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

Use Linux! 🎉 👍 😍
No, not that one!!! 🤬
Just a regular day on r/Linux 💩
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/raqsmz/can_we_please_stop_recommending_elementaryos_to/

Side-graded my (almost 10-year-old) ThinkPad X220 from Ubuntu 20.10 to Kubuntu 20.10. Great success. Not tweaked to my personal liking yet. Looking great already (needs a dark (breeze) theme tho). 🥰

My lovely Mini EV arrived yesterday. I *love* it. Our home wall box charger arrives tomorrow. Meanwhile, I tried a couple of public chargers.
✔️ Instavolt - success
❌ GeniePoint - failure
Will check Zap-Map next time! Thankful to be able to have a charger at home!

A snapped application to make installation of appimages easier. Quick, someone make an appimage of flatpak, to complete the set! #GottaCatchEmAll https://snapcraft.io/appimageinstaller

Heyo! The #influxdb 2022 Intern Programme has opened! Details in the link below. Please share! https://boards.greenhouse.io/influxdb/jobs/3630420

This is neat. A coding font tournament! I got down to IBM Plex Mono and Ubuntu Mono as finalists. Not surprisingly, both fonts I use daily. https://www.codingfont.com/

These KDE developers are relentless! I love it! Looking forward to updating my machines to Plasma 5.23.2 later from the Kubuntu backports PPA! https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.2/

It's #InfluxDays! Today is kicking off with "Taming the Tiger: Telegraf Tips & Tricks". I do love to see a bit of ASCII art when I ssh into a training system. 🐯
https://bit.ly/3DRZ8F3

🎉 I'm hiring on Telegraf at #InfluxDB. Seeking a Go Software Engineer to join my small but wonderful team. Please share among your network. ⬇

https://www.influxdata.com/careers/?gh_jid=3594161

Ever wanted to 🕵️ monitor your systems or applications easily? 📈 Telegraf 🐯 has you covered. Here's a great starter blog post to get you up and running quickly! 💪 #influxdb
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/getting-started-with-telegraf/

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!