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timjan@social.linux.pizza

<p>* (HW) Electronics Engineer,<br />* (Cranky) Linux luser: mostly due to the tools available and unfettered habit<br />** Breaks unbreakable(?) software weekly<br />* Cyclist when possible: tries to keep up with wife about local transportation policy;<br />* Bakes my own bread (inexpertly) and grows some of my own veggies.<br />* Beat deaf?<br />* No sports</p><p>Alt accounts don&#39;t talk about the same stuff, or in the same language.</p><p>California.</p><p>Photo: dandelions breaking through pavement. Background: pine trees against blue sky.</p>

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  • Post #3549862

    When life gives you sporks ...

  • Post #2469576

    &amp;quot;if you enjoyed your dental visit, please review...&amp;quot; Enjoy is a slightly strong word. I&amp;#39;d rather go to the dentist than, say, poke my eyes with a rusty fork, but to jump from that to &amp;quot;enjoy&amp;quot;... I evaluate that conditional to &amp;quot;False&amp;quot;.

  • Post #2424525

    Coffee on the back porch, watching the greens poke up between the weeds, having dropped various cucurbit seeds in the ground already this morning, listening to a concert by the local _Mimus Polyglottos_... Take the joy and peace where I can find it.

  • Post #2424516

    @ruari I think we need to figure out where this photo was taken. https://www.reddit.com/r/funnysigns/s/T83hPHKqZm

  • Post #2235230

    &quot;This one day class is expected to take 19 hours to complete&quot;

  • Post #976744

    Ah, Easter eggs and Easter bunnies... We certainly had Easter eggs. Both the painted chicken egg variety, and the egg-shaped chocolate filled paper boxes, but I don&amp;#39;t recall the Easter Bunny to feature all that commonly - except of course in the chocolate and toy stuffed care packages that the great aunt in Germany sent us. Plenty of foil wrapped hare shaped chocolate in those. But before that, on Maundy Thursday, it was the day of trick-or-treating. Dress up as a påskkärring (Easter...

  • Post #956256

    @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @MLE_online@social.afront.org It seems like there is an assumption that Mastodon would want to compete with xitter and possibly facebook for taking on the role as a replacement for disqus, the blog comment hosting service.

  • Post #745470

    @Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz &quot;sometimes referred to by the numeronym E15&quot;

  • Post #733662

    @physorg_rss_bot@mas.to Did they also count scientists&#39; use of intentional backronyms, or did they only count what non-scientists would consider a &quot;joke&quot;?

  • Post #716571

    @mjr@masto.bike @TimWardCam@c.im @RantyHighwayman@mas.to As I was moving in to my first apartment, Dad found a used kitchen table for sale somewhere. He balanced it on seat and handlebars, and walked bike plus table the two miles to my new place. I&#39;m not sure how he turned the thing...

  • Post #714834

    @TimWardCam@c.im @RantyHighwayman@mas.to I think I recall that Ikea (at least in Sweden) used to offer that.

  • Post #627391

    When the even&amp;#39;s icebreaker bingo includes the question &amp;quot;Find someone who&amp;#39;s taller than you&amp;quot;, I&amp;#39;m just going to give up on that bingo game.

  • Post #627390

    Achievement unlocked: walked to Costco*. *The food court.

  • Post #627387

    &amp;quot;Hi [Name]&amp;quot; This doesn&amp;#39;t start well. &amp;quot;[Name]&amp;quot; instead of, you know, an actual name. Did an AI write the email, or was it just an incompetently written mail merge program? Maybe the AI wrote the mail merge? &amp;#39;We&amp;#39;re doing hardware for AI&amp;#39; And that didn&amp;#39;t exactly improve your chances. And finally, what they actually needed is something that I haven&amp;#39;t touched since college. Buh buy.

  • Post #521358

    #question about the whole &quot;#identify yourself in order to Internet&quot;... Let&#39;s say that someone is known under a nickname, let&#39;s say Billy, and hasn&#39;t officially changed their name from William (because nobody but an angry Mum, and the IRS, uses that form of the name anyways). Let&#39;s say that a website suddenly demands that Billy proves who he is, so he cusses under his breath and uploads a government issued ID. &quot;Denied&quot;. Well, the uploaded ID did say &quot;...

  • Post #499430

    I don&#39;t mow the &quot;lawn&quot; that often (it&#39;s dead most of the year anyway), but I need to prune the weeds a couple of times each winter. This weekend I did scare up a few critters that weren&#39;t too happy with me coming out there to disturb them.

  • Post #475644

    &gt;The following OpenPGP key (0x74C35BC8) is about to be removed: Reason : Expired on 2026-02-11 11:44:18 It will be successfully removed. Tomorrow it will be back. Why I think so? Because it has returned, and I have re-deleted it, practically every day since February 11. #fedora #timjanGrumpsOnComputers

  • Post #465379

    Something else was definitely going wrong as well, so I rebooted. Plasma forgot *everything*. Virtual desktops, activities, desktop background, panel configurations... ...What?

  • Post #464478

    #Joplin update woes: I don&#39;t use Joplin on the desktop as much as on the phone, which means that I had neglected updating the desktop version (AppImage; yes, Linux) for some time. Today I finally did open it, and saw several notes being un-encryptable. Okay, time to update, I guess. Only problem turned out to be that version 3.5.11 and 3.5.13 (the two I tried) don&#39;t load properly: the app only shows a grey rectangle with a half menubar that doesn&#39;t respond to button presses. So...

  • Post #461993

    I&#39;m still not used to this: If the temperature during the day has been like 25C, the sun has no business setting before 9pm. I&#39;m robbed of like 2 hours of evening daylight on a day that is made for gardening!

  • Post #443322

    If certain banks won&amp;#39;t allow me to log in to their websites/through their apps because my phone&amp;#39;s version of Android is too old, is there any chance that I&amp;#39;d be able to access their apps through #grapheneos or any other non-#android device?

  • Post #415584

    @mcc@mastodon.social And &quot;pang&quot; in Swedish.

  • Post #399840

    @NNN@bettercities.top thank you. Sent.

  • Post #398910

    @CStamp@mastodon.social Yes, desktop tends to work. (There are exceptions: a different bank than the one I was thinking of here, breaks if I attempt to log in via Firefox on Linux. It works to use Chromium based on Linux, or I can use Firefox on Windows)...

  • Post #369157

    If I can&#39;t be sure that the recipe website I just found isn&#39;t filled with AI production that may or may not work well for human taste buds, ... maybe I will have to go back to referencing physical cook books. That were printed 2025 or earlier. #ai #recipe #cookbook

  • Post #343212

    #okular #kde

  • Post #317987

    @jef@mastodon.social I just heard a rumble down in south bay. And a second.

  • Post #312346

    Damn it, what was the name of the HR system for the company that I worked for last January? I&#39;m sure there&#39;s a link to that W2 in my inbox, somewhere...

  • Post #279183

    @amydiehl@mstdn.social If we have kids, we&#39;re &quot;idiots&quot; for having kids we can&#39;t afford to raise. Is we don&#39;t have kids...

  • Post #277476

    @SRLevine@neuromatch.social 🚴‍♂️