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👋 I'm a nerd, powerlifter, and DIY-er. I learn by doing - or more accurately, by repeatedly doing it wrong until I figure out how to do it right.
🗣 Followers 10 · Following 0 · Logs 50 · Docked 6 months ago
Happy Halloween, everyone! It's my favourite time of the year, mostly because I get to eat all the leftover chocolate after trick or treaters stop showing up :3
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 3 days ago
My dad, who works in IT and is generally considered a Computer Knower, now comes to me when he has questions about Linux, as he's worked with Windows most of his career. I don't always have the answer, but it's wild how things change.
💬 1 Reply · 5 Thumbs · 1 week ago
Made an agreement that I can use my new PinePhone Pro (which is supposed to be a christmas gift) as much as I want, as long as I put it back in the box, wrap it, and re-unbox it on Christmas. So I've been having a lot of fun seeing what it can do. I've been testing out the default Manjaro/Plasma Mobile. I'll need to write a much longer post in the future detailing all the interesting issues I've caught so far.
💬 1 Reply · 7 Thumbs · 1 week ago
My PinePhone Pro has arrived! That only took 4 days, wow. Unfortunately it is supposed to be my christmas gift, so I now have to pretend I don't have it for two months.
💬 0 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 2 weeks ago
Today I overheard my dad say "I hate all these ads and pop-ups. I miss when the internet was just text." Should I tell him? I think I should tell him.
💬 5 Replies · 13 Thumbs · 2 weeks ago
PinePhone Pro has been ordered! I'm super excited to try it out :3
💬 6 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 2 weeks ago
Anyone have any experience with the PinePhone Pro? I'm thinking of picking one up in a couple months, less as a daily driver and more as something to experiment/tinker with.
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 2 weeks ago
I'm finally using my neocities site for something! I'm always a bit iffy about posting my writing online, but I'm trying to get over my shyness, so I've started posting some of my poems at https://mathpunk.neocities.org. Eventually I'll mirror them all on my gemini capsule as well, since I've already posted a few poems there.
💬 0 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 weeks ago
I haven't been very active online lately. Life has been pretty rough, but I think things are on the upswing. I'm hoping to post here more often as well as eventually start updating my website and my gemini capsule. I've been making chiptunes for at least a decade now, and I'd like to start sharing them on my website someday soon. I see all the cool kids are on nex:// now. I really enjoy seeing people build new things. Hopefully soon I can get over my terminal self embarrassment and be more active on the small internet!
💬 3 Replies · 9 Thumbs · 3 weeks ago
Been playing a lot of Minetest/MineClone2 lately, and I'm pretty happy with it. I don't honestly see myself returning to Minecraft. It's been a while since a game pulled me in this much. Anyone have any Minetest games they recommend?
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Changing my name to Nicholas and releasing a Linux distro called Nick's OS just to confuse the hell out of everyone
💬 1 Reply · 7 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Finally getting back into actually practicing math! For someone named mathpunk, you'd think I'd do it more often lol
💬 2 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 2 months ago
I've been running Linux Mint for about a week now, and I'm definitely really impressed with it. The install process was quick and painless, and Cinnamon is intuitive and familiar. Definitely something I'd feel comfortable recommending my non-techie friends.
💬 3 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 2 months ago
Hiya Station! I've been away for a bit, but I finally got a password manager set up, so I could add a password to my account in order to add new identities. Using my laptop is currently easier than my desktop for my back issues, so I'll probably be around more often now! :3
💬 1 Reply · 7 Thumbs · 2 months ago
Had to kick myself off the fediverse today. Have been spending too much time staring at the waterfall of posts in the federated timeline, and "attempting to log out for a day and failing" is usually a sign that I'm getting too hyperfocused. I keep catching myself logging in by sheer muscle memory without even realizing I'm doing it. lol
💬 4 Replies · 8 Thumbs · 3 months ago
Most of the work to reorganize my capsule is done! I just have to fix the headers and links in my gemlog, and create some navigational links to copy to the end of every page, and then its done! Woo!!
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 3 months ago
One of these days I will learn how to export my client certs to my laptop and phone, so I can spend more time here than on the fediverse.
💬 5 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
Every time one of my windows machines has a problem, I just open up task manager and end every process with the word "microsoft" in it. This works a surprising amount of the time. For reference, I know even less about windows than I do about Linux. Just thought this was funny
💬 0 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 3 months ago
I seem to be having trouble syncing message history in Gajim. If I recieve messages while Gajim isn't running, it won't show them. It says there aren't any messages. I'm on a server that supports MAM, and I can sync history on Conversations just fine. I think I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what.
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 4 months ago
I'm enjoying being a part of smaller social communities on the internet. I feel a lot more comfortable. Also, since there's no incentive to keep my eyes on the screen to look at ads, I actually go outside and talk to my neighbors more often. Who woulda thought that becoming more of a computer nerd would actually result in me being less of a "basement shut in" stereotype?
💬 2 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 4 months ago
I finally got around to checking out the fediverse. I think I actually prefer it here - the small size of this capsule prevents me from getting too hyperfocused, which is something I struggle with with social media. I think I can have a healthy relationship with it so long as I set boundaries with myself, though! I'm definitely going to try to be more active here and my gemlog, though.
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 4 months ago
I replaced the CMOS battery on the dell latitude and now instead of failing to boot, it can't even power on. Oops! Looks like I'm gonna have to take it back apart to see what I broke. Hoping I can fix whatever I did!
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 4 months ago
Think I'm gonna end up dual booting with windows after all. For one it doesn't really impact me since I have more hard drive space than I will ever use. But for two, I currently have absolutely zero experience with gaming on Linux, and some of the games I'm pretty excited about don't even show up on ProtonDB, so I think it's best to keep windows around "just in case."
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 4 months ago
So, this old laptop might actually run if I can replace the CMOS battery, and if it does, I might mess around with Linux From Scratch on it. I'm not using it for anything else, and I've already been having a lot of fun with Gentoo, so why not go DEEPER
💬 4 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 4 months ago
My capsule will probably have problems with link breakage and disorganization starting soon, I'm going to try out organizing it by the johnny decimal system
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 4 months ago
Does anyone here have experience with gaming on Linux? I hear that steam games tend to be more reliable thanks to Proton, but GOG is my preferred retailer, and I've been told that games from GOG can be finicky unless they run in DOSBox. I have to decide whether or not I want to dual boot with windows or go pure Linux.
💬 8 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 4 months ago
I'm taking the first step to finally getting caught up on my classwork again: spending hours writing a highly organized and needlessly detailed to-do list in org mode instead of actually doing any of my assignments.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 4 months ago
Got some political crapmail today that claims that a local politician plans to give free heroin to criminals. I don't think they're going to get the reaction out of me that they seem to think this will get out of me.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 4 months ago
Something that's hitting me now that I've been away from social media for a while: recommendation algorithms were NEVER good. Consciously, I knew that. They make money through ads which means keeping your eyes on the screen, which can mean explicitly pissing you off or upsetting you as much as it can mean "finding posts you might like," if not moreso. But only now is it hitting me, emotionally, how fucking ridiculous it is to avoid watching videos you haven't already seen in case you get weeks and weeks of trash you don't want to see because you dared watch 1 unfamiliar video. What the fuck
💬 11 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 4 months ago
Friends, I have finally done it! I have installed Gentoo on a VM, and it actually boots! It even has a working internet connection! Wooooo! I'm gonna play around with it for a few days to make sure I can actually use it without breaking anything, and then I'm gonna install it on my laptop! :3 I'm very excited