Posts by passthejoe@ruby.social
(DIR) Post #AuMo3HDfmmevdOLMYq by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-05-22T23:04:18Z
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I guess it's goodbye to @pocket_recommends #pocket
(DIR) Post #AvGJdA0VzGFjs2934a by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-06-18T17:21:00Z
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I'm running my OpenBSD laptop all the time right now. I'd like to get started with the 20+ desktop how-to posts I'm planning.I also broke my foot.While I can't move around, I can't sync the user files in the OpenBSD system with my Debian desktop (via Syncthing) and back to my Fedora disk on the laptop, so that's a big reason to stay in OpenBSD.#OpenBSD #Syncthing
(DIR) Post #AvVGCAUbKLTwRFsPNg by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-06-25T21:27:55Z
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@tante @creativecommons I have been thinking/worried about this. We need licenses that acknowledge and deal with the changing landscape due to AI.
(DIR) Post #Awrtmnx6GZZoRDa6ls by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-08-05T17:57:57Z
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Engineer restores pay phones for free public use : NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5484013/engineer-restores-pay-phones-for-free-public-use
(DIR) Post #AzLUFN4BZziidFALzc by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-10-18T21:08:40Z
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@futurebird we were just at the protest in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles. A lot of people -- thousands -- marching along Ventura Boulevard. All traffic control was by volunteers, and this was very much like the kind of event that LAPD would normally be all over. But there are too many protests to cover them all.No violence, no problems.
(DIR) Post #AzQaW9MJMu1sYZpNom by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-10-21T03:43:01Z
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@beachcomber I'm also interested in this. GtS was rather heavy, disk-space-wise, for a single user, and I'd like something leaner overall.
(DIR) Post #B0BQMDT5p0zOArTKvw by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-12T22:21:07Z
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I just added LibreOffice to my newish OpenBSD laptop. It runs great. I had originally gone with Abiword and Gnumeric, but I wanted to work with encrypted documents, and Abiword also crashed upon trying to open any ODT file.#OpenBSD #LibreOffice
(DIR) Post #B0FS0RLeIX7l4tsA5Y by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-14T21:06:56Z
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@stefano The BSD communities in the Fediverse are extremely welcoming and helpful. That's one of the perks I've found when running OpenBSD and FreeBSD (and reading about NetBSD) -- pretty much everybody is there to support each other.
(DIR) Post #B0Q0vjsllzxje18SX2 by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-19T22:05:55Z
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My time with GhostBSD was short. LibreOffice installed, but it crashed every time I tried to open an encrypted ODT document.I even wrote scripts to set backlight levels. I remember using Gammy in FreeBSD to control brightness, but that package isn't available in the stock GhostBSD. Not sure why. I didn't take the time to look into it.Enabling the touchpad and then typing was a total shitshow, even with "turn off touchpad while typing" in Xfce. I think that config wasn't working.#GhostBSD
(DIR) Post #B0Q0vlIgV8Ho2gGfZ2 by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-19T22:12:23Z
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The software and update GUIs worked well. They were slow, but they worked. I liked having a GUI setup for networking. If there was a way to add that to #OpenBSD, I'd do it.At one point I closed the lid. I don't know if I had it set up to suspend, but when I opened it a couple hours later, everything was there, but the keyboard and mouse wouldn't work.Overall it was a nice Xfce desktop, and everything was appropriately snappy. I liked the fish shell. I'd use that again.
(DIR) Post #B0Q0vmREGqiPZTH0WO by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-19T22:17:33Z
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Things I liked included how complete the Geany text editor was OOTB. I installed some kind of mega-package, and all the themes were already there. I think that's due to the FreeBSD packager. GhostBSD's live environment is very helpful -- you can tell a lot about what's working and not before you install.I tried the official MATE version as a live image but didn't install that one. Maybe things like suspend/resume work better in that GUI.
(DIR) Post #B0Q0vsylx36zrF0sdc by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-19T22:20:50Z
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Firefox is in the GhostBSD base, and it ran well. Video and audio was excellent. I didn't take the time to install Chromium, but I probably should have. I might try it in the live image to see what it's like (if I am able to install that way).I'm looking forward to the KDE Plasma install in the upcoming FreeBSD release. That will be worth trying out.
(DIR) Post #B0Q0vzUtiWNG4c5cXo by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-19T23:24:43Z
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I replaced GhostBSD with #OpenBSD, which I was running a few days ago, except this time I went for Xfce immediately. I also opted for encryption this time.The install was quick as always, and Xfce is as smooth as I remember it. I had a dark theme in minutes.I immediately installed LibreOffice, grabbed my encrypted ODT document and tried to open it.It worked. No crashing.All my files are a quick sftp away on my LAN file server, so I'll have everything back very soon.
(DIR) Post #B0eQBH3XUXXchmAxaC by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-11-26T22:13:11Z
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Here's a tip for all my fellow fake sysadmins:Check your servers for crontab entries that you no longer need.I had a server with a full disk, and it wouldn't update. I deleted a bunch of backups I no longer needed, and it's back in business.And I went to another server, found a backup script that has been in my crontab, unneeded, for months. I pounded it out, and now it won't run and fill up the backup server.
(DIR) Post #B11FIfHNCNqszz2wIS by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-12-07T20:28:34Z
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What's the current thinking? Calamares installer or traditional installer for #debian?
(DIR) Post #B11GsGgmCaZR72TATw by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-12-07T22:48:53Z
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@fox from the live image
(DIR) Post #B1HN8UIZ4uPQD1cY0u by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-12-15T17:09:42Z
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I use Déjà Dup via Flatpak for backups of my Linux desktop (with secondary backup using rsync) https://welcome.gnome.org/app/DejaDup/#GNOME #Aeon #Flatpak #backup #DejaDup
(DIR) Post #B1HrATdjUkYHN2O20u by passthejoe@ruby.social
2025-12-15T22:48:37Z
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I checked in on my #Debian 13 system today. Everything is working nicely. Hard to go wrong with Stable.
(DIR) Post #B2DwohPkPpjm8PafxY by passthejoe@ruby.social
2026-01-12T23:22:06Z
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The only guitar I've bought in adulthood was a $200 Yamaha acoustic about 20 years ago.All the rest of my gear (guitars and amps) I got in my teen years -- long ago.I buy strings and picks occasionally.In all this time I sold one guitar -- a Spanish-made cedar classical. It wasn't a "luthier guitar," but from a small shop (I think). I took a loss on it, and I regret selling it, even though I'm really a spruce player, not cedar. I'd probably play it today if I still had it.
(DIR) Post #B2lRyOVAXDsqDt0FGK by passthejoe@ruby.social
2026-01-29T02:21:11Z
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4 reasons I prefer screen over tmux on Linux | Adam Conway/XDAhttps://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-prefer-screen-over-tmux/