Have a Fucking Website
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If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance.
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Gaming on Linux is in the liftAfter SteamOS there are many distributions coming up to make gaming on Linux better.
You have:
- SteamOS
- Bazzite
- Nobara
- Ubuntu Gamepackand also nice gaming libraries:
- Heroic Game Launcher
- Lutris
- Playnite
- Rare#gaming #linux #opensource #floss
SteamOS
SteamOS is Valve’s Linux-based operating system. It features a seamless user experience optimized for gaming, while retaining access to the power and flexibility of a PC, and plays tens of thousands of games on Steam.store.steampowered.com
If someone is asking for help with using this place, could you let them know about my account, and also let them know about my website? I'm totally unofficial so people only find out about me by worth of mouth 🙂
I have a website full of easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:
➡️ fedi.tips
The section at the top of the site marked "Quick Start" is especially designed for new people who want to find out the basics.
Thanks! 🙏
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.
linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mozilla…
#gnome #mozilla #linux #unix #opensource
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LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years on PVC Pipe and D Cells
#radiohacks #alkalinecell #cat #lora #pvc #rugged #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years On PVC Pipe And D Cells
Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project. LoRa is a fantastic solution f…Hackaday
AV Linux 25 Multimedia Production Distro Brings Enlightenment to MX Linux 25 9to5linux.com/av-linux-25-mult…
AV Linux 25 distribution designed for music and video production is now available for download based on MX Linux 25.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
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#Zigbee #HomeAutomation without 
#HomeAssistant, instead all defined in 
#nix / #NixOS, this is neat! 😲
quackhack-mcblindy.github.io/b…
Learn how to define your smart home devices and avoid vendor lock-inquackhack-mcblindy.github.io
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Hey, #IPv6 nerds - in a couple of weeks' time, it's the #UKIPv6Council Annual Meeting in #London: ipv6.org.uk/2025/10/24/annual-…
Tickets are free. I went last year, and it was really interesting, so I will be going again this year.
The agenda this year looks good, and it's being hosted in the #BT Tower, so we should get a good view too!
Edit: Bah, no OG on their webpage, so I've attached a picture from their Eventbrite page instead.
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This's prolly the most awesomest polar design I've ever seen!
A Toolchanging Inverse SCARA 3D Printer
#3dprinterhacks #3dprinter #multiextruder #polarcoordinates #scara #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2A Toolchanging Inverse SCARA 3D Printer
There are some times when a picture, or better yet a video, really is worth a thousand words, and [heinz]’s dual-disk polar 3D printer is one of those projects. Perhaps the best way to describe it …Hackaday
These are the sort of skills I like to teach all my new electronics maintainers; learn how to use the tools you have. If you learn the skills you need to do things when you don't have the ""proper tools"" at hand, you'll be much better prepared to apply them when you do have those tools. It's also a great feeling when you realise that you don't need the expensive tool you thought you needed, or all the extra gadgets that you didn't really need either.
SMD Soldering with Big Iron
#toolhacks #smdsoldering #solderingiron #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2SMD Soldering With Big Iron
You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but [Mr SolderFix] likes to pull a strand from a large …Hackaday
Etching Atomically Fine Needle Points
#3dprinterhacks #chemistryhacks #electrochemical #etching #microneedle #reprapmicron #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2Etching Atomically Fine Needle Points
[Vik Olliver] has been extending the lower resolution limits of 3D printers with the RepRapMicron project, which aims to print structures with a feature size of ten micrometers. A molten plastic ex…Hackaday
Dear #3DPrinting people who are familiar with #CAD
Upload your "stupid" models.
There is nothing special about this "dumb" tray. It's just a five sided box with filleted edges, but it's been downloaded 79 times on Printables.
Lots of folks have 3D printers but don't know how to model things in CAD.
79 folks either got something useful they didn't know how to make themselves, or had time saved by not having to model it themselves.
Your "stupid" models are worth uploading.
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Switching to Linux is less about technical hurdles and more about adjusting your mindset. Here's why.
linuxiac.com/the-only-thing-st…
Switching to Linux is less about technical hurdles and more about adjusting your mindset. Here's why.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Researchers at EPFL have developed a 3D printing technique that creates metal and ceramic objects with improved density and strength.3DPrinting.com
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in reply to Roger BW 😷 • •Duke
in reply to Liam Proven • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Liam Proven • • •The thing that made me not get a Facebook account 20 years ago was reading their T&Cs and seeing that I would grant them an irrevocable, sublicensable, commercial copyright license to anything that I uploaded, for them to use for any purpose. Oh, and there was also a thing that I agreed to be liable if I didn't have the rights to grant Facebook those rights.
It's amazing to me how many companies will click through this and literally give Facebook the right to use their brand for any purpose.
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in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •@david_chisnall I got an e-mail asking me to join Facebook and it had a "people you might know" list and one of the people on it was my high school girlfriend's father. And I was like "okay, that's creepy" and so I never signed up.
Like, it's not hard to see how they connected me to him. But I don't need companies making algorithmic deductions about my social circles without my consent. @lproven
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in reply to brainwashed by lentils • • •@pelle It would do the job but most people don't know it exists or what the address would mean.
I've been delighted to watch it take off and get active and busy, but I see vanishingly little public awareness.
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in reply to Liam Proven • • •discovery of businesses doesn't happen only via mastodon, so it's fine people don't know it yet. they can follow the link on the ad for your business — if they can't open a link in their web browser, then they'll not find your website either!
all the issues the author of article has with "social media" don't really apply to mastodon. it's like someone who's fed up with mcdonalds and burger king exclaiming: »everyone should cook at home! restaurants are horrible.«
but all of us here know that, of course.