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Gemini Links 22/08/2023: Public Transport Protest and Palm PDA Collections



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • 🔤SpellBinding: DFNOPRU Wordo: OKAYS
      • Wasting time

        I am fairly anal about punctuality. This borders upon paranoia when it comes to travel days. The idea of delaying my arrival home or to the city /town I am to work in is extremely distasteful. This morning I awoke in Decatur, Illinois, I have a 0930 flight out of STL (St. Louis, Missouri). Planning to arrive two hours early at the airport (0730), plus 2hr 15min of driving to the airport meant a 0515 hit the road time, a 0415 wakeup.

      • Lubbock

        I do not really enjoy Texas. I lived in this state for 18 years, moving away when I was in my late twenties. It is hot in the summer. Traffic can be a real mess. Highway interchanges are stupidly designed as large as they possibly can be.

        The one saving grace of Texas is Whataburger. I only eat one real meal a day now. Tonight, it was a number 1, plain and dry, sandwich only, and spicy ketchup to go with it. I had a coke zero along with it. Brings me back to being a kid, every single time.

    • Politics and World Events

      • Public Transport Protest

        So, the light rail has started operating in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Big Apple. Some activists who want the train to be available of Sabbath have handuffed themselves inside the train for more than two hours. I've read somewhere that they had been handcuffed even for 3 or 4 hours. Wow! Don't they have to go to the toilet?

    • Technology and Free Software

      • a prequel post

        I was poking at stuff a while ago and never got around to writing it down in a blog post. UNTIL NOW.

        I was playing with the veilid-cli and was trying to figure out what I could get it to do. reading the help in the built-in command line thing, I was able to get a DHT Key set to some value. first thing to get a bit of data put into the DHT is to do

        record create

      • Scratch mojo

        I essentially started RPoD over from scratch when I replaced the Raspberry Pi with a ThinkCentre. This was a change in architecture, a change in gopher server software, and a combining of multiple servers into one machine. A lot of scripts got broken. This included my atom feeds and my main phlog handling script (handles git, calls the atom scripts, scps things around, builds gophermap/index.gmi, etc.) and quite a few other things as well.

      • New palm device in my collection

        Happy to receive a Palm Tungsten T3 today, such a cool little device which has a slide-out screen and sports bluetooth, sd card and an audio jack. Bluetooth should come in handy to set up an internet connection. Originally sold for about €400, now mine for only €8.

      • Moving from Gnome to Sway

        I'm not going to start this off with some indictment of GNOME or talk about how it's a shit desktop environment. It isn't. I've been using GNOME for 4 years and the whole time for my use case it's been perfect. I use the 13in framework[1] laptop with wayland to improve stuttering, I started with Pop! OS and switched to openSUSE a few months back. I loved the pop-shell tiling extension, so kept using it (as it is available in the tumbleweed package manager) until it was broken in gnome 44. I found a workaround, and then it was re-broken in 44.1, so I figured it was time to look for alternatives. I got pop-shell running to a decent degree (swapping over gradually), but am not confident it will continue to be updated, as System76 is moving to their rust-based COSMIC[2] Desktop environment. So with that in mind, I cracked my knuckles and installed sway.

        OpenSUSE actually has its own config for sway called openSUSEway[3] that made the switch much easier. I would recommend trying it in a VM if you want to see what a full sway setup would look like with essentially default configs.


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