@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wonderful! Great dandelion shots. 😃

That sheep reminded me to read up on how sheep eyes work, having elongated pupils and all. They have multi-focal lenses – what?! Fascinating!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, I was too lazy to introduce a new widget for that (and the current directory), so I just (ab)used the titlebar. %)

PMdusage is nearing completion. The table items are clickable now.

https://movq.de/v/4944b10f3d/pmdusage2.mp4

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ah, you’re welcome. 😅

(I’d still prefer it if there were some more alternative clients. There aren’t a lot to chose from at the moment. 🫤)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yep, it works. Looks like this in my client: https://movq.de/v/6c1adeba0c/s.png

@bender@twtxt.net I saw him following me, so there’s a slight chance. You are absolutely right, though.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hello and welcome. 👋

Replies are not part of the original twtxt spec but extensions of Yarn.social. You can read up on those extensions over here: https://dev.twtxt.net/

On my way to install PC DOS 7 in QEMU … which isn’t particularly a no-brainer because of IBM’s XDF floppy disks. I’ll get there eventually.

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https://movq.de/v/7317bbadc9/

@bender@twtxt.net It’s still there. 🤔 Maybe @prologic@twtxt.net’s cache exploded. 💥

@bender@twtxt.net Oof, okay. Guess I got lucky then. Never had to use any of those features. 😅

@johanbove@johanbove.info Is there any reason to use this program? I can’t remember when I last had it installed, must have been early 2000’s.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hold on to something, don’t let it blow you away! 😅 🌪️

Pretty fucken wimdy outside. I wonder if my windows are going to burst some day.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, why have I never experimented with this kind of workflow? 🤔 Probably useful for lots of things.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s probably better for them if they’re shy. 😅 But yeah, if they’re used to humans, they won’t run away so easily. At least the ducks won’t – the rails/moorhens do. 🤔

Ahh, I remember those Asperg shots. 😅👍

That whole area with the tunnels and basins is probably some sort of “retention basin” (Regenrückhaltebecken), with several levels to reduce the flow. There’s almost never a lot of water in there, though. Not sure if this structure just isn’t used anymore or if it’s too dry. There’s also this “pole”, it’s a bit hard to see, though:

https://movq.de/v/dd71ae14a5/a.jpg

Looks like they’re trying to measure the water height (Pegelstand)? The pole is super high and I doubt that any rainfall will ever reach the top of it. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I truly wonder how those shops can survive. 🤔 Even if they offer some more services like copy or printing – how many people do that? 🤔

There you go, multithreading. 🥳

I tested this in QEMU, which luckily supports throttling disk I/O, so I can make sure that scanning the disk actually takes a while.

https://movq.de/v/f714cfebff/pmdusage.mp4

(Still boggles my mind a bit. When OS/2 2.x came out, DOS was still the norm for us and I didn’t even know what multithreading was. I really didn’t appreciate this operating system enough back then – only now.)

@prologic@twtxt.net 0.15 to 0.20 USD sounds about right, compared to small VPS’s like those: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php

It’s an interesting offer/concept, btw. Lots of minimal software doesn’t require lots of “oomph” and I’d be fine if my VPS was smaller. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went into the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.

That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.

Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:

https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/

But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements now, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂

@mckinley@twtxt.net Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)

Low-quality smartphone shots from today’s walk:

https://movq.de/v/0f42ac9be0/

Most importantly: Ducklings! 😍 I’ll have to take my good cam next time.

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My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅

Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.