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Wait, where do Typst users come from if not LaTeX?

Is... is Typst actually winning Word / GDocs users‽

Pope's bout to put the "beat" in "beatification"

I also enjoy letterpress printmaking and lead type. No practical value, but an enjoyable craft. I'm fine if software goes the same route. Let it be digital bonsai.

The economic and societal ramifications are what scare me. The craft will still be there for those who want it.

Vertical tabs are good and only landed last year

I bought one of these little hardware testers and it's super handy for that exact purpose

blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/tech...

Poster's first lemon pig

Well what the heck, that was delightful.

Yeah that's looks reasonably beefy :)

On my Christmas list was a stick of 32 GB DDR5 with "only buy if under £x" because it had been fluctuating a teeny bit over the summer. 💀

TrueNAS is Debian-based these days, but I'm trying to avoid using the NAS as anything other than an appliance...

What sort of build did you do?

I just set up a Terramaster F4-425 Plus with TrueNAS, coming from an old Synology DS-216+II and ... I'm not yet totally happy? Still really tempted to just blow it away and install NixOS.

Possibly related to The Open? www.translink.co.uk/special-even...

Top tier people in that photo. Tell ee hi for me!

Okay, I dumped 50 GB of photos into self-hosted Ente and Immich over the weekend, and so far they're both absolutely Good Enough. Honestly don't know which one I'll stick with, but I will keep one of them.

I am missing Mastodon's edit feature, though. (Sorry for the notification spam as I deleted and reposted to fix typos!)

How did that compare to your expectations for each platform?

(I'd wager that both seem low?)

I've noticed that my own desire to engage on social media flatlined a few years ago, doubly so on public platforms. It still feels like something is missing, but I haven't been able to fill that void.

I'm expecting to give it a go some time this year, but haven't gotten around to it yet. If you get there before me, let me know what you think

Open your heart to jj, through which all things are possible

I'm partial to 1969-12-31 myself; Ritualistic tribute to off by one errors

For more "generally interesting" stuff, @reckless.bsky.social is a stupendously skilled interviewer, and his Decoder podcast is a solid choice: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

For consumer tech, The Vergecast is good (but publishes quite frequently): www.theverge.com/the-vergecast

I've been consistently and pleasantly surprised by Developer Voices: pod.link/developer-vo....

CoRecursive is also good: corecursive.com

Sustain for open source stuff: podcast.sustainoss.org

It's been 10 months since I bought my Framework 16. I still haven't finished installing Linux on it.

The second two books will do the same to you! Quite distinct from the first two, but also good.

It's not epic fantasy, but I'll always recommend Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer as a good / weird / disquieting read.

Or for classic sci-fi/fantasy, I recently really enjoyed Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos.

The self-encrypting drive is fun. On my previous laptop I was happy enough to manually unlock it in a PBA image. But if I can use the TPM to do it for me...

(The previous laptop also needed a patched sedutil to support resuming from s3 sleep, but now everything is s0ix, so at least that's over?)

The last two months were bisecting the kernel due to a regression in MediaTek firmware that caused failures resuming from hibernation.

Had to stop my months-long bcachefs experiment to do the bisecting, because it changed its on-disk format across the same range of kernel commits as the regression.

Who needs arts, entertainment, or hobbies when you have #NixOS?

I've had my Framework 16 for 10 months. I still haven't "finished" installing Linux on it. This month's time sink: Using LUKS2 to configure a TCG Opal Self-Encrypting Drive and have it auto-unlock via TPM2 (protected by SecureBoot.)

Interstella 5555 is how I got my kids into Daft Punk

Buckfast Tonic Wine - Wikipedia

The island of Ireland has Buckfast, a caffeinated tonic wine of ill repute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfas...

Shadowgate was (is?) so good

What's the half-life of a fursuit?

What's the half-life of *that* fursuit?

Mike putting the firefox costume YouTube video by homecd

First worn 12 years ago: youtu.be/1nj0cTKAzaI