The Wolfe Pack

@fireborn awesome, but please be careful, we don’t want you losing sound again. Reinstalls suck. lol

I’m still not sure why that happened in the first place. I3 itself doesn’t have anything to do with your sound setup as far as I know.

I38 is coming along quite nicely. The code has stabilized quite a bit, and I think that we are ready for more general use and feedback/bug reports.

Very very new project, I38, which aims to do for i3 and sway what strychnine does for ratpoison.

This is extremely new code, prone to bugs, and not everything is implemented yet. If you want to test, please back up your current configuration first.

Very cool, you can change modes and add bindings inside those modes, so we have a ratpoison mode which will allow launching things in a familiar way for strychnine users.

@fireborn @celtichawk @jamminjerry If you can get into a console press insert+q, it should cause Fenrir to restart, which will bring back speech, unless there’s something else going on with sound.

@fireborn @celtichawk @jamminjerry Did you run /usr/share/tools/fenrirscreenreader/configure_pipewire.sh once as your user and once as root? If it works, you should be able to use fenrir even with X running.

@fireborn @celtichawk @jamminjerry what sound system do you use by default? If alsa, this probably pulled in pulse or pipewire. That requires a little setup.

I just got a CPR and first aid certification. Hopefully this is something I will never need to use, but if so, I will be prepared.

I got to hold Dembe, our new bearded dragon, earlier today. It has been just over a week since we got him, and he’s now comfortable with being held and petted. He relaxed on my shoulder and sniffed my shirt. Fortunately he decided I wwasn’t edible.

He’s a very cool little critter. His tail is extremely long. Bearded dragons are sometimes difficult to tell what gendor they are. So if he lays an egg one day, I’ll be switching to she instead lol. For now, however, he exhibits characteristics of being a male bearded dragon.

I am back from making balloon animals for the Light Up Down Town festival. It got cold out there, my hands are almost thawed now, but typing still feels a bit weird lol.

It was a lot of fun, lots and lots of happy children and even some happy adults too. The temperature was something like 34F.

@celtichawk @bgtlover unfortunately not really. If someone would make a TTYtter for Pleroma and Mastodon, that would solve the client issue once and for all. So far, no such luck though.

@celtichawk @bgtlover have you tried brave-bin from the AUR? My tests with pinafore went quite well with it.

It’s almost burger time. Getting the Bacon King. I can’t wait, those are awesome! unfortunately they don’t have full lettuce leaves, and I have no low carb buns, but it’s still gonna rock.

We are dealing with an electrical problem that started on last Friday. The breaker that handles the living room and all three bedrooms started kicking off over and over again. The electrician came yesterday, and thought it might be one of the power strips we use, so we unplugged it, and it stayed on just long enough for him to say “Ok, that was probably it.”

As his car was leaving the driveway, it clicked off again. He says the problem may be in the wiring itself, but he is booked up for the next two weeks. So, two more weeks of sharing the outlets in the kitchen and bathroom.

On the bright side, at least the router and the pi server are back online. I asked the electrician if I could plug in a surge protector using one of those orange extension cords, and he said it was fine, just don’t trip over it.

Funnily enough, the automatic responses that popped up as a possible reply included “Why not?”

Just got certified in CPR and first aid. Hopefully I will never need it, but if so, I should be prepared.

@fastfinge yeah, backups are important. My setup is pretty simple though. I have a pi4 server, so once a week or so I just clone the sd card.

Mail is a bit more involved, because you can’t run it from home. If you do, you will be labeled as spam by large providers no matter what, so it’s on a vps. Some vps providers do offer an image backup.

A setup script/program would have to incorporate some sort of backup option eventually. maybe just database copying to an offsite location, it’s definitely something worth thinking about. Maybe I’ll actually start writing something and see how far it gets. Letting the large providers handle stuff for you is a perfectly valid way of doing things, but for those who want to do it themselves, an easy setup option could be a good thing.

@celtichawk I haven’t used mail in a box myself, so I can’t say from experience. I have a friend, however, who uses it and loves it.