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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.

@Conan_Kudo @neil Argh it's clearly quite a personal thing. Also whether it's going to be printed or not. (This will, but nobody will be reading it printed). I might try some different serif fonts. I prefer *that* sans font, but I think serif might be a better choice for the final document.

Thanks both for your feedback!

@pwaring entertaining, thank you :) we have a couple of similar classes that circulate amongst students in NCL.

@pwaring that shouldn't be times new roman… it should be "latin modern roman" https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/latinmodernroman/

Exhibits A & B
sample thesis page in serif sample thesis page in sans-serif

Real talk: serif or sans-serif font for a thesis?

@metacosm distributed stream processing with purely functional programming

About 3 weeks to my thesis deadline. Head down, but light at the end of the tunnel

@mirek I just saw something really similar! 55°N, UK. my photos much worse. I’ve been told it’s jettisoned rocket fuel

@algernon congratulations. I need to catch up on your work and put mitigations in on my VPS at some point. A little niche media wiki instance is now shifting 3GiB/day

@ifixcoinops there’s probably a secret group of folks hoarding the last working sandisk Sansa fuzes. Absolutely wonderful little machines.

@cstross @IngaLovinde @ifixcoinops I’ve got one of those. Easy hack to use sd cards, supported by rock box. Bright, colourful aftermarket facias If that’s your thing. Really nice to use

I can hardly believe it’s been a decade since Pratchett died. I might start a partial re-read of discworld.

@Mycroft @NanoRaptor isn’t that a skinny puppy song?

I might have a White Goth T Shirt problem
A collection of white goth tee shirts

@GyrosGeier @cstross @MishaVanMollusq I don't know if Hamilton has any connection to the localities connected by the (real) A1(M), but when "The Great North Road" came out he did a double-act signing tour with Stephen Baxter, who (probably coincidentally) does.

@GyrosGeier @cstross @MishaVanMollusq I’m utterly convinced that book references the A1(M) deliberately.

The PineNote is here! I'm planning on making a hands on video to share my experience. Let me know if you have any questions you want me to try and answer. I don't plan to do technical tests but open to collaborating on it.

First impression, feels like a quality and sturdy device. Feels good in the hand, the texture is a kinda soft grippy plastic. Pen felt good, the writing friction seems ok, I don't want to make any software qualifications until I update the device but still happy with the out-of-box experience. The wake from sleep time is essentially instant.

@PINE64 great work on the PineNote, I'm very impressed with the hardware!

Edit 2: there's renewed interest in this post, feel free to check out the first impressions video (~6 mins, which has a good bit of usage footage), in case that post isn't visible to you.

Edit: Link to blog post with thoughts after day one. Since I'm on a single user instance most people may not see the thread with info that hasn't been boosted, the post has all of it.

#Pine64 #PineNote #OpenHardware #OpenHardware #FOSS

A PineNote e-ink tablet with a pen on it is placed on a black mat with white grids along a collection of various coins down the side for a size comparison. The coins are (top to bottom):
Canadian 2 dollars
Mexican 10 pesos
Japanese 500 ten
UK 1 pound
US 25 cents

@purpleidea does that component still use bugzilla? I thought everything moved to JIRA

When I submit this thesis I’m going to need to remember how to relax again

@mirabilos For the Moon project, IDK. I might prefer not to rule myself out ;) Also, did it actually land in the end? I can't recall

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