monovergent 🛠️ @ monovergent @lemmy.ml

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Tidying up, journalling, writing, or art. Though nothing on a screen and nothing related to eating to avoid brushing my teeth again.

Indeed, I have the means and curiosity to try out biphasic sleeping. Only things that keep me back are having two alarms a night (at least while I'm not used to it) and the fear I'll get too worked up to fall asleep again.

Sometimes I'll wake up at 0300 and contemplate trying biphasic sleep. But I fall back asleep before I can muster the courage to get out of bed.

lol

Check out pinta, I've been using it as my paint.net substitute when I just need to go in and make a few quick edits.

I made a 1:3 peroxide to water mixture in my watering can and in about a month, the fungus gnats were gone for good with no apparent harm to my plant.

My desktop text editor has an autosave feature, but it only works after you've manually saved the file. All I wanted is something like the notes app on my phone, where I can jot down random thoughts without worrying about naming a new file. So here's the script behind my text editor shortcut, which creates a new text file in ~/.drafts, names it with the current date, adds a suffix if the file already exists, and finally opens the editor:

    
#!/bin/bash

name=/home/defacto/.drafts/"`date +"%Y%m%d"`"_text
if [[ -e "$name" || -L "$name" ]] ; then
    i=1
    while [[ -e "$name"_$i || -L "$name"_$i ]] ; do
        let i++
    done
    name="$name"_$i
fi
touch -- "$name"
pluma "$name" #replace pluma with your editor of choice

  

It was in 7 as well, but only the 32-bit edition. edit.com stopped shipping with 64-bit editions.

Aw man, I was about to praise the first two.

As others have suggested, QubesOS is a good one to have on your list. I'd probably use if it weren't for its crippling effects on battery life.

Immutable distros are much friendlier to laptops and, as I understand, update in a way not unlike an Android device would. But I insist on some system-level customizations and I haven't been motivated to learn how such customizations can be made to survive updates and the like.

I've also been eyeing NixOS, but with everything up and running on Debian smoothly for a few years, I haven't found the excuse to switch yet. Along with customizing it to be a comfortable daily driver, I've also been trying to see how secure I can make my system as a fun exercise. While it's not immutable, Debian is a good base considering the team behind it and how much is riding on its security, including internet-facing servers.

What I've done to harden Debian, if anyone's interested:

• Apply Madaidan's hardening guide judiciously. Roughly 2/3 of the measures made sense for my use case and it's almost unnoticeable in my daily workflow.
• Have as few closed-source components as possible. In my case, intel-microcode is the only non-free package on my system.
• Install the hardening-runtime package, but remove its included slub_debug=FPZ kernel argument, which in recent kernels forces less secure unhashed pointers.
• XFCE is still not fully ported to Wayland, so I use slock, the X11 screen locker with fewest lines of code.
• Install the ufw firewall and default to deny
• Enable unattended-upgrades
• Everything including the /boot partition is encrypted. I have built coreboot with just the GRUB2 payload, which I configured to immediately bring up the LUKS password prompt. All other options are behind a password.

I also put together and maintain a ~16 GB clean system image of Debian set up exactly to my taste, which I clone to my machines as needed. This probably wouldn't have been a thing if I knew about NixOS earlier, and it certainly hasn't helped me switch over either.

Is the automatic scaling a recently-introduced feature to KDE? I have Plasma 5 on Debian 12, could that be the missing link, or is my configuration just wonky? Hoping to avoid editing every affected shortcut to include Gamescope.

I've sketched out ideas for something like the MNT Reform, but with a Framework motherboard, and it's surprisingly hard to whittle down the form factor any more without sacrificing unique and useful features, like the user-replaceable battery cells and modular mechanical keyboard. Those were the main attractions for me, and it is indeed very weak hardware for the price. Tallying up the component prices, it's about as good as it gets without economies of scale while insisting on libre firmware.

No, but I do try to keep prep and cleanup times to under 1 hour for breakfast and lunch combined and 1 hour for dinner.

Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium flatpak for anything that doesn't work in Librewolf, and Fennec on Android

Whatever comes with your distro or desktop environment ought to be enough for anybody.

Unless you have a minimal window manager that comes with only xterm. Then I'd install xfce4-terminal to get tabs and more reasonably sized text. If for some reason the distro or OS only has sh, I'll also go ahead and install bash, but nothing fancier than that.

I see. I'm notorious among colleagues for going the extra mile and putting Whatsapp on a separate phone, which I only check on a routine. Hoping that there's a category of notifications can be disabled for ads, but no big loss if the notifications should be shut off altogether.

There's the Whatsapp web client on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.kuenzler.whatsappwebtogo/

But it still requires the official mobile app for the initial login. When I used it, logging in once seemed to be good for a few months, as long you open it from time to time. There's also a Whatsapp clone that seems to support login, but I haven't tried it and it hasn't seen updates in a couple years: https://github.com/KhubaibKhan4/Whatsify-Android

Same here, not yet at the point where I can convince all my colleagues to switch over. Why disable notifications in particular?

Those hinges must have been mighty strong. Or was there something to prop up the 6 screens?

To be completely honest, I installed Jellyfin "bare-metal" and have been using it that way since after attempting to skim the Docker documentation and failing to understand how Docker works.

If only I had the courage to tell my roommate