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  Deleted my Linked.In account today. It was a major source of spam for me and I never got any value from it. Free from all major social networks now #freedom #privacy

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  My mother in law is in despair because her Kindle Fire is being effectively bricked by Amazon from the 20th of May. I'm lucky that I am fairly tech savvy but it is crazy how many devices will be sent to landfill just because Amazon doesn't want to support old devices

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  I don't think I'd get another Dell machine. The XPS series is billed as having great Linux support but my XPS version has zero support for the webcam, mic, or speakers since upgrading my Kernel & moving away from Ubuntu as the drivers were proprietary and Dell only released support for Ubuntu 22x builds

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  Catching up on #movieclub and just finished But I'm a Cheerleader. It had a fantastic soundtrack and lovely charm. Was pleasantly surprised. Up next, The Third Man

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  I've recently taken a serious interest in lawn care and spent over £300 on equipment. Is this middle age?

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  The conservatives are arguing the UK should start drilling for more oil from the north sea. They might as well advocate setting your house on fire as a low cost way to reduce your heating bills. Idiotic

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  Had my Steam Deck for about a week now and man I love this console. Finally, my extensive PC gaming catalogue is accessible to me again. Currently playing Resident Evil 1 and having a blast #SteamDeck #ResidentEvil

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  So tonight I found out about direnv. How did I not know about this handy tool before? So, so unbelievably useful #direnv

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  I thought someone had stopped following me and thought I was probably going to heavy on the AI hate. Then I realised that Mastodon has just changed their UI. AI hate will resume shortly

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  Finally created my blog yesterday. It is basic but functional. Just a place to post and an RSS feed just now. Spent the rest of the evening trying to find a good domain name. All the ones I think of are taken

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  BBC have a daily news podcast about a football team. Thought I might be interested in it. Played today's episode and am greeted with an announcement that the podcast is read by an AI voice. No thank you

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  Reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. Could be my first five star book in a long time. Brilliant so far #bookstodon #books #booklist2026

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  After a lot of head scratching I had another go at applying an overlay for a previous version of Strongsong in NixOS tonight and finally got it working. I love NixOS but really need a deep dive, for beginners paced tutorial as I feel there are gaps in my knowledge and the docs out there aren't always that clear for me. #NixOS

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  Someone has just submitted a PR for Passport to help Claude code with it. I hope no one does this for my libs.

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  Today I installed Qbz, a native Linux Qobuz client that provides better sound quality than the browser. It isn't available in nixpkgs so I had to install the tarball manually and I only went and flipping did it. Wasn't anywhere near as challenging as I thought it would be and now I have a lovely new music player. I love #nixos

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  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116175531453868940 This is just horrendous :(

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  Happy #WorldBookDay. Hoping some of you lovely folks can recommend a book for me to add to my reading list. I'm open to reading anything as long as this book is a five star recommendation from you. My recommendation would be Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. A masterpiece

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  Just watched Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. What a mess of a film. Such a let down. #films #FilmMastodon #movies #GhostBusters