Notices by Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social), page 12

@malin Yes, I believe it includes VMs.

@jason @ChrisWere pacman -S sense_of_humour

Just randomly spotted this #ubuntu "bookazine" (collection of magazine articles, guides & how-to) in WH-Smith (newsagent). :) Nice to see.

@ChrisWere That distro has more package managers than users!

@ChrisWere also we have a decent number of pragmatic normals for whom security is not their primary concern. They just want to use the computer. Passwords get in the way.

@ChrisWere likely people who use a VM. We could probably correlate that data in a later report.

@craigmaloney we reviewed one on the Ubuntu podcast. Episode will be out next week.

@moetech We have shipped a backup program by default in Ubuntu for many years now :)

@matt They may be VMs on developer workstations.

A first look at #Ubuntu desktop metrics.
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/06/22/a-first-look-at-desktop-metrics

@RyuKurisu Sure, but I want it on for the ones I use. Randomly making it on by default in new channels I never asked to be in is a bit odd.

The discord app experience for me 99% consists of other people creating new channels, auto-joining me, triggering notifications on my desktop and phone. This is almost always quickly followed by me finding the new channel and disabling notifications.

I backed this crowd-funder, which is at ~82% of its target with 4 days left. They want to make more tutorials for @godotengine , the free game development engine. It would be great to see it fully funded. Please back and/or share. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bentristem/discovering-godot-learn-to-code-by-making-games

@RyuKurisu @jackyan hah! Could be :)

@JayVii_de @surveyor I think it was a vendor hosted system update. The Firefox marketplace is shutdown so I don't get ffos or app updates.

I love it when (usually American) tourists ask me for help when on the London underground. I must really sound convincing, like I actually know what I'm talking about. Thankfully on this occasion it was an easy one :). (How to tell a circle line train from a district line one) :)