NepoRC 2.13.7 is starting up enbyOS
 * Mounting gender filesystem ...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/null, missing codepage or helper program
 * Setting pronouns to they/them ...
 * Setting timezone to UTC+2 ...
Starting about-me runlevel
 * Greeting user ...
Welcome to my page! (doasu.dev)
snac login: me
Password:
Last login: this week (localhost)
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Every now and again I get asked why I use Gentoo, and I usually say that it's the perfect OS for me, or that does what I want it to do. (Though, sometimes I go on rambling for hours... )
I think that this article conveys the point of Gentoo really well ( much better than I do :p ), so if you're curious, give it a read!

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116650337504283427
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116554856666136859

Huge thank you to the Gentoo community for their exceptional work

possibly will break flatpak in: [...]
- NixOS - is everything cool and happy on NixOS in that case? I would be cautious.

In fact the Gentoo userbase of Flatpak is rather large.
[...] main reason [...] is to get Steam running

I suspect the same thing could happen as with systemd-logind, i.e., the systemd-specific parts being extracted to a distro-agnostic solution (elogind in that case).
The only reason I see for not making it distro-agnostic from the start is that it's easier (for them) to target systemd.

CC: @xgqt@functional.cafe @kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net @LAS@floss.social @jorge@hachyderm.io @2something@transfem.social

Welcome Kori to the World! Kori is KDE's non-binary⚧️ pet dragon and they'll be presiding over KDE's 30th anniversary celebrations throughout 🏳️‍🌈Pride Month🏳️‍⚧️.

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#kdeAt30 #egg #Pride

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The egg from https://floss.social/@kde/116515643084742255 has burst open and Kori, KDE's non-binary 🏳️‍🌈 dragon, bursts into the world!

Boosting your post, just in case anyone out there knows something.

CC: @max@manmachine.me

I love boat city #art #photography

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Interior of abandoned factory, everything is dark except the door frame in which one can see stairs, bricks, and rubble

piwo.sh once again was pretty awesome :3 Great talks; great people; new faces from fedi met; @hspoz would be a perfect tokamak thanks to its toroidal topology. I even spontaneously decided to do a lightning talk about eating ice cream wrong. What the hell a guy just drove onto a closing rail crossing while I’m writing this and I only just got back to boat city. Anyway; I had a lot of fun, come to piwo next year! Log onto piwo right now. Go to piwo. Dive into piwo. You can piwo.sh it. It’s on piwo.sh. Piwo has it for you. Piwo has it for you.

Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?

If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:

1. Gentoo is independent.

There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.

2. Gentoo aims to be secure.

We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.

3. Gentoo is made by humans.

We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.

4. Gentoo supports sustainability.

This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.

Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.

And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.

What do you appreciate in Gentoo?

TIL: The word "average" comes from Arabic "ʕawār", which means: fault, blemish, defect, flaw. And in Polish we have a word "awaria", coming from the same root, meaning failure.

New on #blog (this time with quotes from Fedi): "Why Gentoo?"

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo/

"""
Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how #Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are we doing that? Well, besides being hardcore, the common sentiment goes for performance. So yeah, Gentoo users must be some kind of hardcore ricers who try to squeeze every last bit of their system performance.

To be honest, I don’t think that’s a good way to describe Gentoo. Yes, compiling is at the core of it. But performance? I don’t think so, at least not in the obvious, -O9999 -fzomg-fast way. The world has moved on, CPUs have gotten faster, optimizations have gotten smarter, and distributions have started optimizing more aggressively. Optimization-wise, I suspect your average Ubuntu package with generic optimizations may be no slower than the equivalent Gentoo package fine-tuned for your CPU. And if it’s not, then it probably won’t make a real difference anyway.

There’s much more to Gentoo than that. Yes, some of it comes from building from source: the flexibility. But a lot of it comes from the wider Gentoo philosophy, the philosophy that brought us all together. The idea that Gentoo is the distribution we’re making for ourselves and people who enjoy Gentoo. So if I were to make a few arguments for Gentoo, I’d focus on that. And this is what I’d like to do here.
"""

Every now and again I get asked why I use Gentoo, and I usually say that it's the perfect OS for me, or that does what I want it to do. (Though, sometimes I go on rambling for hours... )
I think that this article conveys the point of Gentoo really well ( much better than I do :p ), so if you're curious, give it a read!

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116650337504283427
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116554856666136859

Huge thank you to the Gentoo community for their exceptional work

i hate x11 (the protocol) so hard, like excuse me what the fuck:

      tmp_name = g_ascii_strdown (dev->name, -1);
      if (strstr (tmp_name, " pad"))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_TABLET_PAD;
      else if (strstr (tmp_name, "wacom") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "pen") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "stylus") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "eraser"))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_PEN;
      else if (!strstr (tmp_name, "mouse") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "pointer") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "qemu usb tablet") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "spice vdagent tablet") &&
               !strstr (tmp_name, "virtualbox usb tablet") &&
               has_abs_axes (display, dev->classes, dev->num_classes))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_TOUCHSCREEN;
      else if (strstr (tmp_name, "trackpoint") ||
               strstr (tmp_name, "dualpoint stick"))
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_TRACKPOINT;
      else
        input_source = GDK_SOURCE_MOUSE;

what do you mean this is how you recognize the type of an input device?

spot #photography #janacore #architecture

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A minimalist photo of a modernist building corner, it is beige coloured, sharp corners and dark dark grey blinds. The sky above is pale blue. A street lamp stands infront of the building, towering it, facing down the corner, like a spotlight

some recent IR experiments with a 720nm long-pass filter. I like this, it's dramatic and has it's own neat characteristic, buut I will probably mostly adhere to colour IR photography, I enjoy that a bit more #photography

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a tall, monochrome photo of a hill sloping up to two trees. The foliage of the trees is bright white, while the sky above is dark. The lawn up there has dark shaded and mildly grey spots

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a monochrome composition of many young trees on a lawn, their foliage is bright white, the lawn bright grey. the shaded areas are dark. The sky above is very dark, except for a sole spot, the moon

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a wide shot of a building overgrown by plants. the photo is monochrome, the foliage bright white, the building, sky and shade contrasty dark

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a photo up a buildings corner. it is grey against a grey sky, rather flat in profile. ontop of the buildings a few trees reach into the sky, their foliage is bright white

hey-ho! i have a weird suspicion that in the perspective of 2-3 months i’ll be actively looking for a job (so not YET, but with how the market is looking like, I prefer to announce myself ahead of time)

are YOU looking for…

• a system administrator (linux, a tad rusty at windows server, learning OpenBSD and NetBSD)?
• a network administrator (touched too many vendors’ tech to list, implemented IP stacks for shits and giggles, helped run an AS)?
• a technical writer?
• a digital archivist?
• someone who knows WAY TOO MUCH about shell scripting?
• (this list is incomplete)

if so, then please get in touch! CV available upon request. part time / flexible hours preferred, I want enough funds to stay afloat, not to get rich (read: i’m exceptionally cheap) #GetFediHired

I wish more modern software was like #snac2 (:

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

You wouldn't NixOS a payphone

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A decommissioned Polish payphone, its screen replaced with a touch screen, showing a NixOS login screen

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commits/master/

orchid ~ # rc-service agetty.ttyS0 status
 * status: started since 2026-05-28 20:26:12
 * command line: /sbin/agetty -a root --noclear ttyS0 linux 
 * pid: 1695
 * memory: 7.3MiB
 * cgroup: /openrc.agetty.ttyS0
 *      1694 supervise-daemon agetty.ttyS0 --start --pidfile /run/agetty.ttyS0.pid --respawn-period 60 /sbin/agetty -- -a root --noclear ttyS0 linux
 *      1695 /bin/login -f --
 *      1702 -bash
 *      1745 /sbin/openrc-run /etc/init.d/agetty.ttyS0 status
 *      1746 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /etc/init.d/agetty status

If a job is started with ‘&|’ or ‘&!’, then that job is immediately disowned.
~ https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Jobs-_0026-Signals.html#Jobs