So tired all day that I never did anything to get me sufficiently tired to be able to fall asleep.
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Timjan
@timjan@social.linux.pizza
mastodon 4.7.3* (HW) Electronics Engineer,
* (Cranky) Linux luser: mostly due to the tools available and unfettered habit
** Breaks unbreakable(?) software weekly
* Cyclist when possible: tries to keep up with wife about local transportation policy;
* Bakes my own bread (inexpertly) and grows some of my own veggies.
* Beat deaf?
* No sports
Alt accounts don't talk about the same stuff, or in the same language.
California.
Photo: dandelions breaking through pavement. Background: pine trees against blue sky.
322 Followers
585 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 25, 2022
Languages:
EN, SV, (DE, NO)
Distros:
:fedora:, ( :archlinux:, ( :windows: ))
Bikes:
yes
Pronouns:
he/him; 'an/'en/honom
When life gives you sporks ...
"if you enjoyed your dental visit, please review..."
Enjoy is a slightly strong word. I'd rather go to the dentist than, say, poke my eyes with a rusty fork, but to jump from that to "enjoy"... I evaluate that conditional to "False".
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
Once the correlation between betting markets and future real world news is established and widely known, what will be the real world consequences when large bets are placed in order to trigger certain preemptive military responses?
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@t3rr0rz0n3 one has 16, one has 32.
Just one more doubling, and the web browser will stop swapping... One last doubling... Trust me this time.
If certain banks won't allow me to log in to their websites/through their apps because my phone's version of Android is too old, is there any chance that I'd be able to access their apps through #grapheneos or any other non-#android device?
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @MLE_online@social.afront.org
It seems like there is an assumption that Mastodon would want to compete with xitter and possibly facebook for taking on the role as a replacement for disqus, the blog comment hosting service.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place @infobeautiful@vis.social and "korn" means barley in Swedish!
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
No - I had enough issues with bullies catching on to my (real) name when I was a kid, so now I'm like, no, I won't let you win.
Now, I do give USians the English pronunciation of it, as my ears can't take the butchering, but I have not changed the spelling to go with it.
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@BetaCuck4Lyfe@kolektiva.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Nettle soup was certainly A Thing when I grew up. I never learned to appreciate it.
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@TimWardCam@c.im @RantyHighwayman@mas.to
I think I recall that Ikea (at least in Sweden) used to offer that.
Achievement unlocked: walked to Costco*.
*The food court.
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Iḿ? Really? Two hours ago it´d have added a standard apostrophe.
Something something dead keys. Where do I reset that?
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@CStamp@mastodon.social
"Breaks" as in, the site is convinced a hacker tried to break in, so they deprecates my present password and makes me jump through various hoops to create a new password before I can log in from ANY device.
Replying to on neuromatch.social
"wINdoWs jUst wOrkS"
Windows suddenly can't find the external monitor, and the settings dialog freezes.
#TimjanGrumpsOnComputers
Just reminded my wife about the problem of "trusting trust"
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/classes/cmpsci691st/readings/Sec/Reflections-on-Trusting-Trust.pdf
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@physorg_rss_bot@mas.to
Did they also count scientists' use of intentional backronyms, or did they only count what non-scientists would consider a "joke"?
#question about the whole "#identify yourself in order to Internet"...
Let's say that someone is known under a nickname, let's say Billy, and hasn't officially changed their name from William (because nobody but an angry Mum, and the IRS, uses that form of the name anyways).
Let's say that a website suddenly demands that Billy proves who he is, so he cusses under his breath and uploads a government issued ID.
"Denied". Well, the uploaded ID did say "William" and the account claims to be called "Billy" and how is the entity tasked with checking IDs be able to know that William and Billy be the same person rather than brothers...
Okay, less of a question and more of a rant, and an admittance that I hadn't even thought of this problem until I saw it in action last night.
"Hi [Name]"
This doesn't start well. "[Name]" instead of, you know, an actual name. Did an AI write the email, or was it just an incompetently written mail merge program? Maybe the AI wrote the mail merge?
'We're doing hardware for AI'
And that didn't exactly improve your chances.
And finally, what they actually needed is something that I haven't touched since college.
Buh buy.
#Joplin update woes:
I don't use Joplin on the desktop as much as on the phone, which means that I had neglected updating the desktop version (AppImage; yes, Linux) for some time.
Today I finally did open it, and saw several notes being un-encryptable. Okay, time to update, I guess.
Only problem turned out to be that version 3.5.11 and 3.5.13 (the two I tried) don't load properly: the app only shows a grey rectangle with a half menubar that doesn't respond to button presses.
So I tried to get back to version 3.4.x. Nope, can't do, the profile is too new. So version 3.5.x did do something: update the profile and prevent me from opening an older version.
What finally solved it was to restore $HOME/.config/Joplin and $HOME/.config/joplin-desktop from backup, and run version 3.4.10. The app opens, and all notes decrypt properly.
I still don't dare trying to run 3.5.x again - it would probably require another restore from backup in order to get back to 3.4.x again.
As an aside, I did learn that backintime backups of softlinks can get you to the live version of a file rather than the backed up version. Which is why my 2 week old backup looked like it contained files that had been updated 43 minutes ago - those files weren't the backed up files, but the live ones.
#TimjanGrumpsOnComputers
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I don´t know what Iḿ doing or what is going on.
Coffee on the back porch, watching the greens poke up between the weeds, having dropped various cucurbit seeds in the ground already this morning, listening to a concert by the local _Mimus Polyglottos_...
Take the joy and peace where I can find it.
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@mjr@masto.bike @TimWardCam@c.im @RantyHighwayman@mas.to
As I was moving in to my first apartment, Dad found a used kitchen table for sale somewhere. He balanced it on seat and handlebars, and walked bike plus table the two miles to my new place.
I'm not sure how he turned the thing...
I think we need to figure out where this photo was taken.
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@idiot@mastodonapp.uk The .config folder is on a different drive (still local) than the rest of $HOME, that's a point.
I'll see if I can figure something out tomorrow.
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The configuration for my external backups are gone... autostart programs are gone, window rules are gone...
WTF, did something just wipe half my .config folder?
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@vague@social.linux.pizza Iḿ presently sooo close >< to kicking out plasma to see if XFCE still is behaving as I ask it to.
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@CStamp@mastodon.social Yes, desktop tends to work.
(There are exceptions: a different bank than the one I was thinking of here, breaks if I attempt to log in via Firefox on Linux. It works to use Chromium based on Linux, or I can use Firefox on Windows)...
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@film_girl
Cheap, 10 year old whatever-monitor I have here. Out of three attempts, the best was 0.0054, which doesn't seem that impressive when seeing some of the other results.
I blame the monitor.
Damn it, what was the name of the HR system for the company that I worked for last January? I'm sure there's a link to that W2 in my inbox, somewhere...
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@amydiehl@mstdn.social
If we have kids, we're "idiots" for having kids we can't afford to raise.
Is we don't have kids...
I don't mow the "lawn" that often (it's dead most of the year anyway), but I need to prune the weeds a couple of times each winter.
This weekend I did scare up a few critters that weren't too happy with me coming out there to disturb them.
Ah, Easter eggs and Easter bunnies...
We certainly had Easter eggs. Both the painted chicken egg variety, and the egg-shaped chocolate filled paper boxes, but I don't recall the Easter Bunny to feature all that commonly - except of course in the chocolate and toy stuffed care packages that the great aunt in Germany sent us. Plenty of foil wrapped hare shaped chocolate in those.
But before that, on Maundy Thursday, it was the day of trick-or-treating. Dress up as a påskkärring (Easter witch/hag) and beg the neighbors for candy.
Also belonging to this season would be the day that in English apparently is called Lady Day, but in Swedish through some linguistic quirk (folk etymology? Mondegreen? Mishearing?) changed name into våffeldagen ("waffle day") which of course needs to be celebrated appropriately. (Cream and jam!)
To make it even better, that's also the day when the cranes were supposed to arrive from their winter vacation (no, not those cranes, the flying ones!) to my part of the country. If you lived further north, you just might have had to wait another week for the birds to arrive.
If you managed to not scare away the poor bird (staying up past sunset the night before would definitely scare it off), and had remembered to hang up a (big) sock by the bed, it just might have filled with candy overnight.
Now, there are parts of the country where the cranes have forgotten this important task, and if so, I'm sorry to say, hanging up the sock might not actually yield anything.
When the even's icebreaker bingo includes the question "Find someone who's taller than you", I'm just going to give up on that bingo game.
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@c_dan4th 3?
But in two of these three cases, it's been many years since I met them (in non-fedi contexts); the third is very inactive, and I haven't told them my RL identity, so they probably don't even know that I am the one who's behind the dandelions.
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@jef@mastodon.social I just heard a rumble down in south bay.
And a second.
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Something else was definitely going wrong as well, so I rebooted.
Plasma forgot *everything*. Virtual desktops, activities, desktop background, panel configurations...
...What?
Oh, it's one of those "how to do " articles.
The kind that expands five semi-related acronyms related to , and why is important, and ... oops, that was it.
It all took ten paragraphs, though.
"This one day class is expected to take 19 hours to complete"
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@selzero@syzito.xyzhttps://youtu.be/tNRZTphLiDY?si=9tu0QTOs4uao2PS1
Peps Blodsband "Falsk matematik", in Swedish/Scanian.
>The following OpenPGP key (0x74C35BC8) is about to be removed:
Reason : Expired on 2026-02-11 11:44:18
It will be successfully removed.
Tomorrow it will be back.
Why I think so? Because it has returned, and I have re-deleted it, practically every day since February 11.
#fedora #timjanGrumpsOnComputers
I'm still not used to this:
If the temperature during the day has been like 25C, the sun has no business setting before 9pm. I'm robbed of like 2 hours of evening daylight on a day that is made for gardening!