Félim Whiteley

SysAdmin/Coder impersonator, FOSS ranter & Irish/Leinster Rugby shouter at'er. Work @ whiteleytech.ie, 1/4 of latenightlinux.com

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-18

Ah good doing fine...

Iraqi "Information Minister": Nothing is wrong. Everything is ok.
Félim Whiteley boosted:
2025-11-16

#Fundraiser news: We reached our first goal of €50,000 in a week and have now surpassed our first stretch goal of €75,000. Our final stretch goal is to reach €100,000 before the end of year.

Want to help out? There's an ever-growing list of #apps for you to adopt, a Black Friday fundraiser special on the way that will explain KDE's work in #sustainable computing, and more activities coming up.

Donate now and contribute to funding KDE through 2026:

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202

#FreeSoftware

The KDE dragons, Katie and Konqi, stand on either side of a jar into which golden coins are falling.
Félim Whiteley boosted:
2025-11-14

To claim that AI can make you more knowledgeable and more creative, is the same as believing that you will become fitter if you bring a forklift to the gym.

Félim Whiteley boosted:
2025-11-14
A simple black cube with a white LED in its bottom right hand corner on a beige background. That's it. Sorry it is not more exciting.But this is. A cool looking set of black VR goggles with two futuristic looking controllers lay on a beige surface.
Félim Whiteley boosted:
2025-11-14

#Fundraiser news: We are about to break 75,000€ and enable our final stretch goal.

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202

To push things along, we are putting 5 more #apps up for adoption:

* Elisa — KDE's sleek and flexible music player that works both on your desktop and mobile

* KDE Connect — your one stop solution for synching everything on your phone with your desktop and vice versa

[Continued...]

#donation #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

KDE's Elisa music player on mobile, showing a playing playlist.KDE Connect running on a phone, showing how it can be used to control media being played on your computer.
Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-12

@draftexcluder @feoh @latenightlinux haha yeah used to type them too and my old man when my fingers fell off... the amount of time we must have had back then!

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-12

@sadedoes @btp we are lucky in Ireland that extreme cold is rare, but we are also limited in space for ground based systems especially in Dublin where I am. Very happy with it!

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-11

@sadedoes @btp Yeah I've had one for 13ish years as my main heating :-) air source

Félim Whiteley boosted:
Terence EdenEdent
2025-11-06

"Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view?"

blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@josch @feoh @latenightlinux LOL close them down 😉

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@feoh @petard @latenightlinux to clarify writing chips to talk to them, not the CPUs themselves... I remember a keyboard interface was one of them...

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@feoh @petard @latenightlinux LOL! Funny in Uni we did Verilog & Handel-C (don't ask me about any of it it's long since wiped from my mind!) on the motorola 6800 and 68000 chips... I look back at my lack of enjoyment of the projects we had at the time and kinda would have appreciated them more now. Ah well...

Félim Whiteley boosted:
2025-11-04

There’s going to be a Linux Gaming track at #fosdem2026 👀

fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-3

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@feoh @petard @latenightlinux it seems nuts to say a 1MB RAM expansion 🙂

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@feoh @latenightlinux counter to that is the machines, their manual and packaging etc. looks so nice almost retro in being so open and hackable. If I had the spare cash and time!

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@feoh @latenightlinux I think it's being a kid and the abject disappointment of what the box suggested the game was gonna be and then it's ascii art invaders. Elite was pretty special, but looking at screenshots now my green only wireframe I played it on.. argh I dunno. I think if you were a bit older an wrote stuff more code might be stronger affection 🤷 also never miss the opportunity to wind one of the lads up 😉

Félim Whiteleyfelimwhiteley
2025-11-04

@nowherefast @latenightlinux I was "behaving" myself... also I'm very sick with post conferance manflu... I might die

Félim Whiteley boosted:
2025-11-01

from this reddit thread :)
Microsoft: you're going to have to recycle your 2018 PC because we aren't providing updates anymore and we won't let you install the latest version of Windows (even though it works fine)
Debian: just a heads up, the next version of Debian might not work on the Amiga 1000 or Atari ST. It is up to you to make the necessary changes.
old.reddit.com/r/linux/comment

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