Notices by Mike Stone :ubuntumate: (mike@fosstodon.org), page 14

@tty Good catch. I didn't notice that. Even the original Android company that Google eventually bought was only founded in 2003. I think they were shooting for 2008 and they were just typing too many dates with 19 at the front and got themselves in a rut.

@captainbland Ha! That would be a dream come true!

@kungtotte Hmm, you'll have to let me know how it goes. I haven't had a lot of time to play around.

@trayofbees I went this route.

@trayofbees I didn't start with Linux until a couple years later. Unfortunately I missed those early days.

@h4ck3r9 Assuming that works, is that a good idea? How do you keep people who shouldn't have firearms from downloading them? Violent felons and individuals with mental illnesses?

@h4ck3r9 Don't know anything about them really, and the About page is a little sparse.

@codesections @kev For some reason this just isn't working!!

@kev Like instances for people who have pet fish? You maybe can search for something on instances.social, but I've never heard of anything that specific.

@kev @timapple @joseph I usually end up there when I have discussion based obscure questions. Like, what is the best CLI based web browser for Arch. Invariably I end up on Reddit at least briefly. There's just not a lot of major publications spending time on those kinds of questions.

@joseph @kev Unfortunately true, but I only dip in a toe (skim discussion for relevant info) and then get the heck out of town before any of the vitriol gets on me.

@kev Ug, reddit. Maybe this makes me a snob, but that's one place I prefer to only dip a toe in occasionally. There's way to much poison there for me to want to stay for long.

@codesections @kev @ignitionigel I'd be curious to see how it behaves for non-browser based applications. If you're always running an adblock plugin in your browser, it's probably going to look pretty much the same. How do applications with integrated ads work for you?

So the feedback on my recent "Lightweight Linux" post has been...interesting.

https://kevq.uk/the-insidious-linux-community/

I'm so glad the whole of the #Linux #Community isn't this bad!

@colomar See, now that's a good point. I was more thinking OS/DE UIs, like Windows, Mac, Gnome, KDE, etc, but individual apps DO occasionally implement something whimsical, so it IS possible to do it. I think it's kind of a parallel thought process to @kev's recent article about Linux's "need" to be lightweight. Operating systems and desktop environments seem to feel the NEED to be all business. If ever there was a time to just kick back and enjoy some spare CPU cycles, it seems like it's now?

@RyuKurisu It's a minimalist Raspberry Pi stackable mount.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:786210

@kev

@kev It's one of these. You're right though, it does look like the base of a CPU fan.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:786210

Anybody ever notice there's not a lot of whimsy in UI design? That's unfortunate.