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- Github
- https://github.com/Simmonz
- Open Collective
- https://opencollective.com/matthew-boyd1
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.
Joined Feb 2022
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Late Roman Bronze Ring Depicting Peacock Circa 300’s-400’s AD
This here is an absolutely beautiful artefact of history! A fully intact ring from roughly 1600 years ago!
This Roman ring is from around the years 300AD-400AD and is made of bronze.
The ring features a circular bezel depicting a peacock.
The peacock is engraved in a stylised manner, facing left with spread tail, incised body and raised neck.
In early Christian communities, the peacock symbolised the rapid growth and influence of the religion.
Truly a remarkable piece of history which as can be seen from the images has been well preserved!
This would go brilliantly in any historical collection!
UK Ring Size is H
I have more like this for sale on my website so if you are interested in such things please visit https://authenticantiquearms.co.uk/
https://authenticantiquearms.co.uk/product/late-roman-bronze-ring-depicting-peacock-circa-300s-400sad/
This here is an absolutely beautiful artefact of history! A fully intact ring from roughly 1600 years ago!
This Roman ring is from around the years 300AD-400AD and is made of bronze.
The ring features a circular bezel depicting a peacock.
The peacock is engraved in a stylised manner, facing left with spread tail, incised body and raised neck.
In early Christian communities, the peacock symbolised the rapid growth and influence of the religion.
Truly a remarkable piece of history which as can be seen from the images has been well preserved!
This would go brilliantly in any historical collection!
UK Ring Size is H
I have more like this for sale on my website so if you are interested in such things please visit https://authenticantiquearms.co.uk/
https://authenticantiquearms.co.uk/product/late-roman-bronze-ring-depicting-peacock-circa-300s-400sad/
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Need to know whether a piece of hardware is supported by free software? #hNode has you covered! Its search engine will help you verify #freesoftware compatibility. https://u.fsf.org/3uj
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It sometimes surprises people that the FSF does all its work with only eleven staff members. Well, we are blessed with the support of a crew of fantastic volunteers!
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Floating Islands with Dark Chocolate Crème Anglaise and Toasted Pistachios
Ingredients
5 large eggs, white and yolks separated
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 cups whole milk
2/3 cup heavy cream
5 ounces 70% cacao dark chocolate (such as Valrhona), chopped
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
3/4 cup chopped toasted pistachios
Directions
Place egg whites in a large bowl, and refrigerate, covered, until ready to use. Whisk together egg yolks and granulated sugar in a medium-size heatproof bowl until mixture is light yellow and creamy; set aside.
Bring milk and cream to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high. Place a kitchen towel under bowl with egg yolk mixture to secure bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly pour hot milk mixture into egg yolk mixture until fully combined. Transfer mixture back to pan. Reduce heat to medium, and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture coats back of a spoon and leaves a path when a finger is drawn across spoon, 3 to 4 minutes. (Do not let it simmer.) Remove from heat; stir in chocolate until smooth. Pour mixture through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a bowl; discard any solids. Refrigerate, uncovered, until chilled, about 2 hours.
Bring a medium skillet filled with water to just below a simmer (about 180°F) over medium. Whisk chilled egg whites until soft peaks form, 3 to 4 minutes. Slowly whisk in powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. Whisk mixture until stiff peaks form, about 1 minute.
Line a baking sheet with paper towels. Use a large oval spoon to scoop about 2/3 cup meringue. With a second large oval spoon, gently transfer scooped meringue from spoon to spoon, shaping meringue into a smooth, oval-shaped quenelle. Gently drop quenelle into prepared 180°F water. Repeat to make 2 more quenelles. Cook until set and puffed up, about 4 minutes, flipping once halfway through. Using a slotted spoon, gently lift quenelles from water, and transfer to prepared baking sheet. Let cool 5 minutes. Repeat shaping and poaching to make a total of 6 quenelles.
To serve, divide chocolate sauce among 6 shallow bowls; place 1 quenelle in center of each bowl. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios, and serve.
Ingredients
5 large eggs, white and yolks separated
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 cups whole milk
2/3 cup heavy cream
5 ounces 70% cacao dark chocolate (such as Valrhona), chopped
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
3/4 cup chopped toasted pistachios
Directions
Place egg whites in a large bowl, and refrigerate, covered, until ready to use. Whisk together egg yolks and granulated sugar in a medium-size heatproof bowl until mixture is light yellow and creamy; set aside.
Bring milk and cream to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high. Place a kitchen towel under bowl with egg yolk mixture to secure bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly pour hot milk mixture into egg yolk mixture until fully combined. Transfer mixture back to pan. Reduce heat to medium, and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture coats back of a spoon and leaves a path when a finger is drawn across spoon, 3 to 4 minutes. (Do not let it simmer.) Remove from heat; stir in chocolate until smooth. Pour mixture through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a bowl; discard any solids. Refrigerate, uncovered, until chilled, about 2 hours.
Bring a medium skillet filled with water to just below a simmer (about 180°F) over medium. Whisk chilled egg whites until soft peaks form, 3 to 4 minutes. Slowly whisk in powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. Whisk mixture until stiff peaks form, about 1 minute.
Line a baking sheet with paper towels. Use a large oval spoon to scoop about 2/3 cup meringue. With a second large oval spoon, gently transfer scooped meringue from spoon to spoon, shaping meringue into a smooth, oval-shaped quenelle. Gently drop quenelle into prepared 180°F water. Repeat to make 2 more quenelles. Cook until set and puffed up, about 4 minutes, flipping once halfway through. Using a slotted spoon, gently lift quenelles from water, and transfer to prepared baking sheet. Let cool 5 minutes. Repeat shaping and poaching to make a total of 6 quenelles.
To serve, divide chocolate sauce among 6 shallow bowls; place 1 quenelle in center of each bowl. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios, and serve.
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For those who have a interest in RISC-V the Sifive Unmatched is on sale right now. 60% off. For me that means $433.55 CAD plus tax. Very tempting. The only thing holding me back is the fact that getting ARM64 and RISC-V devices booting from NVME is a pain and chore still. If I couldn't do it then i'd be stuck on micro SD which would be painfully slow. At least on a Star64 i'd have EMMC as a fallback which is a little better. I still may pull the trigger just to have the hartdware as the software side grows and matures. In any case here is a link for those interested:
https://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/SiFive/HF105-001?qs=Imq1NPwxi75JBw6ulD0quQ==
https://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/SiFive/HF105-001?qs=Imq1NPwxi75JBw6ulD0quQ==
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I recently purchased a NovaCustom NV41 to replace my aging T400 laptop. I have been very happy with my NV41 as well as NovaCustom as a whole. Before my purchase they not only answered my questions about the differences between Heads and UEFI but did so in detail with comparison screenshots. The laptop had more customization options available than pretty much any other brand I could find. The laser engraving on the palm rest looks fantastic. The laptop shipped within a couple business days and arrived to my doorstep in Canada about seven days from when I purchased it which I find to be great turnaround time. Unlike some other brands they include duties and fees in the price I paid so I didn't have to worry about how much extra I would have to pay once it hit Canada's border and my government would take an extra pound of flesh from me. The laptop was well packaged and everything on the inside was in pristine condition.
The build quality of the laptop has been great. All I have to do is remove the screws from the bottom panel and then I have full access to the fans, the wifi, the NVME, pretty much everything but the keyboard. Upgrades and maintenance will be very easy like this. The battery life is fairly good so far. I get about 3 hours and 45 minutes from full charge to about 10% left. This is with zero tweaks and the screen running at full brightness so I can probably improve that with some effort. I run the libre kernel on my NV41 which is probably worse for battery life than the normal kernel so take that into account. For comparison my librebooted T400 with a Q9300 CPU got about 2 hours of battery life on the libre kernel so I get almost double the life compared to what my old laptop got. The fans are usually quiet and only ramp up when playing a game or doing a heavy task.
Performance wise my NV41 has been great for word processing, email, web browsing, as well as 2D games and visual novels. I opted for the i7-1260P CPU, 32GB RAM, and the blob free wifi chip. You can play some 3D games on the laptop but that would be better suited for a gaming desktop which I have.
I would highly recommend NovaCustom and will be sure to buy from them again in the future. The service has been great as well as I find Dasharo to be the best Coreboot variant I have used in terms of BIOS options. The price was more than reasonable as for $2296 CAD I received a great laptop, a laptop bag, a docking station, two adapters, and shipping/duties covered. Pretty much the only complaint I can think of is that I wish there was a visual indication on the keyboard when Caps lock is on. That's literally the only critique I have which is very minor and not a real issue at all. I am using Devuan 5 with the libre kernel and SysVinit on my NV41 and everything has worked out of the box without any issue.
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Briar 1.5.12 was released with some UI improvements and material design 3 thanks to @uradotdesign https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/changelog
2D point and click game "The founders of [redacted]" was released recently. It has a native Linux version and is available DRM free at Itch. It was made with some FOSS tools such as LÖVE and was developed on Linux machines.
https://apicici.itch.io/the-founders-of-redacted
The developer has other games all available for free of charge although one can donate if they are so inclined to support them:
The developer has a presence on Mastodon:
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You’ve received a Penpot file or downloaded a template from the Community—what’s next?
This tutorial will guide you through getting started. 🤓
https://penpot.app/blog/tutorial-how-to-navigate-a-penpot-file/
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Print out copies of FSF stickers for your own uses, local conferences and more: https://www.fsf.org/resources/stickers
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Nice end to the GoldenWeek, got sensors working on the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 !
Still WIP, but sofar no troubles with #phosh on #postmarketos
FOSS text based rougelite "Steam Sky" has veen updated to version 10.0.2. This update fixes eight bugs and resizes the button to the enemy's ship's status in the combat screen. The code is licensed using GPLv3.0. The game is available at Itch; Github; and can be compiled from source.
The main website for the game is here:
https://www.laeran.pl/repositories/steamsky/wiki?name=Home
The source code for the game is here:
https://www.laeran.pl/repositories/steamsky/dir?ci=tip
It's also mirrored on Github:
https://github.com/thindil/steamsky
The release notes for this udpate are here:
https://thindil.itch.io/steam-sky/devlog/764841/version-1001-arrived
The lead developer has a presence on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@thindil
The Itch page for Steam Sky is here:
https://thindil.itch.io/steam-sky
If you wish to help the development of Steam Sky with a donation you can do so through Open Collective; Liberapay and Github:
https://opencollective.com/laeran
#fossgaming #linuxgaming #steamsky #opencollective #liberapay
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Glad to finally have #Zstd compression enabled for #AlpineLinux's linux-firmware package exactly half a year (minus a few hours) after originally opening the merge request during our post-Fosdem #postmarketOS hackathon!
If you're running Alpine (or postmarketOS) and have all linux-firmware packages installed, the on-disk space will go down from around a gigabyte to around half a gigabyte or so, which I think is pretty decent.
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- Github
- https://github.com/Simmonz
- Open Collective
- https://opencollective.com/matthew-boyd1
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.
Joined Feb 2022
