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👋 AS400 RPGLE/COBOL/C++ I do those things. But most likely not here. Here instead, perhaps to discover more Gemini and getting back to a Smolweb.
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Got a Brother DSmobile 620 scanner? Got Fedora Linux? Want to get the two to work together? Go to brother's website. https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=ds620_all Download the RPM and install it the way the website indicates. rpm -ihv --nodeps <libsane-stuff-stuff-version.rpm Note that when you do: scanimage -L as your regular user you don't see the scanner, but if you do: sudo scanimage -L You'll see the scanner. This is the udev rules not giving it to a group that your normal user belongs to. Edit the file /dev/udev/rules.d/50-Brother_DSScanner.rules and change the users to one you belong to. Profit!
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I know no one asked and take this with a grain of salt. After watching the Switch 2 Direct, the Switch is clearly where I'm getting off the Nintendo train. Just $80 a game. That's not a "I don't want" that's a "I can't". And $450 for the console in the age of $400 Steam Deck + Steam sales. And that Nintendo cost isn't even adding in the annual online cost. Which granted it's the cheapest, but it's the cheapest for a reason. Nintendo is not known for their amazing online experience. But I still can't get over the price tag. That alone, to beat a dead horse meme, "in this economy?" The price alone breaks the deal for me.
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I'm sorry, I believe I asked for much LESS intersting times. Less, not expeditiously increasing in interest.
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 9 months ago
If your IRL job was a hard drive how fast would your RPMs be?
How cooked do you like your bacon?
🙋 13 Responses · 11 months ago
Gave Fedora 40 a try. Was quite good, but ultimately I've come back to PopOS.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Just watched the first episode of X-Men 97. I know, just getting around to it. Just wow. It's really good.
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Does anyone here use Yesterweb? (gemini://cities.yesterweb.org/) I was thinking of posting some of my more lengthy thoughts somewhere and that came up on my radar. Any good? I espeically like the idea of being able to use Titan to upload to the capsule directly.
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Wow it got cold pretty quick!
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Just got done watching Pokémon Concierge on Netflix. Was really good show that's heart warming and charming at the same time. Absolutely what I need right about now.
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Added error handling to my Rust Gemini browser and proper TLS Identity handling, no more hard-coding things. Next step is to break out the building a request from the actual TCP connection. Ideally, I'd like to support Spartan, Titan, and Gopher. So I'll need the ability to make requests be a changeable thing.
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Hello Station! This is me, posting from my first Gemini client written in Rust. It's not very good as for the 10 status code, I have to hard code what I want to send at the moment. Ultimate goal is to eventually have a client that can do basic browsing on Station.
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I've found it interesting that sometime I worry about losing the good life that I have worked hard to build only to follow that thought up with, but I will lose everything one day there's not a stopping that. Interestingly, the material difference between the two seems to be whether I will have to live through that loss or not. And it turns that worry into an inqury as to the degree of selfishness all this stems from. IDK, just putting something out here. The more I have lived the more I understand the degree of that which I don't understand. It's a lot apparently and I'm solid to the position that humanity has just been flying by the seat of their pants for quite some time.
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I'm upgrading from an AMD Ryzen 1600. My next CPU should be
Woooo!! New issue of SmolZINE! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-40.gmi Many thanks to @kelbot, I always look forward for these issues. I'm especially a fan of Stinky Pinky. I've got a pretty good idea what this one is!
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For dinner I had Raisin Bran cereal. I literally had zero motivation to cook tonight, so I went for a comfort food. Big storm moved through the area today and one of the doors got blown in. Broke the latch of the door and the door itself looks like it'll need to be replaced. However, that's about the extent of the damage unlike my neighbor who lost quite a bit of his roof's shingles.
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My made-up wisdom: Complicated things are complicated, and if there exists a desire to uncomplicate those things, that endeavor is complicated.
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I went to a park the other day. The park has a new tennis complex in the location where the county agricultural center used to be. I remember as a kid my grandfather would take us kids there to show livestock. After we were done, we'd get a foil wrapped ham and biscuit from one of the vendors that would usually show up. I remember this one time my cousin got his biscuit and my cousin had ran off into the stands. After awhile, we all finally found him. Sitting on the top row of seats. He said, "Hey granddaddy, you said we could watch a bit before we left." And so we all did. (Rest of story in replies)
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Moment of analogy. Gasoline is dangerous. For obvious reasons, one must be careful with it. Not just toss it all over the place or chuck matches at it. And yet millions of people fuel their transport with it every day with little fanfare. I feel there is a bit of an analogy, at least given some events today, to organized religion. That's all. Sorry to intrude. For what it's worth, I successfully made my first whole grain loaf of bread today. A bittersweet event after reading about some of the news today.
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What I learned about the future of Reddit from the AMA 🔥 🔥🖥 🔥
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My biscuit recipe: 230g of White Lilly Self-Rising flour. 50g of Crisco Butter Flavor shortening. Use biscuit cutter to cut shortening into flour Chill flour in freezer five minutes 160g (yes grams) of whole buttermilk Stir mixture "just enough" Roll into ¾ to 1 inch thick sheet, cut with biscuit cutter (never turn the cutter, up and down motions ONLY) Melt some unsalted butter in a bowl, add a drop of buttermilk to melted butter, brush on the tops of the biscuits. Bake at 450°F or 220°C for about 10 minutes ± 5 minutes This is my quick recipe when I'm in a rush.
💬 2 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Personal opinion, but perhaps a widely held one. Charley horses are very unpleasant and I would rather them not be a thing. I say this having been woken up this morning by one. Was quite rude to have been woken up so early today. I volunteered to wait staff for a VFW dinner last night. I am certain that I have overdone myself with the carrying dishes. I was hoping to sleep in a bit late to make up, but clearly my muscles had other intentions. Side note in all of this: I more than likely need a bit of regular exercise before I go off and do these kinds of strenuous activies.
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Begin rant/ Dorsey's new Blueksy just came to Android. Insert the usual: Those that forget the past, something, something, use more social media. Bluesky has decided to use their own decentralization protocol because (https://xkcd.com/927/) Yes you already know which xkcd that one is. I hear ideas on why Gemtext needs to have *Insert markdown idea here* (humor of using italic markdown not lost here) and the thing is, if there ever is some "update" to Gemtext it ought to be something "we†" all agree upon. Because if not, well that's Jack Dorsey and you don't want to be **that** guy. † we being a broad term I won't define better here
💬 5 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Does anyone know if SmolZine is going? I keep checking back every so often but I haven't seen anything as of late. I always liked StinkyPInky. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/
💬 2 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Over on this post gemini://thrig.me/blog/2023/03/04/xkcd-colon-slash-slash.gmi I found on Antenna I see this about the xkcd scheme such as xkcd://356. Of course there is no standards body hashing out these details, it's just me making up stuff as I go along That's all any of this is, stuff we make up as we go along.
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 years ago
Saw this post gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2023-02_side-if.gmi today. It's great to see people still interested in new IF. I've been an Inform 7 kind of person for some years now. The thing @skyjake is pitching is pretty interesting. I'm still a fan of the Zork style (type all your input in) but I get the vast improvement with the point and click. Case in point, the difference between old Day of the Tentacle (with it's mostly Manic Mansion UI) versus the Remastered version with the UI Skyjake is thinking about. The difference in the actual end product isn't much different, but the newer UI prevents the "correct verb" fustration that the early version had. So count me as interested.
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People of Earth, I am successfully posting to Station from Lagrange on iOS. Also outside of the oddity of someone who uses Linux using an iPhone, transferring my Lagrange data was easy stuff except for getting the zip file from my Linux machine to my iOS device. Mostly because I forgot that email was a thing for like twenty minutes. But importing my stuff from my Linux box Lagrange into iOS Lagrange, very easy 👌👍
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
So apparently the sociopath in me has decided to try a bit of writing a Gemini client in Rust, which yes I know there's plenty already. I think the point is less to make an actual client in Rust and more to learn sockets in Rust, and also to get a bit better at Rust in general. Interestingly, there's not much to do to get a VERY basic Gemini client running. I'm currently using just the url and native-tls crates and in about 50 lines have a basic spit gemtext out onto the CLI. But I think having done this, I've really come to apprciate the sometimes terse nature Rust tends to enforce about coding.
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Using the lastest Lagrange but finding that inline images are shown with a blue/green tint. Like the red channel is missing. https://imgur.com/a/C88QE7N The user interface is fine and downloading the actual image produces a normal image, but the inline preview just has an odd tint to it.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Something I've noticed about Lagrange is when I have "split view" going, if I click on something in the left pane that prompts, the prompt shows up in the right pane. Wasn't sure if that's a configurable thing or if I've messed up or something I should note as a bug? Has anyone else had this issue? This is on v1.13.7.