This is it, boys and girls! The year of the Linux Desktop is this! I can smell it! :-D

For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It's a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community.

Can I create a post?

I swear that I have muted all the cat's feeds already. Yet, a new(?) one popped up.

Grok's "daddy" teaching it the good stuff early on:

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.

"Forgive me for the harm I have caused this world. None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on. I am thankful to have been caught, my fall cut short by those with wizened hands. All I can be is sorry, and that is all I am."

So, Monday, we meet again. I mean, it is not a complain per se. I am glad to meet Monday! I am just not-so-glad to meet the working-from-office Monday. But, so it is.

I wonder if this twtxt will kick Yarnd into working again. There is only one way to find out, right?

This is up @movq ally, a tiny OS that runs in a boot sector. That's, it's only 510 bytes! But check it out, and see what it can do. Truly amazing. Can you beat that?!

I figure Eris is getting and update. A real certificate this time? Time will tell!

Hear, hear, @prologic! :-)

I had Chick-fil-A breakfast today (sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit, hash browns, coffee, and orange juice). Then at lunch my work place offered hot dogs. I had two (kosher, if that matters), plus a coke, a macadamia nuts cookie, and a small chocolate brownie.

So, here I am, at home, feeling hungry but guilty and refusing to eat anything else for the rest of the day. To top it off, I have only clocked 4,000 steps today (and I don’t feel like walking). I am going to hell, am I?

"Here’s what we do know: After their meeting ended and Vice President Vance left the room, the pope was still alive. We can deduce that he was alive, because he was heard asking an assistant, “Ho appena incontrato il volto del diavolo?” which roughly translates to, “Have I just encountered the face of the devil?” It’s a very common question that has been asked in many languages after encounters with JD Vance."

I couldn't help but chuckling a bit while reading.

Testing mentions, immediately followed by commas. Let's see: @prologic, this one is local, it might not break. Now, this one @movq, isn't local. Nor this @lyse, one. Will they break. Let's find out!

This is something for @movq and old OS hobbyists alike: FreeDOS 1.4! Get it while it's hot!

"A handbag belonging to the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem containing her passport, department security badge and $3,000 in cash was stolen on Sunday night at a restaurant in Washington, the department confirmed."

Oh dear!

I miss @kat. Just sayin'.

@prologic please reply to this one. I want to make sure I am not seeing a ghost here. 😅

Setting custom primary and secondary colours isn’t working. I tried “red” for first, and “orange” for second. Didn’t work.

The tiny avatars, as expected (because they showed normal to you too @prologic), do not show under macOS’s Safari, but they do show on iOS’s Safari. It truly is a puzzle.

Conduwit is set to archive on GitHub. It was my favourite Matrix server, which I still self host. I think I am going to get off Matrix altogether now.

Maybe go back to Jabber?

@prologic page navigation on profiles (mobile, at least) overlaps the collapsed twtxt text area.

ABC Australia is reporting of a potential market manipulation in the US. Potential? I would call it almost certain. For as much as I would like not to be dragged into politics, it is rather impossible these days.

@bendereapl.me let's see how this mention comes out. I noticed that @kat's pod doesn't have this problem. That is, their mention to you works fine.

One was able to purchase iPhones on instalments (and interest free), whether they were associated with a carrier, or not. The only way to buy them on instalments now is if the are associated with a carrier; otherwise one gets charged the full amount up front.

So, yeah, going to return a couple of those this weekend.

@prologic, is it my idea, or the size of avatars have gotten smaller?

Finally lawn is mowed---well, the one at the front, the wild forest in the back will have to wait a bit longer. I haven't clocked my 10,000 steps today, but what I didn't walking, I did through full body "exercise". Will call it a day. 😅

@kat, your forum (Angel) is dishing out a 502.

@prologic, from IRC:

1. Saving preferences is failing. Specifically trying to save "Open Links" on the same window. For sure it isn't happening. Check errors on browser's console.
2. Search results pagination is broken. Search for "twtxt.net" and see it. Also, picking oldest/newest makes no difference on that search query.

Hey, hey, I am back. I lost all my worthless twtxts, but at least I still have the blackjack and hookers!