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

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

I've been using KDE Plasma for a year on my ThinkPad T450. Only today did I 'discover' that I can right click menu items and add as favourites. I have just been typing what I want. :) Muscle memory of using Unity on #ubuntu for years was strong.

If/when #Brexit finally happens, I do hope we get to keep the inclusive mobile roaming when travelling in Europe. I realise this is minor in the grand scheme of things. But it's one less thing to think about when visiting friends or holidaying on the continent.

I do enjoy a nice brick arch now and then. Having a little stroll in Barcelona before heading home.

Lovely evening in Barcelona :)

It's Friday, so there's a new episode of User Error Podcast in your feedz! This week, @danrabbit, Joe Ressington and me mull stupid things people say, mobile OS choices, Good vs Evil & distro contributions.
Follow the link to listen 🎧 & discuss 😘
https://community.error.show/t/episode-56-a-good-walled-garden/89

Happy "Birthday" to all those diaspora users who left DOB set to 01/01 on sign-up. :)

Really enjoyed #Bandersnatch on Netflix . Gloomy 1980's retro with callbacks to other Black Mirror episodes as expected. The choose-your-own-adventure element was well done. I saw a few endings (and noted all my choices so I can re-do it differently). Worth watching.

I enjoy watching retro / gaming / tech content on YouTube. But, it's exhausting watching (mostly) American YouTube channels where the presenter has their voice at such a high volume. Gonna un-sub from them all in 2019 and only consume content which isn't wearing me out! :(

TIL: (from my 12 year old Son) Epic Games reward Fortnite players (with an in-game skin) when they enable two-factor sign-in. Love that "two-factor" is in his vernacular, and enabling it is promoted to the young Fortnite audience.

As I do most years, drove into central London with daughter for a bit of 'last minute' Christmas shopping :). As always, easy to park, no queues, friendly staff and everything we needed in stock. Back home before lunch. :) I highly recommend the endeavor. 🎄

Time for a spot of "Big Daddy Linux Live" chatter. Nice to nerd out with some Linuxy friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6RCtQ9DoY

Upgraded motherboard arrived for my modular ClockworkPi today. This adds support for HDMI out. Neat!

A new User Error is out featuring myself, @JoeRessington and @DanielFore . In which we get festive about lying to children, discuss the command-line and our personal hair care regimen. Yes, really. I know.

https://community.error.show/t/episode-55-great-news-we-lied/79?u=popey

Every other app on my phone can connect to services fine, including Facebook and Messenger. Facebook Pages however never has been able to. Very odd. (Comments about leaving Facebook to /dev/null)

Wrote up some notes on how I worked around the problem of @dropbox dropping non-ext4 support on #linux .Quick and straightforward. Took a few minutes to setup.
Thanks to @Wimpress for the inspiration. https://popey.com/blog/posts/fixing-broken-dropbox-sync-support.html

Good morning! :(