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

I do enjoy that the most-viewed photo I've uploaded to Google Maps is a rather boring picture of a local dentist. Second is my local pub, which is cool too. The rest are random restaurants from holiday locations mostly.

Anyone got a good way to intentionally fragment a disk?
Formatted FAT, spinning rust, not SSD. Other than "use it for 10 years without defragging". I could write a script that creates, copies, and deletes files around repeatedly I suppose. Anyone got a quicker way? (on Linux)

What could possibly better than running an Ace of Spades / OpenSpades (piqueserver) instance? Running two, obviously! https://popeyspad.es/posts/2021/09/two-spades/

There are 3 adults in our house who regularly consume hot drinks from mugs. We have around 25 mugs in active circulation right now. That's ~8.3 mugs per person. Is that common? Does your house have a lower or higher #MugRatio 🤔

My piqueserver (OpenSpades/Ace of Spades) "Good vs Evil" server is back online, and better than ever!
https://popeyspad.es/posts/2021/09/server-update/

Ventured into the loft and found another old computer, untouched since 2009. Booted right into Crunchbang! Happy memories!

Time to say farewell to my oldest ARM (nVidia Tegra 2) based laptop - a Toshiba AC-100.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284402785041

The Framework (repairable, upgradable) laptop getting a 10/10 repairability score from iFixit is a great endorsement for the team who worked on the product.
https://youtu.be/AV2umY3R0vw

🥰 gotop

I bought a 1st generation ipad in 2010. It's almost completely unusable as anything other than a clock. Can't sell it because I stupidly got it engraved with my name and phone number 🤦. Can't sign into games, lots of things won't install or update. Netflix still works tho 🤷

Weird coincidence that I noticed the graphics stack went weird (couldn't launch new GL apps) after 33 days and ~5 hours, twice. I had to reboot to get everything working. Is there something about that duration that makes #Linux / KDE / Ubuntu systems go wobbly? Very strange.

Interesting video review of the "JingPad A1" which is (their words) "The worlds first consumer level Linux tablet". Worth a look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6TE2nZz3M

When I'm on a Zoom call, and every single participant has a mono microphone, I still put my headphones on the "right" way round. This is despite the cable crossing me to get to its destination socket. I should stop this. One day it might be nice if everyone is "panned" left/right

Wife has been playing this word game for a couple of years now. I just noticed the level number: 15234. I don't think I have ever reached levels above fifteen thousand in any game, ever.

Then there's the compact couple, 560Z and X40. They're just adorable for their compressed computing capabilities! 🥰

Been selling off a few of my older computers recently - Marie Kondo style. Looking at the ThinkPads next. I'm having difficulty parting with some though. These two chonkers in particular - R40 and 380XD are keepers, I think. Along with the X220, T43, T450 and X61s... 🤦🏻