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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · 22d

Upgraded to macOS Tahoe expecting to thoroughly hate and it's fine. There's a good number of rough edges that I'm sure will get refined over time, but in general I'm cool with it.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · 23d

Last night was class, great turnout and two talks that elicited the greatest number of questions I think we’ve ever had!

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · 27d

Fascinating history on exactly why Apple went through the process of getting OS X UNIX certified: www.quora.com/What-goes-in...

What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?

Answer: A lot. I was the tech lead at Apple for making Mac OS X pass UNIX certification, and it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX™ trademark in...

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Sep 8

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Sep 2

Exactly that, even though it wasn't without its problems.

Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Sep 1

I wonder if the number of folks abandoning macOS won't have the effect of Apple pulling back on their work and reshaping it into what it should be (and once was).

Instead of fighting to regain those users they'll just say "fuck it" and leave it to rot into irrelevance.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 31

I’ve had the least amount of grief selling stuff IRL via Gumtree.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 25

Top tier trolling, you should be proud.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 17

We've just announced the next Cloud Native and Kubernetes Edinburgh event, back after a bit of a break over summer with an absolute banger of a meetup that includes the one and only @thebsdbox.co.uk www.meetup.com/cloud-native...

Cloud Native and Kubernetes Edinburgh September 2025, Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

We're back after a summer break for our next meetup sponsored by none other than [Isovalent](https://isovalent.com/)! Doors opening at 6pm for food and drink thanks to the

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 16

As if it wasn’t bad enough that it was plagiarised by Bryan Lunduke 😂

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 15

For those following along, I eventually got it working by upgrading the version of 1Password and also setting ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=wayland

Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 12

Spent a good two hours configuring Niri only to find out clipboard / copy and paste is broke between X11 apps and everything else Wayland, AMA.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 12

Having actually looked at said hack I retract that statement. It's the rest of the industry that's insane.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 12

Dunno, first time I've tried it in fairness. I think it's further complicated by the fact you have to rely on something like xwayland-satellite. It didn't work and there seem to be a bunch of other issues that are basically a dead end. Your hack is only insane in implementation - tcl/tk!

Xwayland

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 12

Same, I don’t mind some amount of join the dots but ultimately went back to GNOME where everything works 🤷

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Aug 12

Spent a good two hours configuring Niri only to find out clipboard / copy and paste is broke between X11 apps and everything else Wayland, AMA.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Jul 29

Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Jul 22

Found it! Fuck YouTube! player.vimeo.com/video/13348138

09 CM van credits on Vimeo

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Jul 22

Slightly angry at the fact that every version of his section that I can find on the Internet has no audio because of copyright. Ozzy's not been in his grave long yet he's already rolling in it.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Jul 22

I’ve a sudden urge to watch Van Homan’s section from Criminal Mischief. RIP Ozzy.

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Nick Jones @nick.sausage.social · Jul 21

This release from Rye Coalition, their first recording in >20 years, makes me equal parts very happy and very sad. An amazing tribute. ryecoalition.bandcamp.com/album/paid-i...