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ssh stegodon.zip

Not used SSH before? Run this command first to get your keys!

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

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@YourUser@stegodon.zip

features

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  • ActivityPub federation
  • RSS feeds

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Welcome to Stegodon.zip!

23 days ago #

Hours later, I find the stale home manager was breaking my QT. The env update to patch the templates was making SDDM choke. the two changes happened weeks apart +4 hours, -1 line, All good once more.

23 days ago #

OK, Cool Story. NixOS, all my QT file-edit menus just dissapeared. Ended up setting an Env to override QT templates. Days later, I'm adding Claude Code for testing and find my home manager is stale. I blow it away and let it relink in the store. Now SDDM takes 10 minutes to give me Wayland.