lsitongia @lsitongia@qoto.org

@lupyuen SparkFun is a great resource!

David Barr Kirtley's interview of @benburgis in the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast is excellent, as are all of the G^3 episodes. I cannot recommend that podcast enough. Both host and guest have honest, insightful points of view. It's a good episode, touching on fiction and also on the modern world of social commentary.

@barefootstache @Biggles Yes, STEM.

As I understand it, this Mastodon instance is focused on tech stuff, not politics. there are other Mastodon servers more suitable for general topics and politics. I'm not a moderator or anything like that. I'm just a user looking for refuge from the culture wars in my interest for tech.

High Country News has a nice interview of the author of the dystopian "The Immortal King Rao".

https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/ideas-technology-the-revenge-of-big-tech

@lupyuen With all the complexity being added to the big commercial OSs, Linux will soon become the easiest desktop OS to use! 🤣

@hd @marathon0 my L13 Yoga has been great with Ububtu. Everything works. I've wanted something smaller. Yesderday, I got a Surface Go 2 and installed Ububtu on it. It's just what I've wanted! I'm typing on it right now. Thank you for that suggestion!

@marathon0 But, I'm looking for a small tablet that will run Linux.

@marathon0 Yep. I run Linux on my Lenovo Yoga L13. It's my main system. I'm on it right now.

@marathon0 I life Lenovo. My laptop is from them. Do they have a small tablet that will run Linux?

On hold with the Store support, for 35 minutes. This is no longer funny. They can't fix it? Wow, they hung up on me. I guess they were waiting for me to hang up out of frustration. I was talking to a person, who came on from hold 3 times, asking me to please wait. Then, hang up. I hope they fix the store. Well, it *is* Saturday.

I'm thinking about buying a #Microsoft Surface Go 2 to run Linux on, but their Store will not let me. They include a free sleeve, and it is required to choose one, but since they are all out of stock, you cannot make the required selection. Locket out. Stuck. Funny!

Ingenuity Mars helicopter snaps amazing photos of Perseverance rover's landing gear.

https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-perseverance-parachute-backshell-photos

@trinsec That would be great. But, as I explore #Friendica, I wonder how many people use it. It is a lot more complicated than #Mastodon. I'm trying another Friendica server, and it is also slow.

#Privacy in the workplace? Good article at @TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/27/remote-work-software-home-surveillance-computer-monitoring-pandemic?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Wow, venera.social, a #Friendica site, is super slow today. It was down earlier. Anyone know what's happening there?

#indiegogo has this mode called InDemand. They think of it as eCommerce. The project will directly sell you their product after it's ready, after their campaign has concluded and they are shipping.

So, why do they have a 10-day wait before fulfilling the order? No eCommerce site does that. Is it supposed to be some service to the customer? When I order something, I think I want it. I don't want to ponder that after I place the order, for 10 days.

The project I ordered from is making me wait. I guess it is because Indiegogo makes them do this.

Indiegogo really needs to make this optional or provide a way for the customer to waive it so that the project can ship right away.

@trinsec from my limited understanding, different #mastodon instances have different community focus in their local streams. So, I'm in a FOSS one, this one (which is tech) and one for #EliteDangerous. I've noticed that the Federated feeds in each aren't identical.

Is #friendica a way to centralize my access to the three #mastodon sites I'm in? I'm just starting to explore the #fediverse. I'm happy with Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter. I'm looking for more than that, but I also would like to have one place to go to see all that I'm in, in the Fediverse.