Notices by Mike Stone :ubuntumate: (mike@fosstodon.org), page 10

@sunweaver @kev It's my first Thinkpad, so I was a little nervous about it. I splurged and got a 3 year warranty on it, so if anything goes sideways it's replaceable. So far, I've been loving the heck out of it. I'm testing Neon, but I'm not expecting to stick with it very long. Throwing a new distro on this thing seems to take less time than putting the distro onto a USB drive, so I might have entered a new era of distro hopping... For a little while anyway.

@42 This is what I got. It ran me about $440 USD.

I really think ephemeral content like Pixelfed Stories will be huge for the fediverse.

It will be possible to send a Story to a single user like a DM.

A mobile developer could make a federated snapchat app with these APIs 😉 #pixelfed

@m3g5
Yea, just upgraded yesterday. It's been good for the most part, but the screen saver crashed on me and wouldn't let me unlock it earlier. You know, IMMEDIATELY after I bought another computer. Pretty sure my older system is just jealous.

@bauerjoseph
It's an X1 Carbon. Not the newest. Got it on clearance.

I bought myself a Thinkpad for Christmas. I've heard good things. Can't wait to get it home and put a real OS on it!

@peanutbutter144 What do you think?

:qubes:

@kev

@belzebubb Hey, welcome! It works very much like Twitter, but kind of combined with email. I'd suggest a couple articles to get antiquated.

https://kevq.uk/getting-started-with-mastodon/
https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/
https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/

They're written by our very own @kev and @codesections, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask anybody. We're a pretty open bunch.

@peanutbutter144 Any image you'd like to see as an emoji. I can do necessary conversions and that kind of stuff. No worries. Just an idea what you're looking for.

@kev

@m3g5
That could be kind of cool. I'm not much of a designer myself, but maybe @kev or another member could come up with something interesting.

@brandon I'm not opposed to the idea in and of itself, but it would take funding well beyond what we're currently bringing in and I imagine a significant time investment. I do think that advertising is something FOSS projects lack, but I can't see how we can address that on the budget we're looking at here.

@kev

Haven't done a #screenshotsunday for a while.

@gffo
Welcome back to Mastodon, and welcome to Fosstodon.

@linuxnews_de Well, it is still in beta, so that's not unexpected. Hopefully the kinks will get ironed out quickly and this will live up to it's potential.

@kev @codesections

@gwmngilfen I think that's a distinct possibility in the near future to see a Hugo/Ghost/Jekyll/etc version of this. As @jdormit said in his post, his "mission is to open up the entire internet", and that includes "every website, every social network, and every blog". I love that idea, and I hope that he's not the only one that has it. I'm not coder enough to pull this stuff off, but I'm sure there are others out there that can, and hopefully they take inspiration from this.

@kev @codesections

I'm super excited about this announcement. I wanted this exact thing when we started up the Hub, but it wasn't available.

@kev @codesections

https://jeremydormitzer.com/blog/announcing-pterotype/

Well, it certainly looks pretty. Anybody given it a try yet?

"Deepin 15.8 Promo Video Proves Distro Deserves 'Blingiest Desktop' Crown"

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/deepin-15-8-promo-video