raven [he/him]

Can’t believe Nintendo didn’t make these for the switch you could have had one on each side it’s so perfect.

That would be really cool!

Which functionalities are you missing exactly? I’ve found xfce to be very stable and customizable.

Sway is really impressively stable if you’re willing to learn it and set it up. It’s a tiling WM.

I’ve been running the same arch install with roughly the same sway config for 3 years. My computer has never been so boring!

Atlas is my favorite version. Even LTT did a video about it. You just install a normal Windows 10 or 11 iso then run the atlas installer and it does a pretty good job making Windows minimal bullshit by replacing edge with Firefox, disabling countless anti features, and installing openshell.

If it’s just for that one purpose have you considered running windows in a VM and passing though that one usb device? Gnome boxes makes that pretty easy.

I was having such a good time dunking on you and then you had to go and be perfectly reasonable. How could you do this?

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I guess you don’t know what a Continuous Glucose Monitor is. It’s a medical device that is attached to my arm with an adhesive pad that monitors my blood sugar continuously, and reports it over bluetooth to my phone. What you’re talking about is a glucometer which I also have (freestyle lite)

Reading my blood sugar off my CGM without taking my insulin pump out of my pocket is huge actually. I’m using a $25 pinetime for that.

I had a tiny Dell Chromebook 11 through college running arch. It had a 10/10 keyboard and a decent IPS display, paired with an efficient bitmap font it was perfect for my needs. I should grab one off eBay, it looks like they’re only $40 or so now.

No anti-“woke” voices are even remotely approaching getting “censored” or “silenced”. If they are then why do I have to hear about them every fucking day?

On the contrary, if you want to hear from a good portion of the population about issues that affect them you need some aggressively anti-racist anti-sexist anti-queerphobic etc spaces or you won’t likely get the chance. Isn’t hearing what real marginalized people have to say about their own experiences a million times more important than some vague worry about crypto-fash#56637 getting to say their piece which has already been heard and generally decided to be socially harmful and, importantly, silencing to the people their racist, ___-phobic etc speech implies violence to? A chilling effect as you enthusiasts call it.

Isn’t freedom of speech more about an individual having the right to hear from many viewpoints, than it is about an individual having the right to say anything and everything, anywhere, any time, they so desire?

I usually recommend new users try out a few distros from distrowatch on a USB stick with Ventoy making sure to pick a few different desktop environments to try (XFCE, KDE Plasma, Gnome, Budgie, Cinnamon…) There are hundreds and I would argue they have as much of an impact on how your computer works and feels as your distro.

What distro you pick matters less from a user standpoint than you might think. You’re going to get a lot of recommendations for Ubuntu and its derivatives Pop_OS! and Mint. They’re great for beginners IMO except for one small sticking point, which is that they’ve been shipping most software in snap packages and flatpaks which have their own quirks to learn. It’s kind of like a little container or sandbox. You hear a lot of new users saying that they’re having issues with a program not being able to see a file on their computer and it’s usually because the program is a snap or a flatpak.

I think they were for a number of reasons tactically “not fixing” this “bug” up to this point.

Microsoft has always been something of a free nagware business model, like WinRAR.

Me too 👀

Mullvad is only $5 a month just sayin’

I’ve noticed all my British shows have gone missing over the last couple years from the usual torrent sites. I’m kind of surprised because (I’m going to get my head bitten off for this take) the BBC is making better content than anything America has put out in the last few years.

Still on prime because I save more than I spend using it.

32GB of storage? Could I put my audiobooks on there and stream them directly to some headphones? Cause that would be sick.

I’m going to start with a couple projects that don’t already exist.

• Something like the AUR but for non executable content like movies or books. I’m imagining something like;
  (program name) -m (medium, eg. Book, magazine, article (or “print” for any text document) Show, Movie (or video for any video document) and so on) (search term)

• A project that allows a full installed-in-place Linux installation with grub and all, no USB drive required. If that’s a two stage thing where it partitions a section of the drive then installs an installer there, then reboots to that installer, or some other thing doesn’t matter. No, not whatever Ubuntu used to do, I mean a proper installation.

• A program that tricks lan games into playing in side by side couch coop. I’ve figured out a method for doing this using multiseat on swayWM but it’s pretty complicated and touchy.

• An open source car computer software. Not for the infotainment.

• An open source printer that works.

• A liquid democracy voting system

Things that actually exist:

• Minetest, specifically creating tools to help existing Minecraft mods be ported over.

• GIMP

• IPFS, try to get it in use in more places by default (AUR seems promising?)

• Wine

Re: haiku what do you find so promising about it? I’ve played around with it. I imagine it isn’t just the desktop experience?

I usually start off with some Dune lore as a litmus test to see if we can be friends.