• Continuing from attempting either a #NixOS or #Ubuntu install on the #Mac Mini collapsed:: true
    • Can’t seem to get partition bootable
    • Finally got holding down option at boot working
    • reFind is installed as per the Make Use Of article
    • Even got a Nix install screen up (Fission Discord), but then it hangs
    • Going to try an #Ubuntu install to see if that works
    • It does! But dumps into grub after selecting Ubuntu from the reFind boot loader
    • Looking at this reFind and Grub details issue, booted back into MacOS and copied the drivers folder over
    • Now it crashes when selecting boot
    • I’m giving up on this quest, it is likely issues with the hard drive itself at this point
    • I have a 100GB ext4 partition on the Mac Mini
    • This might be accessible in running VirtualBox through raw disk mode
    • Also been meaning to try out Multipass which appears to work alongside VirtualBox
    • Over on the Macbook Air with an M1 chip, UTM looks interesting
  • Robin Berjon The Internet Transition
    • ((63c48e05-41f1-40ce-af19-fc7d6da51e4c))
    • via Mark Upton dropping the link into the #Fission Discord
  • How to user Mastodon’s built-on oauth provider as the authentication provider for WriteFreely #Mastodon #OAuth #WriteFreely
    • This looks like a good method. I think I can stand up a WriteFreely instance without having to self host plnetwork.xyz for starters
  • I did some looking into Cepheus Engine, an #open gaming #TTRPG
    • The Cepheus Engine SRD is all in HTML and available from GitHub, so I should be able to pour it into #LogSeq
  • gofoss.net: a series of guides and tutorials teaching about #privacy and #opensource app adoption
  • Craig Hockenberry on Twitterific and other popular 3rd party #Twitter clients being shut down

    • One thing I’ve noticed is that everyone is going to great lengths to make something that replaces the clients we’ve known for years. That’s an excellent goal that eases a transition in the short-term, but ignores how a new open standard(ActivityPub) can be leveraged in new and different ways.

      Federation exposes a lot of different data sources that you’d want to follow. Not all of these sources will be Mastodon instances: you may want to stay up-to-date with someone’s Micro.blog, or maybe another person’s Tumblr, or someone else’s photo feed. There are many apps and servers for you to choose from.

      ==It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline.== That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to an endpoint.