Notices by Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social), page 15

Ubuntu MATE 18.04 is looking pretty sweet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kth-4M62o

Eagerly awaiting the final ISO images for #ubuntu 18.04 ...

@ln4711 @charlyblack You can look at it. It's a .desktop file, and a bit of python. Open source, plain text easily readable by a human being.

@draconis Yeah, turns out most popular desktop and cloud Linux distro is still alive. Who knew?

@pertho @charlyblack It is literally just a web link. A desktop file that launches the web browser with an affiliated link. That's _it_.

@charlyblack We're always open to hear about alternative funding options. But just saying "remove that" and not offering alternatives isn't fair. How do we fund development?

@charlyblack Why does it make you mad? You know it's just a web link? You know it costs money to develop the Ubuntu desktop, and that little link generates a little revenue at no cost to amazon shoppers?

Great video from OMGUbuntu summarising everything new in #Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 which will be released later today. #isitoutyet

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/04/ubuntu-18-04-whats-new-video

Went looking for which Firefox tab was consuming my CPU. about:performance is a useful tool to help here. Uhoh.

@xurizaemon Yeah, i just used the defaults.

Send software to your Psion organiser and make it blue screen :)

They had a version without wires too...

@xurizaemon Yup. An AVI file that was part of the Psion desktop software. I just copied it off a Windows 95 hard disk and used imagemagick to make it a gif :)

I kinda miss these little animations from the Windows 95 era.

Trigger has a playmate who comes over to our garden most days. When trigger comes in, his friend waits patiently outside for him to come back out and play again.

@skellat not a phrase I know

Golly. Today I Learned. These things (flashy lights we have on level crossings) are called Wigwags. I had no idea. I discovered this via a very nerdy railway enthusiasts YouTube channel :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAxH_vP7gn8

@gilgwath no. Salem has been with us 15 years, Trigger just one year. :). Ours is a forever home :)