#learning2025_ — Public Fediverse posts

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/things-i-learned-funos-sounds-fun/

I subscribe to DistroWatch’s feed in Miniflux. Through this, I learn about different Linux distributions. Today I saw an update for FunOS. That is a fun name, but what is FunOS?

[A]n Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

Interesting. According to the FunOS website, it is built on Ubuntu LTS and “comes without Snap.” DistroWatch’s review of the previous version 24.04.1 suggests that it ran well in limited tests. While I would be disinclined to run most small community projects on my main computer (noting I use EndeavourOS, which is a small project but really Arch with a few quality of life improvements on installation), I am interested in giving FunOS a spin on one of my laptops.

#endeavouros #funos #learning2025_ #linux #linuxDistros #ubuntu

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/

I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.

#apple #documentFormats #learning2025_ #libreoffice

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/

I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.

#apple #documentFormats #learning2025_ #libreoffice

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/

I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.

#apple #documentFormats #learning2025_ #libreoffice

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/

I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.

#apple #documentFormats #learning2025_ #libreoffice

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/

I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.

#apple #documentFormats #learning2025_ #libreoffice

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/elmos-bad-fur-day-07-14-25/

I just learned that Elmo, the popular red Sesame Street muppet, went “full Nazi” on X on Sunday, July 13, 2025 [Paul Rois for Breitbart, July 13, 2025]. To be clear, by full Nazi we mean in pro-Holocaust sense instead of the everyone I don’t like is Hitler sense. People are saying “Elmo” was hacked. This may be true. But I am not jumping to conclusions. See, I was not born yesterday. I am old enough to remember the video game magazine writers were all tingly about Conker, a little video game squirrel who was a selectable racer in Diddy Kong Racing and star of the children’s Game Boy Color adventure Conker’s Pocket Tales, reemerged on Nintendo 64 as degenerate potty-mouthed alcoholic in Conker’s Bad Fur Day. While I suspect that “the people” are almost certainly correct in guessing that Elmo’s X account was hacked, there is a tiny possibility that this is part of a dark, Conker-style re-branding (but with less alcohol and potty “humor” and more “just asking questions” and Nazis). Time will tell.

(Aside: My only video game experience with Conker came in Diddy Kong Racing. I never had any interest in playing Conker’s Bad Fur Day, but I remember that it was a hot topic in the video game magazines for several months.)

#currentEvents #learning2025_ #n64 #videoGameMagazines #videoGames #XSocialMedia_

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/2025-04-10-couples-watson-masters/

Earlier today, I posted about the 65-year old Fred Couples shooting one under par in the first round of The Masters and thus placing him in good position to break his own record as the oldest golfer to make the cut at Augusta National. But while Mr. Couples may become the oldest golfer to make a Masters cut, he will have to leave the record for oldest golfer to have a Masters round. I quote from ESPN UK:

Fred Couples, who wondered a month ago if at 65 with a creaky back he would still be welcomed to play, became only the second player that age to break par … Tom Watson was also 65 — by 28 days he is still the oldest — when he shot 71 in 2015.

[ESPN UK, April 10, 2025]

I do not think I knew that record. However, Mr. Watson featured prominently in my article on the oldest golfers to contend at major championships, notably for his near-win at the 2009 Open Championship at age 59. While I did not recall Mr. Watson’s 71 in 2015, I did make a note of his performance at the 2010 Masters coming off almost winning the British Open nine months earlier.

Tom Watson did not contend for another major, but he would make the cut in five majors after turning 60. His best showing was a tie for 18th place at the 2010 Masters, wherein he was one shot behind the leader – Fred Couples (age 50) – after a first round 67.

Mr. Couples finished sixth at the 2010 Masters after leading at the end of round one. He narrowly missed my cut-off criteria for oldest golfers to contend at majors (my criteria was (1) older than 48 years, 4 months, and 18 days; and (2) top-five finish or within five shots of the winner).

#fredCouples #golf #learning2025_ #sports #theMasters

Brooklyn Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn was originally Brooklyn City Hall. Construction began in 1834 and “Brooklyn’s new City Hall opened its doors in the spring of 1849, although the building really wasn’t completed until the end of the 1860s.” After Brooklyn was incorporated into New York City in 1898, City Hall became Borough Hall. According to a history article, there was a movement to demolish Borough Hall in the 1920s. The land for the former City Hall had been given to Brooklyn by Hezekiah Pierrepont (Brooklyn Heights still has a Pierrepont Street). Pierrepont added a provision to ensure that the land would be used for its intended purpose, I quote from Brownstoner:

The deeds and old records were dusted off, and it was revealed that Hezekiah Pierrepont was a crafty planner. The deed to the triangular property, which included both the building and the small park in front of it, had conditions attached to the gifted land. Pierrepont stipulated that no matter what the city wanted to do, no building other than a city hall could be erected on the site. If they violated that, the land could revert to the Pierrepont estate. Borough Hall was there to stay.

I tip my hat to Pierrepont for the good planning. While recent Borough Presidents have had an unfortunate tendency of making Borough Hall tacky with their de facto campaign banners, it is a nice building and monument to Brooklyn’s history. Now if only we could raise the Soviet-style Kings County Supreme Court building which casts a shadow over the whole plaza.

[Source: Suzanne Spellen for Brownstoner]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/02-06-25-bk-borough-hall-deeds/

#brooklyn #brooklynHeights #downtownBrooklyn #learning2025_ #nycHistory