Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕

Alt: Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️ (npub1x60…eudg)
He/him, I was born at a very young age.
Now I love #Linux and #FOSS.

Website: https://chriswere.wales
Freebooters Discord: https://discord.gg/QEf7ANp9uV
PeerTube:: https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/a/chris
Email: [email protected]

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Last Notes

2026-03-19 09:45:23 GMT

A view from me and [@rosie_108](https://toot.wales/@rosie_108 )'s walk this morning.
#photo #nature #photography #forestofdean
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/116/255/188/579/919/730/original/ca0a73470ce548d9.jpg
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/116/255/188/541/262/150/original/b46030367b9d09b1.jpg

2026-01-20 07:00:47 GMT

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That's interesting, did you try it on a VM?

2026-01-03 08:30:43 GMT

Hey fedi. Someone posted our reposted a blog post on here about a comparison between blogging and social media. I thought I favourited it to read later, but I didn't. Does anyone know I'd remember where I can give it?

2025-11-04 10:16:43 GMT

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Those launchers always look so tempting, but i always find that icon drawers with colours help me identify the small number of apps i have easier. Still think i might give yam a go.

2025-10-16 15:00:21 GMT

I know I ask this periodically but:
SPACES or TABS?
(If you convert your tabs to spaces, then you use spaces.)

2025-09-19 09:05:39 GMT

Since #Firefox seem to be blindly forcing AI into is browser, does anyone know of a Firefox-based browser that has explicitly come out against AI. Have Librewolf or Icecat made a statement that they'll try and remove.not include any embedded AI components?

2025-09-17 13:40:25 GMT

Shared some thoughts on Labour's weird infatuation with AI in my latest blog post. #UKPol
https://chriswere.wales/posts/starmer%E2%80%99s-ai-gamble-risks-labour%E2%80%99s-future.html

2025-09-14 19:44:59 GMT

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I really would have thought that in this day-and-age FOSS contributors would at least have accounts on the open source git repos. Maybe I'm wrong though.

2025-09-04 16:12:48 GMT

I wrote a little blog post about how you can use an emoji as your website's favicon.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/how-to-use-an-emoji-as-your-websites-favicon/

2025-08-03 21:54:19 GMT

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There's something really sinister about all this recent Puritanism.

2025-04-22 12:25:14 GMT

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YouTube comments are just the worst these days. I'm so done with that place.

2025-04-16 10:51:55 GMT

Fuck the law, trans women are women.

2025-04-04 17:51:52 GMT

Knowing that Peertube's RSS feeds can be picked up by post readers, I'm giving serious thought to quitting YouTube in favour of the Fedi. The last few weeks, YouTube has really made themselves out to be such a shit company and I think it's time to really think about what I make and where it goes online. Might even get back into writing.
I love the Fedi's thoughts on this though.
#YouTube #peertube #fediverse

2025-04-03 20:16:44 GMT

YouTube's new anti trans policy changes are really making me want to stop posting videos there. I'm going to be giving some serious thought to what I will do next.

2025-02-17 00:29:26 GMT

One of my favourite old videos from Drew:
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/videos/watch/2af2770e-b3d9-45af-9732-03ef30759bb5

2025-01-25 11:32:23 GMT

Water looks good 💦💦💦
https://toot.wales/system/media_attachments/files/113/888/767/722/574/198/original/8b8761f198c6561d.jpg

2025-01-12 18:29:58 GMT

Woah, look at that waterfall!
https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/113/816/803/514/111/413/original/c63443aa083f7157.jpeg

2024-12-17 02:43:39 GMT

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Sometimes it takes a while. Do you know how long it's been?

2024-12-16 19:54:30 GMT

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Chill my dude. It's not that you're not allowed to complain. It's that you ONLY seem to complain. You can do whatever you want, and people can like it or not, just don't get salty when they don't.
I don't show up to people's parties and only talk about how shit the party is. It's reading the room.

2024-12-16 18:58:56 GMT

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Please do. It's just making you upset, and tbh most of us just want the Linux Gaming news. It seems every time you're on here, it's to complain.

2024-12-04 21:34:39 GMT

Four hours of chill gaming vibes with me and @npub1kkh…90ea as we play Divinity: Original Sin 2. #PeerTube timed exclusive.
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/nrnBdiJdxj4gF233y4LN1s

2024-11-26 23:41:55 GMT

For anyone who needs reminding, my #PeerTube channel is @npub1gyy…3tm7 and you can commont on videos just by replying to the status in your Fedi client.

2024-11-18 22:43:38 GMT

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Honestly, I like IRC.

2024-11-14 12:13:18 GMT

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I've always felt that Twitter massively overstated its relevance in the social media space. I'd imagine you get more traffic from places like Reddit?

2024-11-03 19:10:16 GMT

My (UK) pay-as-you-go mobile phone provider, 1p Mobile, have just increased their minimum monthly top-up to £5 (£10 for two months). The feels a lot considering I only use my phone number to log in to WhatsApp and to take like three phone calls a year.
Does anyone know of any cheaper UK PAYG options? I really just want to keep my phone number connected for as cheaply as possible.

2024-10-18 06:58:41 GMT

I'm starting to get back into casual streaming. Been enjoying hanging out with folks on my Discord and would like to grow out the community.
Where would you like to watch me stream, tick all that apply.

2024-10-14 19:43:15 GMT

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Honestly, Wordpress was always too bulky for me.
What GoL using?

2024-10-13 02:46:38 GMT

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Would love to see a Muppets remake of The Room.

2024-10-13 02:37:36 GMT

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In the UK they're called 'waffers' because ping pong is sometimes *apparently* known as wiff-waff here.

2024-10-12 21:49:48 GMT

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How come? You have a successful brand, are you planning on starting all that work over again?

2024-10-03 04:34:20 GMT

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I don't know if this helps, but here's a clip of a dog giving their food to a malnourished cat. It made me smile today.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/113/241/620/361/313/703/original/6616fe32347bb71b.mp4

2024-10-03 02:00:10 GMT

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Obviously. But then you're just carrying the show.

2024-10-02 23:23:46 GMT

Celebrity podcasts are so lame.

2024-09-26 18:07:51 GMT

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Yeah, it's like a whole broad vibe of it feeling like it's decaying slowly. Fewer comments-to-views, less community chatter, indie creators leaving the platform in droves.
I think YouTube wants to pivot to TV and shorts.

2024-09-26 18:03:27 GMT

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It kinda feels like YouTube is slowly dying as a platform.
It's so big it'll hold itself upright for a long while, but I deffo think it's on the decline. Same with other corporate social media tbh.

2024-09-26 16:05:24 GMT

Yeah, the artefacting on YouTube is definitely getting worse. Not that I really mind, but I wonder what it means.
Are they nerfing Firefox? Are they cutting costs? Is it because I'm adblocking?

2024-09-12 03:27:47 GMT

Very useful there, hmpgh.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/113/122/449/470/295/072/original/96cda7afb27ed5e8.png

2024-08-24 02:53:30 GMT

New Freebooters video just dropped: https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/videos/watch/1c0ca4ec-e445-440b-be47-2ddaea659fdc

2024-08-05 16:44:39 GMT

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Presented without context.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/112/910/415/389/050/585/original/9aa6680af4dd19ed.mp4

2024-07-31 21:22:46 GMT

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Do you watch the UK one? Or is there an American version?

2024-07-31 20:41:36 GMT

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I love Gardener's World.

2024-07-12 03:19:31 GMT

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I feel there could be much user-friendly defaults set for Delta, or at least a start-up wizard so people can select their use-case.
That being said, I do love it though.

2024-07-10 15:16:33 GMT

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Literally the cause of 99% of our problems.

2024-07-10 15:15:43 GMT

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You had me at: "If someone has over £651 million pounds I really think they should NOT"

2024-07-09 03:17:52 GMT

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I tried editing out the ads, I fucked it up too many times though,

2024-07-08 15:02:45 GMT

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I remember a few years ago when Spotify was accused of stuffing their playlist with cheaply licenced stock music, to save money.
So this AI thing kinda tracks with that, haha.

2024-07-08 07:24:03 GMT

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I don't really mind people being heterosexual, but do they have to shove it down our throats?

2024-07-06 19:38:43 GMT

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Debates are not an intellectual pursuit. It's the WWE of politics.
The 'they go low, we go high' rhetoric just rolls out the carpet for Trump.
And if Trump didn't win this debate, Biden's toast and the the Dems that did it, along with a side-helping of elder-abuse. They spend decades silencing the voices of third parties, and fending off any kind of electoral reform, only to then to screw up thing they justified it for.

2024-07-06 18:45:49 GMT

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That would have required political savvy and courage, but you're right.
Personally I feel the rules were intended to benefit Biden, but it didn't pan out that way. Trump is good at debates, unless you have a candidate who can go up against him, they're better off staying home.
Admittedly Biden was better against Trump last time around, but Trumps a bully, and that's hard to beat.

2024-07-06 14:25:54 GMT

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"the media pretends was so disastrous"
Nice gaslighting, but we all saw the debate. And it's not just one bad performance. Biden knows it and he feels awful about it, and my heart kinda breaks for him tbh.
You've lost the argument when you're telling people not to believe their eyes and ears. Stuff like this is why independent voters don't like Dems, because you treat them like idiots.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/112/739/978/214/637/315/original/49f796afc9da7db8.mp4

2024-07-06 04:40:18 GMT

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The trouble is, this isn't a values call. A moral argument isn't really addressing the issue.
The question is where or not Biden will lose the election when an alternative choice would win. I'm told switching to anyone but Harris would mean basically mean having to start fundraising from scratch.
So, do the Dems stick the course with Biden, or gamble with Harris? Who's most likely to win, Biden, Harris, or someone else?

2024-07-03 02:11:26 GMT

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The thing that gets me is that I can think of a single country that does it. I would have thought at least one would have given it a shot.

2024-07-03 01:58:05 GMT

Why don't they teach sign language at school? It would be such a useful skill, to have another way to communicate.
Not only would deaf people be less isolated from conversations, but there are countless other uses, like being able to communicate in a noisy crowded room, or quietly over substantial distances.
Could even work as an alternative to subtitles for films. Kinda blows my mind how countries don't seem to do this.

2024-07-02 06:10:11 GMT

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The coming week is going to be wild.

2024-07-02 02:30:58 GMT

Wow, could Macron win the 2024 award for the politician who fucked himself the hardest? I've never seen anyone (metaphorically) punch themself in the face so hard.
And there's some top tier competition for that spot.
Good on the left unity though. We could always use more left unity.

2024-06-28 03:32:55 GMT

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Fortunatly I don't have too much Threads pollution in my timeline, but some people - not naming any names - will retoot Threads takes because they don't have the guts to say it themselves.
Threads has a culture of posturing, which is amongst the worst parts of social media.

2024-06-28 02:03:35 GMT

Fuck it, I'm blocking threads.net. Can't stand the dumb shit people retoot from there.

2024-06-25 00:50:12 GMT

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I want to see a Cardi B #Linux. That would be cool as hell.

2024-06-24 03:00:02 GMT

I'm very impressed with x265 compression. It's encoded a 1:08:57 long show at 720p to a mere 268.3 MiB. The quality looks pretty crisp so far too.

2024-06-24 00:46:14 GMT

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I'm a happy #Linux user, but I want more operating systems, more choices, lots of interoperability, so people can find stuff that works for them.
I can get really uppity when people tell me what I should do, so it stands to reason I shouldn't do it to others. So important we make our own choices.

2024-06-21 01:01:41 GMT

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That sounds like a magic spell.

2024-06-21 00:59:39 GMT

I always go wild with the garlic when i cook. My hands reek of it, no matter how hard I scrub.

2024-06-19 02:25:33 GMT

Watching people get rage baited into arguing with ChatGPT Twitter bots is so fascinating to watch. They don't know they're doing it, but it's so clear form the outside, they're just in a bubble of their own rage.
I can't look away, I'm just up all hours of the night watching people have conversations with computers. This world has become so fucking weird to me.

2024-06-14 21:49:44 GMT

For this week's #FollowFriday #FF I'm choosing Linux-mom of the Fediverse Veronica Explains.
@npub1dml…x796
@npub16ae…7xpd
Also @npub1j24…4ner cos it's Drew and he's awesome as fuck.

2024-06-12 17:13:13 GMT

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Imagine if we taught kids how to extensively repair stuff in school.

2024-06-12 16:50:30 GMT

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It would be pretty cool to have a 'diagnostics' class in school, which would just focus on identifying problems, lol.

2024-06-11 03:16:12 GMT

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Oh god.
"AI, are you taking pictures of me?"
"I can't *pHisIcaLly* take pictures of you."

2024-06-07 14:21:55 GMT

I've never seen Space Balls, should i watch it? Is it good?

2024-06-06 19:32:46 GMT

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I love the fact that the Fedi isn't sanitised by advertising and algorithms. It feels so much more human than other places.

2024-05-31 02:20:23 GMT

Guess who's been playing with OwnCast?
@npub1len…tdnh