Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

They read my toot over the weekend I bet.

The lightning port on my @system76 laptop died 11 months in. 💔

Not mad, things happen, and I've opened a ticket with them already.

Now to see if their customer service matches the stellar reputation that I've read about. I've never had a more seamless Linux software experience before, but I am jaded with a bad history with companies like Dell that offer sub-par hardware support. The lack of a domestic support team is usually a contributing factor, so I'm optimistic here.

Just watched Bing #AI endorse a random third party web security tool, citing microsoft.com as a source, confusing it for Microsoft's own Windows Defender software.

This is fine, I'm sure.

@hollowleviathan @mmasnick @ygalanter @krans @vincent @davidgerard They also don't speak of BS and AT Proto as if they will exist outside of "the company", which is really rich coming from a supposedly "decentralized" product. They certainly intend it to be financially centralized.

All they're really saying is that the future company ethos might be at odds with the current one. I read that as a promise of enshittification as this for-profit startup tries to monetize their creation.

Once I delete my remaining X accounts, as I plan to, I'll be cut off entirely from any government communications over X, and there aren't always alternative sources of this information.

I shouldn't have to generate ad revenue for Elon Musk and agree to his terms to see these communications. My taxes pay for them, give me them somewhere that is publicly visible, and stop hiding anything behind a membership wall.

Once X starts charging everyone subscription fees, this will only be worse.

I've been thinking about how much of my local government uses X for official communications, and how I now have to have an account for a site known for spreading disinformation and hate speech just to be able to see posts by my elected officials.

I wonder if there's a legal path, at least in my state, towards legally challenging government use of X.

@ernie I'm thankful I never signed up for Google's equivalent "Pixel Pass" program that promised a new phone every 2 years, and then cancelled the program after 23 months without ever fulfilling a single upgrade.

We need to talk about Sam Altman's sanpaku eyes.

@nearhat@tech.lgbt You get lesser specs for more money, but having S76 engineer the laptop, bootloader, and OS makes it worth it. Everything works.

One typo in an installer script, and I completely wiped out a system directory when uninstalling a program. Didn't realize it until weird things started happening, and a reboot revealed that I had rm'd way more than the program I was trying to delete.

I just rebooted, held the spacebar, clicked "Refresh Pop OS", and I was back in in about 60 seconds.

My wife and I are celebrating our 10 year anniversary today. It's been a wild decade, but we're making it.

Did something stupid as root and completely bricked my laptop. Really seeing the engineering from System76 pay off as I recovered my OS is less than a minute using the recovery wizard.

I've never recovered from this big of a fuck up so fast before on Linux. I'm having to reinstall a few things, but I lost absolutely nothing.

@calicoday Apparently it's a reference to the Kal Kan pet food company, whose president used to eat dog food at shareholder meetings to prove that he stood by it's quality.

Then Microsoft ran with it, which makes sense because their marketing during the 80's and 90's was regularly unhinged.

Disappointed in tech media for not using the term "dogfooding" to describe Apple's Scary Fast keynote event produced entirely with iPhones and Macs.

Important supplemental material: https://web.archive.org/web/20000303145808/http://twinkies.com/splash.html

I don't actually have these, but you could, for $995.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/334281500193

Time to find out how shelf stable they really are.

Complaining about how cold it got so fast, only to remember that I can finally fire up my 3D printer without creating a heat problem in my small apartment.

Printing the BYU One-Piece Compliant Blaster.

https://compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/maker-resources

This screenshot will temporarily teleport your brain back to 2004. Use with caution.