Mastodawn

I had an Acer netbook that took to Snow Leopard just fine and ran that until I could afford a full desktop #hackintosh. That’s what started me into liking Apple initially and I still keep coming back to Macs today despite my love for #Linux.

atomicangel Mar 13

Nazo Mar 13

Ok, this is a dangerous question, but I still have to ask. For all you fellow #Linux users I'm looking to replace my console text editor. I am not and will not be an emacs user and I'm not a fan of vi/vim. I used nano, but really disliked it. I really enjoy tilde for the most part (though I do wish it didn't actually take over mouse selection to such an extent that I can't copy/paste from outside the terminal in a GUI) but tilde seems to be dead. The dev seems to be MIA and the packages no longer work. We can still manually build it (though it's not static and you can't move the source files after building or it quits working) but I assume eventually that's going to stop working.

Is there an editor kind of modernish like tilde but, you know, not dead and not emacs-based and a TUI?

atomicangel Feb 27

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115991705165860760

There is legal precedent for this. A circuit court had determined that biometrics are a thing you have, akin to a urine sample, whereas a password is something you know and would need a warrant for.

Obviously abusing the letter of the law is wrong. That said, I want to remind everyone to look up how to trigger requiring a password/passcode on your device in the event you are stopped or going through a checkpoint.

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atomicangel Feb 12

@marcoarment @atpfm @marcoarment @atpfm
@caseyliss

Thanks Casey for being the voice of reason!

Another thought: GNUStep was a port (I think) of the NextSTEP framework using Objective-C and today right now I can grab a Linux distro that can run the OG Chess program that still lives on in macOS.

Marco, no. No. Not Android. Ugh. No. They’d be better off trying to run on Solaris. Google is the devil and are locking down Android to the detriment of the ecosystem.

Also @siracusa on ChromeOS you can enable the Linux terminal now and get access to some parts of the underlying system. It’s not a full Linux experience, but if I remember right you can containerize applications.

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atomicangel Feb 12

@marcoarment @atpfm

Instead we would do research. The same level of research we do for making choices on cars. Deep dives into "What processor, what chipset, what Wifi card?" etc.

Anyways. Loved hearing about different possibilities, some of which I would have loved to have tried (SunOS/Solaris) when I was teen but I didn't know or couldn't afford it.

Brief aside: I did try loading Illumos on my Framework 13, no dice because it's kernel isn't suited for newer hardware. Kind of a shame that Solaris and derivatives will likely fade quietly into the night.

atomicangel Feb 12

@marcoarment
@atpfm

#ATP #linux #bsd #unix

I think in an alternate timeline where Apple didn't exist any longer, BSD/*nix OS's would have had a different outcome. I want to believe it would have been better, for sure.

I will also say: Linux is good right now. Yes, you need to pay attention to hardware choices. Yes, not every program is 1-to-1 with it's counterparts. But even for power users that do lots of coding, it works well. I have access to Firefox, Google Chrome (not just Chromium), VS Code, Discord, etc etc.

So to say it has a lot of the same issues is IMO incorrect because people such as ourselves wouldn't just grab a system off the shelf and then hope Linux works. 1/2

atomicangel Jan 31

kim_harding ✅Jan 26

Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-the-idea-that-solar-panels-die-after-25-years-a-new-study-says-the-warranty-does-not-mark-the-end-and-real-world-performance-can-last-for-decades/26007/

Read original research paper here https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/el/d4el00040d

Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades

Solar panels are usually sold with 25 to 30 years of performance promises. But what happens after that, when the warranty language is long gone and you are

ECOticias.com

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atomicangel Jan 31

@caseyliss

I agree. In the right now, I’m doing the right thing fiscally for myself and family. If I’m lucky, the future will get better.

I just finished the video, and he’s saying what I’ve been saying to people for awhile.

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atomicangel Jan 31

@caseyliss

TLDR; too broke to continue affording electric

The only issue I have with going electric is a personal one: I can't afford to fix my car when the warranty is up, and I can't afford to replace it when that happens. I won't be able to save enough money to live decently when I retire if I did that.

I currently have a plugin hybrid (Chevy Volt, RIP) that meets my needs but the battery is $20k+ and that's not including the labor.

Technology Connections did a colab with another creator where they did a cross country trip in the Silverado EV and it was more costly than gas or diesel. For those of us living underneath the poverty line, if we needed to charge away from home it would hurt too much.

So I'm falling back to another plan until we as a country can actually afford electric: A Volkswagen Jetta or Golf TDI, 2000-2014 models, manual transmission. If I have to drive a liquid fuel vehicle, I'm gonna enjoy it. If I'm lucky, it'll last as long as I do and be there at my funeral lol.

atomicangel Jan 25

Heidi Li Feldman Jan 25

Statement from Alex Pretti’s parents. Alex was murdered this morning by ICE/CBP agents in Minneapolis this morning as he was documenting their occupation of the city.