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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.

@mart_brooks Thanks! I've bought an (almost free) Lenovo 10e which is a predecessor to the Duet so maybe it'll be terrible. We'll see!

PHM is 35 years old: If Marty McFly went back in time from 2024 to introduce cool, hip new music to old people, the old people would be listening to Pretty Hate Machine *before* he arrived. #music
original 1989 album art for Pretty Hate Machine (vinyl version)

About a week until the next Cure album drops #music https://dizl.de/@JBsWhatsOn6/113349940873872736

Considering a Lenovo e10 for 8 year old daughter basic computing. I have no experience of chrome os. Good idea/bad idea?

@giulianopz @jpmens @b0rk I think the TLDR effort is a good one, but I hope some of the efforts can be folded back into the actual manpages too. There’s no reason the classic man pages should stagnate.

@Ronguest yeah both are possible. good opportunity to play with another nozzle :)

New blog post: Arturia Microfreak https://jmtd.net/log/synths/microfreak/ #musicmaking
photo of microfreak taken at a NAMM, from Wikimedia commons

@simon_schwarz I’m having better success with the slower presets in the mini profile (QUALITY etc)

I stumbled across this guy who makes old-school Jungle using period equipment… including Octamed on Commodore Amigas. It's been my morning soundtrack https://n4records.bandcamp.com/album/pete-cannon-the-8bit-lick-e-p-n4011 #music

Gah my Prusa Mini has been really unreliable of late: prints getting all gummed up. I've cleaned the nozzle. I *feel* like this is only since introducing input shaping and the other new stuff #3dprinting

New blog post: Code formatting in documents https://jmtd.net/log/formatting/ #computing #haskell #phd

@Migueldeicaza Hi! Am I remembering correctly that you had a custom wooden desk with a cable channel etc in it and blogged about it? If so, is that stuff still up somewhere? Thanks!

The minilogue was lovely

@unixsmurf those both look great. I can’t fit a full size keyboard sadly

I want to talk about (hardware) synthesisers. Will anyone listen?

@noodles thank you!

Can anyone recommend a service to get a 'virtual' US phone number? Something I can put into forms that require a US number. I'm not in the US. Nice to have: voicemail, SMS, receive calls somehow (voip? app?) TIA!

Shout out for “Whisper”, a deliberately simple Pipewire app that Just Works: https://mijorus.it/projects/whisper/

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