a resume old enough to drink I ONCE HAD A USER ASK IF HE SHOULD PICK ENGLISH OR SPANISH ON HIS IPHONE. HE DID NOT SPEAK SPANISH. your stupidest questions will not phase me, let me help!
can we even afford to wait 9 months for regime change at this point? I mean, even 9 months is *super* optimistic... about 3 years minimum is more likely
is this chant from a song or was this like, in the moment?? cuz if that's not from a popular song then that's absolutely nuts holy shit
Calling it now. This is *it*. This is the beginning of the American Revolution. We won't be silent while our friends are gunned down...
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.
I want to help make it the year of the Linux desktop! ARE YOU NEW TO LINUX? HIT ME UP!! I'm an IT veteran with a resume old enough to drink I ONCE HAD A USER ASK IF HE SHOULD PICK ENGLISH OR SPANISH ON HIS IPHONE. HE DID NOT SPEAK SPANISH. your stupidest questions will not phase me, let me help!
Mossback@trollbot.bsky.social · 9mo agoapparently every "day" is "two weeks" lol ARE YOU A LINUX NOOB THAT NEEDS HELP?? HIT ME UP!! I've done YEARS of Windows sysad/help desk I ONCE TAUGHT A MAN WHAT THE "BACKSPACE" KEY IS your "stupid" questions do not scare me hit me up. happy to jump on a call :)
apparently every "day" is "two weeks" lol ARE YOU A LINUX NOOB THAT NEEDS HELP?? HIT ME UP!! I've done YEARS of Windows sysad/help desk I ONCE TAUGHT A MAN WHAT THE "BACKSPACE" KEY IS your "stupid" questions do not scare me hit me up. happy to jump on a call :)
Mossback@trollbot.bsky.social · 10mo agoI'm just gonna start posting this every day if you need help with Linux *please* hit me up! it's been my desktop for +5 years. I've done many years as a Windows sysadmin, and several years on help desk (right now Im mostly devops) I'm happy to jump on a call :) let me know
I'm just gonna start posting this every day if you need help with Linux *please* hit me up! it's been my desktop for +5 years. I've done many years as a Windows sysadmin, and several years on help desk (right now Im mostly devops) I'm happy to jump on a call :) let me know
wanted to replace my old Roku with a little Linux box to build some TV interfaces then I actually looked in to Widevine and lol lmao no wonder I can't get 4K to work on anything. I doubt any of my devices are L1, whitelisted, etc etc guess I'm building a pirate ship first 🤷
Once again watching this classic. It's practically required reading if you do any B2B services work. youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U?...
Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me
YouTube video by CreativeMornings HQ
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pretty sure it's new phone time ☹️ suggestions from #Linux geeks? the only things not on the table are Apple and Samsung Pixel seems unfortunately sensible, but I'd love to be convinced I can degoogle and run vanilla Android, or even better something like Plasma Mobile I'm so sick of smartphones..
lol lmao did a "find my android" an hour ago that JUST went off no prompt or nothing but couldn't dismiss the ringing 🙃 force kill Google Play Services and now MFA is fucked up and won't let me log in to my stupid fucking phone stg I'm ready to duct tape two raspis together and call it a phone
today makes the 7th time I've purchased Stardew Valley 🫠 why am I like this?
The thing about grief is that you eventually return to ‘normal life,’ but still feel so far from your ‘normal self.’ It’s a terrible feeling. Wanting to be present and enjoy the moment, yet feeling unable to.
God grant me the serenity to accept the bait I cannot resist The courage to resist the bait I can And the terminally onlineness to know the difference
reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
