Here's my first impression of the Jolla Phone appearance models: forum.sailfishos.org/t/my-firs…

#nextgenJollaphone #Jolla #SailfishOS #JollaC2

Aus aktuellem Anlass:
Ich booste keine Beiträge, in denen Hashtags im Fließtext geschrieben werden.

Grund: Screenreader.

Menschen, die auf einen Screenreader angewiesen sind, bekommen jeden Hashtag als
"Hashtag Thema" vorgelesen.

Beispiel (Screenrender-Nutzende können hier abbrechen, wenn sie es sich nicht anhören wollen):
"Dieser #Absatz enthält #Hashtags, die im #Text eingefügt sind. #Manchmal #schreiben #Fedizens auch mehrere #Hashtags #direkt hintereinander."

Das klingt im Screenreader dann so:
"Dieser HASHTAG Absatz enthält HASHTAG Hashtags, die im HASHTAG Text eingefügt sind. HASHTAG Manchmal HASHTAG schreiben HASHTAG Fedizens auch mehrere HASHTAG Hashtags HASHTAG direkt hintereinander."

Na, nervt euch der Absatz auch so, wie mich?

Sich dessen bewusst zu sein und es zu vermeiden, ist ein Schritt zu mehr Inklusion.

Besser: Hashtags am Ende auflisten, wie hier:

#Screenreader #Inklusion

Some photos from a day of cycling in the Finnish capital region, 105km all in all. Hot day 🔥🔥

#cycling #helsinki #espoo #vantaa

Woooo, never thought this moment would actually happen - got my fxtec pro 1x in the mail today. Took only four years or so?

Not sure about the physical keyboard quite yet. Typing this on the phone. Not sure yet if I will end up using this as a daily driver. There is a cool factor for sure. But the hardware being so much poorer than my Sony Xperia, especially the camera, going to be a tough choice. Need to spend some time on the keyboard I guess. Having the full screen available while typing is kinda nice.

#fxtec #phones

Cycling trip recap

Phew, home. Approx three weeks, and 1481.82km of cycling later, back in my comfy home, in sunny Helsinki ❤ My first longer bikepacking trip is over.

During the trip I visited 7 countries (Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands), with 3 of them being ones I'd never been to. I saw a lot of cool things every day. Especially a lot of fields and canals. I absolutely loved the mountains and my mind was overjoyed when I reached the ocean up north at the edge of The Netherlands. I did climbs I had never done before, both in absolute distance upwards during one single climb (614m in Switzerland and 793m going over the Vosges, in France) but also in daily total climb (1633m going over the Vosges, 1222m from Luxembourg to Belgium).

I spent most of my nights in a tent, which I had not done a lot of time before in my life. Afaicr, I've never been on a camping site before this trip. In total I spent 12 nights in a tent, 6 nights in a hotel, 1 day at a friends place and 3 nihts on a boat. I took on a godless amount of rain on myself, riding for hours in constant rain on many days and trying to figure out how to handle camping in wet conditions. I also met many cool people on the way and had some nice discussions especially related to bikepacking.

I spent more nights in hotels than I would have liked, but there was also a lot more rain than I had thought there would be. In fact, I think there were only 3-4 days without rain the whole time. I had to skip some sections I wanted to ride through in Switzerland to get away from the rain, using trains. I also changed my plans somewhat when in the Netherlands. My original plan was to ride along the EV 19, but tbh it was so poorly marked and I had ridden along so many canals and rivers already, I chose to cut directly towards Rotterdam and have an extra day there.

That is actually the one thing I would change if anything. I had put my focus perhaps too much on riding to the next place every day. I think for the next time I would budget in more days exploring some of the larger cities, staying multiple days in one place. Constantly packing up your tent or arranging a hotel does get a bit tiring. I also skipped a lot of things I would have liked to maybe see because I wanted to get onwards (or away from the rain).

I would also probably try to take less stuff with me next time. Due to having the two large panniers, I packed too much stuff with me. Too many t-shirts, especially. Too many things "just in case".

The biggest thing I found problematic (apart from the rain) was that camping site receptions close quite early, some as early as 5pm. At times I chose a hotel not because of the rain but because there were no camping sites available for my arrival time in the place I was riding to. I quickly learned you need to call through them during the afternoon. Some of them accepted arriving after reception closing time, some not.

As for gear, I'm quite happy on the setup I went with. The Ortlieb Vario pannier is awesome, the conversion to a backpack is just super useful when wanting to dismount for a bit but take your most important things with you. I had everything important in the main pannier, like medicine, documents, laptop, chargers, etc. My second pannier had tent poles, clothes, rain gear - and increasingly coming towards the end of the trip chocolate and other things to bring back, with more clothes being strapped onto the rack. Some extra waterproof bags for this kind of stuff were really good.

The front packs were also really good, one of them dedicated to camping stuff, one of them dedicated increasingly for things to bring back home. Initially it had like 20 protein bars that I bought for the trip. I can say they all got used, but I could have probably bought them along the way instead of bringing them from Finland.

Sanna (my bike!) performed really well. No major issues during the way. I think the bottom bracket may be gone based on the noise during the last week, also the rear break has been somewhat powerless for a while (since coming down from the Vosges?). The front tire also got a piece of glass go through it, but the tubeless sealant took care of it once I pushed the piece of glass through into the tire. I had my dry downhill sections in Belgium, being able to fully enjoy the speed, getting up to 50km/h. I averaged my days between about 30 to 120 kilometers in distance per day. I realized during the longer rides that the biggest restriction to the lenght of the ride is actually time, in getting to somewhere where you can spend the night. But at the same time, 80km seemed quite a nice distance per day, in terms of comfort.

All in all, a great experience, and a great three weeks with very little actual serious problems. Time to start planning the next trip :)

More photos available at photos.app.goo.gl/5ndNzMHr14hw… or cloud.jasonrobinson.me/s/CjD89…

Daily posts of the trip on my Facebook profile or at jasonrobinson.me/streams/tag/j…

#Travel #Bikepacking #JasonTravels #Cycling

Cycling trip day 19

Time to move on from Rotterdam, towards the sea! But first, lunch. Vegan sushi place "Nori" seemed highly rated, so that way. One thing I've noticed in a few places outside Finland is that menus sometimes talk of "beef", "salmon", etc. I had to ask in this place whether it was vegan actually and the answer was yes, but that menu items needed common names people can identify with. I'm used to in Finland at least that animal like ingredients usually have a vegan name, like "vuusto" (instead of "juusto") for vegan cheese or using the brand name of whatever the animal substitute is.

Nori's specialty was their meat substitute sushi, so I took a "Meat lovers box" collection as otherwise choosing would have been way too hard. "Meat sushi" felt a bit weird and especially eating something called "meat lover" 😅 But it was very nice, beautifully made and with beautiful tastes.

With a tummy fill of sushi I proceeded north towards the sea. I have been missing the sea, not seeing it for weeks and not hearing the sound of seagulls has been weird. Does the sea have some kind of scent? I swear some kilometers before reaching the beach I could feel the air changing, which gave me energy to push onward.

The best part of this day was the ride along the sea, on a good quality bicycle road within the massive sand dunes covering hundreds of meters of land from the beach. Lots of road bikes going in both direction that I couldn't keep up with even though with the now tail wind I was putting some good amount of speed in myself.

I've always had a thing for the charm of seaside towns, with their rows of hotels, some looking like palaces, some actually called "Palace Hotel", rows of cafes and small shops selling beach stuff. I grew up spending a lot of my summer holidays in places like this on the southern UK coast, which is probably why.

Finally said bye to the sea and headed through Haarlem to Amsterdam, reaching the central camping site "Camping Zeerburg" just in time for a pizza and some beers.

To celebrate the last actual ride day pushed my daily ride record a bit further

Distance cycled: 121.30km (today), 1376.95km (total)

#Travel #Bikepacking #JasonTravels #Cycling

11 years later, I get to attend the second #JollaLoveDay in person!

#Jolla #SailfishOS #JollaMind2

twitter.com/cybette/status/336…

You might want to try Snikket for XMPP then. Really streamlined hosting experience all out of the box. But Ejabberd also improved massively in that regard and their Docker images and deb/rpm repos pretty much work out of the box these days.

I host both Ejabberd and Synapse since some years and while I can see how self-hosting Synapse is a bit more approachable for first time self-hosters since it uses mostly web-technology under the hood, Ejabberd has been much less of an headache to maintain over the years. It pretty much just works and uses very little system resources (contrary to Synapse, even though it has improved a bit in that regard lately).

Edit: OpenPGP is supported by some XMPP clients for many years and OMEMO is significantly less problematic than Matrix e2ee in my experience. Matrix is a never ending stream of forced key resets and "message could not be decrypted" if you use it with the official web-client.

#lastboost

Auf irgendeiner IT Schulung kamen wir in einer Pause auf das Thema IPv6.
Der Dozent sagte dazu: „Wenn sie als IT entscheiden, die Umstellung anzugehen und entschieden ist, an welcher Stelle sie das Projekt ‚aufhängen‘: hängen sie es zwei Ebenen höher. Die Projektleitung wird den Einfluss brauchen.“

@pete

I'm not Finnish! I'm an immigrant in Finland, and my finnish friends are mostly nonchalant about being the happiest in the world 😂

But yeah, layered dressing is the key to survival here, and you gotta survive well to appreciate happiness 👍