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Mid-forties cis het male. Eclectic pagan. Baby leftist. Arguably naturist. Linux tinkerer. Music enthusiast. Unitarian Universalist. #mefite. Married, two kids. He/him/his. Hello.
Bloghttps://alex.owlandvine.org

A new day. A new chance to succeed.

A chop wood, carry water day.

A day to tend to my own knitting, as Grandmother used to say.

Now that I'm older than she was at the time, I see the wisdom in her words. I'm a slow learner.

It took me a long time to realize I can change the world every day, but only the small part of it I can reach.

The failure is in not trying because I can't reach it all.

I hope you can tend to your own knitting #today

Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" šŸ” (he) (@[email protected])

Age verification in #Gentoo: if you're using Gentoo, you must be old enough. Problem solved. #shitposting

Treehouse Mastodon

Last week I learned that sometimes a Linux bootloader (*cough* GRUB) won’t properly install because you have the ghosts of 6 or 7 distros cluttering your EFI boot list. So you have to leave chroot or make your way back to a console, as applicable, then prune the heck out of things with efibootmgr. After which you re-chroot or resume the install and everything is beautiful.

This is something someone with more civic pride in Linuxlandia might properly blog about. I’m just tired.

#Gentoo #Linux

judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide

- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct

- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.

- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online

- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community

Things that I won’t use, even to mock or joke about it:

* Generative AI
* Incel slang
* MAGA or nazi imagery

I think this is a reasonable boundary.

Humble Comics Bundle: Love and Rockets and More: The Collected Hernandez Bros. by Fantagraphics

Love and Rockets, Maggie the Mechanic, Psychodrama Illustrated, and more! You choose what you pay for the full Hernandez brothers library and support the ACLU!

Humble Bundle
People waking up every day choosing to live with honor and integrity with the same attitude as ā€œtime to make the donutsā€¦ā€ I see you. Thank you.
A childhood of soft music, lots of Jim Croce and Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens but no Labi Siffre. Why didn’t they play him on mainstream in the 80s? (Don’t answer that, I know why.)
(Me watching the Bad Bunny halftime) ooh, there are LEVELS to this. I have guesses to some but don’t know the others and I want to know MORE! (Cinco estrellas would watch again.)
Being bored sounds really good right about now.