Its not that bad to start with arch it’s not as hard as it used to be. I started with endeavourOS approximately a year ago and most things just work out of the box and you don’t need to do much and honestly i find it easier than having to navigate layers of abstractions.

Most of my time went into configuring stuff like hyprland, nvim and other stuff and arch just worked.

I came with 0 linux knowledge, the only terminal commands i knew were cd and ls and if not for arch I don’t think I would have been hooked on linux. That being said, I get it and sometimes it is frustrating but just putting it out there that it’s doable.

Yeah I noticed the main AUR package was last updated in June 2024. Thought they abandoned it but the GitHub shows the last release was around the same time. Downloaded sioyek-git instead and it works great.

I think I’m sticking with Sioyek. It checks enough boxes for what I need from a pdf viewer. Well documented, no performance issues, and it supports epub too.

The command line tools, portals, ruler for reading, keyboard text selection, searchable highlights, easy file opening, marking. Really vim-like. Need to customize some keybinds but otherwise don’t see a reason to look elsewhere for now.

Just tried it, setting gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled to true made firefox unusable with all sorts of visual glitches so I changed back both.

Kinda annoying. Somewhere a month ago firefox suddenly turned sluggish. It loads fine, video playback is ok as well, but the UI animations on the video player like seeking, changing volume, subtitles or video speed are really laggy.

I switched to a completely new profile and tried disabling all of my extensions but it’s the same. Kinda accepted it at this point and am ignoring it. It came out of the blue hopefully it gets fixed as well.

Oh Sioyek looks interesting. Also the blog is great !

I personally want something more minimal.

dows direct bare metal access to your linux computer is imo not recommendable, at least if you leave your linux drives plugged in while booting windows. It can and has fucked up peoples linux installs and i wouldnt risk that. So either put it in a VM or figure out a way to easily unplug

I heard that things like that can happen, that being said, I switched to linux around 8 months ago with dual boot and so far nothing happened. Maybe lucky.

What are the main things Wezterm does better than Kitty, in your opinion? Back when I looked at trying a different terminal I was just not convinced there’s that much of a difference between say Kitty and the other hyped ones.

That being said, back then I didn’t need any of this session stuff and multiplexing as I used ZelliJ.

Yep, he showed around Calibre in the interview and most of it’s features. The calibre-server thingy is cool, you can host it on your home server and access your library from any device through a web interface.

Oh interesting I wasn’t aware of how all of these things work. So even on the strictest CSS font visibility setting system fonts are not hidden (provided Document Fonts is enabled)? Local fonts I assume are hidden?

I remember thinking how strange it is that websites can know all of your installed fonts when I was playing around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://www.amiunique.org/

I’m on linux and I have some extra fonts installed. Just the combination of them alone is so unique to me that you don’t need anything else.

It has a lot of momentum, so it will continue to dominate. But I wonder if it will decline over the long term as Linux continues to improve. Similar to how smartphones barely differentiate themselves from one another these days (compared to the past) maybe operating systems will have a similar fate. Maybe I’m a bit naive, but perhaps Linux will eventually have all the stability and ease of use of Windows, while also offering privacy, customization, and open-source benefits so there will be no real reason to use windows and the split will be more even.

Maybe… eventually…

I got it from play store. I use it to sync markdown files (Obsidian) works like a charm.

Not a safari user so don’t really know but on a quick google search did find this : https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari

On a related note, try Vimium (FF / chrome extension) that brings vim motions into your browser. You will have a more complete experience.

I found it fascinating how much Meta is spending on AI, 72 B a year, more than the GDP of Alaska!

Also feel like it was a good summary of Zucks and Meta’s whole past failures.

You also have to control a bit portion of the shares of the company or voting rights, which he does, so share holders can’t boot you out.

That’s cool. Never heard of PostmarketOS before.

I have a set amount of “donation money” for FOSS every month. Most of these donations are not recurring, if i find a valuable FOSS project that actually helps me I give back some % of that amount, sometimes if there’s a lot of them I flip between them. That being said I have donated now 3 months in a row to Hyprland since I use it and I think it’s great.

All of my notes are stored in markdown files (Obsidian), don’t use any other apps. Syncthing to sync between phone and PC.

Oh fascinating you can just do it manually.