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Just updated the laptop to Fedora 38. It seemed to go mostly well, but GNOME 44 seems to have changed something with font scaling; both gnome-terminal and emacs came up the size of a postage stamp — and a small stamp at that. Nothing like trying to tweak parameters when you can't see the dialogs without a microscope...
Firefox, instead, came up as always. Weird.
Firefox, instead, came up as always. Weird.
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@bookwar @mattdm Are you thinking of this talk by Greg KH, perhaps? https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
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@mattdm The kernel community does cross-posting routinely, including often cross-posting with non-kernel lists. It's not generally seen as terrible; instead, it's a way to pull together the right people for any specific discussion. The world you describe is fine for *Fedora* discussions, but absolutely excludes anybody outside of that garden.
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@funnelfiasco Cross-posting is important, but that's not the whole of it. I follow a huge world in my NNTP reader; LWN would not be possible without it. Following a Discourse instance requires actually going and looking there; it's not scalable in any way. Each instance is its own little world, and the travel costs between them are high.
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@mattdm So how does one have a discussion involving, say, both the Fedora and Python communities? Cross-posting to mailing lists is easy, and happens frequently in some communities. Mailing lists are part of a global space. Each Discourse instance, as far as I know, is its own little world.
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@joeyh Indeed, I posted it to a *distributed* forum where we each can choose the tools we use to deal with it. I also don't mistake this forum for a place to have serious development discussions.
I did also send an email to the list expressing my thoughts as part of the discussion thread.
I did also send an email to the list expressing my thoughts as part of the discussion thread.
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@bookwar Discourse instances do have RSS feeds, but they are nearly useless. You can see if a topic starts, but nothing thereafter. I do try to follow some Discourses (including the Fedora one) that way, but it's painful.
Now a proper NNTP feed...*that* would be a useful thing...
Now a proper NNTP feed...*that* would be a useful thing...
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Sigh ... another important mailing list (fedora-devel) is about to go dark: https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/20230420212037.GA7197@mattdm.org/
I get it that email sucks, but forum systems do as well. The future we are headed toward seems to have every project in its own little walled garden, isolated from the others.
But at least we can get cute little badges ...
I get it that email sucks, but forum systems do as well. The future we are headed toward seems to have every project in its own little walled garden, isolated from the others.
But at least we can get cute little badges ...
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@jjdavis Those are great places indeed, though my favorite stop in those parts a few years back was Canyons of the Ancients - the Colorado side of Hovenweep: https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/colorado/canyons-of-the-ancients
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Chaco Canyon pictographs thought to record a highly visible supernova that occurred in 1054.
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When the passport office destroys your international travel plans, you might as well go and check out some of the local wonders. This is what's left of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, built in the years 850 to 1150.
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Today's addition to the list of "things that it never occurred to me could be a problem".
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A hard-earned lesson for US folks needing to renew a passport in the 2020s... there are two choices:
1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.
2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.
I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.
2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.
I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
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@ieure @liw The C++ experiment was 0.99.11 - https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive/+/v0.99-pl11 - in 1993. It didn't last long, though.
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The new(ish) solar panels on the roof came with an monitoring app from SunPower which, naturally, stores lots of information about the house in the cloud somewhere. I'm sure that their management of, say, the realtime consumption data is entirely secure, nothing to worry about there.
Today the app said that we were producing nothing, despite this being a beautiful cloudless Colorado day. Some digging into their web site turns up a page (https://us.sunpower.com/solar-resources/home-solar-system-troubleshooting-questions-and-answers) suggesting to log out of the app and back in; failing that, the trick is to uninstall and reinstall. Sure enough, that worked. Quality engineering there.
My intention to figure out how to get the data directly out of the monitoring system and short these people out is growing...
Today the app said that we were producing nothing, despite this being a beautiful cloudless Colorado day. Some digging into their web site turns up a page (https://us.sunpower.com/solar-resources/home-solar-system-troubleshooting-questions-and-answers) suggesting to log out of the app and back in; failing that, the trick is to uninstall and reinstall. Sure enough, that worked. Quality engineering there.
My intention to figure out how to get the data directly out of the monitoring system and short these people out is growing...
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@matttbe @geert Passport renewal has never been breathtakingly fast here, but it used to be tolerable and relatively deterministic. If you search you'll see there's a lot of people complaining at the moment...lots of excuses about post-pandemic travel surges and such...
Of course, the fact that one of our political parties is against the concept of government, calls government services a waste of money, and refuses to fund said services might just play into this too. Maybe.
Of course, the fact that one of our political parties is against the concept of government, calls government services a waste of money, and refuses to fund said services might just play into this too. Maybe.
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@monsieuricon You missed him...? I had to tune him out a while back, I really just couldn't handle it anymore...
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