@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-07 09:51:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-07 09:51:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-06 14:15:43
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…
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-07 18:30:34
FreeScout is AGPL licensed shared inbox,with one-time-purchase AGPL modules https://freescout.net/modules-faq/#license
I got the chance to try out buying / installing a module for FreeScout, adding CRM features
I run it on Cloudron, and after paying $16.99CAD and entering the lic…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-01-07 18:56:50
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.
@candide@vis.social2026-02-05 01:50:03
Content warning: Win10 rant
I was trying to install TouchDesigner on my laptop, and got a pop-up about it not being a Microsoft-verified app when I double-clicked on the executable.
When I went to change the app recommendation settings, I see that it set itself to only install apps from the Microsoft store. I immediately changed it back, but I've never seen this before. 🫠
TouchDesigner is one of the few apps keeping me on Win10, and it can't even let it install in peace...
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-05 18:31:33
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-02 16:11:54
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. 🤷
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2026-01-04 05:01:03
back in my day computers did what you told them to instead of restarting and installing 7 updates every day
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-12-25 10:57:01
Checking out, before cooking, that guide by @… .Installing VoidLinux, zfs, encryption and hibernation. Gonna follow all those steps meticioulsy., but not today.
It is no surprise ssh works ootb on Slackware.
Pots and pans are calling, happy xmas all!!
@joe@toot.works2026-01-31 21:47:16
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. 🤷♂️
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-02-04 16:03:29
Ukraine tightens controls on Starlink terminals to counter Russian drones https://therecord.media/ukraine-tightens-starlink-controls-counter-russian-drones
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-01-30 12:47:00
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…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-01 09:51:05
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-28 20:09:12
I’m finally getting a better handle on installing applications on TrueNAS. Watched a few videos and realized I need to be setting up datasets more often.
#selfhosting #trueNas #nas
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-01-31 09:12:16
The Pi-hole® is a #DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software
https://pi-hole.net/
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-11-29 16:17:19
Friday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-02-01 23:32:54
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…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-12-30 08:08:03
"Another way to look at it is, what was the biggest battery in the world a few years ago, which was the Hornsdale South Australian Tesla big battery … households right now are installing the equivalent of a Hornsdale big battery every three and a half days."
https://www.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-28 20:01:01
"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2025-12-27 20:06:44
I'm installing and tweaking #Immich, a really neat "Google Photos" like app that runs locally. It uses ML to do face detection and other neat features. I've been tuning my server and needed a better way to measure performance, so I vibe wrote a helper script. If you run Immich, this might be useful to you:
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2025-12-28 14:27:00
I haven't been actively installing feeders this winter with bird flu outbreaks in our rural area, but decided to put out a seed cylinder for the holiday. This resulted in a common, but new bird for me: a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker.
#birding
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de2025-11-21 11:21:33
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-29 21:39:50
Progress in my office installing a shelving system that’s Elfa parts scavenged from Facebook Marketplace.
Some old computers will live on it!
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-01-26 12:29:03
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.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-01-15 23:13:46
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2026-01-27 14:06:10
@… I found that Linux Mint, with the Cinnamon desktop, worked fine on my Surface Pro, even without installing the special kernel.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-11-25 07:55:10
LLM-guided development is making #autobahn truly great. Now it decided to arbitrarily start "vendoring" flatbuffers. Except that by "vendoring", they actually mean installing their own top-level `flatbuffers` package as part of `autobahn` (and therefore overwriting the original `flatbuffers`). I wonder how #Google feels about that…
#NoLLM
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-15 11:29:32
🥳 New Kitten Release
• Reduces minimum Bash version requirement for installing Kitten to Bash 3.2 (was previously Bash 5 ). This removes the requirement for people on macOS to upgrade the ancient version of Bash that Apple ships with their desktop operating system. (If you’re on Linux none of this was ever an issue for you.)¹
• Updates runtime to Node 24.12.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) version.
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-12-17 12:07:59
it is funny to me that the metaphor for "installing software" is still unboxing an optical disc, despite nobody in the last 15 years actually shipping software that way
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2026-01-20 18:33:32
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? 🤷♂️
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-23 16:44:22
🌞 Dual use of land for solar energy production and cultivation found feasible in Finland
... few people realize what a win agrivoltaics are for farmers and the environment!
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-dual-solar-energy-production-cultivation.ht…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2025-11-20 17:48:32
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-11-29 18:36:10
I figure even if it is someday possible for the transhumanists to upload themselves into a machine, it will be a nightmare attempting to later transplant themselves into the new improved updated wow machine that will someday replace it!
Folks who balk about Mastodon not letting you migrate your entire presence elsewhere likely have never tried to extricate their personal workflow from a 15 year old laptop! 😅
That is, of course, AFTER previously spending an hour or so to weed out the about:config AI functions and add no-AI search engines to the fresh Firefox install 😞
Yes, I have contemplated installing Emacs and nothing else. Would seem the only sensible thing to do, but 'sensible' was never listed on my report card.
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-15 21:43:42
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
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social2026-01-14 19:15:03
Installing Visual Studio 2026 to see what all the buzz is about. Planning to migrate my project data web api from .NET 9 to 10, along with the new ide.
#programming #visualstudio #dotnet <…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2025-11-18 12:54:31
Microsoft rolls out update that prevents users from installing ms365 apps. They really don't like their customers/users...
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza2026-01-15 12:15:11
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…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-12 15:15:55
"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/…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-25 19:36:00
I can at least configure GrapheneOS in such a way that I can block app installations entirely in secondary profiles and use my main profile as an admin account for installing, updating and forwarding all these apps to other users
For me, the hardest part is dealing with social media, the fear of missing out is strong. But hey, what can you do? I'm aiming to gradually shift toward a lifestyle mostly based on using Tor.
See you all another day.
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloud2026-01-19 16:11:59
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.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-13 02:47:44
We moved to our neighborhood 7 years ago. Over all that that time I watched people wander across the road in front of the subway station despite the sometimes heavy traffic. I always figured I'd go by one day and see an ambulance or worse. Tonight when I got off the train, I noticed that the city finally did something about it, installing a crosswalk with a beg button and lights.
Maybe it's a metaphor? We're (incredibly, painfully) slow, but we end up doing the right thing …
@neverpanic@chaos.social2025-12-14 11:04:45
Status: Installing macOS updates, hoping that they'll fix a random, but very reproducible crash when importing my phone's 10-bit HEIC images into Apple Photos.
Come on, Apple, you used to have stuff like this down.
@piger@mastodon.social2025-11-21 15:29:15
room so cold that I'm thinking of installing Gentoo. In a loop.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-17 09:30:37
@… 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?
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-08 23:05:51
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
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-23 15:31:08
"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu/featur…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-12-28 09:57:46
You could be off, sloshing in beer and downing a couple.
Instead you're installing gentoo on zfs, and in doing so discover a great archlinux project, with zfs and zfsbootmanager included.
https://github.com/stevleibelt/arch-linux-live-cd-iso-with-z…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 21:45:51
France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fr…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-11-17 03:23:04
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-12-08 15:48:38
'debootstrap' is one of my favourite parts of debian - and you can use it from other distros as well! It lets you setup a debian install in a directory for use with a container/chroot/etc .
My most recent two uses are 1) Building up a new debian install on an existing machine running a different distro in an LVM LV on the running system and configoring it, ready to go on reboot 2) Installing a very old debian chroot for some testing.
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-11-12 10:48:14
It's f#ck*ng unbelievable what effort it takes to re-install a d%mbsh!t tool like SnippingTool* on Windows 11 .. especially when offline.
Seriously... installing W11 last week (it took me 2.5 days as I tooted last time) ... and configuring it to be even usable in some kind freaked and stressed me out so much... I grew grey hair in my beard.
When I shaved on sunday it was a real WTF moment.
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza2025-11-17 04:31:56
Many months ago, I was trying to mod Borderlands 2 on Linux.
It has been made easier with Steam Deck as most mod mangers offer Linux builds.
I wish there was an all-in-one GUI software which handled mods for games. It would assist in installing mods for all kinds of games like how Minecraft’s third party launchers do.
#gaming
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-12-18 20:42:53
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 20:20:14
I tried the Fedora Atomic Cosmic Desktop iso and it was very impressive. Cosmic is the most responsive UI I’ve used that isn’t called Workbench. Sadly, Steam had some issues with controllers and while it seemed solvable, it didn’t seem like a clean solution. I’m going to miss Cosmic and will definitely check it out again once it is really done because it is super cool. Now, Bazzite is installing away.
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-01-13 20:01:20
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.
Real progress, happening now. Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-19 14:13:12
The front of the new Computing and Information Science building looked like a garden center when they were installing the landscaping
#photo #photography #cornell
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to2025-11-19 15:37:47
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-19 02:25:51
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-16 19:51:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-09 01:04:38
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
@joe@toot.works2025-12-10 15:29:36
"Running LLaMA-12 7B on a contact lens with WASM" reminds me of "Installing Linux on a Dead Badger" from a few years ago.
(This is supposed to be what hacker news looks like in ten years)
https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-14 15:04:37
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115718470244854807
I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-15 10:01:21
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!
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-14 19:51:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@piger@mastodon.social2025-11-21 15:29:15
room so cold that I'm thinking of installing Gentoo. In a loop.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 03:14:45
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
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-12 03:23:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-11 03:23:03
Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-11-16 23:37:02
Let it run overnight, but the end result is worth waiting for: a very clean, fully functional KDE 6 session on Slackware. Exactly the base you would get when installing Plasma on ArchLinux, and thus a perfect base to build on.
Later today: adding homebrew, distrobox and flatpak to get additional applications installed.
Thanks @… !