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  I dreamed up this dashboard panel that shows you at a glance which Bluetooth devices (in my case speakers and/or headphones) are currently connected. Because zoom loses its tiny mind if you forget and get on a call with both. https://github.com/feoh/bluetooth-audio-tray #kde #plasma #tray #bluetooth #audio

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  @popey Congratulations on the new role! Interesting hearing you and @martin talk about DevRel. I feel like the industry is coming around to the idea that this is almost an impossible role to fill as currently designed. It seems to be burning out humans at an alarming rate.

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  @martin Really enjoying your note taking journey on @linuxmatters ! I feel you WRT Obsidian and friction. I use and love it but it's a definite investment to figure out how to winnow down the VAST array of potential control surfaces to something that's not just usable but intuitive and near zero friction. I've done that for myself but I'm very glad you found an alternate route to happiness!

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  Things I adore about #kde #plasma part 9000: When I have a problem, I can search out an answer and get one that works. KDE doesn't reinvent itself from the ground up every few years. Today's example: I changed the UI scaling factor a few days back, but hadn't run Zoom since. Zoom is a poorly built Linux application, so when their "Workspace" came up, it was sized way larger than my current display, so all the sizing gadgets were invisible. NO PROBLEM! Just hold down M...

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  this is the PSA for anyone who needs to hear it. Disconnect your work everything when you go on vacation. Log out of chat. Disable the Calendar accounts. Disable the email accounts. Even if you absolutely cherish your job as I do, take the time to do this to give yourself that mental disconnection. It makes a world of difference in my opinion.

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  It is thoroughly ridiculous how much satisfaction I get watching the little Pac Man animation you see whenever running pacman -Syu. :) #cachyos #arch

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  At first the idea of interactive fiction based entirely on choices seemed incredibly limiting. Then, I remembered the Choose Your Own Adventure novels I read as a kid, and it took on a whole new complexion. So now we can create Choose Your Own Adventure novels, but with puzzles that can save state and make decisions based on various factors like what you're carrying or the other decisions you've made. I have a project going that's nowhere ready to share yet. Just in the formative...

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  My wife pointed out that I tend to be REALLY LOUD when I'm on a zoom/Meet call for work. I realized she's right, so I built a tool called "Inside Voice" that beeps at me if my microphone's audio gets louder than an adjustable threshold. I'm pretty happy with it! https://github.com/feoh/inside-voice #python #textual #audio #loud

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  @Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social Yay dogs :) Love your profile photo. We have all we can handle here with our little 15lb hot dog who has MANY opinions on just about everything :)

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  @textfiles@digipres.club You forgot un-SHAVEN! :) (Beard looks great BTW! I could never carry off anything that long. My facial hair starts getting a mind of its own beyond a certain length :)

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  @petrillic@hachyderm.io @jesper@agda.club For the love of zeus! ❤️

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  @bittner@hachyderm.io Holy cow yes! I get that presenting is hard, and I recognize that a LOT of people find it hard to work with large font sizes, but IMO it's so worth the effort!

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  Dear tech talk/conference presenters: USE BiGGER FONTS PLEASE! The average age of your bog standard techie is increasing. I've had crappy eyesight all my life, but I suspect now more and more are struggling to actually try to read the code samples you're putting up. Make the fonts (for you) uncomfortably large. I guarantee your audiences, both in person and later on Youtube will thank you! #a11y #vision #technology

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  @jimsalter@fosstodon.org This industry is insane. I count myself very lucky to be working for a sane, humane employer, and yet still I will be doing the touchdown dance for at LEAST a solid month in 8 years when I can retire.

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  @fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io My god so frustrating. I'm currently paying the $100/year JUST so I can install an app I built on my phone. And Android is locking down so fast they may be soon to follow. Not great :)

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  This week I am positively chuffed about evolving hackable platforms. I've been grooving on writing #lua to integrate the various cogs and gears of Neovim's rich ecosystem of software development tools, and it's reminded me of just how much I love feeling like I'm playing with incredibly powerful LEGOs, carefully choosing the ons I want, then stacking and connecting them, ultimately building something powerful and beautiful. The key is everyone agreeing upon protocols so everyth...

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  @fedops @tatsh Pretty well if you have a viewer connected for the necessary MIME types. And I personally have it set to NOT passively delete so I can always strap on the peril sensitive goggles and use the web UI for something that really won't render.

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  @tatsh Woo! mutt-oauth2 just made my day! Previously a gent from MIT IS&T put in HEROIC amounts of effort to pull together the prior jank-fest of oauth2 scripts and mutt configurations... But with your nice new package I can 'uv tool install', add the bits you specified to my muttrc and BOOM! I'm reading my MIT E-mail in a sane interface that doesn't make my remaining damaged eye want to shrivel up and retire :) Thank you! (Also just sent a Buy Me a Coffee :) #mutt #...

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  Just wanna send a big warm thank you and shout out to the folks in #support on the #CachyOS discord. They switched Cachy over to systemd-boot and either it or their conversion scripts were not happy with my setup (I have one whole disk for Linux, another whole disk for Windows, and I use the BIOS to choose which to boot.) I saw an error during package update, figured I'd be SOL if I tried rebooting, and folks helped get me sorted after a few diagnostic commands in very short order. @Cachy...

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  Can you imagine how different life in this digital age would be if we could just knock down some of these damn vendor silos? Lately I've been using the Headspace app on my #iphone to help fall asleep. I've struggled with insomnia all my life and have that "MIND RACING. CAN'T GET SLEEPY!" thing so many of us do. And I told my wife about how well it's working and she asked if I could play it over our bedroom Sonos speaker. Short answer is no, you can't, because nei...

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  Super sad that my favorite Youtube channel, Journey to the Microcosmos is going away. No love for the microscopic world. Can't lie. I'm sad :) When I was a kid I thought I wanted to be a microbiologist when I grew up. I changed my mind about that when I learned that te job involves a LOT of incredibly fine lab work I likely can't do, but my utter fascination with the tiny world that exists unseen under our noses has never waned. Sorry to see you go, folks. You'll be missed. A...

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  @EWDurbin The words "Thank you so much for everything you've done!" are a pale substitute for what you deserve, but having caught just a glimpse of what you do as a fellow platform engineer, I REALLY mean them! Good luck withwhatever comes next. I hope it brings you joy and all the best kinds of challenges!

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  #python peeps: If you assume, as I did, that #astral #ty's LSP JUST provides the type checking ty is known for, you'd be wrong :) It's an all around IDE like LSP like pyright/basedpyright but is missing some of pyright's features like codelens, inlay hints and call/type hierarchies, in exchange for being much faster. If you use both, don't be puzzled as I was when you hit your Goto Definition key mapping and get a list of 2 identical definitions. Just pick one or the other...

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  @Truck My god man, where have you been hiding @PyDPainter ??? DPIII/IV were like a rocketship for creativity back in the day!