Notices by Karsten Gerloff 💙💛 (kgerloff@mastodon.social)

@duponin Ah yes! I've had a very similar model for... 15 years or so? with no apparent wear & tear.

I've been eyeing their Vario PS, because they convert from bike bag to backpack. This is something I've wanted for years. But I wonder how well that conversion actually works in practice.

OK, the archive is there now.

Gzipping 55MB of toots & media into an archive package took the server about two hours.

(not sure what time exactly I triggered the archiving)

@duponin Oh yes they are! Which one did you get?

mouse – mice
rouse – rice

I don´t mean to be impatient, but how long should I expect an export of my toots from mastodon.social to take?

@kochkunstEbooks Am besten mit paniertem Paniermehl.

Moving to @slothrop@chaos.social soon (tm).

Just so you know.

@gunchleoc Yeah, I know, I’m a bit behind the curve.

Still, I find this fascinating, and I’m kicking myself for not trying it sooner.

I recently acquired an ebook reader (not a Kindle), and now I’ve figured out that with it, I can just borrow books from the library, free of charge, without even getting out of bed.

That’s as close to Nirvana as I might get during this life.

@molly0xfff There may be opportunities for you in politics

Ab und zu gibt’s auch mal gute Nachrichten. Z.B.:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/ex-moench-anselm-bilgri-hat-seinen-mann-kirchlich-geheiratet-a-b00450da-d795-4567-98dd-43a96ecdc1f7

We’re having a kid’s birthday party today. The kid wanted a piñata.

It was too late to buy one. So they sat down and made one!

(Cartoon eye contact)

@meena Don’t be discouraged.

If you ever feel like giving it another shot, feel free to hit me up for advice.

@lxo That’s what I would have thought if everything had worked well with the Mac.

But it didn’t, which is why I’ve decided that it’s really computers as a whole that suck.

@meena If/when you’re finally sufficiently fed up with the absolute state of bread in the Anglo-Saxon world, and decide to take matters into your own hands:

There’s a lively #bread bubble on fedi.

@schratze On the plus side, they sell an own-brand toilet paper called “Happy End” 🤡

@fedops I just discovered today that our local library has an excellent selection of movies on DVD.

They’re 1,50€ each for four weeks.

In sum:

DVDs have been in common usage for a quarter of a century. And yet, we still can’t make them just work.

Instead, the Apple App Store has dozens of fart-related apps. And of course we have smart contracts on the blockchain.

Perhaps we’re just getting what we deserve.

/fin

I don’t want to do sysadmin work.

I just want to quietly watch a movie with my wife, FFS.

3. Lenovo Thinkpad running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:

VLC sees the DVD just fine, and shows the DVD‘s onboard menu.

It can’t play the damn thing though, because it lacks some mysterious package - BUT IT‘S NOT TELLING ME!

VLC just doesn’t play the movie. Some other player software tells me about the package, at which point I can’t be arsed to install it.