👋 Hi, I'm Aaron, nice to meet you!
🍿 Most of the time I just post about whatever I find interesting.
📸 I do various higher quality projects every once in a while.
🦣 I’ve been somewhere on Mastodon since April 8th, 2021 :)
⛵️ Alt: @Linus_in_a_Bit
🌵 Note: My account automatically deletes everything older than 2 weeks.
Older posts that I think should last longer are achieved on my website.
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Fossil actually has some of the most useful comments I've seen in code.
Paraphrasing but
/* here's a weird thing were doing
Here's why
Here's the assumptions that other code is doing
Here's how we're satisfying them temporarily
Here's why this approach is wrong, we should revisit this even though it technically works*/
These comments are actually saving me time in reading and understanding the code. That's pretty rare for code comments
Edit to add: fossil the #plan9 file system, not the VCS
Believe it or not, this isn't #Meshtastic or #Meshcore
It's #Reticulum 
That's right, Reticulum is finally running on microcontrollers and there's so many ways to do it:
@cinimodev Re: https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2026-02-15-offline-world-part-1/
Some offline things I like/recommend 
'Offline' communication tools
- For smaller-scale communication: https://briarproject.org
- If you wanna build your own internet: https://reticulum.network (I wrote a blog thing about it a while back; https://linuxinabit.codeberg.page/blog/reticulum)
Mapping tools:
- Offline maps: https://www.comaps.app
- Everything else you could possibly ever need: https://kylecorry.com/Trail-Sense
What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.
The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.
They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.
We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.
Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.
The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it. 
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