Vikings 🌌 🌐 @vikings@social.vikings.net

Happy and peaceful new year everyone! 2023 is the year of the 🐇.

I'll be back at work on Monday, 23rd. They say a change of scenery might do you the power of good and that's what it most certainly did.
Still a bit jet-lagged but east to west seems to be a lot easier then the other way round. /thum

Happy New Year from a different side of the planet!

We're closed for the holidays and will be back on 23 January 2023🎄 🎇

Gnaaaaaa, we missed the @fosdem stand deadline 🥺 /thum

Looking for a slighty-vintage but libre-friendly, FSF RYF-certified and cheap laptop that makes you stand out? We recently updated our Thinkpad X200 offer and reduced the price massively: https://store.vikings.net/en/x200-ryf-certfied #store #ryf #fsf #trisquel #libre

Our instance is not an instance where you can sign up a guest account. Perhaps we will change this in the distant future. Stay tuned.

We recently announced that we won't post on Twitter.com any more.⚰️

We've been running our own #Mastodon instance in parallel, with a brief interruption (where all posts were deleted), for a few years now. Before that we ran GNU Social, which we abandoned in favor of Mastodon, and for a while before that we had a GNU Social guest account on the defunct quitter.se.

Let's hope that the newfound popularity of Mastodon will improve some parts I don't like. The update process for instance. /thum

» Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. «
—Frank Herbert, Dune

The Vikings Store ships each order with free software stickers. Some new ones have just arrived fresh from the USA! #fsf

Just sent an EUR 120 💸 donation to @liberachat (via @Liberapay Thanks for your hard work! https://web.libera.chat/#vikings Want to chip in, too? Visit https://liberapay.com/liberachat/ /thum

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

@fsf I couldn't find FSF coffee mugs and glassware in your shop - recently broke my FSFE cup which I wanted to replace with one minus the "E" 🙂 Consider selling some?

#Firefox101 on POWER
https://talospace.com/2022/05/firefox-101-on-power.html

#OpenPOWER #POWER9 #PPC64le #PowerPC #JavaScriptJIT #FirefoxESR #Firefox #LTO #PGO

Wondering if the glue would become softer if the CPU was heated before attempting to lift the spreader.

How much heat can the CPU withstand before joining Valhalla?

#openPOWER #POWER9 CPU heat spreader removed.

CPU was destroyed in the process. Removal of said heat spreader is probably straightforward if you can guarantee a max. depth of cut.