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TwiMac Edition

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Share your pony rices and tech-related projects!

>>42527170 (OP)
>Twi
>Mac

>>42527170 (OP)
Now that's a level of autism I can appreciate.

>>42527236
nice. one of these days I'll fire up my 5160 and code some pony stuff on it in glorious CGA.

>>42527170 (OP)
Back so soon?
Don't forget to post poni tech you see during Mare Fair or GalaCon.

>>42501057
>>42501118
From the email I received this should be only apply to shitholes for now but it is a dangerous precedent that they WILL want to spread everywhere
F-Droid should not be affected at least in EU since the latest market law that pissed of apple. I'm not really caught up on that, but it's something along the lines of "third party app stores must be an option for user".

I'll definitely read up something more about it

>>42528976
>F-Droid should not be affected at least in EU since the latest market law that pissed of apple. I'm not really caught up on that, but it's something along the lines of "third party app stores must be an option for user".
nah EU's shitty regulation will do nothing because
>stores are allowed, you just have to use official tools while developing apps
>you don't want people to hack messengers to remove Orwellian spyware, do you :^) ?

>>42528999
But third party app stores would be literally useless if the OS developer (google or apple) still had any say in whether you can run code distributed that way
I don't wanna talk out of my ass but it seems to me it should apply

>>42529043
I'm pretty sure MacOS already requires devs to sign code with Apple's keys (I know some libreware projects that outright refuse to release Mac binaries and tell people to compile shit for themselves)

>>42528976
Allowing third party apps don't fit with EU agenda to copying CCP censorship rules.

>>42529062
Yes if you don’t sign it is like three extra clicks on first boot of the program

>>42529922
You can turn it off

bump

>>42531434
Since you're asking, anon, as of now 3 of my 6 workhorsies have been upgraded to The Great and Powerful. So far so good, no surprises. Release notes look a bit more modern, seems like they've moved to mkdocs for this version.
I wish I could use one distribution for both servers and daily computers and be content.

>>42531744
What’s stopping you from using it on desktop do you have an M3/M4 Mac? Or just missing some software you need (like actually need)

The floppy drive in the Sony Mavica I brought to Mare Fair is dying and most pictures I take are corrupted ;_:
using ddrescue to image the disks, but I have no clue how to see if there's anything salvageable

9bump
the thread fell off

>>42532322
Use case for /pts/?

up you go

>>42532356
What do you guys think of GNOME also what would different ponies think of it
Embarrassingly I actually like GNOME

>>42528976
>not be affected at least in EU
Isn't there also some shitty legislation to ban phones with unlocked botloader?

weekend pony convention technology bump
Anything interesting in the vidya room of Mare Fair?

>>42533599
I haven't seen a single UI design element by GNOME that I liked.

>>42533599
>Embarrassingly I actually like GNOME
please elaborate
I've yet to see anyone who actually liked stock Gnome
>>42532356
modern /g/ sucks

>>42535480
Now hold on stock gnome is not my preferred gnome since minimise window button is missing but ironically installing kde fixes that (even if you keep using gnome it adds the buttons for some reason with KDE theming) and Dash to dock is a must but that’s the only changes I would make unless drag to snap windows isn’t vanilla or least super plus arrow key should work to quickly split screen windows, I don’t need more although I think I should learn to use less I just haven’t been bothered to spend time configuring keybinds

>>42535549
>you need KDE to make Gnome usable

>>42535549
>minimise window button is missing
What? seriously? I haven't used Gnome since ubuntu 18 but damn

>>42536314
You can toggle them back but they really want you to use Windows key + Down/Up Arrow key instead.

>>42536325
>they really want you to use
And that's the thing. I'm not letting my software tell me how I'm "supposed" to use it.

>>42535629
yeah lol I don’t know how to turn them on but they’re there without kde on ubuntu

>>42536325
That's so fucking retarded and I say that as somebody who uses heavily keyboard focused WM
Taking hand off controls goes both ways, when I'm already holding the mouse I don't wanna reach for the keyboard.

I'm starting to think someone is ruining it from inside on purpose kek

>>42536314
>I haven't used Gnome since ubuntu 18
Anon, Ubuntu Gnome isn't stock Gnome
hell, I'm pretty sure Foot Fetishism Foundation wants Ubuntu Gnome to be gone: their libadwaita outright broke legendary Ubuntu theme
>>42537842
>I'm starting to think someone is ruining it from inside on purpose kek
that's Red Hat for you ^:)

got a watch, turns out you can put anything in there. so I did.
the pinkie is animated

>>42538130
>no image

>>42538130
Pic didn't attach.

trest

>>42538082
Oh, then I imagine I'd hate stock Gnome even more

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/
KDE Linux, everypony.
Maybe it's not a 100% bad thing for GUI vendors to become OS vendors? As long as nopony in the upstream chain will fuck up, and third party software delivery is handled in some user friendly way, could this be a good thing for popularizing desktop Linux?
Like, you know, show somepony screenshots of UI and let them choose what they prefer. But truth be told you can already do the same thing with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and so on, if you like the way *ubuntu distros do certain things.

>>42539065
>pic
CUTE

Does anypony here want to do a /pts/ meetup at Mare Fair? Bring your tech/laptops/thinkpads if you have em!
We can do this Sunday
I already know 2 other people with thinkpads

>>42538135
can it use gifs?

>>42539256
Yes as long as you break them down in a series of PNGs so it animates. It's what I did. So the pinkie blinks on my watchface

>>42539159
KDE is too much voodoo
That’s not to say GNOME is divine intellect but it is less voodoolicious

>>42539159
>KDE Linux
so KDE Neon 2?

>>42539159
Didn't the KDE team create Konqueror in which Chrome took some of the code from?
It will be like ChromeOS.

I'll boop, in hopes for more ponitechposting after the con weekend.

KDE has the best Linux mascot. Really shows they're the only GUI provider with a sense for aesthetics (which is essential for a GUI).

>>42540036
IIRC, it's KHTM > WebKIt (Apple) and then Google used WebKit for awhile and finally forked it into Blink. Still, Konquetor is the grandmother of Chrome.

Speaking of browsers associated with the KDE project, Falkon:
https://www.falkon.org/
This browser was the best preforming browser on a old Intel Atom netbook I have, but I found their update schedule to be sporadic and binaries in the distro repositories to be even more so. This was recent too, last three years, but I don't know why it worked so much faster than chromium because:
>Until version 2.0, QupZilla was using QtWebKit. QtWebKit is now deprecated and new versions are using QtWebEngine.
QtWebEngine is a stripped down version of the Chromium browser, does unbranded Chromium really have that much bloat to make a difference.

>>42539199
Not at the con, do own a Thinkpad. Heh, maybe next year if I made it I would join in a tech meetup and bring one of my weird tablet convertable PCs.

>>42539310
That's pretty cool.

Are there timezones in Equestria?

>>42539532
Desktop environments are bloat
Just install a WM and get on with using your computer

>>42542810
WMs are bloat. Just use the framebuffer and GNU Screen.

>>42542812
>framebuffer
>not using a dot matrix printer as your console output
could be fun, if only I had time/will/etc. to do tech shitposts anymore

>>42542812
I almost spoilered something like in my post that to take the joke further, thank u anon
but fr, one of my favorite parts of running linux is just installing the software i want instead of globs of crap I'll never use

>>42542829
That’s what I like too but I’m not knowledgeable enough yet to go with something like dwm but I could switch to xfce if I spent time ricing it. I’m temporarily stuck on an M4 Mac but framework laptop will come soon and I want to try Artix with dwm.
Also can somepony tell me, what’s the deal with xlibre can I have a qrd on that and the difference between X11 and Wayland both of them just werk.

>>42543381
>Also can somepony tell me, what’s the deal with xlibre can I have a qrd on that and the difference between X11 and Wayland both of them just werk.

>80s
>Unixfags make X Windowing System
>Latest version of X is 11
>thus X11
>it's "reference" (de-facto only) implementation is FreeX86
>later replaced by X.org
>it's old also
>has shit nop0ny fucking uses
>also has long-standing issues like tearing and multimonitor setups being shit
>FIXME
>XDG/Freedesktop/Red Hat create a new Windowing System to replace X
>Wayland
>fixes some problems but also introduces others (forced V-Sync REEEEEE)
>people should be free to choose between the two, right?
>NOPE
>X.org Foundation effectively abandons X.org
>X11 is [Deprecated] in Gnome
>RHEL plans to remove X11 from their next stable release
>"abandon X, chud!"
>some /g/entoomen create XLibre as a replacement for X.org
>fix bugs
>break API LOL
>"Fuck FreeDesktop, X11 5evar"
>"REEEEE EBIL CHUDWARE"
>You are here

>>42542819
Do you have printer that would be actually good for that? I have two dot-matrix Epsons and it's really hard to see the latest line of text on both of them. I wanted to also make TTY from printer but this limitation kept from even trying too hard.

On the other hand, I'd very much like to remake electronic typewriter into teletype, sounds like it shouldn't be too hard and they're not very expensive

>>42543490
So they both suck but XLibre is the /g/entooman choice? Doesn’t OpenBSD use Xenocara does that work on Linux it’s just an X11 fork right?

>>42543625
>So they both suck
they don't "suck-suck", more like "slightly suck in their own way"
>XLibre is the /g/entooman choice?
technically yeah but I've yet to see a distro that supports it (Arch/Artix doesn't count)
>Doesn’t OpenBSD use Xenocara does that work on Linux it’s just an X11 fork right?
Xenocara is a "secure" fork of X.org that can be used on other systems but no one fucking cares about it

retard here
today APPLE has decided to fucking rape me
>hm, today I will transfer music into apple music like I've done before
>Whoops anon! You can't transfer or sync your songs from your computer because you just can't mkay?
>iTunes constantly gives popups to "backup and update" my phone
>just click yes so it stops fucking prompting me
>backups don't even start, keeps being annoying.
>software crashes mid-update when its busy updating my phone
>bricks it
>have to do a factory wipe to fucking get it back and lose everything cause of it

I think I'll leave Apple's ecosystem for good, what are good android/samsung/etc phones? Biggest focus would be on having a functional app store (with accessibility for important apps, i.e Outlook, google suite, etc), decent camera, and ability to receive/send texts and call people from iphone devices. The only reason I've used apple for so long is because all of my phones are hand-me-downs.

>>42543886
I’ve been interested in going with eink phones with lineageOS or grapheneOS (google pixel only) and no SIM card and a faraday pouch thing for it (or just some tinfoil desu) but I need to look into eink phones a bit more before I upgrade and my iphone hasn’t broken yet so hopefully it lasts until there are good eink options

>>42543381
>>42543490
>>42539199
I only visit 2 generals, Is this ponifying of sentences getting more popular on /mlp/ in general or is it just the few of you? I kind of like it

>>42544728
kys offboarder

>>42544746
no. Want me dead? Do it yourself pussy

>>42539199
I'm down, is it too late? I think I brought some linux/BSD stickers along with pony ones to share
Also this project

>>42545199
(it's not too late for me btw, I'll be around all day Monday too, leaving on Tuesday) actually brought some other pony projects with some tech in it too

>>42545199
>>42545211
you guys doing anything in about 30 minutes?
i have ribbons
and we can draw in the lobby
im just gonna pack a bit

>>42539199
I brought my ancient eee pc with me that runs debian. Am I elligible?

>>42545856
no way, u got it installed right now?
yes
maybe we can meet later tonight, as long as its today
or when everyone responds

>>42545877
I haven't been dragged into any parties yet, so yeah, why not.

>>42545796
Oh well, 30 minutes have long passed

>>42542810
I had a friend who rejected x11 for emacs as his environment.

>>42545979
Sorry missed this, but I've been at tables across from the main stage, big dashie plush if you wanna come and nerd this place up

>>42546048
coming

>>42546048
sorry anon, got caught up with packing
u still there?

>>42546128
Yeah we are here

>>42532314
Can I pet moon