animoné (@animone@animone.net)

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-26
@animone@animone.net

Compliments to whoever is responsible for the #slackware slackbuilds website, for a design that not only works, but also looks good in lynx.

passthejoe » 🌐 2026-02-26
@passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe

Guy dumps Linux (and all other PC OSes) because he does everything on smartphone that can also be used as desktop
https://www.howtogeek.com/i-loved-desktop-linux-but-these-4-things-have-stopped-me-from-going-back-to-it/

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-26
@animone@animone.net

This is the second article of this sort I've seen lately, along the lines of "I can't use linux because of my obscure workflow". The other one being a tech journalist trying to install linux on his MS Surface devices, expecting a single-click install scenario, then ditching it because 'no biometric login with the webcam'. I continue to be astounded by how so many other people use technology, and how foreign it seems.

Somehow a mobile-only workflow just seems weird to me, having grown up long before smart or mobile anything. I (regrettably) own a smartphone, and struggle to use it anytime I have to..

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-21
@animone@animone.net

Day two of #slackware adventures!

I ended up reinstalling, this time without the KDE sets and switching to using FVWM. While KDE is 'nice', I come from using OpenBSD with cwm, so I'm used to my X environment staying out of the way.

For the curious, the old laptop I'm using is my Lenovo X220, or what I consider to be the last laptop with a truly great keyboard.

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r1w1s1 » 🌐 2026-02-23 / 2026-02-23
@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

I also have an X220, which is a very nice machine. It’s running Slackware -current. I use pekwm, but I’m planning to move to dwm.

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-20
@animone@animone.net

Trying out #slackware on my old laptop today for the first time in forever. Impressions? It's exactly as I remember it 20+ years ago, except now everything works out of the box.

Two things I noticed right off: no systemd (or related dependencies) anywhere in sight, and LILO.
I've always been irritated by the systemd-ification of the linux ecosystem, so it's always nice when I don't see it, and I've never really understood how to work with GRUB, so LILO is really appreciated!

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-20
@animone@animone.net

Slackware gets a lot of hate for being "outdated", but at first look, most packages aren't really any older than something like debian stable, and several like xscreensaver are much newer.

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Gus Schenkel » 🔓 2026-02-26
@gbschenkel@fosstodon.org

@animone if you jump to the slackware 15.0-current you will see the packages are up-to-date as in archlinux. Also grub is now as default and run each kernel upgrade, no more needed to run it manually

r1w1s1 » 🌐 2026-02-21
@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

Nice! Slackware really has that timeless feeling 🙂

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-05
@animone@animone.net

If you look into the plover community, there are plenty of great resources for learning it. The learning curve is very steep, but it's also very easy on the hands.

As I recall there are a few people who have custom vim bindings, and even write code using it.

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roman » 🌐 2026-02-05
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

thank you ❤️ will take a look

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roman » 🌐 2026-02-05
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

do you run your own #activitypub instance?

yes, for myself and other people:	10
yes, just for myself:	22
no, but maybe in the future:	33
no:	33

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roman » 🌐 2026-02-05
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

if you're running your own instance, i'd love to hear about it.
what software are you using? #mastodon? #gotosocial? #snac2? something else?
what hardware? please share whatever you find interesting about your setup. thank you ❤️

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-05
@animone@animone.net

Fellow openbsd snac user here! While I still use my mastodon.social account as my main for reading, self-hosting is certainly the future. Can confirm to snac being very lean, and loading blazingly fast on even the slowest connections.

CC: @hi@romanzolotarev.com

passthejoe » 🌐 2026-02-05
@passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe

I ran my own #GoToSocial instance for about a year. Had fun and learned a lot, but the experiment ran its course. I wasn't prepared to handle so much data, and my VPS was straining.

I am on this snac2 instance with an eye toward a future experiment of running my own instance.

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Herr Montag » 🌐 2026-02-06
@janmontag@social.janmontag.de

@passthejoe I run mine on a Raspberry at Home and there are no problems. What do you mean with Data?

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passthejoe » 🌐 2026-02-06
@passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe

I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was a multi-GB PostgreSQL database and probably 70 GB in files. I had 100 GB on the VPS, but my backup server was smaller, and I thought it was a lot for a one-person instance. I was following a lot of accounts, which likely led to all that data, but I didn't have a good handle on why it saved so much ... or what to do about it.

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-05 / 2026-02-05
@animone@animone.net

The RC2014 mini-picasso may have started out as an April fools joke, but in reality it's a quite nice little BASIC, FORTH and Z80 ASM computer. I can't think of anything else that looks quite like it.

#RC2014

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A RC2014 mini-picasso

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animoné » 🌐 2026-02-05 / 2026-02-05
@animone@animone.net

My MNT Pocket Reform next to a RC2014 Mini-picasso, with a Uni steno keyboard.
While the pocket's keyboard is great, it doesn't really allow for fast typing.

#MNT #PocketReform #RC2014