Mastodawn

I was gonna hold off on posting about it until I successfully got something installed on it, but that's proving to be harder than I expected.

This Lemote Yeeloong netbook arrived on the 1st, and is a pretty cool little device, using entirely free software drivers and firmware. #RMS even used to daily-drive one of these.

I'm hoping to get some form of #Slackware on it, most likely through #Bonslack, so stay tuned :)

#Linux #FOSS #RetroComputing (sorta)
#Netbook #MIPS #Lemote #Yeeloong

ttydweller 1d ago

Brian Sletten 1d ago

The next time a company updates their privacy policy with long, thick legalese, let me give you this visual summary.

#privacy #technology #eula

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ttydweller 1d ago

@passthejoe Sweet! You're in for a good time :)

ttydweller 2d ago

Veronica Explains 2d ago

Here we go. Introduction blog post incoming.

#DumbphoneSummer

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ttydweller 2d ago

@veronica :0 Dumbphone time! I use a very cheap and low end android phone as a dumbphone. It doesn't have distracting apps since it's not even able to run them properly, but it does support my banking apps and such. I degoogled it of course, but jus using the Universal Androod Debloater utility, since I couldn't find a custom rom that supported it.

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ttydweller 2d ago

@veronica Socializing is better than the algorithm, recommend some music people! (Have you heard about a band named "The Stop Bits"? they rock, literally)

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ttydweller 2d ago

@mkj @gtronix Completely agree here, specially dependencies are usually a pain to handle only with dpkg, and you can end up breaking debian if you're not careful with the packages you're downloading.

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ttydweller 2d ago

@svuorela I'm surprise they haven't heard about backports

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JohnMoyer 3d ago

Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on May 11, 2026

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026May31_birds_and_cats/IMG_5904c_2026may11_squirrel.html

There is also a video made from the still photo zooming in to the eye of the squirrel. https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026May31_birds_and_cats/video_IMG_5904c2.mp4. This has sometimes been called the "Ken Burns effect", although he was not the first to use it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect.

#squirrel #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Debian #ffmpeg #GraphicsMagick #jpegli #photography

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ttydweller 2d ago

@johnmoyer I love this