Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

Sorry, I should specify, this is happening in lyn lake area. it looks like most folks will be available Tuesday the 14nth. 2nd most likely day: Monday the 13nth.

MPLS folks:

I'm going to host a cyberia "Soupchat IRL" BBQ event to act as a sort of meet and greet / staging area for new folks which we haven't met in person yet, but who are interested in helping out with the physical space

If you wish to chow down with us, and especially if you want to help with the cleanup/renovation, please let me know when you would be available!!

https://framadate.org/ApSCeoP7O3Qi4MgZ

The event will be held in my back yard.

You are not required to bring food, however you are welcome to bring prepared food, or food that can be grilled.

After you have specified the days you would be available, send me a DM on matrix (@forestjohnson:cyberia.club) or an email (forest.n.johnson@gmail.com) to get the address / parking information / etc.

@starless please ReToot this I know you have a much larger local fedi following than I do 👉👈🥺

Using Jitsi Meet with OBS to bring guests on your stream

https://sequentialread.com/using-jitsi-meet-with-obs-to-bring-guests-on-your-stream/

https://stream.sequentialread.com/

💥NEW💥 feature on stream!! You can join the stream and talk with me in real time via Jitsi Meet!

Music right now: ✨🌊 She Music 🎛👩🏻‍🎤

Side project stream to try to get back into the groove after feeling like shit for long time :(

Working on adding some form of WebMention support to my blog comments system

@zeitwerke@todon.eu @j3s @starless

We had issues with the IRC bridge software, it leaked hundreds of millions of rows in the database and brought down our matrix server. Not to mention the matrix <--> irc bridge software has lots of usability problems -- it attempts to force matrix norms on IRC channels (IRC users: 😡🤮), instead of forcing IRC norms on a matrix channel.

If you want to talk to us but you cannot access matrix for whatever reason, you can use Fedi or email us. forest@sequentialread.com

Ultimately, I would recommend to simply use matrix if you can. You can get various different kinds of clients from browser-based to even ones that run in the terminal! If you send us an email stating what username you want & why you want to talk with our community, we will create you an account :) https://cyberia.club/matrix

soupposting

@f0x I like handshake or arrows-h

Or maybe even check-circle ?

If you could have _any_ icon for this, not just what's in forkawesome, what would you prefer?

https://stream.sequentialread.com/
Working on logs management for greenhouse daemon and listening to 🔫🤖 Cave Story OST 🐰☁️

It could be something else, if we have no idea what causes it, it could also be something that is correlated with the dock, not the dock itself. But its your experience, not mine, I shouldn't question it.

IDK. computers are always full of shit and broken IMO. Usually if my computer is crashing all the time, reinstalling the OS from scratch provides relief. I do that usually every 6 - 24 months.

I will say I had a similar unbearable crash-tastic experience with the laptop dock and the firmware updates did make it better. Especially the one that was only install-able from windows. Of course YMMV

@gabek

To be fair, computers sometimes have a bad habit of doing that regardless of whether you use a dock or not. How do you know for sure it's related to the dock?

Certainly wouldn't blame you for wanting to use mac if its more stable in your experience.

@gabek Honestly I've never heard of anyone I know IRL using a laptop dock that didn't come with its own quirks and issues. Mac, Windows, Linux, all seem to be affected by the perennial laptop dock issues.

@gabek I should specify, the audio port glitch on the dock happens regardless of Windows or Linux

@gabek I have a Lenovo t480s which came with a Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 Dock Gen 2 and I run Ubuntu and Windows on it, both work fine with the dock. (actually I should specify, everything except the audio works perfectly, the headphone jack on the dock still has obvious software glitches that happen randomly after 5min to an hour of use..)

I heard that there was a terrible bug in the Lenovo thunderbolt driver/firmware which would actually eventually destroy the thunderbolt controller in the laptop. It sounded like the longer the laptop ran with that bad firmware/driver, the more likely it would be damaged.

I tried as much as I could to update the thunderbolt driver/firmware. Some of this might only be possible from windows. I'm not sure. IIRC there was also an official Thunderbolt related package that Lenovo released for Ubuntu.

Streaming working on some Caddy config stuff for cyberia's public website https://stream.sequentialread.com/

and then gonna hopefully keep working on greenhouse later. Music today: ⚠️🔥 Massive Attack 🌫️🌧️

Sorta fun clip from my stream yesterday showing my software tripping over itself + the command line tool working for the first time ever https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/stream_clip_2021-08-21_06-26/