Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Free/discounted for food, PDFs, furniture, etc. Words to look for in your local community: Buy nothing, really really free market, free <blank> exchange/swap, gift economy, garage/estate sale. Comment in the thread to make an addition.

INTL
[Federated, host it yourself too] https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flohmarkt-federated-market
https://trashnothing.com
https://lasagnalove.org
https://craigslist.org
https://foodnotbombs.net
https://inventaire.io
https://freecycle.org
https://repaircafe.org
[App] https://toogoodtogo.com
[App] https://buynothingproject.org
[App] https://olioapp.com
[App] https://flashfood.com
UK
https://ilovefreegle.org
https://gumtree.com
DE
https://kleinanzeigen.de
US
https://offerup.com
https://therooster.com
https://gsalr.com
CA
https://kijiji.ca

Kingfisher appreciation post.

These birds are one of my favourites found here on Vancouver Island. They are feisty, active, and can be challenging to photograph up close without disturbing them making it that much more rewarding when they pose for you.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #wildlife #wildlifephotography #vancouverisland

Any #neurodivergent folks have tips for rebuilding after recovering from burnout?

I've given up on getting a proper assessment or even being heard by my so-called primary care provider, so ADHD meds are a pipe dream.

So I need to figure out how to earn a living without crashing again, which means 40-hour weeks and commuting are a no-go.

I do not feel particularly confident at this point tbh.

and then popcorn munchers are like "why is art is so corpo and so shit nowadays waaaaahhh" my sibling in christ because all the artists that are worth it are barely making ends meet you fuckos. do you think i dream of living like this? fuck no. give me a house that i won't lose and a stable supply of food and meds so i don't die and then we'll talk

More pics of the pied-billed grebe nest. I watched mama bird get settled to the nest and all five babies trying to push themselves under mom's feathers. You can see their little stripey faces. Look at the yawn! So adorable I feel like I'm going to melt 😭
#nature #birds #babybird 🪶

💻🔌 Spendenaufruf: Wir haben rund 150 Dell-Laptops ohne Netzteil gespendet bekommen – und möchten sie möglichst bald wieder einsatzbereit machen! Dafür brauchen wir Dell-Netzteile (z. B. 65 W oder 90 W, runder Stecker mit Pin). Über USB-C-PD Netzteile freuen wir uns auch immer!

Falls ihr welche übrig habt: Bitte spenden! 🙏

Mehr Infos & Kontakt: Hier oder via computertruhe.de

#Spenden #ITSpende #Computertruhe #DigitalSolidarität #nachhaltigkeit

Anyone got a favorite C, C++, or python drawing API that at minimum provides rendering polygons and lines of text? I'm looking for something that is fast to set up and sketch things out without having to fuss with lots of custom boilerplate. Basically looking for alternatives to Cairo and PyGame. My priorities are fast, easy to set up, reasonably simple API, and a permissive license.

EDIT: leading candidates are openframeworks, allegro5, and thorvg or lvgl. honorable mention: godot turduckin

i should as probably clarify that i'm of the disinterested opinion that android and steam should not be aspirational for linux developers, simply because android and steam already exist and maybe we shouldn't waste our efforts giving people a half hearted alternative to something that already works well for them. i don't think linux "should" be any one thing. i think it's at its best when it can be a lot of different things, but that means people developing for it often work cross purposes

now obviously there's distros that don't do that, but they pull from the same pool of software, so that mentality still bleeds through in lots of ways. android and steam deck both notably go out of their way to give you something else as the frontend and default software ecosystem, and let (to varying degrees) the bold and the technically inclined peel it back if they want to. i think that's interesting

there's ample proof that linux can be distributed in ways that are non-hostile enough that every day people can use it without a significant investment into learning technical and philosophical minutiae (android, steam deck). given that many major distros still gate having a working computer on understanding the "non-free" shibboleth, I think it's reasonable to conclude the main thing holding back widespread adoption is the community is still largely not willing to meet people where they're at

(forgetting the word "euler") greaser angles

my annoyance with this has completely derailed me from what I was originally gonna complain about: umount should have a special warning if you try to umount your current working directory, because this is not the first time I've done it and then had to use lsof and search through the process table etc because I just didn't notice that I'm literally blocking it with the terminal I'm trying to unmount with and it'd save me that time to have a specific warning like that