Today is a great day to learn about Debian.
It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:
apt, so deb packages still probably workIf Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.
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This is amazing!
(Possiamo farlo anche in italiano?)
Fediverse Skillshare
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“”
letteralmente. #page42 è una pagina vuota.
a pagina 43 invece
“Condimenti caldi a base di cipolla, aglio, erbe aromatiche, pinoli, noci, acciughe e altre varietà di pesce.”
Gaspare Dellepiane, La cucina di strettissimo magro 1880, nuova edizione 1990 a cura di Giulia Fulghesu
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Sono nella mia stanza-libreria, gli scaffali dei libri sono su tutti i lati, fino a un altezza di fin dove arrivo a metterli.
Mi trovo seduto nel perfetto baricentro della stanza.
Qual è il libro a me più vicino?
p.s. dopo un weekend come quello che ho passato, ora credo che me ne farò una terza.
I guess it's time for a bit of a #sewing update
project “making a corset in anger” is very slowly proceeding: I've adjusted and printed the pattern, and marked and cut 5 panels out of 12 in a grey herringbone coutil.
I still have to decide which boning I want to use, and how to make the boning channels: maybe later this afternoon I'll climb¹ to where I keep the corsetry materials and decide.
Oh, and this one is going to be sewn by machine. Shocking, I know :D
The week before this one was quite productive on the victorian vampire shirt, and the front, yoke and back were almost done, except for adding the collar. And then this morning I woke up realizing that I had attached the front wrong, and the front slit would have gaped open. One side has already been unpicked and resewn correctly, the other side is ready to be done as well. And then I should start working on the sleeves (as opposed to hemming the wrist ruffles, because I didn't want to have to think, only sew).
And then there are the slippers. Or rather the second pair of soles I wanted to do *now*, to repair the old ones, so that the next time the ones in use break down I already have a new pair ready. Those. Yeah, I'm thinking about working on them. (and also on the second pair of hiking slippers I'll probably need, but don't have a real deadline for. but a deadline may spring on myself with little advance warning, and I should be ready for it)
And then this week I've also dug up the pattern for the corset cover I made ages ago, and started to bring it up to date so that I can make a new one and publish the pattern on my website, that's also going well (but I probably won't start sewing it until I've finished the corset).
¹ because of course the *heavy* box full of steel is “temporarily” on the top shelf
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E poi ieri mi sono resa conto di una cosa.
La maggior parte del coutil che ho in casa è o bianco o nero (in realtà ho finito quello bianco, ma non ha importanza). Ovviamente ho sempre delle spolette grosse di filo per cucire sia bianche che nere.
Ma questa volta ho usato del coutil *grigio*
Si capisce dove sto andando a parare, vero?
(del filo per cucire grigio è stato ordinato durante il weekend, e dovrebbe essere stato spedito oggi)
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#TIL
Oggi ho appreso dell'esistenza di una cosa chiamata coutil.
Che, essendo una cosa che in officina potrebbe avere un'utilità estremamente marginale, dimenticherò presto.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua sì, è un oggetto vagamente di nicchia :D
e immagino che della stoffa robusta possa avere una qualche utilità anche in officina, ma della stoffa robusta *e costosa* molto meno :D
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Apparently, spending the evening in a call, reading each other silly texts generated by a small language model AI, was the right thing to do, since just as we were logging off the patched kernel landed in trixie and we could start upgrading and rebooting servers.
Except for the one we were using for the call :D
(That one too has been upgraded, since then)
e comunque ci tengo a precisare
“debian 9 alle piaghe al debito suo. Hor su, strega, dimmi: che friendica.”
e molto a tema con stasera
“demonio alli philosophi di quella causa fussi impazzato, io x il mio treno non per questo ultimo aggiornamento notturno ”
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filed under: phrases I had never expected to utter “I'm opening my computer for gynecological reasons”
I currently only have one corset that almost, but not quite fits: it's a couple cm too low on the bust level, and after a few hours it starts to hurt. On the other hand, when I start feeling bloated on my first day of the cycle, wearing a corset helps *a lot*.
So yesterday I decided “tomorrow I'm going to work on making myself a new corset”
so I headed to the directory where I expected to find my corset pattern. and it's not there.
I could find a preliminary version of the file I was working on, which I think (hope!) has all the points, but not the actual pieces. And I don't want to have to re-draw those.
And I think I've found the latest revision of the measurement files, hopefully.
And then I remembered that inside my computer there was the previous hard disk, disconnected. So today I turned the pc off, disconnected all cables, opened the computer, connected the old hard disk, reconnected most cables, turned the pc on, checked that it was actually starting the right system (it was), turned the pc off, disconnected all cables, closed it, reconnected all cables, turned the pc on, mounted the old hard disk.
And found that that hard disk was too old. and didn't have the repo I was looking for.
Then I realized in my home I had the files from my old, but not so old laptop. I found one more commit to the corset pattern. it's still not complete.
I'm still searching. there are various hard disk around the house.
(I also have at least two, dated, copies of the paper pattern, so at least I know what date I'm looking for. but they are not very useful if I want to fix the issues and publish the pattern on my website)
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@Diego Roversi and of course. it doesn't work.
back to plan A: doing something useful with my time this evening :(
Okay, well, this is why we can’t have nice things. Time for a letter to Moleskine explaining why I won’t be buying from them again and why marketing AI art to artists and writers is bad, and a letter to Leuchtturm explaining why I’m no longer buying from Moleskine and how I’m fully prepared to stop buying from them if they ever do this.
But also?? This is a legitimate collaboration with “Lord of the Rings”! I will have to investigate this too. WTF, people??
(FYI, because I’m an unapologetic blank paper hoarder I still have several blank Moleskines and several more in progress, so if you see me using them in my photos, that’s why)
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As a pencil user, I find Moleskine notebooks to work well. But as a human being, I'm happy to announce that my next, still plastic wrapped notebook is a Leuctturm. https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/The Dodologist (beige.party)
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Una domanda per chi fa masto #giardinaggio o masto #orto
noi abbiamo delle cassette (se non ricordo male lunghe 80 cm) sul terrazzo con dentro piante (mirtillo e in minor misura succede alle cassette coi pomodori): da qualche giorno abbiamo iniziato a trovare delle voragini (buchi di ~10 cm di diametro) scavate nel terreno, e oggi abbiamo individuato un merlo come colpevole.
Ipotizziamo che abbia trovato qualcosa di buono e vermiforme / larviforme da mangiare
ora, la prima domanda è: fa male alle piante? oppure se rimettiamo a posto la terra quando è stata spostata possiamo stare tranquilli?
e se invece per le piante è un problema, consigli su come fermarli?
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Filed under: #selfInducedProblems.
I quite like my new fancy #fountainPen, I've loaded it with my go-to ink, and I've been using it semi-regularly.
But then last week I had to fill a couple of forms, in public, and when I got my pen from the beg I started to feel self-conscious and start to worry that maybe normal people aren't going to realize that it's a 16 € pen and not an expensive one, while the transparent plastic of the Preppy should show its price point quite more.
And I very much don't mind being seen as *that* person (the pen snob that won't lower themselves to write with a tool that isn't perfectly selected for their tastes), but I really don't want to be seen as *that other* persn (the pen snob that won't lover themselves to write with a tool that didn't cost at least a few hundred EUR).
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I made a thing! Come help out?
retrorepro.wiki — a catalogue of modern reproduction parts for vintage computers. Reloaded logic boards, 3D-printable brackets, replacement chips, analog board recreations and more.
Mac-heavy right now (that's what my bookmarks look like), but Commodore and IBM PC sections are coming.
Missing something? Account requests are open.
retrorepro.wiki/Main_Page
(Who wants to make a logo?)
#vintagemac #vintagecomputers #vintageapple #retrocomputing
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Posted on April 18, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking
This post contains a bit of consumerism and is full of references to commercial products, none of which caused me to receive any money nor non-monetary compensation.
This post has also been written after eating in one meal the amount of bread-like stuff that we usually have in more than 24 hours.
I’ve been baking bread since a long time ago. I don’t know exactly when, but probably it was the early 2000s or so, and remained a regular-ish thing until 2020, when it became an extremely regular thing, as in I believe I bake bread on average every other day.
In the before times, I’ve had a chance to bake pizza in a wood fired oven a few times: a friend had one and would offer the house, my partner would mind the fire, and I would get there with the dough and prepare the pizza.
Now that we have moved to a new house, we don’t have a good and convenient place for a proper wood fired oven in masonry, but we can use one of the portable ones, and having dealt with more urgent expenses, I decided that just before the potential collapse of the global economy was a good time as any to buy the oven I had been looking at since we found this house.
I decided to get an Ooni Karu 2, having heard good things about the brand, and since it looked like a good balance between size and portability. I also didn’t consider their gas fired ovens (nor did I buy the gas burner) because I’m trying to get rid of gas, not add stuff that uses it, and I didn’t get an electric one because I’m not at all unhappy with the bakery-style pizza we make in our regular oven, and I have to admit we also wanted to play with fire1.
We also needed an outdoor table suitable to use the oven on and store it. Here I looked for inspiration at the Ooni tables (and for cheaper alternatives in the same style), but my mother who shares the outdoor area with us wasn’t happy with the idea of steel2. And then I was browsing the modern viking shores, and found that there was a new piece in the NÄMMARÖ series my mother likes (and of which we already have some reclining chairs): a kitchen unit in wood with a steel top.
At first I expected to just skip the back panel, since it would be in the way when using the oven, but then I realized that it could probably be assembled upside down, down from the top between the table legs, and we decided to try that option.
This week everything had arrived, and we could try it.
Yesterday evening, after dinner (around 21, I think) I prepared the dough with the flour I usually use for bakery-style pizza: Farina di Grano Tenero Tipo 0 PANE (320 - 340 W); since I wanted to make things easier for myself I only used 55% hydration, so the recipe was:
The next time I think I’ll try with one of my other staples: Molino Bogetto etichetta blu (260/280 W)
Then this morning we assembled the NÄMMARÖ, then I divided the dough in eight balls, put them in a covered — but not sealed — container3, well floured with rice flour and then we fired the oven (as in: my partner did, I looked for a short while and then set the table and stuff), using charcoal, because we already had some, and could conveniently get more at the supermarket.
When the oven had reached temperatures in the orange range4 I stretched the smallest ball out, working on my wooden peel, sprayed it with water5, sprinkled it with coarse salt and put it in the oven.
After 30 seconds I turned it around with the new metal peel, then again after 30 seconds, and then I lost count of how many times I repeated this6, but it was probably 2 or 3 minutes until it looked good.
And it was good. The kind of pizza that is quite soft, especially near the borders.
We ate it with fresh mozzarella and tomatoes, and then made another one the same way, to finish the mozzarella.
This was supposed to be our lunch, but we decided to try one with some leftover cooked radicchio, and that also worked quite nicely.
And finally, we decided we needed to try a more classical pizza, with tomato sauce and cured meat, of which we forgot to take pictures.
Up to here we had eaten about half of the dough, and we were getting full: I had prepared significantly more than what I expected to eat, to be able to accidentally burn some, but also with the idea to bake something else to be eaten later.
So I made two more focaccias with just water and salt, and then I tried to cook some bread with what I expected to be residual heat.
Except that the oven was getting a bit too cold, so my partner added some charcoal, and when I put the last two unflattened balls right at the back of the oven where it was still warmer, that side carbonized. After 5 minutes I moved them to the middle of the oven, and turned them, and then after another turn and 5 more minutes they were ready. And other than the burnt crust, they were pretty edible.
So, the thoughts after our first experience. Everybody around the table (my SO, my mother and me) was quite happy with the results, and they are different enough from the ones I could get with the regular oven.
As I should have expected, it’s much faster than a masonry oven, both in getting to temperature and in cooling down: my plan for residual heat bread cooking will have to be adjusted with experience.
We were able to get it hot enough, but not as hot as it’s supposed to be able to get: we suspect that using just charcoal may have influenced it, and next week we’ll try to get some wood, and try with a mix.
As for the recipe, dividing the dough in eight parts worked quite well: maybe the pizzas are a bit on the smaller side, but since they come one at a time it’s more convenient to cut and share them, and maybe make a couple more at the end.
Of course, I’ll want to try different recipes, for different styles of pizzas (including some almost-trademark-violating ones) and for other types of flatbread.
I expect it won’t be hard to find volunteers to help us with the experiments. :D
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua nel forno nuovo :)
nel forno nuovo e non più luccicante, soprattutto dentro dove si è ricoperto di fuliggine :D
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
Alerts on facebook and X.
When will EU Commision wake up the sleeping institutions..
Attn: DOS PC users using EtherSlip for networking:
I have a new version of EtherSlip available that fixes two bugs:
* The incorrect MAC address was being set in the simulated Ethernet header. This broke mTCP NetDrive and possibly other programs.
* The code in EtherSlip that simulates ARP responses has a pointer bug in it. This can cause data corruption or crash your program any time it tries to send an ARP request.
A fixed version can be found at brutman.com/Device_Drivers/pac… .
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Also, please boost the original post ... this is something I want to spread the word about given the possibility of crashes.
If you've ever been frustrated by old DOS code randomly crashing before, well, this is one of those bugs that causes that. I'm on a mission to make DOS as stable as possible, one ancient bug fix at a time. ;-0
Folks that do software and analog electronics: (and please boost for visibility)
Is there an OSS tool that simulates analog circuits for signals? In particular, I want something that I can script and write expectations of the output signals for given inputs. And ideally that scripting would include programmatically adding/removing/changing components in the simulated circuit and then testing the outputs.
Thanks!
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ngspice - the open source spice simulator for electronic circuitsngspice.sourceforge.io
This is what the "my post is Too Very Important to CW" folks don't understand. If you CW triggering stuff people see your important posts if and when they feel up to it, and see the rest of your posts. If you don't people block you and don't see anything from you. If you're trying to get the word out about something important to you, as well as being just common decency using a CW helps you do it.
Giving “This post is too important to CW” people the permanent mute they deserve. Byeee
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@Szescstopni My only problem with CW’s is people don’t use them enough. If you think something you are about to toot will be triggering, put it behind a CW.
I don’t know every triggering issue for everybody but I know what things trigger me so I will put those behind a CW. Although it’s much more likely I won’t toot about those subjects.
If I’m unsure what triggers other people, seeing what others put behind a CW helps to educate me.
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Conversazione di ieri sera a tavola, non ricordo chi abbia detto esattamente chi, ma lo considero opera collettiva.
riferendo opinioni di un'altra persona molto anziana> quando c'era Lui le banane erano più buone
> tecnicamente…
> certo, la causa e effetto…
facendo il verso a opinioni ecc.> ma quando le banane erano buone l'Africa era nostra!
> è colpa dei fascisti! i fascisti hanno fatto estinguere le banane Gros Michel!
(e basta. questo d'ora in poi sarà parte del mio brain canon)
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I've just been handsewing while sitting with one leg under my body, then I've finished the slipper I was working on and tried to try it on the foot of that leg.
Which, at that point, was ready to get pins and needles as soon as I moved it.
It wasn't easy.
(I managed to write most of this before I could try the slipper on)
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Stavo cucendo a mano, seduta con una gamba sotto al resto del corpo, ho finito la pantofola che stavo cucendo e ho provato a provarla sul piede di quella gamba
Che a quel punto era pronto per informicarsi nell'istante in cui l'ho mosso
Non è stato facile.
(Ho scritto quasi tutto il post in inglese prima di riuscire a provare la pantofola)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua mah, in realtà la parte di stoffa non è un gran lavoro, è il tipico progettino veloce da infilare tra un progetto impegnativo e l'altro per avere soddisfazione immediata :)
la suola è un po' più rognosa, perché cucire attraverso lo spago è più faticoso, ma stavolta ho riusato la suola del primo paio che avevo fatto, che dopo un giro in lavatrice era ancora abbastanza in ordine.
(si vede che odio andare a comprare scarpe?)
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Prossimo step: piantare in giardino qualche Hevea brasiliensis¹ per poter fare le suole gommate "plastic-free".
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua per fortuna le prealpi lombarde non sono ancora adatte alla coltivazione delle piante tropicali :D
certo, adesso che sono partita con il backlog del canale di Sally Pointer (youtube.com/c/SallyPointer/vid…) potrebbero venirmi molte idee su materiali più locali¹ per fare le suole di corda :D (ma considerando che temo di dovermi fare un paio nuovo all'anno, non so se voglio aggiungere anche tutto il lavoro che serve per produrre lo spago dalle piante)
¹ tecnicamente lei infastidisce le siepi dell'inghilterra e non quelle delle prealpi, ma di piante in comune ce ne sono comunque a sufficienza
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Si può usare anche il tarassaco: forse un paio di suole l'anno ti ci esce…
In più il sottoprodotto della gomma di tarassaco è costituito da… ottime insalate 😋
E non dimentichiamo il miele…
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@David de Groot true. but the ones I'm currently wearing are a tripping hazard even (especially) when they are on my feet :D
(yes, I'm not wearing the new ones yet, I want to take a picture tomorrow morning before I start to use them :) )
And like the lazy bourgeois we are, this morning we have bought tomato and strawberries and lavender plants instead of growing them from seeds
and accidentally also a bilberry one. and a couple of violets (none of which are blue)
the strawberries have been put in pots on the balcony, higher and closer to the home, rather than on the ground outside. will we manage to eat more than one this year, or will the lizards invade our home to eat them too?
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e da bravi borghesi pigri stamattina siamo andati a comprare piantine di pomodori, fragole e lavanda, anziché farli crescere dai semi
e accidentamente anche un mirtillo e un paio di violette (nessuna delle quali è blu)
le fragole sono state messe in vasi sul balcone, in alto e più vicine alla casa, anziché per terra fuori. riusciremo a mangiarne più di una quest'anno, o le lucertole ci invaderanno casa per mangiare anche queste?
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oh, cazzo, il #Molise (sempre che esista) è spacciato
“A mezzogiorno del 9 aprile è arrivato anche il ministro dei Trasporti Matteo Salvini. È salito sul viadotto crollato promettendo un nuovo ponte «entro l’anno».”
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Si può osservare bene dal belvedere sulla costa molisana e abruzzese: gli abitanti sono costretti a conviverci da decenniIl Post
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If your old kindle has been killed by Amazon and you can't be arsed to jailbreak it, I'm hoping to adopt a small number of these to learn how to do the jaikbreaking process.
Assuming the process works, your kindle can be returned to you afterwards if you wish.
DM me if you'd like to post me a kindle or would like me to collect it from you in London
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Raga non so se vi è mai capitato che le parti in gomma dei vecchi prodotti di elettronica (tipo gli analogici su un controller dualshock della PS2 per intenderci) diventasse fastidiosamente appiccicosa (che fastidio!!) ma nel caso iFixit ha pubblicato una guida su come risolvere il problema (ancora non testato nessun metodo ma lo farò presto!)
it.ifixit.com/News/93833/ask-i…
You’ve probably had old soft-touch plastics go sticky. But why does it happen? And what can you do to fix it?Charlie Sorrel (iFixit)
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Tonight I dreamt I was at the supermarket, looking at kibbles, and there were types for various kind of cat: adult, kitten, neutered, overweight,
and radicalized
the latter is for the cats on the fediverse, right?
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Stanotte ho sognato di essere al supermercato davanti ai croccantini per gatti, e c'erano i vari tipi: adulto, cucciolo, sterilizzato, sovrappeso,
e radicalizzato
quest'ultimo è per i gatti del fediverso, giusto?
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Uooops, yesterday I may have accidentally a pizza oven (wood fired, “portable”)
(does it count as accidentally when you have making plans about buying it for more than a year, but then hit the “buy” button today instead of “maybe this month” because of a discount on the website?)
Of course that's because I often make pizza both for our family and for friends, and I wanted to cook it at properly high temperatures, and not because I wanted to have an alternative way to cook pizza and bread in case of prolonged blackouts.
(If you already know where I live and we have already eaten together: when the oven will arrive I'll need volunteers to help me consume the pizza made while learning how to use it: I don't think it's worth firing it up for just pizza for three people.)
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Uops, ieri potrei aver accidentalmente un forno da pizza (a legna, “portatile“)
(conta come accidentalmente quando è più di un anno che fai piani per comprarlo, ma poi schiacci il pulsante “acquista” oggi anziché “probabilmente questo mese” perché hai trovato uno sconto sul sito?__
Ovviamente l'ho preso perché faccio spesso pizza per famigliari e amici, e volevo avere modo di cuocerla alle temperature adeguate, non per avere anche un modo alternativo di cuocere pizza e pane in caso di blackout prolungati.
(e per chi sa dove abito, e ha già mangiato alla stessa tavola con noi: quando il forno arriva avrò bisogno di volontari per aiutare a consumare la pizza fatta mentre impariamo ad usarlo: temo che non valga la pena accenderlo per la sola pizza per tre persone)
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Nota: il motivo per cui io detesto il cinquestelle e Conte è il fatto che il "Movimento" nasce nella stessa incubatrice populista e antiueuropeista della Brexit, di MAGA, della Lega salviniana e di tutta una galassia di movimenti destabilizzanti che fioriscono dove estrema destra ed estrema sinistra si incontrano perchè al di là dei simboli e delle bandiere dicono esattamente le stesse cose.
Che ne siano o meno consapevoli (alcuni sono onestamente convinti di quel che dicono) sono la facciata istituzionale della fogna che ci ha portati all'attuale casino.
Giuseppi li guida e ora vorrebbe tornare a guidare anche l'Italia, mentre non dovrebbe neppure sentire l'odore delle istituzioni, neanche da lontano,allo stesso modo di Salvini, Vannacci, Santoro, Rizzo e tutta la compagnia cantante.
Se questo discorso non piace, non mi offendo, mi si blocchi.
Io continuerò a ripeterlo fino alle elezioni.
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This morning when the alarm clock rang I was dreaming of saying the the words “I need a set of lockpicking tools”
so, in case I decided it actually was a prophetic dream and I need to act on it to avoid offending some god, where do EU people buy #lockpicking tools? especially simple beginners' sets
(I may end up cutting a few hairpins, using them to open the one lock I want to try and open at the moment and then postponing everything for years like I did the last time, but having something to do some window shopping on that is not an US shop nor a big chinese platform is nice anyway)
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I'll have to check where I got my basic set from... I don't think EU-based, but they might have had an EU stockist or something.
EDIT: Unfortunately, no EU version of the site, but the basic kit I got was by Sparrows (EDIT 2: sorry was actually Southord, so that exact kit may be harder to get - but Sparrows are a pretty well-regraded brand) and I was looking at their progressive practice lock set as well.
EDIT 2: I found this site lockpick.shop/engl/lockpick-se… - they don't stock the exact kit that I have, but they have some reasonably priced beginner kits. This one should cover most of what you'd need lockpick.shop/engl/marken/kick… and then one of the clear practice locks, which one would depend on what kind of lock you want to try lockpick.shop/engl/schlosser/u…
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Another hill I'm choosing to die on today: if you feel the need to hide your use of a tool, you shouldn't be using that tool.
If a tool has a "feature" where it can (try to) hide itself, to be undercover, that's a tool you should avoid.
Why? Because deep down, everyone involved knows the tool in question is unethical at best. Otherwise you - or the tool - wouldn't want to hide it.
A good tool is to be proud of. If you can't be proud of it, it's not a good tool.
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Allora, ho provato qualche volta la friggitrice ad aria.
NON È UNA FRIGGITRICE
Con tutto ciò che di positivo e negativo ne consegue.
Chi dice che frigge ma senza olio mente sapendo di mentire.
Però, come piccolo fornetto ventilato funziona egregiamente, per una o forse anche due persone è davvero comodo e veloce sia per cuocere che per riscaldare gli avanzi
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e invece é una friggitrice ad aria!
Le cose che metti in friggitrice ad aria alla fin fine hanno sempre del grasso in superfice che sia la pelle del pollo o l'olio spennellatto/spruzzato sopra.
La frittura avviene intorno ai 160°C/200°C, quei fornetti funzionano a quel range di temperature.
Quindi sta cosa che la friggitrice ad aria é un forrnetto ventilato fá il giro e diventa che i forni ventilati sono friggitrici ad aria.
@Alessandro @Lysander il breve vabbé, allora era una friggitrice ad aria anche il mio forno ventilato grande, quando ci facevo le focaccette spalmate d'olio nella teglia oliata
ma non sempre nella friggitrice ad aria metti cose spalmate di grassi, ci vengono bene anche cose tipo le patate cotte intere con la buccia (su cui poi i grassi tipicamente si mettono sotto forma di burro crudo) o le mele (su cui i grassi non si mettono proprio, al massimo degli zuccheri extra)
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scuola.wiki: una istruzione libera grazie a strumenti open source
Da qualche tempo mi sono messo al lavoro per creare un elenco breve e ragionato dei programmi adatti all’istruzione. Oggi nasce quindi scuola.wiki una raccolta “essenziale” di software open source da cui le scuole possono partire per svincolarsi da sistemi operativi e programmi proprietari. 🎓
#Scuola #ScuolaOpenSource #SoftwareLibero
Directory di risorse open source per il mondo dell'istruzionescuola.wiki - software libero per l'istruzione
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Posted on March 28, 2026
Tags: madeof:atoms, topic:inks
Note
This post will be updated in the next weeks with the test results as they become available.
Note
Most of the images in this post have no real alt-text: they are all scans of the test sheet at various stages through the test, and the results visible on them are described in detail at the end of the post.
Most of the time, what people write by hand will either end up inside a notebook in a drawer or cupboard where it’s well protected, or thrown in the recycling where it doesn’t matter. There are times, however, when things will be exposed to light: it doesn’t matter whether it’s a work of artistic calligraphy that you want to frame or a passive-aggressive notice left in the atrium of a building; it is useful to know whether the work will remain legible or it will fade into nothing in a short time.
A few inks are tested by the producers for lightfastness according to some established standard, a few others are declared lightfast in a generic way, but a lot come with no indication at all. Proper testing according to the standard scales requires significant equipment to precisely control the exposure, but it’s significantly easier — and fun — to do a simple test to divide the inks into three categories:
In the past I’ve done some such tests by taping some sheets to a south-east facing window, and I’ve noticed that most of the results were already apparent after a month, and there was basically no difference between two and three months of exposure, but spring equinox to summer solstice is a nice timeframe to use for such a test (and it leaves time for a second test of different materials from summer solstice to autumn equinox), so this is what I’ve chosen to do this year.
Rather than a window, now I have access to a south-facing covered balcony that is protected from rain but receives quite a bit of direct sun, so instead of taping sheets to the windows1 I’ve prepared a sturdy cardboard panel that I can leave on a table on the balcony, hopefully safe from the rain, but well exposed to the sun.
And then made a quick test, and realized that without the window glass in front, the black strip used to cover the unexposed half of the sample doesn’t lay flat and lets some sun in, so I used an old cheap2glass frame instead of the panel.
The next step, already in January, was mentioning in a fountain-pen enthusiasts forum that I planned such a test, and asking if people were interested in having me buy a few samples of more inks when I was buying my next pen. The word “enthusiasts” is probably a hint of the reason why soon afterwards I received a package with the pen I had planned to buy, its converter, and a couple dozens ink samples. And then a couple envelopes with additional samples of inks that weren’t available on the shops, from said enthusiasts.
Added to the inks I already had acquired since the last lightfastness test, it meant that they couldn’t all fit in one single page, and thus I had some room to add some inks I had already tested: some were requests, and for others I tried to select ones that felt relevant. Since I’m changing the test setup, I’ve decided I should probably keep doing this until I’ve tested again all of the inks I still have available.
For the paper, I’ve used A4 sheets of Clairefontaine Dessin Croquis 160 g/m², one of my staples that I’m sure I will have available in the next years, printed with a dot pattern with a laser printer, using this pdf. And as for the pen I’ve used a fresh Brause n°361 nib: loading a fountain pen with all of these inks wouldn’t be a reasonable effort, and the 361 is one of the writing implements I use most anyway. I also used a glass pen to fill a couple of squares on the paper with more ink. One side of each sheet was then covered with a strip of 300 g/m² black paper (also from Clairefontaine), kept in place with three dots of non-permanent two sided tape, put in the frame and set out in the sun on the morning of 2026-03-20, the day of the spring equinox.
While I was filling the sheet for the lightfastness tests, I decided to also prepare a second set of sheet, for a liquid resistance drop test.
On each line, beside the name of the ink, I added five sets of crossing parallel lines, and let everything dry for a few days.
Then I used a syringe to put a drop of a liquid on each set of lines, waited for it to be absorbed into the paper and to dry, at least overnight, but sometimes also for a day or two (life happened), and then looked at the results and did the next test.
The first liquid was water, with the usual wild difference between washable and permanent inks, and all of the intermediate possibilities.
The second liquid was isopropyl alcohol, and I was surprised to see that, with very few exceptions, most inks didn’t change at all. I wonder whether that’s related to the fact that instead of forming a drop it was absorbed almost immediately into the paper, and dried in a very short time.
The third liquid was hydrogen peroxide: beside the individual results I noticed that its column yellowed visibly; I wonder whether that means that the paper I used has optical brighteners, and it will also yellow under the sun: that wouldn’t be ideal, but it would also be a surprise, for paper that is acid free and sold for arts.
The fourth liquid was citric acid, by mixing a bit less than a teaspoon of citric acid granules in just enough very warm water (heated to 70°C, i.e. the lowest temperature available on my kettle) to dissolve most of the acid. I forgot that I had some old PH strips until one hour after I’ve put the drop on the paper, and I don’t know whether something had changed, but when I did remember about them it showed a deep red between 1 and 2. I don’t think I can trust those strips too much, however.
This backfired badly: the drop of citric acid never dried out, but formed a sticky paste that prevented me from scanning the results, and I’m not sure whether I’ll do the last test, which was supposed to be household bleach.
Luckily I had scanned the partial results, and they are shown here.
After one full day with plenty of sun, nothing really had changed, except possibly for a vague hint that the Herbin Bleu Myosotis may have have been a bit lighter than it started, but it may also have been a suggestion.
After three days, however, some results started to show, with the most fugitive inks starting to be visibly changed, becoming either paler or in some case duller.
And the full week showed more of that, with a few more inks starting to show visible change.
These are the inks I’ve tested, and here I’ll add notes on the results, as soon as they will be available, keeping this section updated.
When nothing is mentioned, it means that there were no changes, either under the light or under the various liquids.
Lamy Sepia
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After one week it started to be just slightly paler.
Sheaffer Skrip Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After one week it started to be just slightly paler.
Waterman Audacious Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After three days it started to be just slightly paler, after a week visibly so.
Waterman Harmonious Green
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop looks a bit lighter than the one with just water.
After one week it started to be just slightly paler..
Waterman Mysterious Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is significantly lighter and tends towards green.
Waterman Serenity Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
After one week it started to be a bit duller.
Visconti Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
After one week it was visibly duller, looking darker than the original.
Montblanc Royal Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
After one week it started to be just slightly duller..
Montblanc Mystery Black
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Aurora Nero
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Online Duft Blueberry
Not resistant to water, the drop looks very washed out, although a hint of the original shape can be guessed; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
After one week it was visibly paler and duller.
Diamine Forever Ink - Smoky Mauve
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Diamine Forever Ink - Honey Pot
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Diamine Forever Ink - Coral Blaze
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Diamine Forever Ink - Red Ochre
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Diamine Graphite
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Diamine Rustic Brown
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Diamine China Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is almost completely bleached to a light yellow.
Diamine Inkvent Purple Edition - Glacier
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Fountainfeder STEVE
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Pilot Iroshizuku Syo Ro
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a somewhat recognisable shade of the original shape.
Rohrer & Klingner IG Ebony
Not resistant to water, there is a drop of uniform colour, but it maintains a recognisable shade of the original shape; under hydrogen peroxide the shade is significantly lighter.
KWZ IG Orange
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide drop is significantly bleached to a light orange.
Kallipos.de Schwarze Eisengallus-Tinte
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is it almost completely bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Kallipos.de Blaue Eisengallus-Tinte
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is it almost completely bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Rohrer & Klingner IG Salix
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is it almost completely bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Rohrer & Klingner IG Scabiosa
Water stains the paper with a significant purple spot, leaving however the original shape quite visible; is is a bit bleached by hydrogen peroxide, but still quite readable.
Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, but there is a visible trace of the original shape.
Montblanc Burgundy Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; slightly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Cifra inchiostro finissimo verde alla lavanda
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; quite bleached to a light yellowish green by hydrogen peroxide.
After one week it was visibly paler.
Sennelier Abstract acrylic ink 917 purple
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The Feather Pen Ink
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Eloquentia Inchiostro nero
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DeAtramentis Document Blue
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DeAtramentis Document BlueGrey
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DeAtramentis Document Brown
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DeAtramentis Document Fuchsia
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DeAtramentis Document Grau
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DeAtramentis Document Green Grey
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DeAtramentis Document Light Grey
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DeAtramentis Document Moosgrün
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DeAtramentis Document Orange
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DeAtramentis Document Purpurviolett
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DeAtramentis Document Urban Sienna
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KWZ Sheen Machine
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; the hydrogen peroxide bleached away the red sheen. This was one of the only two inks to react to isopropyl alcohol, which caused a pale cyan halo around the lines.
After three days it was still perfectly readable, but had visibly lost some red sheen, after one week the red had completely gone and it looked very dark blue (but still shiny)
KWZ Walk over Vistula
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
KWZ Warsaw Dreaming
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Octopus Neon Violett
Water very lightly stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible. The other ink that reacted to isopropyl alcohol, with a pale purple halo around the lines.
Octopus Write & Draw Elephant Black
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Platinum blue black
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; it is significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Pelikan 4001 Brillant-Schwarz
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Pelikan 4001 Blau-Schwarz
Water stains the paper, leaving however the original shape quite visible; it is significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Pelikan 4001 Königsblau
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it had started to be slightly paler.
Herbin Bleu Myosotis
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform pink spot, significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it was already visibly paler, after one week it was a pale grey.
Faber Castell Royal Blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it was slightly duller.
Koh-I-Noor Fountain pen ink blue
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with just a hint of the original shape; significantly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
After three days it had started to be slightly paler, more so after one week when it had also turned grey.
Koh-I-Noor Document Ink Blue
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Koh-I-Noor Document Ink Black
Water leaves a very light stain, but the original shape doesn’t look changed.
DeAtramentis Document Black
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Waterman Intense Black
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with a trace of the original shape still visible; very lightly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Herbin Perle Noir
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot, with a trace of the original shape still visible.
Parker Quink black
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot.
Platinum Carbon black
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Rohrer & Klingner Documentus Black
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Sailor Pigment Kiwaguro
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Platinum Dyestuff Red
Not resistant to water, the drop becomes an uniform colour spot; very lightly bleached by hydrogen peroxide.
Noodler’s Eternal Polar Blue
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And tomorrow we're back to cooking breakfast from the grid rather than the solar panels, because they aren't producing enough yet
who is saving energy now?
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. And I need sun. I’m already the first in the office and by large margin. I want dynamic hours. 6 o’clock always at sunrise.Elena ``of Valhalla'' likes this.
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It's blowing my mind that Final Fantasy, one of the most Japanese of 'Japanese Role Playing Games' was programmed by Iranian-born Nasir Gebelli, who left Iran to avoid the 1979 revolution.
Studied programming in the US, and did notable work on the Apple II before being recommended to Square.
He programmed the first three Final Fantasy games and also Secret Of Mana.
What a champ.
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Parte oggi una serie di interviste ai responsabili dei progetti Linux italiani presenti nel fediverso.
IL FediLUG intervisterà le distro attive e partiamo con @fuss una distro storica fondata più di 20 anni fa:
fedilug.it/dentro-il-progetto-…
Per non perdere le prossime distro italiane basta seguire il gruppo fedilug: @linux@diggita.com che ha da poco superato i 1000 iscritti e/o iscriversi alla newsletter FediLUG su fedilug.it oppure nella stanza matrix: matrix.to/#/#fedilug:fedimedia…
Questa è la prima di una serie di interviste che il FediLUG ha deciso di fare per andare alla scoperta delle distribuzioni Linux italiane presenti nel Fediverso.FediLUG (FediLUG Italia)
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CERN just managed to transport antimatter via truck, and people are asking what happens if it gets into an accident. the answer is... a car accident.
the energy equivalence of antimatter is huge — 10¹⁷J/kg, but the amount is tiny — 92 protons. it's so tiny that if i placed all 92 in your hand, the destruction and release of energy would feel less warm than mere sunlight, by a factor of at least a few thousands.
i'd be more worried about the 2-ton magnetic containment machine in that truck.
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@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. @Edward Tjörnhammar This is the reason I don't trust those LLM detection tools any more than I trust the LLMs themselves. It's all cheap* parlour tricks.
* Actually, they're rather expensive, but you know what I mean.
two nights ago I woke up with the idea that once in a while The Magic calls a very powerful muggleborn to become a pureblood, a sort of first of their name situation; after the call this requires a ritual that requires also a pureblood and results in the two being married.
After the war the Magic calls Hermione, Lucius Malfoy finds out about it, kidnaps Hermione, brings her to the Malfoy sacred grove or something. Draco has been summoned there, arrives, realizes what's happening, tries to run away, gets full-body-bound too, and the ritual is performed.
They find themselves warded in a very newlywed themed wing of Malfoy Manor, with the ability to have visitors, and to receive most of what they want through the house elf (including books from the Malfoy library), but unable to leave, they start cooperating to find a way to undo the ritual.
Narcissa didn't know anything, and allies with them.
For some reason, both Draco and Narcissa's first though is that Hermione should have had the chance to marry Neville, since he's suitably pureblood and a friend. Nobody considers Ron worthy of Hermione :D
Have I been reading too many dramione fics?
#iGattiSiArrangiano , giusto?
per cui non abbiamo appena passato la domenica pomeriggio in un pronto soccorso veterinario perché il gatto che non è nostro ha fatto la guerra e si è fatto male
@Ju
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@Ju @rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @LaVi @Puxi_Il_Gatto @AL.FA (NONOINO) @Signor Tigrillo 😻 speravamo che l'odore glielo desse la carne fresca, ma oh, va benissimo anche così :D
l'importante è che non venga impestato dalle zecche!
(quando torna a farsi vedere proviamo a mettergli anche il repellente, come consigliato dalla veterinaria)
Alura.
Questa è l'istanza Gancio della Provincia di Varese. Potete caricare tutti gli eventi belli della provincia anche senza dover creare per forza un profilo.
Diffondete il verbo.
Questo è un side-project sperimentale. Se volete dare una mano a gestire l'istanza scrivetemi in DM (ne ho bisogno)!
Fino ad allora... sa vedum!
Potete seguire gli eventi dal fediverso: @relay
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I gatti, soprattutto i gatti grassi, è importante che non stiano a digiuno.
Questo perchè se stanno a digiuno il corpo inizia a consumare i grassi, i grassi si accumulano nel fegato e il fegato si intasa (lipidosi) e la situazione diventa in breve tempo gravissima.
I gatti a volte smettono di mangiare per le cause più sceme: raffreddore (non sentono l'odore del cibo), mal di gola... boli di pelo (boli di pelo e erba!) o magari associano un cibo a un momento di malessere e decidono che è veleno.
A quel punto bisogna (!!!SENTIRE IL VETERINARIO!!!) nutrirli a forza, poco ma spesso, fin che non gli si scracca il neurone e ricominciano a funzionare come niente fosse.
La mia Picù ha già avuto dei seri problemi di fegato due anni fa (sulla cartella clinica c'è scritto "viva per miracolo") e appena vedo che va in sciopero della fame mi allarmo molto.
Comunque stamattina ha mangiato di buon appetito. Forse sta meglio.🤞
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Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Also, shouting this one with the bold text:
Debian isn't just for servers. Debian rocks on a desktop.
"But Veronica, I need newer packages!"
Do you really? If I'm doing dev work and need something newer, I'm using containers. If I need desktop applications, there's usually Flatpak/AppImage/Nix/source. And backporting and pinning is an option if you want to get super nerdy with it.
I don't like when my desktop updates. It means I have to relearn stuff. If you feel the same way, consider Debian. On your desktop. Seriously.
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Christopher M0YNG
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •been running debian on desktop for years now.
Also "unstable" debian is pretty damn stable, and a good balance (IMHO) between "new" packages and debian stability.
Marcos Dione
in reply to Christopher M0YNG • • •Christopher M0YNG
in reply to Marcos Dione • • •one of my favourite ways to do this is to set my debian version to what the next stable release, I'm currently running forky/sid
Then you gradually zero in on the stable release, getting more and more stable and also keeping current packages.
Then, on release day into stable, change to the next release name!
Diane
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •The main thing that made Ubuntu easier to install in the past was they included non-free firmware.
Debian decided to ship non-free firmware starting in Debian 12, so it got much easier to install Debian on random hardware.
happyborg
in reply to Diane • • •the reason I moved from Debian to Ubuntu (for development and household laptop) was because it was easier to get drivers (ie you didn't have to) and in general most things worked well enough to ignore the few kinks.
But if that has gone away, Canonical's LLM dickery can go er away. I was already considering switching back so this is looking like a good time to plan that in.
I like/rely on the multi desktop feature of #Gnome. How easy is it to put that on #Debian, anyone?
@veronica
Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode]
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode] • •@Mre. Dartigen [renovator mode] @Veronica Explains Debian doesn't really do variants, traditionally on Linux distributions there was just one installer, and then you could choose to install any desktop environment of your choice (including multiple ones at the same time²)
So, basically, yes, Debian works just fine on really low end hardware, you just have to select a suitable interface when prompted by the installer.
I believe the most light weight one¹ would be LXDE, but if the 2013 laptop wasn't very low end it could be worth trying with Xfce, which is what Mint uses in its light weight flavour.
These days there are also live images with an installer, and with those you have to select which destktop environment you want on the live image (but then can install any other one at a later time)
debian.org/distrib/ ---> Live Xfce is in the “Try Debian live before installing” section
¹ there are even lighter weight interfaces, but they are quite dated in their UX
² that's what I do on my computers: I have installed both the interface I use and the one my partner prefers, and we can select which one to use at the login screen.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •John Breen
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Honestly, I thought the .deb file extension was a Debian package thing, so I assumed they would work on Debian as Ubuntu.
I once got to name a software update package file for some product, and I chose .STU, because it was pronounced "stew" and it was a Sound Touch Update.
Because I could...
Kerplunk
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Everything is transparent, sometimes painfully so
So pls post facts...
apt is the debian package manager and deb the native package format.
apt works reliably
Fatpack, sometimes called flatpack because it falls flat is not a Debian package format. It also has nothing to do with making desktop usage easy.
Updates, Debian packages are often updated during the release cycle, there are also updated install images released as necessary.
That also goes for security updates.
Niko Poikulainen
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Auster
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •@veronica@explains.social also one can take so much bs. Windows is just user-unfriendly enough to grind one's gears in the long run, and from what I tested from some recent MacOS version, feels like OEM Android distros with how stiff it felt.
If someone sticking to such systems can be convinced to test, from what I observed over the years, such person will be more prone to "deshitify" his/her workflow and tools, even if not necessarily moving to Linux.
mike805
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I tried it on a laptop and gave up because hibernate did not work. Even after following various sets of instructions, hibernate did not work.
Wound up installing Ubuntu 22.04, setting up disk encryption without lvm (which 24.04 cannot do) and then upgrading to 24.04. After some hacking, hibernate does work reliably.
It took several days to get a usable laptop configuration put together.
Claudius
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I flirted with Ubuntu years ago,but since then it's been Debian on servers, Arch (and now Artix) on laptops/desktops/
The problem with Debian on laptops/desktops is that you wind up compiling a lot of stuff from source, and IMHO rolling distros rule of course.
Aelspire
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •@alice The downside is that apps in the distribution are often painfully outdated, so installing Flatpaks or compiling things yourself is necessary if you want to run anything recent.
(My previous desktop was Debian. The current one is Arch, which doesn’t seem to involve as much putting out fires as I feared it might.)
soya666
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Debian Stable + Xfce = ❤
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •You know how people dread the next operating system update? Try to put it off as long as the damn thing will let them? That is not a thing on #Debian.
You know how people used to look forward to all the shiny new features in the next major operating system update? That is still a thing on Debian.
I've been running it non-stop for almost 30 years. I was only 12 or 13 years old when I first installed it. It's been my cherished sanctuary ever since.
7heo
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I've been running Devuan for years. And it is essentially the original Debian from before the mid 2010, maintained to this day.
I think it deserves a mention in your post.
DefaultKevin
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Debian netinst minimal install + kde-plasma-desktop + whatever packages I want. Nice and minimal and most stuff Just Works.
Bonus: install Librewolf using extrepo.
Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Linux Mint also has a Debian Edition (LMDE), which comes with Mint's polished Cinnamon Desktop.
Always an option 😁
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •kvc
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I made the mistake of installing ubuntu server on my server some time back, so I’ll need to fix that sometime. Debian is in the top 3 I’m considering.
Sam
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •John E Bartley III (D) K7AAY📎
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Download LMDE 7 - Linux Mint
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Brian Swetland
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I've happily used Debian as a server/NAS/VPS distro for ages...
Back in the day Ubuntu made it a lot easier to get "just works" desktop/laptop environments (notably GPU drivers, etc) spun up, but, yeah, I'm thinking the time to revisit Debian-on-the-desktop may have arrived.
Scavello
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Stylus
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •It's also worth noting that you can use Debian instead of Ubuntu in CI settings like codeberg (or github).
Use a docker image like
node:25-trixie-slimto get node (needed for most major composite actions such as actions/checkout) based on the current stable debian, then add development tools withapt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends.(or you can use, say, python:3-trixie and then install the debian nodejs package)
If your dependencies are small, do it each time. If they're big, then make a docker image and publish it to whatever container repository you favor. Update it when you need to. I recommend using a date-based tagging scheme if you do this.
A bonus of doing this: you can just run the very same docker image locally to diagnose build failures.
A second bonus of doing this, especially on github: you won't be bitten by changes to the default runner environment that are outside your control.
A third bonus of doing this: you can use debian:testing or images based on it, if stable's too old for you. (traditionally GHA has only offered LTS Ubuntu versions for CI)
Linux Is Best
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •For a new user, Debian is not that OS that is ready to use upon a fresh install. You're going to have to configure things manually and install many other things, adding 3rd-party repos.
For example, sudo is not even enabled upon install. Debian themselves don't supply truly working non-free media codecs or firmware, so I suggest deb-multimedia.org
(think of it as Fedora's RPM Fusion repo).
And as pointed out, yes, a lot of old software. Stable, yes, but old.
#Debian #Linux
Deb Multimedia Packages::Download Deb Multimedia (DMO) Packages
deb-multimedia.orgElena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Linux Is Best • •@Linux Is Best @Veronica Explains sudo is enabled upon debian install if no root password is set up (otherwise, there is no real need for sudo, since one can use su)
also, since quite a few years deb-multimedia is strongly recommended against, since it has been found to be the cause of various problems that lead people to ask for support on debian channels: personally I haven't had a need to install anything outside of debian repositories to use media online or on dvd since a very long time (although I did have to enable contrib and install libdvd-pkg, which downloads the legally restricted codecs during installation)
DCKIM
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •... debian is wonderful, it's very easy to use... i just tell the google machine to print one-liners and scripts to handle installs and whatnot, so, other than the trouble that comes along with that... it's pretty great.
It didn't take long for me to set up my monitor either. The only thing I could get happening was a 'too-old' graphics card.
What can you do... Really a nice light setup with Debian 13. This box basically has it all.
not ch1c
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I"m using Zorin OS, based on Ubuntu. It's pretty good, but I'm growing more aware of the issues with Ubuntu (and I'm super wary of any organization that starts reeking of billionaire).
I have to find an easy way to move to a Debian set up. This computer's old as hell.
Maria “indigoviolet” Ivy
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •petitevieille
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Yes, Debian is far from perfect.
Far above perfect.
Debian. ❤️
Sashin
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Nazo
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Might even be worth taking a look at Devuan at this point with systemd going so wildly out-of-scope and in a very very dangerous direction. Devuan is basically just plain Debian using a different init. (the classic sysvinit by default.) As far as I know they make no other changes.
Maybe I'm being paranoid... based on everything that's going on right now... but systemd looks really bad right now to me. Dangerous bad.
Only complaint I have is Debian (and by extension others that don't make big changes) is still way back on the 6.12 kernel. I have to install liquorix for modern stuff, but I want something more stable than liquorix...
Cassandrich
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •This! 👆
Ubuntu is literally the capitalist-enshittified fork of Debian. If you're using Ubuntu and hate that aspect, chances are Debian is exactly what you wanted (but the tech press wasn't popularizing because they're all mouthpieces for capitalism).
Nate Allen
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •my daily driver since 2014
💜
as a not-very-confident, non-expert/non-power user, being able to trust that the OS is solid is very reassuring
/dev/loop0
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Sylvhem
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I’ve never looked back. It is incredibly stable and polished and I love the fact it’s not a corporate driven distribution.
Bearmine
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •dang you just made me remember Progeny
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