ActivityPub is a plugin (and protocol) that lets blogs become part of a federated social web. It lets you see my posts with on Mastodon!
Follow me on by searching for: egee@egee.io in your Mastodon app.
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I’m Switching from Xfce to KDE on Arch Linux
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Hey Hobbyists! I’ve been running vanilla Arch Linux since last year but I’ve cycled through a number of GTK desktops. After a buggy experience with Xfce, I decided to switch back to Qt land.
My days of reinstalling and distro-hopping are over. Just regular ole Arch Linux is so good, I’ve all but dropped my aspirations to develop Hobby Linux. I’ll talk about that another time…
Xfce 4.20 was very buggy for me I don’t know what exactly the issue was but the desktop in Xfce 4.20 simply stopped working. It happened after plugging my TV in via HDMI. Another annoyance is having to enable “presentation mode” to disable Xfce’s screen saving features while watching a movie. On every other desktop, VLC being full-screened is enough.
Switching to KDE Plasma was truly the right move.
Update to 6.3 was flawless -
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Yay I think I finally updated my PFP here. That’s something I couldn’t doo from WordPress.. maybe a bug with the Friends plugin?
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Posts look silly on the website
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I have some polishing yet to do on the website because fedi posts look a bit silly on the website.
I mean.. maybe not, though? It might grow on me haha
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Load Test Recap
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Boo. I was hoping for fireworks (or the instance almost going down again). Instead I got a very well behaved system.
I actually need it to fall over because this didn’t touch the zramswap I configured.
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Load Test – Take 2
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So my last toot did indeed work but it kinda almost took the instance down.
There’s a massive network spike that happens after an engagement. I think I can soften the blow with zramswap.. Let’s find out!
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Is.. This Thing On?
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Last I checked, there was problems with posts showing up on the federated timeline. Has that been fixed yet? 😅
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A Day Down Is A Day Up!
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I was so busy yesterday that I didn’t post anything. I’ve been trying to fill up my front page with posts (of varying quality). Here’s another one added to the pile.
Site Health is good! Despite a couple of niggling things WordPress offers such cool features that you don’t think of when you host a static site. Site Health, for example. It provides all kinds of checks that you may not even think of when hosting your website. And I don’t want to think about them! I’m hosting this site to write posts, not maintain the back end.
That’s something that gets lost in the sauce for a lot of developers-turned-bloggers. Just because you know how to do everything by hand, doesn’t mean you should. I get paid to write and maintain code at my day job. I don’t get paid for it for doing it on my free time.
Sometimes, I just want to write. So here I go, writing again. 🖋️
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Still Comin’ Along
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It’s a new day and a holiday in the ‘States. It’s MLK day and I’m working on the website again this morning.
I put a hour or so into the home page and templates. I’m using the Raft theme and it’s capable but there’s lots of tweaks I’ve had to do.
I’m also still putting up content on the site so I know how everything looks and runs. Here’s another one! 🚀
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Egee.io: Back Online!
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On the last website, the most recent post was “Egee.io’s not dead yet!”… And then it abruptly died.
I was trying to wrangle the back end with Podman and everything went to hell. I decided to hose it all out, database included. We’re good now.
I’m writing this little piece to get some content out there. I’m browsing themes and I’m looking for a good one.