Kyle R. Conway @K_REY_C@mastodon.social

I beat passivity when I decided to take part
I started out with something small
something short
not overblown
I started to succeed
in fact
writing the first line of this poem

...
But then I try to start
Take part
Disembark from my ship of sadness
my inner world of madness
replace drabness with color
thoughts of something other
than nothing at all
I fall
'cause I just leaped
took a step
chose to believe
made a choice
took a stand
created something with my hands
and my mind
and my heart

I wimpily limp over myself
enfold myself
zip me up, lock the whole world out
and ignore myself
and down my problems go
to stack at the bottom
but I don't work to propel them
expel them
get them out
not even a little bout
not even sparring a couple rounds
I'd rather drown in nothingness
fear
and doubt

Sometimes I try not to be active
but passive
The antithesis of doing
moving
improving
I'm just snoozing
not stewing
new thoughts in my head, but laying in bed
no work in my hands
no plans
I just stand, or sit, or demand
passively
without decision or strength

Brownies

Like a dirt clod,
but moist.
A melted clod,
a melted clod of dirt
but sweet.
A sweet, melted clod of dirt
but not dirt.
Goodness;
rainbows;
joy;
children.
The laughter of children.
A rag soaked in the laughter of children,
and squeezed out into a bowl
with an egg cracked on top,
and the wheat of the land,
and sugar,
pure sugar.
Sweet, sweet pure sugar.
And fire.
And time.
And you consume it with your mouth.

I. Love. Brownies.

So I'm trying to learn #go.

Watch me learn and fail!

https://little.kylerconway.com/post/trying-to-go/

@mairin -- have you experienced this bug? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1768958

I'm crashing when interacting with the text tool on inkscape all the time now on Fedora 28. Happens with distro-packaged version, an alt-downloaded rpm, and a flatpak.

#fedora #inkscape #crash

Went to my first tech meetup today. Literally the 1st time in my life I've been around other people interested in databases and programming languages in-the-flesh. Very refreshing.

One wonders what will happen if I ever meet other open source desktop users (and use open tools, and do open art).

Mind explosion. Nice to not be the only one in a physical space for once.

EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line

https://juliareda.eu/2018/05/censorship-machines-link-tax-finish-line/

So, updating ~/.bashrc and removing the anaconda-added config for gsettings fixed the issue. Anyone know why that is a standard part of the setup when it breaks linux (or at least Fedora)?

I have a sneaking suspicion now that it's something to do with installing Anaconda (https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/linux).

$ which gsettings
returns ~/anaconda3/bin/gsettings

Any thoughts on how to repair what is currently broken and above my head?

#linux #issues

Running #fedora 28 workstation.
Encrypted drive
NVIDIA card

Boot stalls/freezes at "Starting Switch Root..." for kernel 4.16.8-300 & 4.16.11-300"

Booting to rescue says the following upon boot: "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked."

Trying to "startx" from multi-user.target on the working kernel 4.16.7-300 results in a couple things:

"xauth: file $HOME/.serverauth.2148 does not exist"

and others...