Notices by thurloat 📌 (thurloat@mastodon.club), page 43

Morning folks, how was your Monday evening?

@rin protonvpn has been excellent for me, and discounts when bundled with the mail I already pay for.

good mobile app, good desktop app, and native openvpn so you can just use normal ovpn config files if that's your thing.

@balrogboogie relatable! and really unfortunate relationship our brains have with music that way.

I have a few songs that bring me right back to happy days, and horrible memories.

@Supernova seems like a licensing nightmare, someone had a big spending budget for a commercial.

@ink_slinger well, considering it would just be a Linux distro, I generally don't have issues viewing PDFs on my desktop using either the browser built-in one (perhaps as an electron front-end [yuck]) or whatever the native document preview application is for gnome/xfce

@ink_slinger could probably actually just use CUPS + a PDF print driver, the print everything to files.

Scanning on the other hand might be more complex.

@ink_slinger e-ink + touchscreen + pen + SBC + some virtual network printer server, probably the most complex part of the prototype

@ink_slinger yea I've never found a "library management" application that wasn't garbage to use.

maybe a fun #opensource project to hack on

It would be cool if there were an E-Ink device that appeared on the network (or via USB) as a printer, and you could print documents directly to it for the road or for signing.

Then if you marked them up or made notes, you could "scan" them back to your computer via the same type of mechanism.

@dankwraith whoa! easy there, Lenin.

without having to re-write these broken systems every 2 years, how will they fool themselves into needing huge budgets? It's the government's job to employ useless contractors, so they can keep justifying their own budgets and keep being the lynch-pins in their own jobs.

TFW you burn a damn good identity because you forgot the seed to a key for all the passwords.

@oct2pus I don't know if this would be any more appropriate than showing up at Starbucks with a full iMac.

I could see it being useful in a professional environment for industrial designers / engineers who heavily make use of CAD, and are either on-site with equipment or frequently engage with clients during the design.

@FssOfDeath @Supernova "I knew too much about the meat butchering business, apparently"

@Supernova "they looked into my criminal history, and determined I may have been sympathetic with the accused."

@Supernova chipper parents in hockey arenas at who knows what in he morning should be put in a chipper.

@yukiame she'll be pwning noobs in no time

Startem early!

Ezra working on building her own computer from my parts bins.

https://mastodon.club/media/xXXc9bI9GcDKJcLJR3c https://mastodon.club/media/fqKH-37-kerpkIhD8ZA

@kaniini extolling the virtues of beekeeping I see.