Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@webology @pluralistic Probably not the easiest way to do it if you just want one audiobook, but I put audiobooks on my phone by turning them into podcasts: https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder/

Here is a docker-compose configuration: https://github.com/pganssle/audio_feeder_docker

@glyph @simon I do it proactively, but I think the habit grew out of my days editing Wikipedia.

@brettcannon @tonybaloney I don’t know about you guys, but for me in my early 20s it was like, “Oh giant metal spike pierced several vital organs; the doctor said it would take a month to heal but I was pretty much fine on week 3.”

Now it’s like, “I stood up in a weird way and now my right arm tingles whenever I turn left. The doctor said I should give it 6 months but I’ll be happy if the tingling is less noticable in 2 years…”

@brettcannon Yeah, Arch using Cinnamon. Doesn’t seem as useful as I had hoped anyway because it seems like you need to select the emoji with a mouse anyway?

I am falling back to my previous plan to reactivate ibus to try its emoji picker (I already have it installed from when I used to write a lot more Japanese text, but I switched to uim ages ago for reasons I can’t now recall and also now I am not 100% sure how to switch back 😛

I think it was Ctrl + ., but it only works in certain places…

My 2-year old was mashing keys on my keyboard and somehow summoned an emoji picker (something I’ve been meaning to configure for ages), and I can’t figure out what he did…

OK, I bought a used gaming computer so I can run my own ML models locally, so now you get to see what it would look like if Abraham Lincoln had a baby with Chris Evans.

#stablediffusion #sdxl #genai

@Greg Yeah, the Lenovo Tab P11 Plus / Pro has a version with 6GB, and my experience has been that crapware has been minimal (I could always install a custom OS if I really didn’t like it).

The big thing we don’t like right now is the case. The kids need a case because they are rough with the tablets, and they like having a handle.

Anyone have a good recommendation for a tablet case for kids? I have a #Lenovo #Tab #P11 Pro for my son, but the case we have is a bit rigid and makes it very hard to get at the volume buttons (I believe it’s this one).

At this point I’m going to note the product key, set aside 100GB or so for a Windows partition and give up on this idea.

So far my impression from using Windows for a few hours to try and set up dual booting (in case my kids want to eventually use this gaming PC to play some Windows-only games) is that Windows feels aggressively user-hostile at this point.

Maybe that’s just always how it’s been (I remember having to constantly tweak a bunch of stuff whenever I booted up a new machine), but wow does it feel gross after several years using Linux exclusively.

Looks like you also can’t enable Full Disk Encryption unless your device meets certain standards? WTF, Windows? There is no way that this PC I have doesn’t have enough hardware to do FDE.

Presumably the Microsoft account is to manage authentication so that you get the same character every time you connect (no matter what IP they come from), and so that the custom servers can manage permissions and access.

Kinda fair, though also I imagine most people would be perfectly happy with each user generating a UUID and access being managed with an optional TOFU model where admins are asked when someone tries to join a server.