And here we go: a good old fashion blogfeed!

... the date(west Europe) and some words. I doubt I would be feeding the blog daily (day... what?).

ter 21 mar 2023 21:30:00 WET

Latest news was one of the laptops was running NetBSD: I understand from that one a tid bit more than when I first booted Linux, in the Caribeans, sometime around 2011. I am blank in front of ls command that displays none, but when I key in a complete path, yes!, I can edit a config file. It is nice and cryptic and new to me. It is really running on a 32-noGUI and i am not used to this... a laptop that has no battery and a whim to power on or not. Some plastic bit is missing: as such the physical RAM is there to be seen.

The smoll dork web quest is slowed by this discovery.

What is more, I have a real world ToDoList that keeps expanding. I'll probably bable in a new gemlog entry next to put the garden , the trees, and the feeding forest topics in the limelight.

Another topic that was there: radio. A few weeks ago, looking for a light web radio client, i found one that was shy, lightweight and with a 4-options menu: Goodvibes. Sudo apt installed it. Next (two weeks) I was wondering how I could find a nice directory exploring into the maze of commercial and web radios.... Most of the directories found are 'download my app, stay with me' websites. I found radio-browser.info that provides the URLs clearly: I can start add those in Goodvibes and then play. Next.

There is a lot of linuxy linux stuff to learn. Keyboard mapping for instance. Where when what tools, what is it. Another one, the Emacs config file. Making proper use of a domain, subdomain, a home served DNS and the list goes on and on.

ter 14 mar 2023 21:22:22 WET

Happy and rather proud to post this one from an old derelict 32bit machine that was given to me in 2015.... I bought a data CD RW; Burnt NetBSD ; Installed it.... followed the guide... Well it seems to work. I have a BSD machine home!!!!! (fracking french keyboard; though)

sáb 11 mar 2023 18:13:11 WET

This was falling into one more rabbit hole a couple of days ago. Installing Lagrange Gemini client as an Appimage on my old-new daily driver, freshly loaded with FerenOS and where I gave up on the idea of compiling Emacs.

I remembered some things on the first day of using Lagrange:

First of all, this feeling of realy liking Gemini, the simplicity of the protocol, the speed of access and the focus on thoughts, text, journaling. I am grateful that I have encountererd this delightful protocole, and yes I believe it will revive the net.

Then I remember I resumed capsule hoping: in this multiverse there are so many capsules, some quietly drifting away in the Gemini space, others active and busy. I read a lot and remade my bookmarks list.

Finally, I remembered a line on the introductory page of the client, pointing to a Gopher search page. I found it once more, thinking, 'Well I know a bit of Gemini now, why not also read about Gopher. There we go, reading the history and then skimming quite a few Phlogs, some of those sent me back to Gemini capsules.

What is that burrow that takes me ever deeper in the smoll web, how many rabbits am I following all at once and what time can it be?

There was a third protocol, Finger, that I could remember, even lighter, more archaic but still alive and maintained today. I've learned so much in three days. Even connected to some Finger page that was an interactive novel !

Small is beautiful. These protocols are handy, efficient, fast and pleasing. No shiny heavy interface or webbuilder, instead, just the focus on publishing. This is a gem nowadays.

I then tried to add a bit to my 55Robots capsule right here, and was looking for a way to upload files from my machine via SSH to the capsule. I was instructed to use ```scp``` ... and I just failed.

dom 05 mar 2023 18:22:59 WET

This blogfeed is definitely not fed properly. Three feeds in a year. That is a blog losing weight dramatically.

Excuses, excuses, please do come on in and sit comfortably: I have changed my daily driver twice, using only second, see rather third hand laptops, every

change or new joiner to the Old Laptops Inn takes an awful lot of times. Why? Simply because that's an opportunity to distrohop and run into some issues.

I also changed flat, gave up on the blog completely, tried a tid bit write.as and other blogging platforms, but back to Gemini today.

Thank you excuses, you are accepted and refreshments will be served to you real soon.

So I wrote a draft on paper to create a ship at cosmicVoyage but gave up on the idea.

Lately I also jumped into a rabbit hole called Emacs: I find it difficult but so powerful and beautiful. Compiled it on the latest four years old recycled laptop, and

was in front of a 'should have been compiled with gnuTLS support' which I have tried, I fail. Keep on failing. So shiny Emacs is there in the shell, but i cannot use Elpher

(the gemini and gopher client within Emacs).

I moved to an even smaller village, I spend most of the free time outside, caring for a big garden ; it has some fruit trees and I love this place.

Wed 29 Jun 2022 02:31:24 PM WEST

Desperately trying to find the init script for the Agate server with MX21.1 Wildflower/SysVinit ....

seg 03 jan 2022 10:29:18 WET

So there we are for the first post. Had way too much work yesterday, finally a day do rest and to undust my Gemini Capsule.

I still have to read around today about the login methods, the use of the SSH keys. My aim would be to login fast and easy from any of my old Linux machines.

Have a lovely day, wherever you are.

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