Now what did I learn from the whole X-Face saga: Japan brings you wonders. Turning a monochrome format into something capable of video, and making the most powerful email software I've ever used. #art #xface #clippy #Face #email #activism #protest #programming

So I DID find an Email client that can send X-Face headers to a modern email system, namely tkmail. Actually it allows pasting of headers. Sadly, Disroot doesn't like the Bad Apple headers, and it complains about invalid characters when doing the 144x144 one using 107KiB of headers. But the max Datula size one is fine. That being said, while its X-Face viewing support is a buggy version of Datula's which doesn't do 24bit, at least I can send to any email I want and the program is in English despite being Japanese in origin. Also it still gets updates. And it's extremely powerful. So I can do what I want without needing to pay up. Even HTML email works. It's amazing! I'm going to email the maker and ask for proper X-Face support because the plugin approach is bugged. But at least I can send them. Disroot allows viewing headers so I could send this to another Disroot user. So that's good. I had a friend talk to me and I learned about some Internet drama. Unfortunately my father chose to be toxic again in a way that could screw me up forever. Essentially I advocate for a hegemonic enbyarchy. One that is also a secularocracy. #art #xface #clippy #Face #email #activism #protest #programming

Did I mention they're also cool because pixel art and the 1990s Web is back!

I honestly have done a LOT of that stuff. #art #xface #clippy #Face #email #activism #protest #programming

Advocacy time: So everyone is doing Clippy avatars because Rossman says so. I figure I'll give this idea, like others, a yoink/boink and twist, as we in the YouTube business say.

The idea: bringing back X-Face and Face headers in email, but in signatures to mitigate the reduction in control since the 1990s. My 22KiB X-Face + Face header is definitely a good protest.

Bonus points: do it with Clippy.

Like Rossman, I've had MANY gripes with Big Tech. I however don't deal with them in the same way.

Onto the Clippy would never and reasoning:

X-Face and Face headers reside in the message data itself, unlike Picons, Plan9 faces, Gravatar, the Apple Mail approach, whatever GMail uses, and such. This has the advantage of working great for plural users and Federation. Not to mention you can have multiple headers, and if you get a new email you can just reuse the headers. They're also low on bandwidth unless you do anything too wild. Unlike Gravatar they can contain animation, animation with full 24bit color at any size that can be made by tiling 48x48px cells. So forget Nitro banners.

Basically, a format from the Wild West days of the Internet that can work well with Federation and the modern indie & decentralized Web, while being good protest vehicles AND a good solution for people with plurality is in my view something absolutely worth using. Having it be Clippy helps.
Also, it makes a great Easter egg.

To get the ball rolling:
https://stgiga.github.io/stgiga5.xface
https://stgiga.github.io/LushFace.gif

Oh and this format is worthy of a video essay the likes of Hbomberguy.

#art #xface #clippy #Face #email #activism #protest #programming

@rl_dane

Xfce is a suggestion.

This desktop manager is for me a nice balance between full keyboard control and great digitizer control. In my test KDE environment I have pulled in a number of critical Xfce components.

I will need to learn the new way in which KDE does these things so I can bring them back to my Xfce fvwm workflow

KDE gives me the possibility because I could do that decades to go

#Xface #KDE #DM #WM #Desktop #Environments

I still need some more feel at home config help. As you can see here I love having vertical gradients on my displays, but in KDE and Vallpaper I have not found how I can set gradients on the side of my wallpaper which are deliberately not 16:9 since I love to look at (vertical) gradients. Where do I need to look to achieve that? Is there a KDE action that I need to define for all my 20 KDE desktops?

.🖋️ #xFace #KDE #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #hugo #gvfs #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw #RetroComputing #Amiga #C64 #gradient #Indigo

As you see here I already have configured the minimal amount of users that I need in my K Desktop Environment

The next phase will take a bit of time because I need to fine tune critical small keyboard shortcuts so that they work as transparently as they do in xFace with muscle memory

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish  #distro #gPartEd #xFace #KDE  #Gnome #Linux #POSIX  #fresh #programming  #hugo #gvfs  #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw

Im starting to achieve platform distro OS translucency regarding more and more projects. Now I can smoothly work in my hugo projects from any distro I want in Linux. All I need to do is keep the copies I work on in sync.
Since I dont run zfs jet on a centralized HDD / SSD I simply use mc -a to do the job manually.
Normally it should be trivial, but the hugo projects want rm -Rf dir otherwise old files with similar size can be changed, thus screwing up continuity

Since my KDE MX install is smoothing out in cfg features I need, which is a combo of XFce components and KDE, I can smoothly switch to the KDE distro and work further while I tune it.

I chose to keep XFce seperate from KDE distro wise due to size constraints I;ve put on my boot partition

.🖋️ #bash #MX #mxLinux #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #tksh #fish #distro #gPartEd #xFace #KDE #Gnome #Linux #POSIX #fresh #programming #hugo #gvfs #backgrounds #wallpaper #Vallpaper #gufw