Alan Pope @popey@ubuntu.social

I'm gonna shutdown the ubuntu social instance for now, maybe forever. I'd recommend finding a new instance. 10 days notice. It goes down at the end of the month.

Considering shutting down the Ubuntu dot Social mastodon instance. It was a fun experiment, but it's way too much effort (and cost) to maintain. Need to think carefully about the future of it.

Thought I'd give "Listed" a try. It's a blog platform powered by StandardNotes - my preferred note editing software. Here's my first post, titled "Multiple GPUs in a Skull Canyon NUC" https://listed.to/@popey/17478/multiple-gpus-in-a-skull-canyon-nuc

Some months back I broke the keyboard on this Entroware Athena ☹️. I was a little to aggressive with it when gaming. I contacted Entroware on Friday. New keyboard arrived today! Fitted in 10 mins. 2 screws, 2 connectors. Done! Great service.
Recommended ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Must be a slow news day. A little website I made is under discussion over on r/Linux. 😁 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hl14to/til_theres_a_website_called_make_a_linux_app_by/

Been off work for 3 weeks due to life changing event (see bio, don't want to talk about it). Looking forward to getting back into work-life after the long break. Excited to hear about what happened while I was off. Super thrilled about stuff we worked on getting announced soon 🎉

My son (13) has been using lockdown to improve his CS:GO and Rocket League skills. He makes little montages of clips and puts them on YouTube. I'm impressed given he edits them on his school provided iPad! Give him a sub if you like that kind of thing. ❤️
https://youtu.be/AloEVOaS5kU

Just converted a 2-disk Linux MD RAID 1 array to a 4-disk MD RAID 5 array, online, with just a couple of commands. Now I get to watch it reshape with "watch cat /proc/mdstat". Better than Netflix, this is.

Handy page to bookmark & keep an eye on as we lead towards the #Ubuntu 20.04 release.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-lts-final-release-status-tracking/15366?u=popey

My ThinkPad X220 was last clean-installed with #Ubuntu 14.04 in 2015 and has since been upgraded through many releases. Just upgraded it to 20.04, and Unity is still wonderful. 😍 Just needs s Yaru theme to finish it off 😂

This was a successful "stress test". More of this soon!
https://popeyspad.es/posts/2020/04/17/stress-testing/

Time to let off some steam with OpenSpades!
I'm going to chase down @Wimpy with a spade (and a gun).
Gonna play on my "Good vs Evil" (I will of course, be Evil) server. Join us and have some fun with spades. (snap install openspades ;) )
https://popeyspad.es/posts/2020/04/13/welcome/

I think it's probably about time to let my collection of old arcade boards go. I will take each one out and give it some testing love, then throw them all up on eBay. I haven't played with most of them for 15+ years. Time to Marie Kondo the loft!
https://www.arcade-museum.com/members/member_detail.php?member_id=381323