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He/Him | Software developer | English Pics: @pics.stboyden.com Bird app: https://twitter.com/stboyden

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Just like how (Amazonβ„’ Primeβ„’)β„’ 1-day delivery has clouded everyone's perception of shipping and delivery times.

13.10.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fedora + KDE ftw

No better experience.

05.08.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels really satisfying to build something like this using Go, I've really fell in love with the language. Using it occasionally at work, when I can, but this project I'm hoping to put some proper time and dedication into in my personal time.

10.06.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starting work on a new game in Go. I want to end up releasing at some point, so hopefully I remember to post updates here occasionally :)

10.06.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*cough* GNOME *cough*.

KDE still seems to lend itself very well to customisation. And of course there's Hyprland, i3, DWM, etc...

10.06.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I'm a big fan of Minecraft on the Deck. Download Prism Launcher in Desktop Mode through Discover, set up a basic modded Minecraft instance with Fabric and a controller support mod, and it plays wonderfully. Very cozy too.

03.06.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't get my switch until maybe a year or two ago now, really late to the party. And even then, it was bought secondhand from a friend of mine at uni.

It's a good little device, but ever since I got my Steam Deck it's just kinda gathered dust unfortunately.

03.06.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank god. I’m not religious, but I’m glad that at least the Vatican is trying to set an example.

08.05.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait I’m hearing conflicting things here, I thought he was very conservative?

08.05.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Away from me before I could.

23.04.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a similar position, I was too young to vote when the EU referendum came around, I did not have a choice on the outcome, but I have since been negatively effected by many means simply because enough people were misinformed. I never got the chance to be a part of the EU meaningfully, it was taken…

23.04.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Read: reconsidered

I hate crypto bros, but this is an extremely valid use case that I support, but never considered before because it never occurred to me.

21.04.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My initial uninformed reaction was that of surprise and confusion, I do consider myself anti-crypto. But yeah, seeing the reasoning has me strongly reconsidering that position

21.04.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Will there be an option for localised date/time stamps?

12.04.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@t3.gg Hope this isn't annoying.

Feature request for T3 chat: sharing read-only chats. Especially useful for sharing chat results that are search grounded.

11.04.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
GitHub - modiimedia/arri: Arri RPC is a code-first RPC framework for end-to-end type safety in any language Arri RPC is a code-first RPC framework for end-to-end type safety in any language - modiimedia/arri

Oh my fuck, Arri looks huge.

github.com/modiimedia/a...

11.04.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok troll.

06.04.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No one was making the core issue about skin colour, the original reply was making a remark about the difference in treatment between the demographics of the protests.

Also, β€œcolourblindness is true equality”? Are you dim or has your brain cell not arrived yet?

06.04.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a remark at the difference in response from the US police, people are allowed to observe the differences without the subject matter having to be 100% related.

06.04.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Being met with no police resistance, vs a mass protest comprised of mostly black people against Trump, met with police resistance. *That* is systemic racism. Not all racism is systemic racism, but all systemic racism is inherently racism.

06.04.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The street in joggers, with a fag in his hand vs the same situation but black person, then unfortunately it’s more likely that a police officer will stop the black person suspecting that they’re smoking weed. *That* is a systemic problem. Mass protests against Trump comprised of mostly white people…

06.04.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you being intentionally obtuse? At no point did they say that every white person is fucking racist. Systemic racism is not the same thing as some redneck being racist, it’s about how people of different skin colours are treated inside the system that they live in. When a white man walks down…

06.04.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

a positive as it generally means a more stable experience.

Apologies if this came off as rambley, I don’t know if this your first experience with Linux or not, but others may find the information useful? I hope.

01.04.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, PopOS is a fantastic option for that. It also has the advantage of being based on Ubuntu so you get the package compatibility with the slight downside (for me, anyway) that it’s based on the LTS version so at most it could package feature updates up to two years old. But this could be …

01.04.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On the current deployment, there’s not much to see, but I’m working on a blog component where I make pretty heavy use of both, which will hopefully be done soon.

01.04.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well alpine for some client-side interactivity, and HTMX for fetching some components post-page load to improve initial page load, and to also emulate SPA in a MPA.

01.04.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of my biggest gripes of Go, coming from a generic-heavy language like Rust. Now, I love Go more than Rust at the moment, but one thing that annoys me is that structs cannot have generic methods. It really restricts some of the use cases.

01.04.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Communists god damnit.

01.04.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Communist try not to empathise with Nazis challenge: IMPOSSIBLE"

01.04.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey mate, I actually wanna apologise. I think at the time I posted this, I wasn't in a particularly good mood and something about the way you were portrayed in those videos rubbed me the wrong way and I didn't look much further into it. Not an excuse just an explanation and an apology.
100% my bad.

28.03.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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