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Jonathan McDowell

@noodles@social.earth.li

pleroma 2.10.2

He/him. Confused software person who likes to annoy hardware people. Debian developer. Not a lawyer. Likes to build things, but nothing to show for it. Left Northern Ireland, but came back.

394 Followers

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Joined November 13, 2022

Blog:

https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/

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Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Jun 24, 2026

Replying to @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer Needs a PicoCF variant.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · May 13, 2026

Replying to @noodles@social.earth.li

@RogerBW@discordian.social And now I'm down a rabbit hole of gluing MQTT, GStreamer + SnapCast together in Python, so I hope you're happy with what you've done.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · May 10, 2026

Replying to @noodles@social.earth.li

@RogerBW@discordian.social Ta. I see it's on FDroid too. Might be a bit overkill for my needs, but I'll have to give it a whirl.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · May 10, 2026

All I want is a low resource usage Android app that let's me stream audio to it from a Linux server. Bonus points if it doesn't have to be raw PCM. (This in the context of a Home Assistant dashboard device that I'd like to be able to play music on too, but control completely remotely.)

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · May 04, 2026

Replying to @iain@kolektiva.social

@iain @emenel So Framework are out, Dell are out, does this mean I'm stuck with Lenovo?

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Apr 27, 2026

Android's gesture based navigation is terrible and someone should be ashamed. It's all been downhill since they dropped the physical keyboard.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Apr 24, 2026

Anyone else see the latest XKCD and think "You're my wife now, Dave"?

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Apr 23, 2026

After over 7 years of living here, my bedroom ceiling light finally has a lampshade.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @n8@mastodon.social

@n8@mastodon.social That _was_ (probably still is?) the case - your Instagram username is your Threads username as they're backed by the same auth mechanism (or were). I think at the start you couldn't delete Instagram without losing Threads, but that got a bit separated out.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @n8@mastodon.social

@n8@mastodon.social Perhaps the fact it forced you to have an Instagram account, as it was an offshoot of that?

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @jzb@hachyderm.io

@jzb@hachyderm.io @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party El Estepario Siberiano.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @simontatham@hachyderm.io

@simontatham @sunflowerinrain One of the nice things about weechat (which I switched to from irssi, which I switched to from BitchX, which I switched to from ircII) is that the history buffer is per window.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Feb 26, 2026

Do modern UEFI firmwares end up shadowed in system RAM, like classic BIOS in the olden days? I've seen some suggestion they are, but nothing authoritative.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Sep 23, 2024

Replying to @broonie@mastodon.social

@broonie@mastodon.social Yup. I've worked in an open plan office with *plenty* of space and that can work just fine, but mostly the tendency seems to be to pack folk in and not have enough meeting rooms etc for the disruptive conversations. Used to work in an office where it hit 5pm and everyone was on a call from their desk to the West Coast. Skype O'Clock, and not conducive to getting anything done.

Jonathan McDowell @noodles@social.earth.li · Sep 23, 2024

As a remote worker I got bored of seeing one sided discussions that don't understand any benefits of return-to-office, so I wrote a thing. https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2024/09/the-rto-conspiracy.html

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