pleroma.debian.social

Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #RedHat. #Debian developer (dormant). Computer Science PhD student. Amateur Computing historian (Computer Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@riddsteve I’ve jealous of the Amiga 600, I think I know who donated and I tried unsuccessfully to get it off them many years ago :) also, we have a newly donated commodore CBM that might go in that display…

@riddsteve sort-of. I’ve used it before, I think for a VM. But it’s not currently in use. (I’ve also previously used tharsis)

@neil well yeah use it if it’s spare! If Firefox is too slow I’d try a recent netsurf and see if that’s useable (Debian archive one is quite old)
Also konqueror *might* perform better on slow machines… at least it did 20 years ago!

@debian I did briefly use Deimos but I’ve forgotten what for. Maybe a VM. It’s spare at the moment though…

Maybe I should call it “folly”

@neil thinkpad yoga 260, £200 Refurb.

I’ve just remembered I have a huge format Mars book under the living room sofa. I will browse for names tonight

@mart_brooks I had a MacBook Air once that felt fatter than the previous generation so I called it tharsis

@znoteer I like Luna!

I like short names but Martian geography also welcome

I need a new laptop hostname! Sibling machines are: qusp, coil, chew, phobos. Suggestions appreciated!

I've got plans for a future full day of yak-shaving, probably exploring the neovim plugin universe and lua scripting, with a GTD theme. Currently gathering stuff to look at. E.g. mini.nvim https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim/releases/tag/v0.7.0

@InterzoneMag really pleased to receive the new issue today! And glad you’re on the Fediverse too!

I’m liking the new paperback sized/format Interzone! #fiction

@guddl I asked, but I got the feeling they’re asked a lot and run them regularly. But they don’t advertise so maybe if it was too popular/distracting they’d stop

@andy_warb no connection, but I mailed to arrange it. The impression I get is they do a lot of tours but don’t advertise about it, if it became a problem they’d stop.

New blog post: A visit to Prusa Labs https://jmtd.net/log/prusa_labs/ #3dprinting
selfie of me in the Prusa Farm

@zhenech the latter

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.

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