After FOSDEM I bit the bullet and ordered a Refurb laptop against the advice of most of my #Debian friends :)
It arrived with borked USB ports so is being swapped out sometime in the next few days.

@andypiper relatedly, an opaque one for already-bestickered cases please

@znoteer maybe! Another suggestion was “supper in Scotland”. But the three I said, I actually did!

@tamtararam oh agreed… I snapped a shot of them to go back and look up what it was later on. Reminded me of some of the merch for the band “the Cure”

Breakfast in Brussels, lunch in London and tea in Tyneside

@xtaran I didn't think of that! Thanks for your input :-)

@onrust @akareilly I mean maybe? I’m seeing a lot of snark and bad feeling about it but maybe we should see what happens?

@Zugschlus i loved an M in the 90s, and was gifted another a few years ago, but my fingers are too out of practise :(

I was intending to tag @xtaran on that toot but screwed it up ;)

@Zugschlus actually I meant the shell colour! ;) the shura has black-or-red options. For my first mech I ended up with silent reds, but before that I was *sure* browns would be best fit. I think butterfly switches have ruined my fingers

I value your opinion on keyboard matters! :) gave you seen the Tex Shura? Is aluminium body an essential feature? Red, or Black? :)

@carlopiana I don’t think we should shame folks tho

This afternoon is the first EVER #Haskell dev room at #FOSDEM

@dick_turpin see also: centos and alma Linux stand proximity

@ttyS1 where are you mostly lurking?

@jwildeboer I’ll try and say hello if I find you !wearing the fedora? I’ll put mine on

New blog post: 2022 in reading https://jmtd.net/log/2022_in_reading/ #fiction

@neil that’s kind, thanks! To my shame that blog draft was started in feb 2022. It was a conversation about Debian today that spurred me on to finish it!

At fosdem this weekend. Who else?

@neil not yet but thanks for the suggestion (also: that was a damn fast response to my blog post, mere seconds!)