Any strong feelings about #linux distro Sparky? My machine running #Ubuntu is struggling to keep up in the GNOME desktop environment and I'm looking for a light weight distro for 15 year old hardware.

Spotify for Creators

A THANKLESS MISSION - Homily for the 29th Sunday by Father Nick Blaha Homily Cast

Pray for missionaries

#homily #sermon #catholic #mission #missionary

Nostr is ususable on desktop for me. At least with my current Brave/Ubuntu/Windows arrangements. Everything was great until I started logging in with - nsec . app - instead of the Alby extension. If it weren't for #amethyst, Nostr would be competely inacessible for me.

So I was offline for a few days and came back to a note about a massive #linux vulnerability. I noticed the cups libraries were updated but I'm wondering if this was the fix? #asknostr

Slowly making headway on converting some old school computers that will soon be obsolete (can't run Windows 11) into personal servers with @Start9 #startOS This one was a thorny task... after getting the RAM upgraded to 32 GB and swapping out the old hard drive for a 120GB SSD that I had laying about, I had to fiddle around with boot drives and all sorts of nonsense I don't really understand until (with some help from the Telegram support channel) we got it working. Maybe I'll put some of these up on the Nostr marketplace here on #coracle soon....

Playing around with zap.cooking and got a clunky version of a great recipe posted.

zap.cooking

Apple Roses

Nice puff pastry dessert, savory and great for fall

This was dessert for my godson's baptismal anniversary. Make Baptism great again... I wish I could remember where I found this online, but all I have is a link to the original images saved in my note file. #catholic #cooking #recipe

Edward Moran, Ship at Sea, Sunset

the purpose of a system is what it does

Luff up and touch

Estoy sentado en el suelo de una habitación desocupada, el retrato de una joven no deja de mirarme mientras una vela se consume dando vida a la estancia. Ignoro el tiempo transcurrido, menosprecio el que vendrá. Es fácil sentir cerca la muerte admirando el pábilo doblegado especulando de manera vaga cuando reinará la noche. (Javier Solé, poema “Estancia en penumbra” Del libro de poemas “Las hilanderas”) #español #poesia #poemas #catolico

Pope? Or, Nope? #catholic #pope

Pope? Or, Nope? #catholic #catholicism #pope #vatican

On the phone with the police to file a report for theft on the property. Officer ends the call with "Have a better day" I will man, I will.

How to not binge watch a series: Never try to tear yourself away at the END of an episode. They have you on tenterhooks. Roll with it... and then pick some B roll a third of the way through the episode. Way easier to walk away. #lifehack #plebchain #grownostr

A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE - homily for the 22nd Sunday (Still looking for a better way to embed podcasts than Spotify. Open to suggestions.) A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE - Homily for the 22nd Sunday

Breez | The Interface of the Lightning Economy

Breez | The Interface of the Lightning Economy

Breez is realizing the future of bitcoin by opening the world of Lightning payments to apps and services

#ivf #catholic #sundaysermon

I enjoyed listening to Michael Palin’s Erebus, about the polar explorations conducted by the ship of that name, and its companion ship HMS Terror. They were bomb ships created at the end of the Napoleonic era, present at the shelling of Baltimore (?) during the war of 1812. Whatever battle the Star-Spangled Banner commemorates. They were retired from naval service not long after being launched, almost being obsolete as soon as they were built, but their reinforced hulls were ideal for plowing through sea ice. Incredibly, they did so under sail alone. HMS Erebus was discovered in the Arctic in 2016 or so and HMS Terror not long after. Their voyages all sound harrowing but particularly the last, of course. Conrad mentions them in Heart of Darkness. There are all sorts of lively characters and of course the usual preening superiority towards past attitudes and practices. I think one of the favorable qualities of the historical books I most enjoy is that they do not allow a contemporary perspective to intervene and attempt to demonstrate “our” superiority to the people of the past. The author's voice is totally subsumed into the characters’. I find the interjection of authorial voice so irritating as to cause me to stop reading the second I detect it. I tried listening to Erik Larsen’s new book on the start of the civil war but made the mistake of starting with the Introduction and had to return it. A new rule I’m considering putting into place is to never, ever, ever read introductions, and perhaps even avoid books that contain them entirely.

I’m scratching my head here: My Nostr profile loads just fine on @npub1n0st...k6h0 and @npub142gy...xrj0 but when I open Nostr on desktop, my profile won’t load. Doesn’t matter what client… @npub13myx...v3qk @npub1wyuh...87ez @npub1sn0r...jtws #asknostr

The sepulcher of the great Carmelite Teresa of Avila secured in a 10-of-10 multisig vault #catholic #bitcoin #multisig

Carmelite Quotes

St. Teresa of Avila is still incorrupt!

On August 28th, the tomb of St. Teresa of Avila was opened, revealing that her incorrupt body remains in the same condition as at the last opening ...

All, a quick request for some feedback: Recently I acquired some classroom desktop computers that are no longer needed, and would never be capable of running Windows 11. They're HP computers, mostly, with 125GB SSDs. They seem ideal for self hosting a personal server, and I have been successful getting #StartOS working on one of them after a RAM upgrade to 16GB, to future-proof it for the bitcoin stack. Obviously a larger SSD would be desirable but that's an easy upgrade if it's wanted. What do you think someone would be willing to pay for such a device?

Let er rip