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I tried installing Clawd Bot / Molt Bot / OpenClaw (https://openclaw.ai) on a Mac that isn't a daily driver, but couldn't get it to work. 🤷‍♂️

The neighbor lady (51, quite smart but not technical) asked me yesterday about installing Linux. YoLD may be here.

CDash experiments update: Provisioned a VM (not yet reachable from the outside world) to tinker with it since it's been 10 years since I last used the platform.
How it's going so far: ran into https://github.com/Kitware/CDash/issues/3122
They're using npm and a who…

I'm thinking of installing #Tunderbird on my different Linux computers, but I'm worried that it will go the same way as #Firefox with their forcing of #GenAI on users...
Does anyone have any i…

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains new superpowers.
🧑‍💻 https://dev.to/sylwia-lask/stop-instal

Stop Installing Libraries: 10 Browser APIs That Already Solve Your Problems
The web platform is way more powerful than most developers realize — and every year it quietly gains...

After patching and rebuilding kwin_wayland to remove the bullshit-ass fucking hardcoded gestures that have been in there since at least 2021 with an open bug, funding spent, and no resolution in sight, and thereafter installing both fusuma and fusuma-plugin-sendkey, I have sucessfully gotten KDE on Wayland to behave normally qua gestures. I think.
XScreenSaver 6.11 has preliminary (non-locking) Wayland support, which may obviate my dirty hack to watch input devices DBus and run demo…

Love me eza. That installing this takes more than 25 effing minutes, because the entire Rust stack is pulled in, is sloppy. Ffs. Shoving it down my hatch.

Apple Watch users - have you noticed anything useful or helpful in the new WatchOS 26.4?
(Installing now and just wondering if there will be any value.)

@… I found that Linux Mint, with the Cinnamon desktop, worked fine on my Surface Pro, even without installing the special kernel.

An agentic os, powered by a supra intelligence that is always there to help you should have analyzed the code and prevent you from installing a faulty update.
or maybe it's just a buzzword.

The Senate voted 54-45 to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security late Monday,
installing the Oklahoma Republican at the embattled national security agency amid global instability and frustration over immigration enforcement.
https://www.

Senate confirms Mullin as Homeland Security secretary
The Oklahoma Republican portrayed himself as an experienced lawmaker ready to restore DHS’s credibility after a surge in immigration enforcement resulted in the killing of two U.S. citizens.

"From Denmark to the UK: Why European cities are installing red street lighting"
#Denmark #UK #Europe

Red street lamps are protecting light-shy creatures across Europe
The change in colour is part of a scheme to reduce the effects of light pollution, particularly on nocturnal animals.

This article has some stunning photos
"Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland, installing solar panels at a rate of roughly 100 every second."
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-ren

Hahahahaha. Grade zum Spaß mal dieses #OpenClaw in ne VM geworfen. Vorurteile erfüllt - er hat schon im Setup die Installation halluziniert. Natürlich kann man "Installing Git" kann man erfolgreich abhaken, aber ohne nen apt-befehl o.Ä. funktioniert das halt nicht.

I somehow got a pristine Pixel 8a 128GB in the original box with accessories and case for €150
Anyway, looks like I will be installing GrapheneOS at some point this weekend. Let's see what all the fuss is about!

Letters: industry groups pushed back after India proposed in January that Apple, Google, and others consider pre-installing biometric ID app Aadhaar on phones (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/indias-proposal-p…

Something is broken in the #dotnet CLI tooling, specifically the cert tool. It can't seem to access localhost certificates, but it's happy to keep creating and installing new ones.
I can't even anymore... I'm so tired.
Note: It could also be Apple's fault with a Tahoe update. Who knows anymore? 🤷‍♂️

So, got the server in place but discovered that the Docker image that I created that has the Sisyphus client and all of the binaries like `ffmpeg`, `av1an` was not very happy. Ffmpeg crashed because it couldn't find the `libSvtAvcEnc.so.4` library which was because I had a custom version of it installed (`svt-av1-psyex`).
Got the Dockerfile fixed by installing `svt-av1-psyex` and then compiling `ffmpeg` against those libraries, then installing both `svt-av1-psyex` and `ffmpeg` int…

thinking about pre-installing a local searxng instance in bog and setting the default search for firefox to it

hmm on Ubuntu 24 this says it's installing and after it's done it's not installed and just goes back to looking before I clicked the install button.
#vivaldi

Great, my bank decided that it would release a new version of their app that isn't compatible with my phone...
Reason: They require "Google Play Integrity API" to pass before installing...
For those unfamiliar with it: the Integrity API is just a type of DRM to discourage people from using custom ROMs.
It is often cited to be "because of security" but when a phone that hasn't had any updates for 3 years passes it with flying colours, it's highl…

Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.

Reinstalled an old laptop from the BIOS up, installing ZorinOS. The WiFi wouldn't connect. I found a Reddit comment suggesting a BIOS setting. It seemed familiar. I'd upvoted the comment 3 years ago.

Past me: taking enhanced old game ports, installing all the enhanced textures, sound packs, etc.
Modern me: playing reasonably accurate old game ports, not even wanting a good MIDI synthesizer.
#games #nostalgia

"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…

Trump Has No Good Options On Iran
"As brave Iranians challenge the repressive regime in Tehran, the U.S leader faces three paths, each worse than the last," writes Bobby Ghosh

@… if you like, switch up to STABLE or (more adventurously) 16.0-CURRENT. I wonder whether the same graphics will be less bugged with a more advanced version of the OS.
Did you choose pkgbase (packages) when installing the OS?

me: types long winded question into claude
me: whats this blibbet in the corner, i’ll click it
claude: OVERLAY ABOUT INSTALLING APP ALSO I HAVE A CLOSE BUTTON
me: clicks close button
claude: fuck your long winded question, i’ve just deleted it

my plan was almost going perfectly: the ssd delivery got delayed by one day, the pc didn’t boot the first time after installing it, but was all solved by literally tapping randomly on some cables, fedora’s second ever message on screen was a “command not found” error, but it booted anyway, I assumed I would get KDE but I got GNOME…
and now I’m too tired to use it 😭

Senate unanimously approves installing Jan. 6, 2021 plaque (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/08/congress/senate-unanimous-approves-jan-6-plaque-law-enforcement-00717799
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p138#a260108p138

I'm not into audiophile stuff btw, just decent quality things really.
For example, I have a pair Bose 901 speakers that are ~50 years old and they sound fantastic.
But it's not even that, if properly engineered even stuff which hasn't the primary purpose of sound reproduction can sound good.
My 15-year old Apple Thunderbolt Display, the 8-year old iPad Pro and the 5-year old Mac Book Pro all sound great.
But—
The speakers in my 2025 LG TV? They shouldn't have bothered installing them but instead put them right into a landfill.
Speakers in my Asus gaming monitor? Like someone dragging a nail on a chalkboard.
And, weirdly, the Apple HomePod mini is pretty bad at reproducing music. A 10-year old Bose SoundLink mini beats the pants of it. 🤷

After the success of the first node replacement, I'm now also replacing the other one, with the same M920q Tiny ThinkCentre. After running load tests (read stitching some big minimaps) for a day, I did the final reimaging yesterday.
Also installing an active P1 splitter so HA can run on both these nodes. This has been a very long-term item on the list. (For science!)

Latest Tomb Raiders update include sloppy outfits.
Although free, people wants refund for the time they spent installing it.
It's that bad.
What do company do not understand in the fact the public don't wants AI slop?
I know that marketing can usually solve those issues about the public reluctance to use stuff but it's obviously not working here...

So, #microslop changed "My Computer" to "This PC" when they turned the OS into spyware, but when updates are installing, it's suddenly "don't turn off *your* computer".
#windows

Who needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.

California is converting fallowed farmland into 21 GW of solar.
Australia finished installing 1,500 towers on its largest transmission line to move renewable power between states.
Kigali restored 1,200 acres of wetlands, cutting flood risk and storing carbon.
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back in my day computers did what you told them to instead of restarting and installing 7 updates every day

Installing ungoogled-chromium-bin on Gentoo turned out to be very straightforward. Just as adding the Librewolf repo is btw. Recently I've been moving all browser installs over to these two. Both projects have been around for a long time and consistently deliver quality.
#gentoo #librewolf

American Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/855838/american-airlines-free-att-wifi-speed…

American Airlines is adding free AT&T Wi-Fi to all its planes
American Airlines announced it was installing free Wi-Fi provided by AT&T on all of its planes. The entire fleet will be operational by spring 2026.

@… installing kde no longer automatically installs plasma6-plasma. <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/#kde-environment&gt…

OKAY. back to windows it is. Installing KDE on ubuntu and it being super laggy and then trying to uninstall it has my my Ubuntu no longer loading a UI at all. it's just a console input.
I tried. now I probably just need to reinstall Ubuntu to get back to a baseline.
#ubuntu

Tried installing ubuntu 24.04 server as a CI builder image and keep getting errors during the install process. Lovely.

The amount of work that some distros put into their installers release after release is always amusing to me, almost like an expected use case of #linux is that people will be installing from scratch frequently.

Ukraine tightens controls on Starlink terminals to counter Russian drones https://therecord.media/ukraine-tightens-starlink-controls-counter-russian-drones

@… does the yellow alert occur when using (not when installing) claude?

apt and apt-get are malware distribution tools for installing advanced persistent threats (APTs) on a Linux computer. If you find these tools installed on any system you manage, delete them immediately and notify the IT Police!

I wrote a post on installing Argo CD in a #homelab #kubernetes cluster.
#selfhosting #k8s #argocd #argo_cd

GrapheneOS update: yes
I regret to inform you that the pedophiles and terrorists have won, and also I clearly have something to hide for installing this unnecessary and subversive Android distribution
Will dogfood and report back occasionally!