Mac Berg / is on Nostr

Don't mind me.
Computer science. Digital media. Audio engineering. Slightly VR development.
Dysthymia, social anxiety and ADD.
Lost soul and seeker of all things good. Be it positivity, meaning, happiness, love, or a cup of hot cocoa under a warm blanket.
Childfree.

All opinions belong to the little alien inside my head who just wants to go home.

Note: I don't subscribe to a blind "follow back" mentality. I curate my feed. Nothing personal.

Pronouns: He / him

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2024-08-21 22:16:22

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Holy shit I might have gotten it to work. Exporting the virtual keyboard app seems to actually have worked. And it seems to start just fine even at the login screen. Haven't been able to try the actual touch functionality, but the rest seems to work fine!
Big smooches to the #OpenSUSE, #Kalpa and #KDE teams!!

2024-08-21 21:39:27

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Yeah I give up. Have no idea how I'd go about getting this to work, getting KDE outside the Distrobox container to recognize and use the virtual keyboard from inside the container, outside of the container.
Who would have thought something as simple as an on screen keyboard would put a screeching halt to moving my mom over to Linux in a proper way in 2024. 😐
#Linux #OpenSUSE #Kalpa #KDE

2024-08-21 21:15:20

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Previous attempt I used transactional-update to install Maliit virtual keyboard to the system, and it broke the system. So now I'm trying to install it using Distrobox. Apart from having to download and create an entire Tumbleweed container of unknown size, installing Maliit in that container requires an additional 447 Mb. I wonder how many resources this keyboard will use up once (if) I finally get it working. Feels *very very* unreasonable rn.
#Linux #Kalpa

2024-08-21 17:22:27

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#BTRFS snapshots to the rescue! 😊 A quick #snapper rollback and poof, problem gone! I love
#OpenSUSE #Linux

2024-08-21 16:15:20

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Lol installing the Maliit virtual keyboard on #Kalpa broke the OS lmao. The SDDM (?) theme is broken all of a sudden, the virtual keyboard is constantly visible and covers the password area and I don't know why but I can't log in. I can't even see if I manage to type anything.
I was thinking maybe Kalpa could be a good option for my mom with her tablet PC... siiiigh

2024-08-21 15:58:18

Hm. 230 Mb of data and a couple of hundred packages to install only to get a virtual keyboard on #OpenSUSE #Kalpa.
Maybe I'm dense, but an immutable system would seem like a perfect candidate for a tablet PC and should come with a virtual keyboard out of the box.
#KDE #Wayland #ImmutableOS #Linux

2024-08-19 13:22:58

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Yeah it's a huge oversight imo. Either filter them out or auto translate. There are many things to be desired when it comes to languages on Mastodon. Auto sense input language and auto set language flag, filtering of home feed etc.

2024-08-19 13:00:34

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Everything that you follow, users or hashtags, shows up in your Home feed. The Home feed isn't filtered by language. Only the Local and Federated timelines are.

2024-08-18 08:52:14

People who use hashtags from one language and write the post in a different language...
...wouldn't be a problem if we could *filter out posts based on language*
#mastodon #hashtags

2024-08-04 16:24:56

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I had to go to Wikipedia to learn more about progesterone, and whoa does that seem like a wild hormone! 😯 Among the endless things it even changes how sensitive one is to nicotine! It seems to have an enormous impact on the body. Is it such a massive change as it reads to be?

2024-08-03 13:10:34

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As long as the bush is not on the boobs I'm down with both.

2024-07-09 21:38:03

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This is wild, I only learned about estrogen feet shrinking today but I just don't understand how. And do they get shorter, or narrower? Or both? Super fascinating stuff.

2024-07-04 05:20:07

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If you have an Nvidia card, have a look if there's a plugin that uses the GPU to filter out anything that isn't speech. Can't remember what it's called but I used it on Windows several years ago. Maybe there's something that works on AMD and Linux these days too I don't know.
#audioengineering #soundengineering

2024-06-20 19:41:19

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Milwaukee is pretty far south. Around here, people go to those parallels (southern France, Spain, Montenegro etc) for the sun. Granted maybe not in the dead of winter. I wonder how many reflectors it'd take to get a tan during winter in Sweden (= Alaska). @npub1y5d…ng26 @npub1gae…gc59

2024-06-20 17:51:16

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Shit. That's even more clever. But it won't work during winter! My booths surrounded by unsuspicious looking toruses on the other hand... @npub1gae…gc59

2024-06-20 17:28:37

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New idea: fusion powered tanning booths. I shall amass all the world's wealth with my new concept!

2024-06-14 10:52:25

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Why not just use Gnome then?

2024-06-14 10:47:42

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You r... you run Nautilus on KDE? Is this a hostage situation, a cry for help or should I call some friendly people in white robes?