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Gemini Links 16/07/2023: Rosy Crow 1.3.0 Released



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • Good morning

        I'm happy it's Saturday, and I'm grateful for my life. I have met some amazing people and feel loved. I have everything I need, and realize most people can't say that. I have a great job, feel respected by my peers, enjoy who I work with, am paid fairly, and always have fresh challenges.

      • Day 6

        I haven't had much time for computing today, with a 2.5 hour journey home, etc.. I might not have any time tomorrow either as I'm seeing a good friend of mine from about midday...



        [...]

        Emails have worked OK, though they have been fairly slow as my main email box for home stuff now has around 47000 messages in it, so the headers tak a while to download! I have still been able to use it though.
      • speculation on people and new things

        There are at least 3 types of people

        One would treat the new way of doing stuff as bad, because they tried using the old way and it didn't work.

        One would treat it as bad, not because it's bad, but because it's worse than the best.

        One would treat it as good and bad, and would wonder why people don't see the good as they do after they've go out of their way to try it out.

      • 🔤SpellBinding: BCUHNTE Wordo: HABIT
    • Technology and Free Software

      • When is It Time to Get a New Computer?

        Thing is though; it works. If any part of the hardware would fail it's not really reparable, but I happen to have another computer just like it (a hand-me-down) as a spare.

        It's a trade-off to have a computer like this. The model is rare enough that there aren't drivers for all of the hardware. WiFi has never worked on it. When I first installed Linux on it I chose Raspbian, which I later switched to Debian proper. Strangely enough Raspbian had more drivers I needed than Debian. I had to copy some over. Sound started working when I switched to Debian, though.

      • Not Quite the Old Computer Challenge

        Since Solene started this challenge three years ago it’s risen in popularity. I really like the concept of it and have considered participating since the beginning. I never did, however, and I won’t this year either.

      • Inside You There Are Two Wolves

        The title is a hairy meme template on Twitter; I was wondering if it was some product of the site itself (like dril, who so many find funny but I've always found to be kind of tiring), but KnowYourMeme says versions of such go back to, of all people, Billy Graham.

        Anyway: I was thinking about this the other day in terms of my exodus from, and return to, Twitter; my precarious homes at Mastodon, cohost, and elsewhere; and just generally trying to reconcile the complicated feelings and relationships I have with Twitter and my communities there.

        On Mastodon it's almost a truism that if you talk about how you miss Twitter, you'll get dogpiled by people who tell you that Mastodon is better (it's not), that it can replace it if you try hard enough (it can, but only if you lower your expectations), and that if you can't find community there maybe you're the problem (okay, granted). Here's the thing: Mastodon, as a rough replacement for Twitter, is fine. It's a bit clunky but it's resilient to catastrophic events because the whole multiple instances thing really does work. It may not work _well_, but if mastodon.social goes down, I'll still be able to see what everyone else on the other instances are posting. That part's fine. That part's great.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Christina's 5 questions - July 2023 🤔

          I don't feel the need. But I do ride a bicycle, so I guess it's that. Oh, and I find that almost everyone walks too slowly, so maybe walking?

        • Revelations

          Social media is great, because you can check up on people from the distant past and see that your high school bully now retweets Jordan Peterson podcasts, trolls progressives, and posts about Bitcoin and NFTs. Still killin' it, buddy!

        • They trained me well.

          I added a guestbook, so now of course I'm checking it obsessively like I would a thread or comment elsewhere.

          I know it's pointless. Things move slower here. But I've been trained to do it. It's going to take a while to break this habit, learn to chill the fuck out and let go of the constant need for acknowledgement and approval.

      • Software Releases/Announcements


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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