Mike Stone

Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon

A recent Activity Report over on Haiku’s Blog-O-Sphere mentioned that two developers are currently working on the ARM port of the OS. I think this is important for a couple different reasons.

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On the 25th of April, 2020, I made my first post after accepting the #100DaysToOffload challenge issued by Kev. I actually managed to complete that challenge on the 6th of December. I haven’t written anything longer than an email since. A new year has begun.

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On the 25th of April, 2020, I made my first post after accepting the #100DaysToOffload challenge issued by Kev. Today, I’m making my 100th post. So, how did it go? Was it everything you ever wanted and more?

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Not long ago, I wrote an how I felt that maybe it was time for Mycroft to get into the mobile space, and how Pine64 was the best partner to take them there. I went so far as to say it was a match made in heaven.

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I'm a huge fan of the Vivaldi web browser, so when I saw an article pop up in my news feed about a Vivaldi mail client, I just had to check this out.

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A couple days ago, a friend of mine asked me about a screenshot she saw displaying the desktop of a Raspberry Pi 400. In the shot was a window displaying neofetch showing a Raspberry logo, and she was curious.

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One of my favorite things about #Mycroft is its open nature. It's not as advanced as Alexa, Google's Assistant, or even Siri and Cortana, but it's infinitely more private and just as infinitely more customizable. Today I thought I'd run through a really quick and basic skill creation.

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I've recently migrated over to Fedora 33 after an unfortunate accident with my UbuntuDDE installation. Fedora has a very slick Gnome interface that is almost perfect in it's implementation. Still, perfection is subjective, so I've added a couple tweaks here and there to get it just a little bit closer. Here's what I'm using.

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My new Pinephone arrived today. Unfortunately, I haven't had a lot of time to play with it. Maybe twenty minutes, if I'm being generous. Even though my time with it has been short, I thought I'd give you my initial impressions of the device.

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A week ago, GitHub received a DMCA takedown notice regarding a program called youtube-dl. Their response has shattered the tiny amount of trust that I'd started to have in them.

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