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@woltiv@mastodon.social
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Opinion Haver.

Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones.

"Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi@mastodon.social

My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Joined July 12, 2023
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jun 30, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Man I cannot stand that #KDE does not remember window positions. I "understand" that it's some sort of #wayland thing and I do not care at all what the excuse is. We're talking Windows 3.1 level feature here. "Hey the new display manager is in such good shape that we're not including X11 anymore oh but don't expect it to remember where your windows were!"
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @ercanbrack@mastodon.online
@ercanbrack@mastodon.online If they're developing for client apps (audio editor, music player, etc) maaaybe they have a point. If they're talking games, then I would hope that uttering the words "steam deck" would be enough to convince them
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@davidgerard@circumstances.run No it’s okay I’m good with Linux now. Microsoft, you can stop trying.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 24, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @smutmag@mstdn.social
@smutmag Had a small scale version of this recently. I told someone I canceled my Apple iCloud and Apple Card because of Apple's political donations, and the person I was talking to harangued me that I haven't boycotted the other 30 companies that did something similar. Apple was the company I had a relationship with, and I ended it. I'm sorry that I can't perfectly protest everything.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai
@rbreich the forum members over at @arstechnica really don't like people mentioning that in the comments of their Apple CEO article.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft I prefer the libadwaita version glitoris
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @woltiv@mastodon.social
@stevegis_ssg I've had a coworker come to me later and say "Hey, the boss said you said I did a good job, thank you". It helps build a team up.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @stevegis_ssg@mas.to
@stevegis_ssg I feel like parenting and supervising people are very similar, and that I got better at supervising after I was a parent. When a subordinate needed correction, I started thinking "hmm, is what I'm about to say the way I'd respond if it was my kid?" And like you say, praising people for good work really helps. I remember every time I was thanked for a good job. And, maybe more importantly, remember to tell who ever is in charge of raises/bonuses that someone did a good job.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@ErikJonker @dukeboitans @soulsource @pojntfx Then we need to explain why it’s unwanted.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @henryk@chaos.social
@henryk Thank you! The people saying "oh look how amateurish this software is" miss the point. The software shouldn't exist at all, because the policies shouldn't exist. Saying "oh well let's point out the security flaws" of the thing-that-shouldn't-exist only helps it to continue existing.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @tuomas_h@mastodon.social
@tuomas_h Oh my! All the buttons look like clickable buttons! The wonderful faux LCD panel in the middle, this was peak UI, and is something I still strive to emulate when writing my own apps.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 05, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social
@mcc Not just possible, but probable.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @danvolchek@mastodon.social
@danvolchek@mastodon.social @Gina@fosstodon.org this is kinda how sam bent does their blogs. It's kinda obnoxious
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 31, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @EndeavourOS@mastodon.social
@EndeavourOS LOL had me going for a while.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social
@taylorlorenz I think it would be interesting to hear about the benefits, *and* the pitfalls, of the fediverse in general and Mastodon in particular.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 24, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @pid_eins@mastodon.social
@pid_eins@mastodon.social @cas@social.treehouse.systems What a bad faith misrepresentation.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 24, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @rgriff@mstdn.social
@rgriff@mstdn.social Other than the pinstripes, I'd be happy if this is how MacOS still looked.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @Lana@beige.party
@Lana@beige.party Does the fairy take requests?
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @kde@floss.social
@kde Wow, fixing that copy-paste error in wxWidgets is great, I have a coworker who uses KiCad on Linux and was affected by this. Great example of open source collaboration!
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @gintoxicating@transister.social
@gintoxicating I used to use godaddy but switched to easydns like 8 years ago. No fuss, simple DNS record editor.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @woltiv@mastodon.social
@daniel_bohrer@chaos.social … Isn’t true. I’ve been in IT for 26 years and none of that was “common knowledge” 20 years ago. That’s solidly in the golden age of Windows XP. Working in small business this whole time, and only programmers and admins knew that stuff.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @daniel_bohrer@chaos.social
@daniel_bohrer@chaos.social I’m still reading but “Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers.” …
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @CmykStudent@fosstodon.org
@CmykStudent If it could work the way some apps like Firefox do that would be cool. Firefox has some setting (or env var, I forget) that says "please use the XDG portal" so on KDE desktops I get the KDE file chooser.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @travisj@indieweb.social
@travisj@indieweb.social That’s adorable!
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @kde@floss.social
@kde@floss.social This looks useful - is it like #gnome's ptyxis but integrated into Konsole?
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Feb 08, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@davidgerard@circumstances.run Yeah, where on the bugzilla are people filing these?
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 12, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @woltiv@mastodon.social
@vtrlx@mastodon.social Welp, just got to the conclusion and the typical gnome "software maintenance is hard, YOU do it". This is the attitude that removes features every time a toolkit gets changed (GTK2->3->4). Other projects maintain features during transitions (Qt4->5->6) because not breaking people's expectations is part of software development. Here's a related question: when does hatred of Microsoft peak? Answer: whenever they break workflows. Ex: Office ribbon, Windows 8, Windows 11.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 12, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @woltiv@mastodon.social
@vtrlx@mastodon.social The "precious screen space" is almost entirely empty. What precious space is wasted by discord icon? Also, unread notifications? Turn them off.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 12, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @vtrlx@mastodon.social
@vtrlx@mastodon.social From the article: "[users] who want part of their precious screen space dedicated to Discord showing an essentially permanent red “unread messages” badge because who can even stay on top of all of their Discord messages when it’s a ceaselessly noisy IM app constantly demanding your attention and yet I’m supposed to believe that software which makes it harder for unscrupulous techbros to monopolize your attention is itself somehow an affront unto the very concept of software freedom..."
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 12, 2026
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@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @vtrlx@mastodon.social
@vtrlx@mastodon.social The argument that "people used it because it was in X and now X is deprecated" is silly. The engine behind the feature does not matter. What matters is if you are breaking people's workflows? I use middle-click-paste often as a longtime Linux user. I don't want gnome to change it because gnome seems to exert an outsized pull on Linux UI trends, and I'm worried that more DE's would disable it.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 09, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop
@volkris@qoto.org @susankayequinn@wandering.shop LOL.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 06, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk
@clare_hooley@mastodon.me.uk Very true.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jan 06, 2026
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @caseynewton@mastodon.social
@caseynewton@mastodon.social Is there a reason you run AI ads on your website?
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2025
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @nikitonsky@mastodon.online
@nikitonsky@mastodon.online I mostly agree but the modern day symbols aren't confusing, and are used in other areas like toolbar icons and in other operating systems.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2025
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @dane@mastodonapp.uk
@dane@mastodonapp.uk @cstross@wandering.shop LOL.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Oct 01, 2025
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
@aj Trickle down economics turned out the same way as USSR-style communism. Great on paper, benefited no one but the people on top.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Sep 04, 2025
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @ylegall@genart.social
@ylegall@genart.social Why do my window blinds always do this and how can I stop it?
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jul 18, 2025
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @EndeavourOS@mastodon.social
@EndeavourOS thanks for the honesty, it’s refreshing!
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Jul 11, 2025
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

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Replying to @espidev@fosstodon.org
@espidev@fosstodon.org This looks really great, thank you for all the work you put into it!
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · Sep 17, 2024
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @K4mpfie@mastodon.social
@K4mpfie@mastodon.social @itsfoss@mastodon.social Any particular thing you're missing from Nautilus? (I'm not jumping you, I don't use Gnome)
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · May 20, 2024
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @cavyherd@wandering.shop
@cavyherd@wandering.shop @sue@glasgow.social I don't remember. Were there tiers? I think I was a broke high school student when I had a geocities, no way could I have paid for it.
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Brick Duck @woltiv@mastodon.social · May 20, 2024
Brick Duck
@woltiv@mastodon.social

Opinion Haver. Enjoys self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob, and listening to the same five songs on increasingly expensive headphones. "Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad." - @ebassi My avatar is a tweaked version of my favorite Duck Game hat, "Brick", and a sunset background I did in Affinity Photo. Used to be AI-gen, but I realized that was dumb. Header is close-up of sequoia redwood bark from a trip I took a few years ago.

mastodon.social
Replying to @sue@glasgow.social
@sue@glasgow.social I think that's a good point, esp about nostalgia. I think some of what the small web people are longing for is personalization/personality. Some people had really wild, creative GeoCities or AngelFire or whatever pages. Now people go to a site like facebook and everyone's page are basically identical. The "small web" isn't going to sweep away facebook, regardless of how altruistic or not-for-profit it is, because most people a) don't care and b) don't know how to do their own site.
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