Plasma 6 and Wayland are working great under Tumbleweed for me on my 2-in-1 laptop, but there's still no usable virtual keyboard package like Maliit in Factory.

Next week: Fedora meets a new friend named Lennart while on her way to Multiuser Mountain. Will they be able to cross the init bridge without being caught by Sammy the Systemd Hating Troll?

I hold a grudge against the translucent plastic fad.

Once upon a time the Linux workstation at my desk at $CHIP_COMPANY was built into a noname transparent teal ATX case. For that reason I gave it the hostname "fugly".

We had excessive field failures with some of our chips, and I was tasked with coming up with a way to identify those bad parts at customer sites. My solution was a bootable Linux CD that would run a test and tell the customer if they need to contact us for a recall. The test relied on a modified Linux kernel, so it couldn't be distributed as an application. I used "fugly" to develop and build the test, patched kernel, and CD image.

The test was deployed, the first few customers were pleased, and I got a wood plaque and bonus for my efforts.

A few weeks later, my manager called me into her office looking uncharacteristically pissed off. She asked why I put a message saying "fugly" into the CD. A customer complained about it, saying they saw "fugly" on the screen when the test was running, and while it did it's job it was unprofessional. A split second of confusion before I realized what happened: at boot time the Linux kernel prints the name of the machine it was compiled on, in this case fugly.team.company.com . It scrolls past quickly on boot, so neither I nor my collaborators ever noticed. Somehow the customer latched onto it.

I ended up with a slap on the wrist, being put on PIP for 6 months and having to change the hostname because higher-ups needed their pound of flesh.

Coincidentally, a week after this incident, Toyota posted a billboard at a major intersection near our office advertising the Scion xB that read "Funky? Or Fugly?".

Tumbleweed is boring, and that's why it's wonderful.

...but pdf and epub still work. Easily the least objectionable thing Amazon has done all year. But don't let that get in the way of your mad.

Ah yes, IEEE 802.3HV.

Eternal September has happened before, and it will happen again. One service is enshittified, another takes its place.

NFTs are cryptographically authenticated links on the blockchain to shitty jpegs hosted on some website.

It's like how a boy scout troop can volunteer to clean trash off the side of a highway, and in exchange the city puts up a sign saying "Next 2 miles sponsored by Troop 123". Except instead of volunteering, you pay $100k. And instead of a sign, it's a huge granite wall in front of city hall on which they etch your name, a latitude, longitude, and elevation. And instead of a highway, it's 1 cubic foot of garbage buried in the municipal solid waste dump. And instead of sponsoring or owning the garbage cube, you are paying for the right to be the only name on the wall associated with that specific volume of trash.

Cellular peptide. With mint frosting.

I'm pretty sure 2/3 of these are Dr. Who monsters.

Pollen makes me sneeeze

You're supposed to cover up the noise by slapping your leg and saying "Wellp, look at the time."