Marie Kondo your software stack with open source - Mike Melanson https://github.com/readme/featured/open-source-minimalism

Lemmy - A community of leftist privacy and FOSS enthusiasts (it's like federated Reddit) https://lemmy.ml/

Digital books wear out faster than physical books - Internet Archive http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/

Fix choppy YouTube video playback in Firefox and firefox-esr in Debian Bullseye - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/723814/how-to-fix-choppy-youtube-video-playback-enable-webrender-debian-bullseye

I hate to say it, but I decided to try Google Chrome in a Flatpak, and it runs a lot better than Vivaldi, which SHOULD be in a Flatpak at this point (but is not).

Raspberry Pi Zero W is mostly frustration if you try to use the GUI. I forgot how crushingly slow it is. I'm getting the no-GUI build of the OS.

I just got an email from the Mozilla Foundation asking for donations. Then I found this article: Mozilla expects to generate more than in revenue this year https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generate-more-than-500m-in-revenue-this-year/

Some cool Raspberry Pi projects are available from Guysoft https://guysoft.wordpress.com/

I had no idea you can't get Raspberry Pi board anymore. I've had a couple of Pi Zero W boards in a drawer, and I'm starting to put them back into service. The first is going to be a persistent Syncthing desktop that should help my syncing setup. At this point, I'm using 100% Syncthing and 0% Dropbox.

This is a reminder that I have an independent microblog full of short, social-media style posts http://updates.passthejoe.net

The #Debian installer decided to give my fully encrypted 1 TB drive a 30 GB root, and I didn't take the time to make it bigger. Now I'm running out of space, so my workaround (which IS working) is installing Flatpaks with the --user flag so they go in /home, which is HUGE.

I'm having a problem with stuttering YouTube video in #Firefox — the ESR version — in #Debian Stable. Videos from Twitter, Vimeo and Instagram play fine. All problems clear up in the Firefox Flatpak. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr

Does Amazon intentionally slow down your deliveries when you don't have Prime?

Google wore me down. I installed #chrome in #debian from Google's repo.

How to use DALL•E 2 to turn text into AI-generated art - Christina Darby/ZDNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-dalle-2-to-turn-your-wildest-imaginations-into-tangible-art/

Have you ever heard of Mosh: the mobile shell? I'm installing in #debian https://mosh.org/

How do you install IntelliJ IDEA in Linux? JetBrains Toolbox, Flatpak, individual tarball, or?

Julian Bream took it to a whole other level with 'J.S. Bach: Lute Suites, Nos. 1 & 2' in 1965. The album is on Spotify. https://www.julianbreamguitar.com/j.s.-bach--lute-suites--nos.-1---2.html

Kotlin and Android  |  Android Developers https://developer.android.com/kotlin

Complete Kotlin development masterclass 2022 | Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/kotlinmasterclass/

Kotlin for Beginners: Learning Programming With Kotlin | Udemy https://www.udemy.com/course/kotlin-course/

The Kotlin Programming Language https://kotlinlang.org/

distrobox-upgrade --all is the key to updating all of your Distrobox instances with one command. Thanks @castrojo for the tip! https://distrobox.privatedns.org/usage/distrobox-upgrade.html

JetBrains/compose-jb: Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb

I had been having trouble with slow starts of firefox-esr in Debian Bullseye, but it seems to be resolved with the latest update https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr

I've been back in Debian 11 for a month and a half, and things have been smooth — as expected. Pretty much everything has been running well, and overall the laptop is staying very cool.

My favourite computer, an old Mac - Connor Oliver/Muezza.ca http://muezza.ca/thoughts/favourite_computer/

At $32,500, this is the holy grail: Ed Bickert's blonde 1965 Fender Telecaster https://www.12fret.com/instruments/ed-bickerts-blonde-fender-telecaster-1965/

3-year-old Bugzilla comment fixes font issues in the Firefox Flatpak. I'm running Debian 11, but I expect this fix will work anywhere. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621915#c3

I am more than a little obsessed with mdBook — the documentation/book platform written in #rustlang. Typical: I'm looking into Rust and am too distracted by the docs tooling to move forward. https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

‘There’s endless choice, but you’re not listening’: Fans quitting Spotify to save their love of music - Liz Pelly/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/27/theres-endless-choice-but-youre-not-listening-fans-quitting-spotify-to-save-their-love-of-music

Install the Rust Programming Language https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

I am now using Syncthing on 57 GB of data on my way to 200 GB. I also haven't organized or otherwise even looked at most of these files over the past many years. So eventually I will sync less, I hope. https://syncthing.net

I am setting up Syncthing to sync about 300 GB of data between two computers https://syncthing.net/

When it comes to my HP laptop running quickly and cool, Debian Stable is doing an excellent job

I just installed Syncthing on my Debian laptop and started the service automatically with systemd https://docs.syncthing.net/users/autostart.html#

The reason I have so many updates right now is the release of @Debian 11.5 https://www.debian.org/News/2022/2022091002

Falling back from Fedora Silverblue 36 to Debian Stable 11 fixed a couple of bugs:

In LibreOffice Calc, ctrl-; spits out the date

In Vim, no need to hit Enter to clear command line after cd

(But gEdit scrolling issue WAS fixed in Fedora!)

I've been back in Debian on my laptop for about a week, and it's been uneventfully smooth. I'd probably say the same if I were going from Debian to Fedora instead of Fedora to Debian.

I was on TikTok for 30 days: it is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy - Luiza Jarovsky https://scribe.rip/i-was-on-tiktok-for-30-days-it-is-manipulative-addictive-and-harmful-to-privacy-9e25445a9122

Things like the early (and expert) adoption of PulseAudio, Wayland, Pipewire, the latest GNOME and other innovations keeps me coming back to @fedora, even if I have recently moved to the predictable and quiet @debian Stable

I am enjoying setting up and using my new Debian 11 (Stable) system on my HP Envy laptop. It's this laptop's second time running Debian, and things have been smooth and predictable.

One of the reasons I paused on NixOS was the /nix/store size. My VM filled up pretty quickly. Not ruling it out forever but passing for now. https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/x1sfff/nixstore/

Both Debian and Fedora are my home distros. I go back and forth with them. When I got my first SSD, I put Debian on it. When I got my second SSD, I put Fedora Silverblue on it. Now I've gone back to Debian on the newer SSD. My old iMac has run Debian for a long time.

There were a lot of things I liked about Fedora Silverblue, but the difficulty of developing in Flatpaks wasn't one of them. Toolboxes are great, but the Geany Flatpak couldn't compile or run anything. I would need a separate Geany in every Toolbox.

I got really "attached" to EasySSH in Fedora Silverblue. Now I have it as a package in Debian, and it's all set up. https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh

I wasn't prepared for most Ruby gem installs in Debian 11 to fail unless done with sudo. I really need to switch to rbenv.

Something broke the Clipboard History GNOME Shell Extension in Fedora 36 Silverblue, so I deactivated it and reactivated Clipboard Indicator. Yes, I have both at the ready.

I'm still trying to figure out whether or not @nixos is "worth" adopting. Will it add enough to make up for the learning curve?

Looks like I got my social-posting Ruby app working in @nixos

Bridgetown: Next-generation progressive site generator powered by Ruby https://www.bridgetownrb.com

My dystopian fiction longs for a better world - Veronica Roth/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/my-dystopian-fiction-longs-for-a-better-world/

Speculative journeys: Sci-fi for people who don't really like sci-fi - Jon Raymond/Literary Hub https://lithub.com/speculative-journeys-sci-fi-for-people-who-dont-really-like-sci-fi/

Flatpak apps in heavy rotation:

EasySSH (Do all your ssh sessions in one GUI) Foliate (eBook reader with books from https://standardebooks.org)

The Fedora Flatpak of LibreOffice keeps crashing in Silverblue 36. Fix is to replace with the Flathub Flatpak of LO.

Something in the latest @Fedora 36 update took care of the very rough scrolling in Gedit (which I still use instead of the new Gnome Text Editor due to Snippets and External Tools)

Updates today in @fedora (and @teamsilverblue) for Podman, NetworkManager and Vim

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. https://standardebooks.org/

Vim 9 is now in Fedora Silverblue (and, I assume, also Fedora Workstation)

Look at how @Debian does security announcements. Other distributions: Do it this way. https://lwn.net/Articles/899688/