Mark Shane Hayden @msh@coales.co

Lots of new people out there... #welcome

Here are my #introductions

I'm a nerd from #YYC (Calgary, Canada) into #FOSS software, #Linux and a bit of #BSD among other things. I host my own email and web including the mastodon instance https://coales.co as a hobby.

I work on #python stuff like #flask, #django and #tryton personally, and professionally in the field of #automation #SCADA .

Also big advocate of #openhardware.

I'm kind of libertarian but closer to Chomsky than Rand.

So I went on my second vaxx bender today. Hope the hangover isn't too bad.

So I'm watching this dumb episode this evening (on my small dumb bedroom TV because big dumb olf TV is broken and big dumb new TV is still in transit).

Seems obvious to me the cast knew this episode was going to be terribly dumb the moment they started reading the script so they played it a little extra campy as a sort of apology to the viewers.

sooo...Imma just embracing the dumb start to what looks like a pretty dumb week for me.

My main TV stopped working last night (it is a plasma from over 15 years ago I guess that is a long time in TV years these days) so today I set about looking for a Hen's Tooth

A TV that is Not Smart

Heh...

So I went to the farm today and had my #PinePhone running #Mobian and #PineBookPro running #Armbian with with me and thought I'd see if I could figure out USB tethering...

Well I turned on my computer, plugged the phone into the USB port and, well...connected!

No tapping through layers of menus like my old #android phone, no messing with any settings on my computer...well that was easy!

This is like the Garden of "just works" Eden except without the walls

June the Nybbles and Bytes lady did her first livestream today and introduced us to her early prototype/concept Commodore 128D mini (about 10 minutes in) and I'm all like

https://youtu.be/ZX_fkqlW-38

So I got a package delivered today, several days earlier than expected. The item was enclosed in cardboard surrounded by more cardboard wrapped in an enigmatic bubblewrap inside a mysterious padded envelope.

Upon the conclusion this matryoshka-doll experience which was fun I was greeted with a #PineBookPro from @PINE64 which was lovely!

4th #mastoversary time flies

"You wouldn't download a car..."

Heck yeah I would https://www.openmotors.co/download/

gonna buy shares of Segate and WD so I can sell them later at a profit so I can afford to buy a new hard drive

This stuff is electrifying!

https://youtu.be/mkocaEcx26c

I think if @ajroach42 reboooted this series from his maker space it would turn out fantastic

What the world needs is a return to Quality Educational Programming such as that provided by the good Professor Julius Sumner Miller

https://youtu.be/3s9psf01ldo

So, now that Alberta has the most active cases of COVID per capita than any other jurisdiction on the continent out dithering government has FINALLY decided we need to take action.

It's not like this is a surprise--there have been 3 waves, all but the first handled the same timid and terrible way by our leadership. First our Christmas was ruined by such mismanagement, and now it looks like Victoria Day long weekend will be too. #ThanksKenny