moralbacteria @moralbacteria
Ontario, Canada. Finishing CS undergrad at UWaterloo. It's C++ all the way down.
Great job on the contrast there, guys. Also, why do I need to download the Twitch desktop client play a Minecraft mod? https://mastodon.club/media/JJ9rNBxzaUFMLIHFHLI
Hmm. Every time I take an inventory of my computers, I'm surprised by how many I have. Currently 3 desktop towers (1 doesn't work), 2 SFF systems (one's a NAS/server), 4 laptops (2 thinkpads, 1 netbook, 1 old mac), and an 8" x86 tablet pc (win10).
And I'm planning to build another desktop PC. Why?…
I would like to give some credit and props to all the developers who have worked on building #Mastodon /GS/OS.
Everyone talks about the missing features, but this is a pretty well made, well designed and largely bug-free product, for what I assume has largely been a volunteer effort.
Remember that the competitors have huge staffs of full time devs hired specifically to work on that product, so there's a big difference in resources. #Mastodev
Think I figured it out! Wasn't a hard drive issue, it was a UEFI issue. Managed to boot into Windows (on the problematic hard drive) somehow, installed EasyUEFI, deleted unneeded entries, rebuilt ESB, good to go!
Found the source of my computer woes. The problem: MSI H81M-P33 couldn't get past the BIOS (got stuck on a black screen with "A2" in the bottom right-corner). After Googling, it was suggested that the problem was with a hard drive. I tested booting with each one and found the culprit. (Unfortunately, it was my youngest hard drive, probably only 3 years old). Removing it allowed me to boot, so here we are. Haven't had a hard drive fail on me before, so this is going to take some more work...
@vfrmedia @cc Thanks! There are some big scanners around campus but none of them seem to work that great. My notes are on lined paper, which is thinner and the document tray doesn't seem to like that either. I can probably deal with PDFs and manually building an index. Really, I just want something to take care of scanning automatically, e.g. so I don't have to babysit a flatbed.
@cc Thanks! Hmm if it's just for a one-time thing it may not be worth the upfront cost. Don't really need a scanner for anything else. I'll take a look though.
I made an instance previewer, so you can see the local/federated feeds of an instance without signing up: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=xoxo.zone&view=federated
A couple years ago, I got a contract doing certain improvements on a local factory's ERP. I worked in-house, and for the first month (when I was busy enough to be there the whole day) I drew some stuff on a whiteboard in the engineers' offices, where I worked, every lunch break. After a while, they got upset seeing me erase it every time and gave me some paper. I had some good fun daring them to guess famous scientists and engineers (and had to ask for more markers a couple times) #mastoart
Anyone have any advice when it comes to digital preservation of written notes (e.g. school/university)? My main motivation is physical space saving and the ability to backup/replicate, but I'm worried about scan/OCR quality, the time it might take to scan 4 years of notes, or any complicating factors (e.g. usability of the scanned notes) that I haven't thought of.
It never fails. Just when I think I'm done shopping, I realize I forgot something
No matter which org you are, most of the packages shipped in your distro were made by 3rd parties, it's a miracle desktop Linux works at all. But that's also what makes it so cool that all these different orgs with competing interests can produce all these parts that fit together. Every little fix that all these different orgs make while pursuing their own personal interests go back and make the entire ecosystem better. It's a really fucking cool thing to be a part of
Never heard of Linuxforafrica.org but quite a nice long overview of FLOSS options, from 2015 : https://linuxforafrica.org/Docs/2015/03/floss-solution/
I just learned something new: If you click on Home / Notifications / Local timeline at the top of each column, it scrolls up to the top!
Neat.
Productive afternoon! I broke my main desktop (maybe BIOS/UEFI error?), and discovered my backup machine wasn't working, so I had to restore it with the help of my backup backup.
But at least I'm running 17.04 now! ... on my backup... https://mastodon.club/media/JhSzNjVpUCnmkka9aH4
https://mastodon.xyz/media/GRaOVpfeR1R_az0vaTo
this magic seal, passed down from generations, cleanses you of blame when its name is invoked
@david The best thing about distrohopping is that it solves this problem: just wait for Fedora 26 to come out!
@cbacon I think the real question is "why don't all websites have a vaporwave theme" and "is there a startup that can make that happen"
@thurloat I did have Arch for a while and really enjoyed it for the reasons you mentioned. I think, however, that I'm still in this novelty phase of Linux where I want to try the newest hotness. Like Elementary: it had it's own desktop environment which I couldn't get running on Arch or in a VM. Or "I've never run Fedora, lets try it out". Maybe my priorities will shift from "novelty-chasing" to "settling down with something that just works for me" after I leave uni and start work.
I''m a serial distrohopper. Never satisfied with what I have, always looking for the next shiny thing. So much overhead with installing and reinstalling and set up. Never accumulate cruft but my systems lack history and identity. I've definitely lost files through user error too. I think it's becoming a probl --
Oh hey, Ubuntu 17.04 is out, time to distrohop!