Steven Rosenberg

@passthejoe@ruby.social
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Journalist, itinerant programmer, picker, grinner. #Debian, #Fedora #Kinoite and #OpenBSD on the desktop, #AlmaLinux and #RaspberryPiOS on the server. Husband, father, amateur gardener, cat herder, large appliance tinkerer.

Also @steven on my own #GoToSocial instance.

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Webhttps://passthejoe.net
Repohttps://codeberg.org/passthejoe
Shinobi bloghttps://stevenrosenberg.net
Zola bloghttps://zola.passthejoe.net
When I'm on my day job's Windows 11 laptop (Thinkpad T14 with AMD Ryzen Pro 5), I run gVim with this very nice font, Cascadia Mono.

Just a trio of cats lying around. Stripey (mom), Elton and Plato (daughters).

#Cats

Chicks at the Red Barn feed store in Reseda. Minimum purchase is 3.

I guess it's goodbye to @pocket_recommends

#pocket

Here are some photos of the Orange Crush 12 guitar amplifier that I found on the street a week or so ago.

It has a surprisingly good sound. You can get a very good jazz tone without a lot of effort. The controls are very responsive.

For now I put the cover on my Roland Cube 60 and am using this amp instead. Today I found an AC power cord for it on the street (with a broken TV that I didn't take).

#guitar #amplifier

I found an Orange 12 guitar amplifier on the street. It is rated at 12 watts, solid state, and has a 6-inch speaker.

They retail for $120.

I did have to add a standard power cord. It sounds pretty good. I might set the 1980s Roland Cube 60 (orange in color!) aside for a while.

It's easy to get a nice, clean tone, which is what I look for.

(Photo is generic, but it looks the same)

DJ is king of this particular hill on #caturday

Things I'm noticing so far:

* There is a fairly critical icon that is missing. You can see where it is supposed to appear in this screen shot of the upper left portion of the terminal window

* The Deja Dup Flatpak works! In Fedora Kinoite, there is nothing I could do to get the backup utility to "find" my USB-connected backup drive. I'm doing a backup right now.

1/3

I just made an Erlang GUI "Hello World" in a Fedora 41 Toolbox.

$ toolbox create erlang

$ toolbox enter erlang

$ sudo dnf install erlang

$ erl -smp

1> wx:new().
{wx_ref,0,wx,[]}

2> M = wxMessageDialog:new(wx:null(), "Hello World").
{wx_ref,35,wxMessageDialog,[]}

3> wxMessageDialog:showModal(M).

Thanks to:

https://arifishaq.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/wxerlang-getting-started.pdf

https://wxerlang.dougedmunds.com/

#erlang #gui #fedora #toolbox

Nice touch, #GoToSocial devs:
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Here are some photos of the Orange Crush 12 guitar amplifier that I found on the street a week or so ago.

It has a surprisingly good sound. You can get a very good jazz tone without a lot of effort. The controls are very responsive.

For now I put the cover on my Roland Cube 60 and am using this amp instead. Today I found an AC power cord for it on the street (with a broken TV that I didn't take).

#guitar #amplifier

@passthejoe found on the street?
@ianto_jones Somebody who must have been moving put it out with a retro-style radio/record-player (didn't take) and some other furniture and clothing. Stuff on the curb is common, but musical gear is not.
@ianto_jones It didn't have a power cord (needs the generic kind that plugs in), and I didn't have any in my stash (surprisingly), so I "borrowed" a cord from another thing in the house until this morning, when I picked up the 120V cord I needed from another curb dump.
@passthejoe well that's just crazy and a great find. Yeah, I moved to an area not long ago where folks put out unneeded items which was new to me, but makes perfect sense. Definitely never seen any musical gear, though. 😄

@ianto_jones A lot of people put stuff out on the curb.

I take a lot to Goodwill, mostly because they'll take almost anything without giving me a hard time.

But I did put out a couple of things recently. A 1,000-foot roll of CAT 5 (don't need it) and a door sweep (same). The wire went, the door sweep didn't.

@passthejoe quite a nice find. What happened to the street artist next to it? 😁
@ikkeT These amps are small (12 watts) and inexpensive. Retail is $129, and I'd definitely feel good paying $100 for it.
@ikkeT I'm not an expert, but I'm feeling like the 6-inch speaker provides a natural compression that isn't a horrible thing.