bonoky 🇬🇧

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Was in radio & tv broadcasting tech. ops. After redundancy I got a BSc in Computer Science and had a mid-life career change to IT. Retired now. Walk a lot, read a lot, and waste a lot of time messing with computers.
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Just completed a test run of moving my servers (#Silverbullet, #Dokuwiki, #TiddlyWiki & #Firefly3 to #Docker. Took me a while to realise it but I now appreciate why everyone was recommending this method. Next week’s task is to implement it on the main server hardware, a #RaspberryPi.
For the first time I plugged a second monitor into my #framework laptop and it was a disaster. The menu bar moved to the new monitor and the resolutions were all over the place. 10 minutes later had sorted it all out and working happily until I went to dinner. When I returned the laptop had gone to sleep, on waking it up — no video! Unplugged the second monitor and video came back to the built in display, but no menu panel or desktop shortcuts. Took me another hour using the terminal to restore normal service.

Anyone else experienced this?
@amin Your recent post promoted me to revisit your tty1 blog https://tty1.blog/articles/xdg-user-dirs/ where I found this post - just the information I had been looking for at the weekend and failed to find. Thanks, I find it a very useful resource.
Leveling Up Your Filetree with xdg-user-dirs

Have you ever noticed that there are certain directories everyone has? `~/Documents`, `~/Downloads`, `~/Desktop`, and so forth? Some of them you don't need, some of them you might wish were named differently, but any time you rename or delete them, the originals *reappear*? You see, these directories follow a standard so that all programs know where they are—with the right tools under your belt, you can customize them.

@amin
Still having problems viewing the Local feed, different problem depending on which app I use. #icecubeapp won’t give me anything newer than a month ago. #metatext sometimes works, sometimes I get a couple of random posts. Is it only me?
Fell off the treadmill this morning ☹️. Even worse, the safety cord detached from my clothes so it didn’t stop. Got some nice abrasions on my knees and thighs - ouch every time I move.
@rl_dane In your profile you mention your markup format messages might get mangled, well I have not noticed that yet.

However, you add that they may best be read in the instance web feed. So far that has eluded me, what’s the url?
Now that’s interesting, this one has appeared in my “local” feed 🤔
In my polymaths “local” feed I’m seeing very little activity, one or two posts a day. I don’t even see my own posts. In my “home” feed I see my posts and those from @amin and a few others I follow. I don’t think this is the correct behaviour - could it be the way I have configured my settings or is it a fault?
Ordered my #framework laptop last night
There has been a sign up for 4 weeks saying the road will be closed today.
Before a driver gets here there are 5 other diversion and road closed signs yet drivers are still trying to drive down there.

What happens to people’s brains when they get behind the wheel of a car?