Looks like $250 to me? 50 grand for 200 devices?

I’ve been running opensuse for years now. It’s great. Welcome aboard

It Could Happen Here is often talking about what’s going on that week in the world. I wouldn’t try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I’d reckon), I’ve listened to most of what has come out since.

Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It’s only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that’s your thing.

I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they’ve gone as far back as the 1600s.

Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She’s mostly done short run things on a single topic. She’s on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.

Before covid lockdown I made my living as a street performer, doing magic shows for crowds of strangers. In that very niche community, “Fat hats!” is a common farewell or replacement for “good luck”. In this case “hat” refers to the donations in the hat rather than the actual hat.

Sounds like they have been.

I spread pesto inside my grilled cheese sandwiches

As someone not from Australia, is that an old gum tree?

He wrote a decent number of books aimed at kids. There are the Tiffany Aching books in Discworld for a start, as well as non discworld books like Only You Can Save Mankind or the Bromeliad books.

I wouldn’t stop a 10yo from reading any of the discworld books if they’re enjoying them, mind. There’s lots to find funny anyway, and we all had to start building our “reference vocabulary” somewhere.

Canadian here.

I said “sorry” (I have no idea why)

I may have a guess for you.

I’ve been using keepass for years. I use syncthing to keep the copy of the db on my phone and laptop and backup synced.

Reddit had a community called something like 3dprintmything where you could post what you were looking for and get bids from folks who could get it to you. I dunno if we have anything like that here.

Beau of the fifth column does 3-10 minute videos doing political analysis in what looks like a garage.

He said on a longer FAQ video that he’s set things up to hide his channel’s income from himself. He draws a salary that’s enough to take care of his family, but he doesn’t know how much more the channel earns – he doesn’t want his content to be influenced even unconsciously by which videos The Algorithm say paid better.

Yeah… I may have to do the same. I had plans this weekend that this slowed down. Thanks for your help. I hadn’t seen the other thread or the mastodon post.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Launch a GNU Emacs
#
# The environment variable EMACS_TOOLKIT is used to determine
# the prefered GUI. Possible values/types of EMACS_TOOLKIT are
#
#   nox -- for pure console based GNU Emacs 
#   gtk -- for full GTK2/3  based GNU Emacs
#   x11 -- for full LUCID   based GNU Emacs (used Xaw3d)
#
# Should work but remember history
#   bnc#345669 -- Emacs doesn't un-maximize in KDE/KWin
#   bnc#342385 -- Emacs doesn't keep the iconic information in KDE/KWin
#
# if test -z "$EMACS_TOOLKIT" ; then
#     EMACS_TOOLKIT=gtk
#     KDE_FULL_SESSION=$(xprop -root KDE_FULL_SESSION 2>/dev/null)
#     case "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" in
#     *true*) EMACS_TOOLKIT=x11
#     esac
# fi
#
: ${EMACS_TOOLKIT:=gtk}
#
# Enabled again
#
if test "$EMACS_TOOLKIT" = gtk; then
    # Currently (2013/05/24) the parser of the GNOME libs
    # are broken that is it is not independent from locale
    LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
    GDK_RGBA=0
    export LC_NUMERIC GDK_RGBA
fi
arg0=$0
argv=("$@")
if   test -x ${arg0}-${EMACS_TOOLKIT}
then
    set --   ${arg0}-${EMACS_TOOLKIT}
elif test -x ${arg0}-x11
then
    set --   ${arg0}-x11
elif test -x ${arg0}-nox
then
    set --   ${arg0}-nox
else
    echo "no emacs binary found"
    exit 1
fi
if [[ "$1" =~ .*-nox ]] ; then
    exec -a $arg0 ${1+"$@"} "${argv[@]}"
fi
dbusdaemon=$(type -p dbus-daemon 2>/dev/null)
#
# Now check for valid dbus, e.g. after su/sudo/slogin
#
if test -n "$dbusdaemon" ; then
    #
    # Workaround for boo#1205109
    #
    if test "$EUID" = 0 -a "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" != /run/user/0; then
	unset XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_DESKTOP_DIR XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_DATA_DIRS
#	unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
	if test ! -d /run/user/0; then 
	    systemctl start user@0 >/dev/null 2>&1
	fi
	if test -S /run/user/0/bus; then
	    DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:/run/user/0/bus
	fi
    fi

    # Standard on modern systems
    : ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:=/run/user/${EUID}}
    export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

    # Oops ... no dbus-daemon then launch a new session
    if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
	dbuslaunch=$(type -p dbus-launch 2>/dev/null)
	dbusession=$(type -p dbus-run-session 2>/dev/null)
	if test -z "$dbusession" -a -n "$dbuslaunch" ; then
	    set -- $dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --close-stderr --exit-with-session ${1+"$@"}
	    arg0=$dbuslaunch
	elif test -n "$dbusession" ; then
	    set -- $dbusession -- ${1+"$@"}
	    arg0=$dbusession
	else
	    arg0=emacs
	fi
    elif test -S "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus" ; then
	dbusupdate=$(type -p dbus-update-activation-environment 2>/dev/null)
	dbusstatus=$(systemctl --user is-active dbus.service 2>/dev/null)
	if test -n "$dbusupdate" -a "$dbusstatus" != active ; then
	    export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus"
	    $dbusupdate --systemd "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"
        fi
    fi
    unset dbuslaunch dbusdaemon
fi
#
# Disable AT bridge if not accessible
#
if test -z "$NO_AT_BRIDGE" ; then
    gsettings=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility 2>/dev/null)
    if test -z "$gsettings" -o "$gsettings" = false ; then
	NO_AT_BRIDGE=1
	export NO_AT_BRIDGE
    fi
    unset gsettings
fi
#
# Check input method for working ibus setup
#
case "$XMODIFIERS" in
@im=ibus*)
    _arch=$(getconf LONG_BIT)
    if test "$_arch" != 64
    then
	unset _arch
    else
	_arch=-64
    fi
    if type -p gtk-query-immodules-3.0${_arch} &> /dev/null
    then
	_ibus=$(gtk-query-immodules-3.0${_arch} | grep im-ibus)
    else
	unset _ibus
    fi
    if test -n "$_ibus"
    then
	if test -z "$GTK_IM_MODULE" -o "$GTK_IM_MODULE" != ibus
	then
	    export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
	fi
    else
	unset XMODIFIERS
    fi
    unset _ibus _arch
    if ! ibus list-engine &> /dev/null
    then
	unset GTK_IM_MODULE XMODIFIERS
    fi
    ;;
*)
esac
unset G_MESSAGES_DEBUG G_DEBUG G_MESSAGES_PREFIXED
exec -a $arg0 ${1+"$@"} "${argv[@]}"

I started by checking emacs --version and confirming that it reported 29.1. The file at which emacs (/usr/bin/emacs) is not a symlink, it’s a bash script that was ultimately running emacs-gtk, which is a binary in the same directory.

If I run emacs-gtk directly, things appear to work, but I get this warning:

(emacs-gtk:15168): dbind-WARNING **: 11:28:59.261: AT-SPI: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

This appears to be related to screen reader support. My repos do have packages for at-spi, but I don’t reckon that hiding a warning I might see once per reboot is a strong enough reason to install it.

If I run emacs-x11 directly, things seem to work, though if I turn on menu-bar-mode or check the menu with F10 it looks awful.

If I set and export EMACS_TOOLKIT to x11 and run the bash script, it seems to take longer to load and spams hundreds of lines in the shell as it announces that it’s loading things. I’m not that bothered by long loading times as I’m seldom restarting, but I don’t know why it’s so spammy when I start it through the script.

I’d like to better understand what’s going on. For now, I think I have a working setup again if I just skip the script and run emacs-gtk directly, but I’m sure there’s something wrong with my setup, and I hate not knowing things. I’ll include the bash script in a reply to myself here.

Thanks, I’ll try and look for that when I get the chance. I got called away from the computer right after making my post

Oh, hell yeah.

I’ll be trying this tomorrow when I get back to the computer. I mostly live in emacs and Firefox and I’ve been annoyed enough by having to mentally codeswitch to non-emacs bindings when I’m in FF that I’ve started using eww a lot more.