uh, Dracula Daily (Dracula, rearranged in chronological order and sent daily) is starting again in a bit more than a week!
I think that the website talks mostly about email, but there is also an rss available.
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"Which is best, supplying a regular or getting someone new hooked?"
"Hm. To satisfy the desperate, or create a lifelong addiction? I-"
I turned around. "Have you drug dealers no shame?"
"What? We're booksellers!"
"Oh. Um. Do you have any here?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
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Hello Fediverse!
Wikipedia 
is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki -- at least that's what our Wikipedia article says (w.wiki/W).
#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons
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this afternoon I received a package of assorted googly eyes.
they arrived late and I had urgent stuff to do, so they still haven't been divided by size and counted, yet.
this will not do.
(or maybe I'll wait until tomorrow? it *is* getting a bit late.)
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oggi pomeriggio ho ricevuto un pacchetto di occhietti ballonzosi misti.
sono arrivati tardi e avevo cose urgenti da fare, quindi non sono ancora stati divisi per misura e contati.
non Γ¨ accettabile.
(ma magari aspetto domani, che si Γ¨ fatta una certa)
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24 medium big (16 mm tall)
23 medium small (13 mm tall)
28 small (10 mm tall)
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@las_lallero il dubbio mi Γ¨ venuto leggendo il caso di Milano in cui a quanto pare la vernice non Γ¨ venuta via con l'acqua.
poi ammetto di non aver letto gli articoli di tutte le volte che Γ¨ successo.
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ππ @manishearth suggested that I translate xkcd.com/2758/ into Akkadian.
Transcription (it should hopefully be somewhat singable, though the long vowels are all over the place):
muΜ eli illuriΜ uΜ ziqnuΜ Ε‘uraΜniΜ
Ε‘anniΜ ebbuΜtum Ε‘a weriΜm iαΈ«serΕ«
Ε‘unu abnuΜ weraΜm uαΈ«αΈ«uzuΜtum
Ea-naΜαΉ£ir nikiltam unakkil
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ok, apparently some people aren't allowed in the spray paint aisle without adult supervision, and it seems I'm one of those people.
I got the plastic primer I was there to buy.
@Diego Roversi for some inexplicable reason prevented me from buying the magnetic blackboard paint I didn't exactly have a plan for.
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If you're wondering what the rainbow pentagon thing is that a lot of accounts use, it's the Fediverse logo 
It's a public domain / CC0 design, its original designer shared a high quality copy at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filβ¦
It represents all the different server types that make up the Fediverse.
(Note: There can be no official logo on the Fediverse as there's no central authority to make anything official. However, this logo is by far the most widely used one.)
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diego: βit's also wetβ
me: βlike a cloudβ
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La mia pasta madre si sta dedicando ai grafici di crescita esponenziale manco fossimo a primavera 2020: la sto anche usando, ma credo che nei prossimi giorni ne farΓ² seccare un po' per farne farina (che poi si puΓ² conservare nei mesi, e usare come starter quando si vuole della pasta madre).
Qualcuno ne vuole? preparo anche qualche barattolo per la consegna?
Zona Varese β Como (non so se si possano trasportare colture viventi, anche se dormienti, extra UE :D )
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@Katy B. :debian:π π₯ beh, essendo il mio lievito immagino che debba essere in una scatola di legno tenuta ben chiusa con fasce di ferro e ricoperta di rune protettive incise a fuoco.
per il resto l'immagine mi pare estremamente accurata.
e sto bevendo una tazza di tΓ© (e non bevo alcolici da svariate settimane, o per un motivo o per l'altro)
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Usually I check my P.O. box about once a week, and it's empty.
This week I was feeling lazy and was almost tempted to maybe skip a week, it's going to be empty anyway, right, and I can go there early next week?
6 (SIX) cards.
YAY for forcing myself not to be lazy!
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@welshpixie Wow, when you necro a post, you mean business! It was at 2 boosts and 0 favourites before you came. π
Thanks.
Emergency Prep 101: Go-Bags
It is spring, which means it's a good time to update emergency supplies before summer rolls in.
I consider myself a small-scale prepper. By this, I mean that I am not interested in preparing for 'the end of the world as we know it' (TEOTWAWKI) or stocking up on weapons for the 'inevitable civil war.'
But I absolutely am interested in having enough emergency supplies laid in for 'predictable emergencies' (plus a bit).
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this is really well written and approachable! thank you. :)
i especially like the aspect of the go-bags being in-use items β it reminds me of a really hardcore outdoors survival guy (i think he did cold weather stuff for the military, even) who recommends what he calls βexercising your system.β his thing is outdoors clothes. he says you might be investing in puffy jackets and all sorts of fancy gear to shield you against the elements, but on top of just having the things, you also need to experiment how they fare in different conditions. how do the items combine? which combination for what activity in what sort of weather? if you get soaked through, how much walking does it take to dry yourself back out again?
your way of having the go-bags as items you use even outside of hard emergencies seems to work similarly: you butt up against things you overlooked or things you overinvested in, and optimise. and you know how they got you through x amounts of challenging situations.
also, i liked these prepping articles (especially βweβre all preppers nowβ!) by margaret killjoy! i feel theyβd jive well with your more real world, less apocalyptic war with bunkers approach: liveliketheworldisdying.com/arβ¦
Conta come #origamiSegreti se non arriva da livellosegreto e non Γ¨ neanche chissΓ che origami? Avevo bisogno di una scatolina per evitare di perdere in giro degli aghi, e mi serviva *ora*.
Ho seguito le istruzioni di youtube.com/watch?v=7u-4G1lkx4β¦ ma credo che sia un modello tradizionale.
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Se conosci qualche tipografia che stampa in offset puoi recuperare le lastre di alluminio delle matrici (il solvente per pulirle costa piΓΉ di quel che vale l'alluminio da 0,10 mm, quindi le buttano).
Tempo fa le provai per origamare e si comportano benino, anche se sono un po' delicate nelle pieghe.
Per tagliarle basta farci una riga un po' calcata con una biro, per dare un'idea.
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uops, mi rendo conto ora che oggi Γ¨ il *secondo* giorno del mese, non il primo, e quindi...
meet.gl-como.it/craftaggio , dalle 20:30 in poi, per fare quattro chiacchere mentre si fanno cose
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Ho visto questo e ho pensato alla conversazione dell'altro giorno sull'uso di stampante 3d e cibo
mondo-artista.it/artidee-verniβ¦
certo che non ho idea della resa, ma sospetto che non sia sto gran che rispetto al costo, e probabilmente non è neanche così ideale dal punto di vista del lavaggio (immagino solo a mano, con acqua tiepida ma non calda), però *esiste* :D
Artidee - Vernice trasparente a uso alimentare | Mondo Artista
La vernice trasparente a uso alimentare Artidee Γ¨ disponibile nel nostro negozio online.https://www.mondo-artista.it/
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Buono a sapersi, grazie!
Un'altra cosa che si puΓ² fare Γ¨ usare la 3D per fare stampi per silicone, che almeno si va sul sicuro.
Ma bisogna usare il silicone giusto⦠non quello da idraulici come ha fatto qualcuno.
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Yesterday I was measuring out and cutting a simple garment with my mother, and I had to divide 160 by 3. I can't be trusted to do basic arithmetic, and it's not a division by 2 (which is conveniently marked on the measuring tape), so I grabbed the #slideRule that I still had on the cutting table and... panicked, and couldn't do it.
This morning, on my own, I saw the slide rule, tried and of course I could do such a simple operation.
demo effect, I guess? :D
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@Green and Rainbows the actual thing i needed was β160 divided by 3 and then we measure this on your back and add or remove up to 10 cmβ, so, yeah, taking a cm off wouldn't have really mattered :D
(for precise things I tend to draft on the computer :) )
Fitting Top and Camisole
Posted on April 5, 2023
For this summer, Iβve just made a nice sleeveless dress, but that doesnβt mean that Iβm planning to go around with bare arms like, I donβt know, a peasant or even somebody with no health issues, perish the thought!
Instead, at the end of last season Iβve bought a remnant of white ramie / viscose jersey that is a bit too transparent to be decent when worn on its own, but should still give some protection from the sun without being unconfortable in the heat, with the intent to make myself a new top.
Because of the transparency I wasnβt sure whether to actually use it for a top, or just to make camisoles, but with the decency preserved by the dress the choice was made: I had enough fabric for a top, a camisole and maybe something small.
I already have a trusted pattern for the top and camisole, but they still had to be published, so I took care to write down instructions and take step-by-step pictures; maybe the white fabric isnβt the best, but itβs better than nothing, and I can still take better pictures the next time Iβll do another make. They are of course on my pattern webiste: top and camisole.
Since the fabric was bought online as a remnant, I didnβt exactly know what to expect, and was pleasantly surprised by how soft it is: it feels like touching a cloud.
This however means that it felt like working with a cloud, and, well, letβs just say Iβm happy that both patterns were quite simple and I didnβt have to deal with fiddly bits.
I was also not so pleasantly surprised by the fact that part of the fabric had a few small holes as if the end of the roll had been caught on something; I was able to cut everything around the holes, other than a small bit that I hadnβt noticed and had to be mended. Itβs not a big deal, but I suspect itβs a sign that this fabric may not be as sturdy as it could have been, and that there will be more mending in the future as I wear it.
And then, when I had finished the set I was faced with another problem: taking pictures. For one thing, worn on their own they arenβt exactly decent, and then there was the fact that after a week of late spring weather in March, as I was working on summer clothing the temperature dropped and there was even a hint of rain.
I solved this by wearing the new set on top of another set of fitting top and camisole, with matching leggings. Not exactly something I would wear on the regular streets, but good enough for a picture of underwear.
Still, the pictures were taken in quite a hurry, because I wasnβt completely freezing, but still pretty cold.
Anyway, Iβm off to find some other piece of summer wear to make, hoping that it will bring proper rain. :)
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I wish people would stop using euphemisms & censoring of words to "protect" others, thus bypassing their muted words.
This isn't Twitter. There isn't an algorithm to manipulate. More engagement does not work the way you think it does here. Using those kinds of shady Twitter tactics to try to expand your reach is a good way to censor yourself by way of muting, blocking, or in extreme cases, defederation of your instance.
If you honestly want to protect others, please use content warnings.
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super rough draft of monotile mapping - I plan to refine this.
(code doesn't tile randomly - it' manual)
codepen.io/fractalkitty/pen/zYβ¦
pngs for tiles are in the comments to use:
I plan to draw color tiles later along with all rotations.
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@Technology Connections do you (or somebody else on the fediverse) know whether somebody has ever done the ObviousTrollThing and released a vinyl record with two completely different tracks on the theoretical left and right channels?
Ideally, for maximum trolling, music in completely different tempo and style, but similar perceived loudness, I think. (I suspect that speech could have possibly even just worked)
I wonder whether this would have caused a vertical wiggling above specs, and possibly even caused some damage, or if it would have just sounded bad even when listening to just one output channels.
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One could try to abuse this scheme in some ways.
Think original signal cancellation by an opposite phase sound wave emission et al.
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it seems I have maybe not exactly lost but at least misplaced one of my favourite nibs.
Ok, I have another one (uops, just one, I thought I had two: one in my purse and a spare, and it seems I don't have a spare), and it's probably around the desktop somewhere, I only have to clean it and it will resurface.
but still. runs around in circles screaming.
For the record, it's a Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure NΒ° 808 J, and it's the one I almost always use to write addresses on mail.
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Dear #sewing-verse,
while under distress caused by a protractedΒΉ internet malfunction, aggravated by the fact that my work computer decided not to connect to my backup internet connection, it is perfectly reasonable to drop everything and decide to draft a combinations suite from an edwardian drafting book and make a wearable mockup from an old sheet.
But, since it's a mockup, even if wearable, why did I choose to hand finish all seams?
WHY?
Especially since I didn't have an internet connection, so I couldn't watch videos online while handsewing? (thankfully I still have a dvd collection, even if most of it is stuff that is not really suitable for watching while doing something else)
ΒΉ multiple *days*
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We are in the EU, so there is freedom of movement for people and goods, right?
How comes that asking somebody to pass me something during meals often involves the payment of a tariff? :D
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@Green and Rainbows that's likely.
However I also remember having do pay a tariff when food was being moved from the back seat to the front seat and vice versa of a 9 seats minivan that was traveling internationally.
OTOH, part of that trip was outside of the EU (and some of the times part of that food had been bought outside the EU), so, yeah, that makes stuff more complicated, I guess :D
(I don't think we ever tried to pass food from the back seat to the front seat while the car was *exactly* over the border. That's a significant lack of planning on our part.)
Ora, io sono una persona distrattaΒΉ che ha dimenticato a casa la versione stampata dell'impegnativa, ma Γ¨ possibile che il CUP dove si va a pagare le visite non abbia accesso alle prescrizioni del fascicolo sanitario, ma ti dica se hai problemi a stamparleΒ² di andare a chiedere di farlo in farmacia?
ΒΉ non Γ¨ esattamente il termine che ho usato al di fuori della compagnia educata
Β² potrei non aver esattamente detto che avevo dimenticato la stampa, ma aver lasciato intendere di essere senza stampante O:-)
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#lcc10 #lcc #lcc2023 #languagecreationconference @conlang
Language Creation Society
Official YouTube channel of the Language Creation Society (LCS), supporting constructed language (conlang) creators worldwide β primarily from the Language Creation Conferences (LCC).YouTube
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Things I didn't need: a new project.
Thing I'm doing: trying to #embroidery a small fediverse patch on a scrap of fabric using whatever leftover embroidery thread from old crossstitch projects.
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Swiss Embroidery Princess Petticoat
Posted on March 16, 2023
A few years ago a friend told me that her usual fabric shop was closing down and had a sale on all remaining stock.
While being sad for yet another brick and mortar shop that was going to be missed (at least it was because the owners were retiring, not because it wasnβt sustainable anymore), of course I couldnβt miss the opportunity.
So we drove a few hundred km, had some nice time with a friend that (because of said few hundred km) we rarely see, and spent a few hours looting the corps⦠er⦠helping the shop owner getting rid of stock before their retirement.
Among other things there was a cut of lightweight swiss embroidery cotton in blue which may or may not have been enthusiastically grabbed with plans of victorian underwear.
It was too nice to be buried under layers and layers of fabric (and I suspect that the embroidery wouldnβt feel great directly on the skin under a corset), so the natural fit was something at the corset cover layer, and the fabric was enough for a combination garment of the kind often worn in the later Victorian age to prevent the accumulation of bulk at the waist.
It also has the nice advantage that in this time of corrupted morals it is perfectly suitable as outerwear as a nice summer dress.
Then life happened, the fabric remained in my stash for a long while, but finally this year I have a good late victorian block that I can adapt, and with spring coming it was a good time to start working on the summer wardrobe.
The block Iβve used comes from The Cuttersβ Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments and is for a jacket, rather than a bodice, but the bodice block from the same book had a 4 part back, which was too much for this garment. I reduced the ease around the bust a bit, which I believe worked just fine.
The main pattern was easy enough to prepare, I just had to add skirt panels with a straight side towards the front and flaring out towards the back, and I did a quick mockup from an old sheet to check the fit (good) and the swish and volume of the skirt (just right at the first attempt!).
The mockup was also used to get an idea of a few possible necklines, and I opted for a relatively deep V, and a front opening with a partial placket down to halfway between the waist and the hips. I also opted for a self-fabric ruffle at the hem and armscyes.
The only design choice left was the pocket situation: I wanted to wear this garment both as underwear (where pockets arenβt needed, and add unwanted bulk) and outerwear (where no pockets is not an option), and the fabric felt too thin to support the weight of the contents of a full pocket. So I decided to add slits into the seams, with just a modesty placket, and wear pockets under the dress as needed.
I decided to put the slits between the side and side back panels for two reasons: one is that this way the pockets can sit towards the back, where the fullness of the skirt is supposed to be, rather than under the flat front, and the other one is to keep the seams around the front panel clean, since they are the first ones to be changed when altering a garment for fit.
For the same reason, I didnβt trim the excess allowance from that seam: it means that it is a bit more bulky, but the fabric is thin enought that itβs not really noticeable, and it gives an additional cm for future alterations.
Then, as the garment was getting close to being finished I was measuring and storing some old cotton lace I had received as a gift, and there was a length of relatively small lace, and the finish on the neckline was pretty simple and called for embellishment, and who am I to deny embellishment to victorian inspired clothing?
First I had to finish attaching the ruffles, however, and this is when I cursed myself for not using the ruffler foot I have (it would have meant not having selvedges on all seams of the ruffle), and for pleating the ruffle rather than gathering it (I prefer the look of handsewn gathers, but here Iβm sewing everything by machine, and thatβs faster, right? (it probably wasnβt)).
Also, this is where I started to get low on pins, and I had to use the ones from the vintage1 box Iβve been keeping as decoration in the sewing room.
A few long sessions of pinning later, the ruffle was sewn and I could add the lace; I used white thread so that it would be hidden on the right side, but easily visible inside the garment in case Iβll decide to remove or change it later.
A few buttons and buttonholes later, the garment was ready, and the only thing left was to edit the step-by-step pictures and publish the pattern: itβs now available as #FreeSoftWear on my patterns website.
And Of course, I had to do a proper swish test of the finished dress with the ruffle, and Iβm happy to announce that it was fully passed.
Except, maybe I shouldnβt carry heavy items in my pockets when doing it? Oh, well.
I have other plans for the same pattern, but they involve making some crochet lace, so I expect I can aim at making them wearable in summer 2024.
Now I just have to wait for the weather to be a bit warmer, and then I can start enjoing this one.
- ok, even more vintage, since my usual pins come from a plastic box that has been probably bought in the 1980s.β©οΈ
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I argue we (#curl) should NOT pay docker. Not give in to extortion. This might mean that someone else soon suddenly will register our name and can serve whatever image they want there. 5 *billion* pulls indicate there's a user or two that might fall victim for this.
That's on docker, not us.
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swish test:
passed. uooops, it seems that the pocket was also swishing out.
stability test:
I didn't fall. I didn't faint. At my age that's a success, right? :D
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grazie!
sisi, disegnato seguendo le istruzioni di un manuale ottocentesco e cucito da me.
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Can somebody with an account on discord or something contact the people of freesewing.org/community/where⦠to let them know that on the Fediverse there is a community of a) people who sew and b) people who care about free culture c) an hashtag ( #FreeSoftWear ) where they have been mentioned a few times and it would be great if they wanted to join us?
Thanks!
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we already have more social media accounts than we manage to maintain.
Not to say we don't want to, merely saying that we are spread thin as it is. So unless the request comes with an offer to help out, I doubt it will get much traction
@Joost De Cock uops, so you know about the fediverse already, sorry.
And I'm also sorry that I can't probably help, since I don't have accounts on proprietary platforms, and thus can't act as a bridge between the communities :(
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One of my current #sewing projects is a summer garment and it's missing only 3.5 buttonholes, 6 buttons and probably a snap or a hook + eye. I think it's reasonable to aim at finishing it this evening.
Will it cause a sudden drop in the temperatures with a lot of rain?
(one may hope :D )
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it's done!
I also have the instructions and blogpost mostly written, but I need to take a few pictures and edit all of the ones I've already taken.
I hope to publish those in the next few days, unless it starts raining and raining and raining.
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English in a comment.
Di solito, quando devo chiedere a chi Γ¨ accanto a me, ma Γ¨ in confcall, se va bene l'ora di pranzo prendo un foglietto usato poche volte di carta, una stilografica e scrivo la domanda in buon #corsivo.
Oggi mia madre, al telefono, mi ha passato un pezzo di carta e una penna a sfera per capire cosa stessi cercando di chiederle (era βdevo andare avanti a mescolare il pranzo mentre tu sei al telefono?β), e mi sono accorta che mi son messa a scrivere in stampatello, facendo molta piΓΉ fatica.
La soluzione: abolite le penne a sfera. :D
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The pen they gave me was terrible though! The point would dip a little constantly :( And the one I had with me is heat erasable so not good for documents.
Tiny rant: US-/North America-centrism is so pervasive on the English-language Internet. People are quick to describe a plant or animal in a post as "invasive" without knowing where the photo was taken. I'm like, *where do you think it is native to?* Mars? β¦ΰ² β _β __ΰ² β©
I just saw a user assuming a planarian they found was invasive because that's what North Americans automatically parrot. They were in its native range. 
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The non-free-firmware repository
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PinePhonePro users might get nagging messages about packages being held back right nowβ¦
TL;DR: Please add the non-free-firmware section to the Debian repository line in /etc/apt/sources.list (recommended, even if you are not on PinePhonePros).
Details are in our blog post blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/03/β¦
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