Alan Pope @popey@ubuntu.social
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- https://popey.com/
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Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, separated, cat lover & a geek through and through. This instance is a spare time thing.
Joined Feb 2019
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
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It's been a while since we toured the Snap Store, and we thought you'd be interested in a fresh batch of cool, fun and useful applications that can help you perfect your daily digital activities. Without further ado, let's have a look.
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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.
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Today on #100DaysToOffload I talk about some of the #podcasts I listen to. It includes a new one with @popey and a smattering of Self Hosted talk that may interest you @Meatball
Take a read here: https://ttmd.grayw.co.uk/day-6-100daystooffload-podcasts-for-your-pleasure/ and then treat your ears to something great by taking a listen.
What are some of your favourite podcasts?
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/
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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
This Ben Heck repair videos is super. Not too technical, good fun and a great learning exercise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv3D9HamvVA
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System Syzygy is a puzzle game, in the style of Cliff Johnson's The Fool's Errand and 3 in Three, and of Andrew Plotkin's System's Twilight. Challenging puzzles in a fun retro-style will give your brains some exercise this weekend!
snap install syzygy
Bank Holiday Easter Monday lockdown boredom led to:
✔️ Setting up a game server
✔️ Creating a discord to chat
✔️ Registering a domain
✔️ Configuring Apache
✔️ Using Hugo to make a static site!
Fun times. 🍾
https://popeyspad.es/posts/2020/04/13/welcome/
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It is finally time to make Brisk Menu stable 🐘 in @ubuntu_mate@twitter.com for our upcoming LTS release 😎 Join me on my live stream 📡 to squash some bugs 🐞
https://youtu.be/VKOzECd1OOE
In a change from my usual YouTube video style, today I visited the big blue room.
https://youtu.be/Hdkgvkv2G04
Hacking on Ubuntu Touch - Live Stream starting in 5 mins...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWbdPVAns0
- Website
- https://popey.com/
Admin
Snap Advocate at Canonical working on Ubuntu, podcaster, father, separated, cat lover & a geek through and through. This instance is a spare time thing.
Joined Feb 2019
