arch is da'boss.

Agreed

I have heard about.. but not to keen on switching over at the moment

No, of course not, I totally get that @U052852ES 🙂 Just a suggestion for something to consider in calmer times in the future.

thank you

even weirder though, I am running 21.10 now... and not 22.04 which was my intention to update to...

computers/software are/is !"£$

In my experience rolling release distros in general tend to be more stable than point release distros (especially when it comes to system upgrades), surprisingly. But even point release distros can vary. Fedora is supposed to be bleeding edge but it's been much less frustrating for me than Ubuntu LTS. Regardless, I strongly believe that the Nix/Guix model is the future :)

For Ubuntu LTS versions I always wait for the point release, as that is the recommended approach for production systems. There isnt much new in Ubuntu 22.04 if you're already running 20.10. Also if there is nvidia or AMD graphics hardware, you should always check that its supported in the new release. I discovered that AMD are really bad at updating their code and only support Ubuntu LTS versions, after they have been released.

I always run a stable Ubuntu and use PPA's or a local install if I need specific newer things... there is very little new stuff needed, although I do like using emacs-snapshot (Emacs 29.0.50) from the Ubuntu PPA, its noticably faster than 27.x

I did try out arch but there was a lot more work to set things up and once I had it working I rarely updated it anyway. I appreciate people need new updates for some things, but I rarely have that need now. I use Regolith Linux (Ubuntu +i3 nicely configured) as the tiling window manager fits my workflow perfectly (and I am too busy to set it all up manually). So now I only update every year or so. I had a desktop that was running Ubuntu 18.10 and I managed to update it to 21.10 without any problems, once I added the Ubuntu distro archive. Everything still worked (although a bit faster)

yeah, it seems that the AMD GPU drivers are causing the problems...

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practicalli_j[email protected] (sad that they dont allow - in user names)

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Searching for people on mastodon is 🙀

@[email protected]

it is a bit, thus the party here

I wonder why so many people are signing up with mastodon.social as there are quite a number of more dedicated instances. E.g., I'm on functional.cafe run by @U052TDWT7 which is attracting people which are interested in functional programming.

I'm on mastodon.social b/c I signed up a long time ago and I was lazy

I was more elduing to the rush of new joiners. I guess people are not aware what the benefits and the effect of a federated social network realy are.

That was the issue for me, to be honest. Mastodon tried to find a fitting instance for me, but they were small and it was hard to find out who was running it, so I joined the one the others were on.

Morning. Currently functional.cafe is invite only, drop me a DM if you're interested to join. 👋:skin-tone-2:

anyway: [email protected]

I'm on http://fosstodon.org @ but haven't used the account in a while (i.e. didn't know Clojure at the time) and sounds like functional.cafe would be a better fit nowadays... @U052TDWT7 if you wouldn't mind 🙏

@UQEB56A4E of course not, just DM me your email address 🙂

Let's do this, if you wanna join functional café, just follow this invitation link: https://functional.cafe/invite/TzYgPMev

done

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@[email protected]

nice

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thx for the invites and hosting @U052TDWT7

You're welcome! 🙂

@U052TDWT7 I fear I may have broken functional.cafe with an overlong post about Star Trek. Sorry...

Doesn't look broken... What happened?

seems to have recovered. Just tried posting something that failed (it ended up in my drafts) and then the server was unavailable for around 10 minutes

seems OK today (and my cut in 2 version seemed to post fine)

:thinking_face: I'll made some tests with long toots, thanks.

I can’t even load any profiles .. I already like how anti-social it is. Suites me

typical OSS project

:P

I've followed 3 people but no one has followed me back... I feel sad 😢

I’m trying to - but none of the profiles load for me

I think they'll be flooded with people joining as usually happens when Twitter gets spooked

What node / server and what's your id @U05254DQM? I'll follow you 🙂

hmmm... I think we may need a different node to pile into. Any suggestions?

I am kitty-town, but it's a bit small and requires quite strict adherence to Community Standards that I am fine with, but others may see as overly restricting.

Sorry kitty.town

I just signed up at the matodon.social website with practicalli_john but I have no idea about nodes or servers... sorry.

your node/server is mastodon.social then @U05254DQM which is the one that is straining atm as everyone is trying to sign up there rather than on other servers in the fediverse

Is there an emacs mode for it?

yes: https://melpa.org/#/mastodon

I'm now sad that @U05254DQM hasn't tooted at me in the fediverse

I am hoping someone does a mastodon 101 tutorial, because I am confused 😂

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

Thanks, I should send you a PDA: on mastodon 😜

always up for hugs, or chips

🍟

Inb4 twitter federates