#fossacademic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fossacademic, aggregated by home.social.
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wait, what, Zotero? Zotero version 8 was released a few months ago and today I see they've released Zotero 9. The latest FOSS Academic post is a short note about Zotero -- including changes to my workflow since version 8 came out.
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?Hell, no!
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?Hell, no!
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?Hell, no!
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?Hell, no!
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?Hell, no!
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Latest FOSS Academic: Marp!
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/12/01/marp.html
In which I discuss a Markdown-based way to make slide shows.
Thanks to @linuxmatters for alerting me to the awesomeness that is Marp.
[Replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog]
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I'll be blogging about this soon, but for now let me gush about MARP, a Markdown-based way to make slideshows:
If this works the way I think it will, I will finally be able to say goodbye to LibreOffice Impress (and yet still stay away from Google and Microsoft). YES!
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I am in the prospectus phase of my PhD journey and hot damn trying to narrow down your dissertation topic is so hard! Does anyone have any suggestions or things that helped you with that when you were writing your diss? #askacademics #internetresearch #FOSSacademic #phdlife