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If you want “as barebones as possible” then wouldn’t you better off with stock Void? It’s nice and barebones straight out of the box.

Took me a second, but to be fair I’m pretty high.

The icemaker and water dispenser are always the first things to break too. Fuck all that shit, just give me a box that stays cold with a light that works.

Docker containers can eat a lot of space over time. When’s the last time you did a docker system prune? Be sure to read up on what it does before you try it.

Yep, I tried going the dumbphone route and lasted about a month. I travel a fair bit for work, and it’s almost impossible now without a smartphone.

There’s calcurse. It’s in the arch repos.

I’m pretty sure every kid in kindergarten knows an easier way to draw a hand.

Back in the day, one of the things JA was famous for was being ear-bleedingly loud in concert, so there’s a certain to hear him complain about the volume.

TBH, I’m surprised to hear these guys still around and touring.

You can do all kinds of stuff with the config file. See here.

Amazing. I was sure they’d try to come up with some bullshit reason to keep holding him. Here’s hoping he’s able to stay.

I mean, fuck, even it is survivable, who wants to actually survive something like that.

World population has more than doubled since 1974, so I bet the president can kill a whole lot more than 70 million people in 25 minutes nowadays. That’s not great given how much stupider and crazier our current president is than even Nixon was.

Believe me I’ve tried.

My kid’s always asking my ex, “Mom, why don’t you just get Jellyfin? It has, like, everything.”

I assume they’re referring to her being an outspoken socialist as an adult.

I’ve used herbstluftwm on my main desktop for years. Love it. Manual tiling works well for me. Totally flexible and customizable. Switch between floating and tiling with a keypress, etc.

And then on various other machines.

• Xfce on my desktop at work that I don’t use that much (work mainly from home) and just needed to set up quick. It’s totally fine, like xfce always is.
• Gnome on my tablet (basically a Surface knock-off). I don’t really like gnome, but it’s the only thing I’ve tried that works well OOTB for a touchscreen.
• PekWM on an old macbook running debian. Great stacking WM. Super flexible, and the tabbed windows for any app are cool.
• LXQT on an ancient (2009?) dual-core laptop that I mainly just use for writing in nvim. Works well for a simple setup.

I’ve been using tmsu for years to manage thousands of pdfs and images for my academic research.

Admits? Acknowledging that destroying capitalism is key to addressing the climate catastrophe is like admitting the sky is blue (or orange and smoky, as the case may be).

I write for a living (academic) and have also been keeping personal journals since I first learned to write. For my academic writing I’m all digital, but I always journal by hand. In my experience there are quite very different types of thought and composition involved between the two, and I value them both immeasurably. So now, I don’t think paper is ever going away.

Digital is also shitty for long-term text storage, frankly. Data formats change constantly, software to read stuff changes constantly, disks go bad, the power goes out, and so on. The only thing that comes close to rivaling the durability/reliability of paper kept in a dry dark place and free of bookworms is clay tablets, and they’re a real hassle to make and lug around. Archivists know that if you really need to preserve a text you print it on paper and store it appropriately.