This morning #tea failure was forgetting to set the timer while it was brewing.
luckily I wondered about it after a reasonable amount of time and it is still drinkable (and the bread didn't burn).
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On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!
How are you celebrating?
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Hi! Iβm a member of Fedicat (catalan fedizens) and this year we have a brochure to promote the Fediverse and Libre Culture in bookshops :)
#Fedicat #Fediverse #Fedi16 #HappyFedi2U
Forum thread: agora.fedi.cat/t/fedi16-culturβ¦
Pdf in our website: fedi.cat/participa/triptic-lliβ¦
Font code: fedi.cat/participa (zip file)
Libre Art License (LAL): artlibre.org/
#Fedi16: cultura lliure a llibreries
Holi! Des de fa uns anys, el 18 de maig algunes personetes celebrem lβaniversari de la Fedi perquΓ¨ Γ©s el dia que es va fer la primera publicaciΓ³ en un node (a identi.ca, que en aquells temps era el node mΓ©s gran i mΓ©s conegut, com mastodon.Fedicat
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Just needed to figure out what glue I should use to attach leather to something else, and amazingly I remembered this useful website someone told me about ages ago:
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I've just bought a product from a company with headquarters in Viale Bom, Varese.
I'm quite sure those headquarters are in Viale Borri
Oh, and the address is written between two horizontal lines, and it goes beyond the line.
I guess that the βDesign and Quality by <brand name>β doesn't extend to the packaging :D
Ok, tomorrow I'll take and post pictures.
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Ho appena comprato un prodotto di un'azienda con sede in Viale Bom a Varese.
Sono abbastanza sicura che quella sede sia in Viale Borri.
Oh, e l'indirizzo Γ¨ scritto tra due righe orizzontali, e sfora oltre la fine delle righe.
Ne deduco che βDesign and Quality by <nome dell'azienda>β non si estenda alla stampa sulla confezione :D
Ok, domani faccio e posto una foto, che merita
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For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...
Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)
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Today I've had a chance to notice that we (western societies) are sending off our textile waste to another continent, where at least some of it gets probablyΒΉ shipped to China to be processed into felt to protect the floor when painting the walls, and then shipped back to us.
Why aren't we doing this anymore in PratoΒ²? It could even be done by Chinese nationals, there, but at least it wouldn't travel halfway around the world and back!
ΒΉ I have no idea whether that's the origin of that textile waste, maybe that felt was using textile waste from China itself, but still.
Β² an Italian town with a long tradition of textile industry, historically including textile recycling. These days it also has the second biggest community of Chinese nationals in Italy, most of them working in textile workshops, not always up to even Italian standards of workplace conditions.
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@(zerouno) sì, se ne riparla periodicamente, e tra chi si fa i vestiti si tende a parlarne ancora di più.
Ma Γ¨ difficile fare qualcosa che abbia veramente un effetto, come individui.
(Rammendarsi i vestiti ha tanti buoni effetti ed Γ¨ un'ottima pratica da consigliarsi a prescindere, anche se difficilmente ha un vero impatto sul problema)
@Kermode definitely
I'd expect not enough people are painting their walls to use all of the textile waste that gets produced.
Even if those felts were made of a polyester and cotton mix that probably comes from some of the worst garments for recycling (at least if one considers both the ease of recycling and the mass)
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valhalla> @Diego Roversi, do you want black tea or green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> do you want black tea and green tea?
diego> yes
valhalla> ok
so right now I have a pot of βsegreto tibetanoβ brewing, which is a mix of black tea, green tea, bergamot, jasmine and vanilla, and Diego's trolling was unsuccessful :D
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For all the thousands of posts I've seen on the Fediverse about "alt text or I won't boost" or that take even harsher stances, and the dozens of posts taking a more encouraging stance... why the hell isn't anyone talking about the Fediverse's content warning problem?
So many instances require content warnings for explicit or violent images... and so many artists just say "NSFW Image."
My dude, my pal, my bro... I'm not clicking that. Is it art? Is it real person porn? Is it gay or het? Is it a naked body or is it anal sex? Is it bdsm? Vore? Monsterfucking?
IDK. It's "NSFW Image."
It's like playing Russian roulette.
Content Warnings aren't content warnings if they don't tell me what the content is.
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Do me a favor.
Quit making fun of people (of any age but especially kids) who ask genuine questions.
I have to pull questions out of adults now because at some point someone made fun of them for being curious.
It's not embarrassing to learn, you shouldn't feel guilty for thinking of a question and asking an expert.
You should feel happy that you are still curious about the universe.
Make learning a positive experience? Please?
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I'm pretty glad to teach the few things I know to whoever genuinely ask, but I think "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" must be a mandatory reading.
It is *evident* that the fact that the living room table is covered in bits of cardboard and bookbinding paper means that I'm cleaning up my desktop, right?
As in βmaking a small chest of drawers to store some of the samplers and small containers of ink that I currently have in a mess on the desktopβ :D
The current status is that 3 out of 4 drawers are done, one is nearly done, and the structure to put them in needs to be redone from scratch, because my measurements have been way too optimistic and the drawers don't fit :(
But I've started to put some of the ink samplers in one of the drawers, and those are fitting just fine. Also, *allΒΉ* the colours!
ΒΉ actually just above half of the colours available in that line of ink
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Unsure if I've ever shared my personal philosophy here, but it goes: "People are going to look, so give them something to fucking look at!"
I developed it when I was younger and visibly goth and queer, possibly even more so than now. People stared but I was always without a doubt the most interesting looking person on that bit of street, so I couldn't fault them for it! And anybody who had issues with it could see just how little I cared to hide.
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@0xdariaj I don't feel like messing with taking it off and putting it back on, so I just always have one on when I'm somewhere. The easiest place to properly put it on is at home and sitting down! Usually my excursions are not that long anyway (I get tired) so it's not an issue to wear the same mask.
It's just nice to dress nice, too! It's not exactly armour, but it's better for morale to face small difficulties if you also look great. π
the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?
no, but it was the most fun to write.
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cause like, yeah, it's good to know how to write optimal code and how to make it elegant and easy to maintain, sure!
but one thing you have to maintain is your brain. If you're constantly driving your programming brain at maximum speed, maximum awareness of all possible caveats and vulnerabilities, always considering "how will I maintain this code in ten years time?" you're going to burn yourself out.
You're associating programming with a high-stress high-attention activity. That's going to make programming something that's categorized in your brain as no fun, never relaxing, never something you do just cause it would be interesting... you're going to start dreading it, even just a little. "oh well, let's get this over with."
That's not a good way to think about it in the long run.
we often say that programming is more an art than a science, but we need to treat it like one too.
Sometimes you need to paint a sunset not because someone paid you to paint a sunset, but because it'd be fun to paint a sunset.
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Dear lazyverse, I've just read blog.prosody.im/great-invitati⦠and prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_inv⦠and I don't understand one thing: can this be used to generate an invite for an user that already exists and has been using the account for a while, but needs to reconfigure an xmpp client on a new phone?
of course they don't know their password, but I would have to reset it from prosodyctl anyway.
#xmpp
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Adding a new device via invitation is not currently a thing. Password resets links (which work almost the same as invitations) are.
Generate a password reset link with this command:
'prosodyctl mod_invites example.com --reset username'
I haven't extensively tested it with clients or invite UIs beyond Snikket, though. Feedback welcome π
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Girl Genius has a new kickstarter out, to print the next volume
kickstarter.com/projects/girlgβ¦
for those few who don't know, it's a great steampunkish #comic that has been running for years and is published online at girlgeniusonline.com/ and then on paper, funded via kickstarter one volume at a time.
And usually there would be no need to promote them or anything, they have enough devoted followers that they fund on first day, but this time they have a pretty high stretch goal to be able to print *two* volumes at the same time, and it would be really, really nice if they did manage it!
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Γ aperto il nuovo kickstarter di Girl Genius, per stampare il prossimo volume
kickstarter.com/projects/girlgβ¦
per quei pochi che non lo conoscono, Γ¨ un #fumetto steampunk che va avanti da anni, pubblicato online su girlgeniusonline.com/ e poi su carta, un volume per volta finanziato su kickstarter.
Di solito non ci sarebbe il minimo bisogno di fargli pubblicitΓ : hanno abbastanza lettori fedeli da riuscire a finanziare la stampa il primo giorno, ma stavolta hanno aggiunto uno stretch goal per riuscire a stampare *due* volumi allo stesso giro, e non sarebbe per niente male se ce la facessero!
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The case for #Pyra. is. done.
It could have been neater, and maybe tomorrow or next week I'll unpick the binding on the raw edges and sew it again, because it's ugly, but the size is just right and it works.
Only took 3 attempts to get to the right amount of ease :)
There will be pictures (and a blog post). Not today :D
I just want to express my appreciation for content warnings here. I was browsing elsewhere and saw a very distressing story which upset me and my mind struggles to move on from. It wouldn't have happened here as it would have been hidden by a content warning that I wouldn't have clicked on.
Thank you to you all here π
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Leatherfolk who speak non-English languages, I wanna hear about how you do Dom/sub titles ("Sir", "boy", etc), diminutives, formality, that sort of thing.
I've spoken to quite a few people who say they switch to English for this, but I feel like there are probably neat cultural/grammatical options in other languages.
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Visto che ci siamo illusi che qui (fediverso generico) la convivenza sarebbe stata...migliore? Dotata di piΓΉ mezzi di interazione? Boh?, comunque ho un solo consiglio per vojo:
NEL DUBBIO, BLOCCATE.
- non so se quest* mi sta sul cazzo oppure no, eccomunque questa cosa mi genera fastidio? BLOCCO
- ma che davero cos* ha fatto quella battuta lì, maddai? apperò BLOCCO
- mi sono vagamente rott* il cazzo di determinate tematiche che vengono tirate fuori sempre dalle stesse persone? Ma BLOCCO
ed altri incredibili varianti quasi infinite.
Ascoltate la zia, usateli il "silenzia" e il "blocca".
*pat-patta tutti sul testino collettivamente* #pubblicitΓ progresso #mediasetperilsociale #forsenontuttisannoche #quesitoconlasusi
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Writing for display in the ancient world
VIEWS took part in this yearβs Cambridge Festival, a showcase of research happening across the University of Cambridge. The project team has been together for several months now, so the Festiβ¦The VIEWS project
I've found out what the issue with the #tea shop was: they had to restore the website from backups and some user got stuck in the process.
I've now procured more tea (by preparing a list on the website, printing it out and going to the shop. yes, it's close enough that I could just go there without visiting the website. I could.)
@Naomi P do you want some tea? I'm making an herbal one, since here it's evening, but it can turn into whatever you want during the internet trip :)
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Ho scoperto qual'era il problema col sito del negozio di tΓ©: hanno dovuto recuperare il sito da backup e qualche utente Γ¨ rimasto incastrato nel processo.
Ho procurato del té (preparando un elenco sul sito, stampandolo e andando al negozio. sì, è abbastanza vicino da poterci andare anche senza visitare il sito. volendo.)
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#sewing update
the corded petticoat is done! And today I expect to finish the hem on the chemise (I'm almost halfway through it), so there will be some cutting fabric time this afternoon, and that may be either the lining for the #AugustaStays or the cartridge pleated skirt.
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aaand the chemise is also finished!
and then I just didn't have the energy to do anything that required concentration like cutting fabric, so I just did a bit of lucet
(the 3 metre piece has been finished yesterday, now I've started a 1 metre piece for the front lacing)
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e ho finito anche la sottogonna!
e poi non avevo le forze per fare qualunque cosa che richiedesse attenzione come tagliare stoffa, quindi ho fatto solo un po' di cordino a lucet.
(il pezzo da tre metri Γ¨ stato finito ieri, adesso ne ho iniziato uno da un metro per l'allacciatura davanti)
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Getting to the laundry place 5 minutes before it closed on Saturday morning to give them 4 heavy-ish carpets to wash (while they were still on the car rather than having to walk there while carrying them later). done.
(we called when we got on the car, to ask whether it was ok, and the owner of the place knows us well enough that there wasn't any time consuming procedure, we just dumped everything in there and then she will deal with them when she opens next week. but still, it felt wrong.)
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@rapitadaglialieni
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Come alla posta il primo del mese (qui a giugno arrivano un po' prima delle 6 che Γ¨ giΓ chiaro).
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#sewing update
The cording on the petticoat has been completed, I'm now doing the vertical seams (hopefully today), and then I have to gather or pleat or something the top and it's done.
I'm cutting a second attempt at the pyra case: I've cut almost everything, but I've just misplaced one of the fabrics I want to use. The inventory says it's in the box I've been looking for it.
I've printed almost all of the hexbin Standard Compliant pattern weights, I've cut enough felt for all of them (I think, I didn't exactly *count*), and I've been using the first one and it works nicely. It's a good excuse to buy new washers the next time I'm at the shop, right?
Related: if you have recommendations for places in Europe that print small amounts of hexagonal #stickers and don't require me to provide a multi layer PDF file (or a tutorial on how to make those with inkscape or other Free Software) I'd be happy to hear about them :)
And thanks to a couple of movie nightsΒΉ at my mother's I'm close to the 3 meters of lucet cord I plan to use for the back of my Augusta Stays. That I still need to cut lining for, why do you ask?
ΒΉ 17:30 - 19:30 or so counts as night, if you're watching a movie, right? :D
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it had fallen to the bottom of the box
(I keep fabric vertically in the box so that I can see all of it at a glance, but this one was especially slippery)
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era caduta sul fondo della scatola
(ripongo la stoffa verticalmente nella scatola in modo da riuscire a vedere tutti i contenuti a colpo d'occhio, ma questa era particolarmente scivolosa)
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain...Debian Project
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@debacle @valhalla I think it's almost always a good idea to define each acronym the first time it is used, in any kind of document.
In this case, bits.debian.org/2024/04/bits-f⦠is a fairly long text with "DPL" mentioned more than 20 times. Writing it out the first time would not take much space, and would help make the text a little bit more welcoming to newcomers.
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debianites This morning I decided to just start writing Bits from DPL and send whatever I have by 18:00 local time. Here it is, barely proof read, along with all it's warts and grammar mistakes! It's slightly long and doesn't contain...Debian Project
Hi from the Press Team! You are correct, sometimes we edit things and sometimes we do not, oft is is essential that the speaker speaks as intended and our edits would change the flow of the intention, so we leave them in.
Recently we are addressing this with a few policy changes on editing articles or submissions for publication, we of course invite you to join us: wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicitβ¦
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If #xz were a Go or Rust dependency, you wouldnβt have a single copy of xz library on your system, but many, #xzbackdoor hidden in every executable that uses it. Distros would have to rebuild all packages using that lib (not just the lib itself), which could take days or weeks, and users would have to update them all, downloading tens or hundreds of megabytes.
If you install binaries directly from vendors/devs, itβs even worse β you wouldnβt even know which ones are affected and youβd (1/3)
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@Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: @ITwrx @Neal Gompa (γγΌγ«γ»γ΄γ³γ) :fedora: @kravietz π¦ @Jakub Jirutka πͺπΊπΊπ¦ and even for single person projects, having a packager in each main distribution that isn't the upstream developer is a big plus, as it provides a minimum of oversight and redundancy.
Not much, especially when said maintainer(s) are overworked and demoralized, but still better than nothing.
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Yes, that is an important point too.
When we say co-maintainer, we often implicitly assume that it should be an equally or comparably skilled person doing the same tasks.
And then we stop at a thought on how hard it is to find a duplicate.
While it doesn't have to be.
There is plenty of room for a developer to collaborate with a tester, or a packager or a build engineer, or a documentation writer.
It often can be healthier too.
@ITwrx @Conan_Kudo @kravietz @jakub
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I'm taking a break from historical #sewing to make myself a case for the PyraΒΉ that I've just received (YAY!).
Which means working with technical materials.
Which means that two needles have already been broken, and I've just decided to sew the raw edge binding by hand, even if I know it will be painful, because I don't want to deal with another fiddly seam by machine.
ΒΉ handheld gaming console with a full keyboard designed by retrogaming enthusiasts.
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Am I the only one who finds using spray starch almost as fun as using spray paint?
(yes, one day I will try real starch)
(yes, one day I will be ironing and starching my shirts more than an hour before I need to wear them)
(today is not that day)
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua non so, il problema Γ¨ che abito in collina, non nelle zone da risaia, credo che darΓ² la prioritΓ ΒΉ al piantare il mio lino, filarlo e tesserlo, prima di pensare a produrmi il mio amido.
PerΓ² potrei fare quello di patate, anche se credo che ingiallisca un po'.
ΒΉ quello richiede βavere un posto dove piantare il linoβ, e ancora sono ben lontana dall'averlo. Diciamo che non Γ¨ in cima alla lista :D
My heart goes out to xz. A single maintainer, who was clearly in a rough place with mental health, screaming out to the world for some help and additional contributions, and somebody shows up wanting to help. Could you imagine how happy that maintainer was? They were no longer alone.
And it turns out the only reason somebody wanted to help them was nefarious. I canβt imagine how they feel right now as everyone is blaming them. I hope theyβre ok.
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So, Philipp Kern dropped by asking if we could do some #ReproducibleBuilds verifications of recent Debian Security updates, given, well the whole #xz mess... and that our build infrastructure may have run compromised code at some point...
So I did a quick pass at a handful of updates and everything verified ok so far, though I skipped some of the probably more juicy targets such as chromium and firefox:
lists.reproducible-builds.org/β¦
Debian is reproducible enough to at least try this sort of thing!
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Asking people who use #screenReaders: what is the best way to add #AltText to a QR-Code? Are the screen readers clever enough to recognise it as such and offer to read the contents or follow the link? Does putting the content of the QR-Code in the alt text help? or would it make it worse, especially if it is an URL?
boosts are welcome
(the whole point of the post that prompted this question was posting a QR-Code, so no, I couldn't have just posted the URL)
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#sewing update? sewing update!
I suspect that the body of the shift is a bit too wide at the top, but I haven't tried it on yet to find out. It's only missing a hem at the bottom, and then it's done, however (and I'm sure I can adjust the width so that it is wearable anyway).
I haven't done anything on it (nor on the #AugustaStays), however, because I've spent most of my sewing time on the corded petticoat, because *I want to know* whether it will work and how it will look.
And I'm happy to report that I've just finished the next to last section of cording, only 3 more 3-metre-long seams and then I can finally start on the assembly.
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aggiornamento sul #cucito? aggiornamento sul cucito!
Sospetto che la sottoveste sia un po' troppo larga sul busto, ma non l'ho ancora provata per esserne sicura. Manca solo l'orlo in basso, e poi sarebbe finita (e ho fiducia del fatto di poter sistemare in qualche modo la circonferenza in modo da poterla indossare comunque).
Però è un po' che la ignoro (così come sto ignorando le Augusta Staus), perché la maggior parte del mio tempo-cucito in questi giorni è stato passato sulla sottogonna cordonata, perché *voglio sapere* se funziona e che aspetto ha.
E sono felice di annunciare che ho appena finito la penultima sezione di cordonature, mi mancano solo 3 cuciture da 3 metri l'una, e poi posso finalmente iniziare la costruzione.
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TFW you wake up in the morning, try to login on your computer and the h key on your keuboard doesn't work.
so you connect a spare keyboard (cheap gaming keyboard with blue keys, way too noisy for regular use) to a free USB port, login, open a few things and then try to write again with your keyboard, and it works.
disconnect the spare, start having breakfast, post a few things on the fediverse, now the s and the f keys no longer work.
Connect the spare, use it for a while, try the original, it works. And then it stops.
I'm wondering whether I should move elsewhere my keyboard and just resign myself to use the spare today.
(I know what caused the issues, there may have been an accident in the weekend, and a replacement has already been ordered and may even be delivered today or tomorrow, and then there will be time to try and fix the original one.)
TFW ti svegli alla mattina, cerchi di fare login sul computer e il tasto h non funziona.
quindi attacchi la tastiera di scorta (una da gaming economica, con tasti blu che sono troppo rumorosi per l'uso regolare) ad una porta USB libera, fai login, apri un po' di cose, provi a scrivere di nuovo con la tua tastiera e funziona.
stacchi quella di scorta, inizi a fare colazione, postare sul fediverso, e smettono di funzionare i tasti s e f.
Riattacchi quella di scorta, la usi per un po', riprovi l'originale, funzona. E poi smette di funzionare.
Mi chiedo se sia il caso di staccare l'originale e per oggi rassegnarmi ad usare quella di scorta.
(So cosa causa il problea, nel weekend potrebbe esserci stato un piccolo incidente, ed Γ¨ giΓ stata ordinata una nuova tastiera che potrebbe essere consegnata oggi o domani, e poi ci sarΓ tempo per provare a far rifunzionare l'originale.)
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@Kermode it was hot water that had been used to clean a jar of jamΒΉ, but basically the same thing, except with more sugar.
Not that I would ever do anything like that to my keyboard!
ΒΉ as in: when there is just a bit of jam left I don't bother with removing it with a spoon, I just pour boiling water in it, let it dissolve and then drink the result as if it was an herbal tea.
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Ricevo, e credo che sia utile per un po' di vittime di #trenord qui sul fediverso
prealpina.it/pages/lombardia-tβ¦
βLa norma nel prevedere la necessitΓ di richiesta dellβabbonato reindirizza la misura compensativa del disagio a chi effettivamente lo ha subito, diversamente da quanto accadeva con il vecchio bonus.β
che credo voglia dire, piΓΉ o meno βsperiamo che la maggior parte dei pendolari si dimentichino di chiederlo e/o non vengano a sapere di doverlo chiedereβ
se ho ben capito le istruzioni su come fare la richiesta sono giΓ su regione.lombardia.it/wps/portaβ¦
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@LaVi ποΈππ @Fabio mi pareva tempo fa di aver trovato su uno dei siti istituzionali (trenord o regione) che i treni soppressi contino uguali ai treni con piΓΉ di 30 minuti di ritardo, ma adesso non ho il link sottomano (e non so se le nuove regole siano cambiate).
Comunque c'Γ¨ il fatto che quei dati non dicono che i treni in ritardo sono ovviamente soprattutto in ora di punta (anche per ragioni ragionevoli, tutto sommato), e che quindi impattano molte piΓΉ persone rispetto ai treni in orario alle 10 di mattina o alle 8 di sera.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Il fail nel preparare il #tΓ© di stamattina Γ¨ stato dimenticarmi di impostare il timer mentre era in infusione.
Per fortuna me ne sono accorta dopo un tempo ragionevole ed Γ¨ ancora piΓΉ o meno bevibile (e il pane non Γ¨ bruciato).
#ServeIlTePerPreparareIlTe
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