Eyedust @ Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I love list launchers, but I just can't stop using Kvaesitso. It has a list mode for apps and one optional dock for your first x amount of favorites. But it really shines when it comes to widgets. Swipe up to go through a widget list.

I need to have my two coffee timers and one tea timer widget as well as my step counter and audiobook player, so I need something with widgets and Kvaesitso does it so well.

Same, but rather than not wanting to pay its more like I can't afford to pay.

That is quite a while, lol. To be fair though, there are an insane amount of lines in most packages. Quietly adding a brief line in a seemingly innocent features package is like hiding a needle in a haystack.

Its easy to overlook things when you have a pile of packages to review during every routine. Its especially true if they missed it the first time, since its easier to review changes in a package rather than go through the whole thing again.

Wow, nothing is sacred anymore. Luckily the only people I ever play with these days are my nephew, his girlfriend and my girlfriend.

We're all local so we just play modded java on LAN and I host the server straight from PC. His girlfriend's family lives downstairs from us so they can jump on even if we're not home.

I do have a friend a couple hundred miles away who wants to play, so I might have to look into just getting a secured Bisect server running instead of hosting.

Yup. It was THE app to use way back in the day. Before that was Ventrilo, but setting up a Vent server was a pain in the ass. I got it working once, but it was a lot of port tinkering and giving out my IP to trusted friends.

Skype made it so easy to just click and call or else make rooms for your guild in whatever game you played at the time (my poison of choice was Ragnarok Online).

Then Skype changed hands, started monetizing, pushing Windows pre-installs, and would even watch conversations to make sure no one was using the app for sexual purposes.

It was an installation to two different PCs. I don't think it has to do with NixOS rather than the installer software.

When I looked around on the web for solutions I found these tricks on a bug report, so at the time it had already been reported.

I agree. The whole situation went completely different in my head, tbh. I've tried to get my 65 year old step mom to switch. If she does eventually, I'd set her up with what she needs and give her a run-down.

I was thinking more along the lines of an "up a creek without a paddle" situation where you have the local Linux buff put it on and then start messing with stuff on your own.

See, that'd make more sense to me. In my mind I was seeing someone just installing Linux and poof, that's it, you're on your own.

I should change my statement then; just installing Linux for someone is a bad idea. Stepping them through the small basics as you go is a good idea.

Plus, the first step to learning Linux is figuring out how to install Linux.

If you can't do the easiest part of Linux you're going to have a bad time with the rest of Linux.

Edit: Well, wait up. Doing it for someone is one thing, teaching them enough to get by is another.

The way the post is stated, my brain went, "here's your PC with Linux on it, bye."

If it fails again, try these two tricks:

1. Install without swap and create a swap manually later.
2. When the installer gets to creating the swap, which iirc is about 49%, spam swapoff in your terminal.

I installed last October and had to do this, so it could be fixed now. For some reason NixOS mounts the swap immediately after creating it, which bugs the install process.

You have to be prepared to dive deep into configs and set a lot up yourself if you want to get into any tiling WM, but the payoff is crazy customization with nearly every shortcut designed by you to fit your needs. Its something you do if you want to be keyboard-centric. If you know how to touch type, it'd be well worth the time invested.

I went as far as making my own waybar in CSS on NixOS using home-manager. Crazy stuff, but its not too hard once you can understand what you're looking at. Which honestly doesn't take long at all. Bare minimum a couple weeks, really (unless you go NixOS and want to learn Nixlang and home-manager, then I'd say a month or so learning time).

I think any active community would be more than happy to help, tbh. The thing about the Linux community is that we love troubleshooting. That's half the fun of Linux, honestly. I would pick something more active over something more specific. Some of the communities here have latest posts dated weeks ago.

I'd take it home and raise it as my own and name it Billy for the billion I gave up for it. I'd give it snuggles daily and be happy, knowing that no amount of money is going to solve whatever the fuck is wrong with me and the world we live in.

Fedora is still good for now, but that's the same for any distro. Any dev can pull shady shit. I really want to check out Nobara, which is Fedora based and designed for gaming. I believe it's developed and maintained by GloriousEggroll, who we all know from GE-Proton.

But I'm too happy with vanilla Arch and NixOS.

This sounds great and I'll have to look into it. I have nice glassware pieces for home, I rarely like to take glass out in my pocket. I remember this gaming convention I went out to, there was a field in the back. We went back there to smoke and there was already circle.

In this circle, they were passing around chocolate Godiva vodka and this really REALLY cool piece. It was a large bowl, fat and completely see through. Inside was this massive plastic replica of a HUGE joint, rolling around free. On the side of it, it said "The Labrador". It was an old first production Tommy Chong piece. Felt honored to smoke from it.

My step-dad is a straight laced guy; ex-manager higher up in the mill business. He bought a lathe. For Christmas he gave my gf a really nice pipe from a kit he bought, which surprised us all, lol. The kit comes with a cone pieces, metal tubing, a mouthpiece, and even a screw on cap with a small hole in it, too keep your herb inside when it's tumbling around in your pocket. He buys acrylic blocks and lathes them to make different colors.

He's been making a decent side business selling them to local headshops for $25 apiece and buys the kits for $15. I've told him he could charge more, but its just a hobby and he doesn't want to get greedy with it. He can make tiny short ones, or double pipe long ones. The cones even have a shelf to set screens on. I've always just flattened a piece of sticky bud to make a screen and keep the ground material out of the works, but the little screen shelf is great for that. I bought one and that's what I use to carry around. Its an all metal-acrylic construction.

Here's a pic of one (not the best quality camera, lol):

He gets all kinds of cool acrylics and the metal can be silver, gold, or black. My gf loves halloween, so she has a black one with a bright orange mica design acrylic. It completely screws down to the base components, so it's super easy to clean.

My gf still uses the toilet paper roll/dryer sheet trick. The whole apartment smokes, but she likes to be discreet and respectful. She used to also burn incense, but I think the massive amount of incense she's burned during our time together has made me allergic. Every time I'm near one my throat gets narrow, my eyes water, and I can't stop coughing.

About a week ago I forgot my pipe so I took my brother-in-law's knife, dented a beer can, and stuck holes in it. Gen Z can hit that pen all they want, but I'll be the one still getting high when the apocalypse hits. These are not tricks. These are key survival tactics.

I'm poor as all hell. Like I said, my adult teeth have always been fragile. My mother was mid-class and worked a lot of OT at the local mill. I think the dentist smooshed her into getting a gold one. I vaguely remember him saying that it was the overall longest lasting, since I was so young and I'd need it all my life. I guess in his defense I'm mid 30's now and never had a problem with it, so he could be right?

My left front tooth (the one between my actual front tooth and canine) is actually a cap that I can't even afford to get finished. It's been on for two years now. Basically covid hit and the dental office I was in went under. Then there was a 100-person waitlist to find ANY dentist in my area and I'm still waiting... Not to mention I've been laid off...

So yeah, I'm just as broke as most of my generation, lol.

Lol yeah, something like the colossus titan, but put a large underbite on him. Wish I could see what my actual physical skull looks like. I have a gold tooth in the back, too. Would be a gnarly skull.

A long time ago, around 15-16. I was frequenting the dentist and they said it would be no problem.

I actually had to have my molars removed. Soft teeth in the family and bad childhood antibiotics have made my teeth very fragile. The dentist said my wisdom might move to my molars and they did.

Now both my bottom molars are actually my wisdom teeth. Another cool thing, because my adult teeth have been fragile all my life, their roots have grown up to my cheekbones to compensate. My x-rays are wild. I have the longest roots my dentist has ever seen.

Edit: Also not so cool. I had a root canal and it took 4 hours.