Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 @popey@mastodon.social

I appear to have moved to popey@ubuntu.social

Why *do* people tell me to use htop instead of top? I find htop impenetrably hard to read. Is it the colour, or the graphs? What is it about htop that everyone loves so much? Please enlighten me.

Tomorrow my #Ubuntu 18.04 laptop will hit its highest uptime since I installed it in October last year.. Only rebooted last time for a kernel / nVidia driver update.

The closing keynote of #fosdem is about to kick off "2019 - Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances" https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/keynote_fifty_years_unix/

I'm giving my first talk at #fosdem in ~30 minutes. It's a ~15 lightning talk highlighting some benefits of publishing your application for Linux in the @snapcraftio store. https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/behind_snapcraft/

Choo Choo! 🚂 Beginning my journey to #fosdem . Looking forward to catching up with friends and learning about new developments in the Free Software world. Also, Belgian beer and waffles. 🍻

I used to really enjoy playing some local multi player games with my kids on Ouya. Tower fall, No Brakes Valet and Bomb Squad were firm favourites. Shame the controller sucked and the company utterly mismanaged everything. Fun times :)

Performing the old "reverse snoot boop" with Trigger.

Getting to the point where the words "BBC Sounds" are appearing in my dreams says to me that a) I may want to dial back listening to BBC radio and podcasts and b) maybe the BBC have ever so slightly overdone it with their "BBC Sounds" marketing. Please make it stop.

Really excited about the ZX Spectrum Next. Looking forward to getting mine when it's ready. 🤩 Loving the idea of a decent cursor arrow layout. 5678 & 0 was fun 30 years ago, but this little change is most welcome. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next/posts/2397017

Daily nocturnal sock expulsion routine:

👣 Place both feet firmly on the bedroom rug
⏪ Rapidly shuffle rearward 3 steps per foot
✅ Socks deposited on floor
🗑 Put socks in the wash
🛌
Perplexingly wifey tells me this is a weird sock removal process.
She's wrong, of course❓

Bah! Display I bought on Amazon has developed this horrid streak. It started in the middle a week or so ago, and grew over some days. Vendor offered me 50 quid compensation. Going for refund via amazon instead Shame, still need to find a decent display. https://amzn.to/2CGuMau

Any #Linux command-line nerds got any ideas how to fix this? :) https://askubuntu.com/q/1111960/612 (answers preferred there rather than here)

Need to quickly spin up #ubuntu VMs on Microsoft Windows? Multipass is what you need! This release joins the macOS and Linux builds already available.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-now-also-available-for-windows/9548?u=popey

Latest User Error Show is out! Exercise your 'free will' to listen. In which we lament mobile Linux, forget physical media and discuss the worst books we've ever read. It's worth a listen, if your brain will let you.
https://community.error.show/t/episode-57-free-to-succeed/110?u=popey