Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​1d ago

@jorge when i stumbled across #distrobox some years ago it instantly gripped my imagination as arguably one of the most transformational new #Linux tools in my own Linux lifetime [i've only been a #penguinista since 2014, so remain merely a keen noob]. it's just a brilliant project 💜️

#LinuxWomen 💜🐧

Droppie [infosec] 🐨    ​3d ago

i've been a #penguinista since 2014; i lurve it.

i've been a pacifist for many decades longer, & ain't changing.

regrettably there's a stupid #linux meme too many creep-peeps seem to like using, involving various iterations of #tux carrying a machine gun & wearing over-shoulder ammunition belts. it's not only sickening in its implicit glorification of naked violence, it's also juvenile, but worst of all, it seems such a deplorably merkan vibe 🤮️

from today i begin not just ignoring this idiocy any more, but explicitly blocking accounts using it... & the first of today's candidates has just appeared... so, bye to you, creep-peep!

#LinuxWomen #NoGuns #SayNoToViolence

Show threadDroppie [opensoc]Feb 18

@Bot4Sale except in my immutable distros i avoid FP. today in my main distro, Arch, i was being lazy coz it was not convenient atm to do a full system update in order to install it from the repo, so i bunged in the FP version as a quick & dirty temp workaround. little did i realise quite how dirty it was gonna be, ha.

also, as a ps, btw -- yay another #Penguinista 🎉 🥳💃

DroppieAug 23, 2025
As of a coupla months ago, she's my latest #Penguinista i added to my #Linux #RSS feeds. She fascinates me, not least for her amazeballs intensity. 😮🤯👍

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=q7kqrGC_sXE

#BreadOnPenguins
Droppie [anonsys] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘Jun 26, 2025

@doomgirl How very lovely! Makes me even more pleased to be a #Penguinista ... with non-factory-standard plumbing.

Yay Linus! 💜🐧

CatapultApr 12, 2025

#introduction

I'm into #hamRadio, #TabletopRPGs, #trains, and #Astronomy. My day job is software testing, so I used to love The Computer. Also, I'm a #penguinista in recovery.

I'm here because I've been on other instances for a while, and have seen the people here. Glad to be in the Town now.

Show threadDroppie [infosec] 🐨    ​Jan 11, 2025

The latest...

Am gonna remote-into dad's win10 pooter Mon arvo, & create two VMs in it:

  • a #Fedora #KDE #Linux one, to test his printer & scanner compatibility
  • a win11 one 😮, so we can both begin to get a first-hand feel for what it's like

    • If Test1 fails, i will have to finally accept that dad's never gonna become another #Penguinista, coz ongoing use of his printer & scanner is absolutely non-negotiable; he uses these HEAPS of the time every week, & whilst i don't care about printing & scanning at all, to dad these are absolute showstopper issues. I feel a sense of gathering gloom... 😨

    The corollary ofc is that if Test1 fails, the only remaining option is to proceed with accepting win10's persistent nagging finally, & do the upgrade to win11, with all the horrors that entails. 😱

    I feel dirty already, sigh.

    #DadsPooterProject

    Droppie [infosec] 🐨♀   🦘​Jan 15, 2024

    Delighted to say, finally, after intensive ongoing testing & investigation, it is solved. All thanks goes to my old unfediversed #Penguinista online friend of several years. 🤗​

    • Plasma systems with 'khelpcenter' already installed, & then with #GnuCash [& its associated docs pkg] subsequently installed, suffer this symptom. That was my Host system.
    • Plasma systems without 'khelpcenter', & then with #GnuCash installed, have correctly working GC Help docs.
    • To fix the problem, one can simply uninstall 'khelpcenter', & thence tolerate future KDE apps' Help opening in one's browser rather than the native #KHelpCenter windows, as the price to pay for then having functional GTK apps' Help opening in native windows.
    • Given i run Plasma not Gnome, that seemed an absurd price to pay, so the following compromise was reached.
    • Edit '/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache', find the four lines containing 'yelp.desktop', note that three of them will have this value, 'org.kde.khelpcenter.desktop;yelp.desktop;', edit them to place 'yelp' first, ie, 'yelp.desktop;org.kde.khelpcenter.desktop;'.
    • Cake, eat [future Plasma updates probably will return these to default sequence, so this fix might need reapplying after each such system update]. Note this fix does incur a small price; whilst immediately after the edit, KDE apps' Help will still open in KHelpCenter windows & GC Help will open in GTK [ie, #Yelp] windows, after reboot all Help, KDE & GTK, will open in Yelp windows.

    #KDEPlasma #GnuCash

    CatapultDec 12, 2019

    #introduction

    I'm into #hamRadio, #TabletopRPGs, #trains, and #Astronomy. My day job is software testing, so I used to love The Computer. Also, I'm a #penguinista in recovery.

    I'm here because I've been on other instances for a while, and have seen the people here. Glad to be in the Town now.