Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 @popey@mastodon.social
Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, husband, cat lover & a geek through and through
Ahh, spun up #ubuntu 12.04 in a little VM. Kinda surprised gwibber (remember that) still works! https://mastodon.social/media/8qqMLoJRb4FrIyfJbFU
Never been asked to unsubscribe by someone marketing their products before... Chef Bernie seems like a good guy :) https://www.chefbernie.co.uk/pages/about-us
Interesting double jump in the Purism crowdfunder today. Getting closer to the $1.5M target.
https://mastodon.social/media/1K145C4pMNW0A0XPPFo https://mastodon.social/media/CboVmCIyTl2WVKdNOIM https://mastodon.social/media/DawfmPya8Lh4yoU_B9g
Anyone here use wire? I need some testers of the wire snap. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/call-for-testing-wire/2328
Interestingly the Purism phone just gained a $17999 and a $19999 level backer! Wonder who would back at that level? https://mastodon.social/media/j8hMU9fCkWKDENhm9LU
I feel I am not following enough cool people here. Can everyone make a suggestion or two?
The Humble Store is having a huge sale right now, some seriously good Linux deals on
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-humble-store-is-having-a-huge-sale-right-now-some-seriously-good-linux-deals-on.10367 #Linux #LinuxGaming
I bought this Dualit toaster nearly 20 years ago. It's rocked on through marriage, births, deaths and household catastrophies. I love it. https://mastodon.social/media/CmyDHom5Eyh79YiR9gM
The Purism Librem 5 phone crowdfunder has raised ~23% of their goal. ~38 days remain to raise another $1.1M. https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ https://mastodon.social/media/W66tRhfYK2OvSRwdrtQ
As a new user of GNOME Shell on Ubuntu 17.10, I keep discovering new things (to me). Love this Super+P display quick-switcher pop-up. https://mastodon.social/media/BHRksJByp8OR0yP3pY0
Spotted Ubuntu on BBC "Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?", controlling the next Mars rover. "Episode 2, Series 1, Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? - BBC Two"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05bf23b https://mastodon.social/media/tCtCe_NRE6EAO1OihjM https://mastodon.social/media/iedpq7k4vlNERAaGhB4 https://mastodon.social/media/rdB-WQdzb4HbaZwZy3w
Larry Bushey has made a lovely introduction to Ubuntu MATE book.Get it on Amazon http://amzn.to/2vGKQqv (UK) http://amzn.to/2vMdqoE (US) https://mastodon.social/media/8UX5Id4YGMKTrLHwfRw
The Gaming On Linux people have a Rust game server. It's fun. I play on it sometimes. I die on it often. Join us! :) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/join-the-fun-on-our-new-server-for-rust.9951
S10E20 – Wry Mindless Ice - We discuss tormenting Mycroft, review the Dell Precision 5520, give you some USB resetting command line lurve and go over your feedback.
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/07/20/s10e20-wry-mindless-ice/ https://mastodon.social/media/yR5fPwc1G-OaJ9G_SE8
I don't play Ingress much. But thanks to the EU I can play in Europe, roaming on my UK data plan at no extra cost. 😀 https://mastodon.social/media/fd8DHC79bydHMJFFbMc
#Ubuntu Artful (17.10) Desktop - call for testing. Now shipping GNOME shell & GDM by default & Wayland as an option. Please grab the ISO and start exercising it now, before the release in October.
https://popey.com/blog/posts/ubuntu-artful-desktop-july-shakedown.html https://mastodon.social/media/t950C6vYnaT12xpQaCM
Enjoying a refreshing beer with the sun going down after a long day. #opticalexperiments https://mastodon.social/media/LV9mRcSLvZKMn8zh3S8
Mycroft, sing a song...
Mycroft, what are beans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5J7vVQNkCw