Notices by Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social), page 16

@popey clearly should be an ISO standard.

When did Linux distro maintainers decide CTRL+ALT+T was no longer in favour as default to start a terminal? Seems common that most distros now don't enable that by default, but my memory is that most used to. Is my memory wrong? if not, why has this default changed?

Salem and Trigger are enjoying a little outside time in the sun today :)

Of course, 18.04...

Call for testing on memory leaks in 18.08 LTS: https://community.ubuntu.com/t/help-test-memory-leaks-fixes-in-18-04-lts/5251

Unrelated to anything I have asked about recently; my keys apparently "fell" into my wife's gym bag.

@craigmaloney no identifying marks sadly.

@craigmaloney not nearby. Would have to travel, which means the person who lost them has to hunt for the right station.

Given local police station closed some time ago; if you found a bunch of keys, where would you hand them in? Assume found on public property or you don't trust private property where found? Asking for a friend.

Using OpenSUSE ? You can help test the latest snapd 2.32.5 on your favorite distro! <3 https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/8cnmnk/call_for_testing_snapd_2325_in_systemsnappy_for/

I believe the distrowatch 'page hit ranking' is nothing more than a measure of Linux distributions with poor web presence & SEO. e.g. Google for Linux Mint, Manjaro, Debian and Solus. All their distrowatch entries are typically on 1st page of results.
Ubuntu is around page 5, but is disproportionately clicked on probably due to popularity & brand awareness. So, Linux YouTubers, don't use distrowatch as a measure of popularity. It isn't that, at all.

@RyuKurisu @ChrisWere @paperdigits yup. Choices, choices :)

"Rattle noise is normal" apparently. First time I've seen that on a laptop disk. https://mastodon.social/media/nvYPhIYzB3TPP9fahxM

The *one* bug I discovered while running KDE Neon on my laptop appears to be fixed. Fantastic. Really loving KDE Neon on my ThinkPad T450. Good work @kdecommunity https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390014

@paperdigits Sorry, I misread your message. Apologies for being brash in my previous reply.

@paperdigits So?

@penguin42 @xvilo Toot toot!

Spent a little time this weekend making it easier to get Signal Private Messenger Desktop app on Linux. As an electron application, it only took a 2 line patch to the package.json to enable building a snap. https://snapcraft.io/signal-desktop

@rochelimit Hah! Ok Dad. I plan to extract all the ThinkPad drivers off it though, in case I find those hard to locate. They're all nicely in little folders!

@rochelimit Yeah, clearly not an expert.