been using the iphone for some days now, and I must say im impressed. I really like it. I will not buy android phone ever again.

heavy rain and lightning today :)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah the Russia thing :)

Twitter timelines are not refreshing properly since last night’s events started. they must have some crazy traffic going on.

@prologic@twtxt.net ah, but for home use I think it would work well :)

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, and now they say Wagner lied about ammo shortages for 2 months and stockpiled for this. at least now I feel the war will not spill over any more, but actually end soon.

i would get starlink.

seems like putin is having a shitty weekend.

especially the keyboard

got ny iPhone 14 today, pretty pleased! bur it tales sone time to Get used to.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de lol yeah, damn humid here.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de hehe, not 12, but down 12 from what it was 😀
polar circle, that is a place I have not been yet. but I’ve always wanted to drive from here and all the length of Norway. I live in the south, a short drive from the southernerst point in Norway.

@prologic@twtxt.net ah okay. that sounds like the way to do it.

@prologic@twtxt.net it’ll be nice to get away from google for a while. also moved all my cloud files to proton drive (got tired of self-hosting). I want a mac too, the m2 laptop. But that will be later. but Im unsure how software development is done on it, if its easy to for example code your own stuff (c++), and also I have no idea how gui realted things are handled. but that makes it fun as well - figuring out all that stuff.

Just ordered a new phone, making the switch from Samsung Android to Iphone.
Been a while since I’ve been excited about getting a new phone. Looking forward to it!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org We have some rain now, yesterday too, temp dropped 12c or something like that.
Feels a bit refreshing :)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! It was really nice! They had a great time! And it was warm, but we filled the pool we have at our terrace, and they got to hang out there.
Her actual birthday is tomorrow, so I’m really looking forward to celebrate it! She will get the gift from us that she really wanted so that’ll be nice!

@reddit_world_news@feeds.twtxt.net that must suck. to be stuck down there. wonder what went wrong.

Today our daughter has invited her friends over to celebrate her birthday in advance, so we’re spending time doing that today :) Going to be a nice day!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I work with 3D and code at work every day, so I very rarely make 3D at home, but for the first time in a looooong time I felt like making something. I like the technical parts of it, setting up simulations, tinker with advanced materials and such things.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, same here, been no rain here. But honestly - I do not mind warm weather and such, but I also appreciate a bit colder. We’ll have some rain next week I think.

@prologic@twtxt.net thank you! I got started on some 3D stuff this morning, we then went to the candy store to get some candy, tonight well have that, and nachos + a movie. and the rest of the day we have been outside :)

here is what I got started on this morning :

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that sounds nice! we have the same temp, maybe a bit higher. there is clouds today, but the heat is still there. and half of Norway has thunder and lightning (but not where we are yet).

Hope you all are doing well! we’re enjoying the heatwave that has hit us. :)

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net that’s nice! I have to give this release a try!

wanted to use my oculus to do some flightsimming on Friday, but now Meta forces you over to facebook. super annoying message that constantly pops up in the desktop client, but then after 10 minutes of flying they show the same message in fullscreen inside the VR glasses. so fuck them. I will try and get it to work on linux instead one day soon when I have time.

we went to the beach today, straight from work. was really nice, and water was great too! really nice day! our kids had a really nice time, and dog too :)

@shreyan@me.shreyanjain.net crazy price.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci yeah, I see your point. but it’s sad to say it’s better witha blown nuclear reactor the nuke bombs being dropped around. But yeah, hope this shit ends soon. we do not notice it here at all, but the military is ramping up in the north, which is good, and much needed.

I wonder when they will show a UAP\UFO in physical form to everyone.
So much talk about it - but no physical evidence is shown.
I have no doubt that tech like that exists somewhere in the universe - it’s not unlikely at all.
Just think about the tech advancement the last 200 years, and then what if there exists others that are 1 million years beyond our timeline.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I agree with you on this, and find it crazy that he’s not been stopped yet.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I think the problem is that NATO does not want to get directly involved, because that scales up everything.
So they provide with the things they can to help instead. It worries me a bit (even though I live in the South of Norway - and Russia borders in the north), but it helps a lot that we have Sweden and Finland next to us. But if shit hits the fan - then it won’t be easy to get anywhere from here, unless we steal a boat and go to England or something like that (or get on a plane).
I try not to worry, but it’s in the back of my mind still.. But we have talked about it in my family, and if things happen then we have a plan on what to do first.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org very nice! we’ve got super nice weather, warm, no clouds. today we’ve been outside all day, and fired up the barbecue.

@prologic@twtxt.net i have the mangopi riscv, works well, but I will get this new milkv here next. I have not seen that nanopi before, cool! Always fun with new stuff :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh yes! That one is really nice! I have it on my to-buy list :)

Hehe, as you all might have noticed - I test OS’es often. NixOS was too much of a pain to work efficiently in (the way I wanted), so hopped over to Fedora now. Got all my stuff working there now, as well as the desktop client. I really like how portable the code is, and how easy it is to compile on different os’es. Installed fedora with LXQT, I really like that desktop, I do not like gnome at all - I really dislike the way gnome works. LXQT is just what I need.

We had a really nice day today, dog woke up early (as he always does during the weekend), and I went for a walk in the forest while the rest of the house got to sleep some extra. When I got back we went to a fleamarket, and then we went to a farmersmarket in town, was really nice, and tons of things to see :) And a bit later today we’ll have nachos, and I spend some time on my computer. Currently coding a bit.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de they have some info about it in their faq. I have to check into that some more.

I have to admit I’m very impressed with wsl2, they have done a damn good job on that. Makes it very easy to develop linux stuff on windows when needed. And removes the need for virtual machine or dualbooting etc. Also they have done a really good job integrating it with vscode.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I use spideroak backup, and switched from selfhosted nextcloud to proton drive.

Have a great day everyone!

Time to dive into threading and c++. I will start with making the file/image downloader threaded, then I’ll make the timeline fetching and all that threaded as well.

I tested the yarn desktop client on wsl2 on windows 11, compiled and ran just fine there. Nice to have linux applications with gui on windows.

We have Monday off work again, going to be super nice with a long weekend again! :)

Also - the last thing I needed is sorted, how to get vs code to pick up the default.nix shell environment, there is a really nice addon for vs code that picks up what is in that file, and then set up the environment based on that, meaning I can now open the source, configure, compile and debug with vscode, this was the last piece that was missing. I will write a blog post on my website that explain what I learned, and how I fixed all these things, maybe it’ll help someone else to try NixOS for some development.

I was able to fix this now, by making a ‘default.nix’ file, and then you can open a shell that has all the stuff needed by simply typing ‘nix-shell’ in the root git directory. Pretty nice, I’m starting to enjoy this OS more and more.

GTK4 libraries are not detected by cmake, even though I have it installed on my system. I’ve googled a bit - and others have solved it a bit differently. So I’ll try a couple of things to see if I can get it to work.

Also, got almost everything I use up and running on NixOS, last thing I need now is a way to develop directly on my source, I think I need to set up one of those development shell files for it, so that I then can work from vscode or kdevelop. Cmake is currently happy, and I tried to install everything on my system, but the ‘nix build’ works fine - but that pulls from remote repo, I want to compile the local edited source as I work on it.

I need to add multithreading to the desktop client, I have not done that before in c++ - so that’ll be fun to figure out. I need it for the fetching of the timeline so that it happens in a separate thread. That way the GUI does not freeze while fetching the timeline. Also need to add a status bar that can show what the application is working on.

@prologic@twtxt.net Thank you! Now I just need to get it running on OpenBSD 😀

Here is a screenshot showing the client running on NixOS.

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Heh, I do not regret it anymore, I was able to create a flake.nix file that builds the desktop client on NixOS.
But I now found a bug with keyring access that I need to fix. but the client compiles and starts.
It does not open the keyring - so it hangs and waits and you need to kill it. On my previous machine the keyring got opened at login by another application.

So, I kinda regret installing NixOS, I had forgotten why I did not use it for c++ stuff last time. But I learned about ‘flakes’ so Im checking into that now to see if I can use that to my advantage to make it easier. So I’ll give it some more time to see if I can learn what I need to build yarn desktop client on it.

We had a wonderful day by the ocean today.

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@mckinley@twtxt.net not much, enjoying time off work and family time :)

I want to try NixOS again, and then get the yarn desktop client built on that, and then see if I can get the client into their repo. That would be fun to do. If I have time tonight I’ll start on that.

Been some busy days this week, even though I have some time off now. Today me and Marlyn had some time for ourselves - and her mother watched our kids, so we went out to eat at a resturant, which we very rarely do, was nice to do that. I had some nachos, was really nice. Also bought one of those popcorn machines for our kids, because they always burn the microwave popcorn (not their fault - its the microwave thas weird), so now they can safely make popcorn :)

Scrollwheel on bluetooth mouse on ipad does not work in goryon. Other then that it works great!
But you can use mouseclick and move the timeline as you do with touch, so its not a big deal.

Wish you all a great day!

Just 2 days at the office this week, then rest of the week is free time :) woho!

Decided to pick up my ipad again, I have one of those keyboards for it, as well as a bluetooth mouse, RDP to other machine works really well. A bit surprised about how well it works actually. I often use one of my older laptops and remote into my workstation, but this is a much nicer solution. :)

@prologic@twtxt.net by helping building it up. Positive reinforcement:)
Takes a lot of time..

I have not used AI much at all, I have not paid any attention to it. But today I decided to give stablediffusion a test run, I do only have a 1080 card, so it took some tweaking to output 512x256 images, and I must say it works pretty well. I also had to get one of the memory optimized versions. Fun to test.

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org very nice!

Picture from the office this morning :)

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Hm, encrypted private messages on twitter is for those who pay for twitter blue only.. not that this was unexpected, but still..

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, we had some discussion about it once it was announced. I said what I felt (And I do love VR - but for flight simulators etc) - but I just knew it would fail.
Especially when they showed the ridiculous screenshots that they where so proud of with the quality of 15 years ago.
And they they pushed it as a place to work or have meetings during the pandemic.. haha.
And they did not even use it themselves in the company.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de oof, rust.. Glad I put that away. I do not think I’ll ever pick that up again unless I’m getting paid to work with it.

@rebelljoe@twt.nfld.uk now that is cool 😁
I still have the email, and I still appreciate the gesture :)

Good morning to you all :)

the next thing to fix is thread view, and the reply to.. feature (showing the text preview of the post the reply goes to).

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org beautiful scenery!

Pushed the code now.

Okay, so spent some more time with this. I can now store password - and retrieve it as well.
I’ll clean it up and get it working properly as soon as possible.
This was a nice thing to learn.

@prologic@twtxt.net congrats 😀

@prologic@twtxt.net Good luck with the table tennis!

I’ve been looking into this tonight, and it seems like ‘libsecret’ is what I need, so I will try and implement this.
I can then store password and other things (username \ url) as well with it.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret

Weekend again! Damn good feeling:)

Here I am, looking at my bookshelf, where the ‘12 rules for life’ book sits.
I found the way he had to be put in a coma to get off addiction to his medicine etc fascinating. It felt like the good old ‘do as I say, not as I do’ type of thing. But hey - regardless of who you are or how strong you portray yourself - there can always be hard issues to tackle in life.

Exciting!

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The tiredness lasted 49 minutes. 🤣

Got that bike today, and nanook ran home pulling me like a rocket. So fun when training on commands - run, go, left, right works. Avoids all obstacles etc. Was really fun! And for once he’s tired :)

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net That looks cool!

Decided to write a bit about the desktop client on my website..
Feel free to read.

https://stigatle.no/

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com We’re a bunch of people here that keeps things busy! :)

Today I get a free (used) bike, was nice of them to aak if we needed it. So now Nanook can start running while I bike, that will be great! (And a challenge).

@prx@si3t.ch Clonezilla is fantastic, such a great tool!

@prologic@twtxt.net @shreyan@twtxt.net been thinking about that too. Ill check on that before deciding.

One thing I did in another project was to use sqlite that had encryption. I might do that here as well. That would work well for this.

Worked a bit on the desktop client tonight, now I store username/pass/server url, but it’s insecure at the moment. I need to find a way to store it more securely.

I need to add ‘thread view’ in the Yarn desktop client, I find my self really missing that when I use it. It will make it much easier to follow threads and such.

Back home again, had a really nice time today, was about a 6hr drive (3hrs each way), so it’s good to be back home. Was really nice to see grandma today (and the other family members that where there). Now we’re baking pizza! Time to relax :)

@prologic@twtxt.net ah yes! Did you loose taste/smell? I lost smell and everything tasted like what a hot garbagecan smells like. Ugh.

@prologic@twtxt.net Always nice to get a day off and a short week 😀

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@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net I do not understand why they took it away in the first place, I absolutely hate ‘icon only’ on taskbar on a computer. Super annoying when working with many windows.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net That sounds nice! This weekend we’re going to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday (80) and my stepdad’s birthday (50). So it’ll be a lot of cake this weekend :)

Been a really nice day today. Just one more day at the office then it’s a long weekend (We have Monday off work). Looking forward to that!

Have a nice day everyone!