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Makes sense I guess. I mostly work with a few long-lived applications, and I hate having to do any manual window management myself.

I'm fairly sure you could use scripting to come up with a Niri workflow that worked for your use case. Maybe something like niri-scratchpad (https://github.com/Vizkid04/niri-scratchpad). But I sympathize if you don't want to spend a ton of time experimenting with your tools when you already have something that works for you.

I'm surprised to hear that niri didn't work for you, I feel like it's a really good middle ground between tiling and floating window managers. It handles a lot of window resizing and arranging for me, without being too rigid. Windows can have any width they need without having to evenly divide my monitor.

I feel like this is regional, because I keep hearing it but I never run into these places.

You may be able to get by in the US without a credit card, but every purchase will literally cost you 2-5% more if you aren't making smart use of them.

Yes, Jobs is kind of an exception to my general point, but I think it's a bad idea to live your life assuming you can be the exception.

I'm also not talking about having a great fashion sense though, and it's okay to prefer a more casual look. Just pay a little attention to how you dress and care for yourself.

I was going to comment something similar to this. To an extent, dressing and grooming well is a sign of respect you show to other people as well as to yourself. If you can't clear that relatively low bar, don't be surprised when people aren't super excited about what you might add to their lives.

Try out something like Timeleft (https://timeleft.com/). It's in most major cities now, and it will set you up with a dinner reservation for you and 5 strangers who are also looking to make friends.

I had a tough breakup a couple years ago and I know it would have been way tougher if I hadn't discovered Timeleft.

Even if you have enough friends already, you're at the age where it's probably difficult to get together regularly.

It's also good if you travel alone and want a night out in a city where you don't know anyone.

Anecdotally, I found I developed a dependence on nicotine pouches very quickly. It was also very easy to exceed the nicotine equivalent of a pack of cigarettes daily without even noticing.

But it was also easy to quit by substituting nicotine-free pouches, and withdrawal symptoms only lasted like 3 days.

There's also FUTO Keyboard (https://keyboard.futo.org/). Nothing against Heliboard (I actually don't even remember why I chose it over Heliboard). Just another good option.

The 3 justifications I remember for Wayland were security (isolating windows from each other), multi DPI, and eliminating tearing. All are now features of XLibre.

Lem is an Emacs-like editor built in Common Lisp. It's very impressive and usable for its age and I can see why some people see it as a better Emacs. Still has nowhere near the mindshare of Emacs, though, and it has a long way to go before it can match the Emacs ecosystem.

Nah, Chris is definitely a real sysadmin and his blog has been pretty popular in this space for a long time.

To be fair to corporate, Emacs has a pretty terrible security model.

There's no reason a program like Emacs couldn't exist which had something like capabilities baked in, but as it is, every package has access to anything it wants.

I've read a couple articles like this now, and my dream device is an e-ink tablet that is programmable by handwriting. Something like Emacs crossed with the Remarkable tablet crossed with a new programming language optimized for handwriting.

I don't want VR headsets. I don't want AI voice assistants. I don't want robots. I just want this.

Sadly nobody else is clamoring for it...

Nothing wrong with that. One thing I like about my approach though is that I can get what little value there is out of platforms that rarely ever serve up anything useful to me.

Facebook, for example, hardly ever gives me any value, but sometimes it does. If I used Facebook like most people, I would have to check it regularly for that one time I get something valuable from it. The downsides would far outweigh the upside, so it would make sense to delete it. But instead I can go months without ever opening Facebook, and then get notified when there's a post I actually care about, and give it my attention on my own schedule.

A good chunk of the social events I attend are coordinated mainly through very busy group chats, and then announced with Instagram stories (yes really, even though they disappear after 24 hours). I'm not really in a position to change that either, so I'd rather get the 1 update from Instagram than sift through hundreds of group chat messages.

I agree with you in principle, though. There are better tools for all of this that they just won't use.

If it works for you, great! I've tried that before and it didn't work for me. I like the stuff I find on Hacker News, and I need Instagram to keep up with my friends, so this was the solution I came up with mostly to keep myself from compulsively checking both of those in an unhealthy way.

I would encourage people to consider permanent solutions to use social media more intentionally instead of taking a month off here and there. Two things that the apps really want you to do, but that you should resist as much as possible, are doomscrolling through meaningless content and compulsively checking apps or websites in case you miss out on interesting updates.

For myself, I've decided to direct anything and everything possible to my email (with plenty of filters to keep my main inbox tidy). For apps that don't offer email notifications, I use MacroDroid to forward Android push notifications to email. There are also plenty of ways to forward RSS to email.

I batch process my email 1-3x/day, and anything I don't want to see during this time is not worth seeing at all. It gets ignored, filtered out, or unsubscribed from.

Email is still the best thing about the internet. I know it can be unwieldy if you don't spend the time to figure out a good strategy for dealing with it, and for that reason there will always be those that hate it. But I'm constantly wishing the services I use made better use of email for notifications or even as a user interface for the thing.

A surprising number of my friends even think their phone is constantly listening to their private conversations throughout the day in order to feed the algorithm. And yet they still keep their phone on them at all times, so they are seemingly okay with that much more draconian level of surveillance.

Looking at that list of extremist indicators, I would agree that they qualify as common beliefs. It's hard to be too outraged though, because they also seem to genuinely reflect destructive beliefs that are absolutely antithetical to American society.

Much appreciated!

Would you mind sharing the list of tweaks you make to systemd machines?

I can't really avoid systemd altogether, and I like parts of it. But I also dislike that it does so much, and wish I could find a list of all its non-essential components and a guide for slimming it down and disabling any surprising or bad behavior (like its default name servers, for example).

That's a very uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote. No, I'm not lying to myself, and what I'm doing is almost the opposite of worrying what other people think.

I'm trying to let good art affect my soul and keep bad art from corrupting it.

I do this with sports to fit in better and make it easier to socialize.

I do this with music, films, and books because I think some things are objectively better than others in ways that don't always line up with my own tastes.

Lots of Debian Developers run unstable, and stable gets the most QA, but I'd be careful about running testing until it gets closer to the next freeze. When I used to daily drive testing, there was a period when it was completely broken. Stable and unstable were fine, but testing was borked.

Unstable means that updates could change things about your system that you rely on. This could be a package getting removed, but it could also be a package upgrade that necessitates a change to your workflow or code running on the system..

My new bookmark solution is email, with some extra steps to get back single click bookmarking.

1. Use Raindrop and its browser extension (or mobile app) for saving bookmarks.

2. Subscribe to the RSS feed of my new bookmarks.

3. Use Feedmail to send my bookmarks to me via email, with the full scraped article text included.

Email is a durable format with lots of powerful tools and easy automation. My bookmarks and workflow can survive the death of any of these services. I can tag, search, and read my bookmarks anywhere along with all of my other feeds, newsletters, and notifications. I can also easily forward an article I've bookmarked this way, or reply to self if I want to save my own commentary on it.

Well Thiel did name his company after an artifact of evil in the LOTR universe.

I love Tolkien but using his name in political discussions is pointless. He was basically an anarchist whose views wouldn't support any major active political faction today.

It's worth noting that you can opt out of that too. You should have received a privacy disclosure with every credit card you've opened containing instructions on how to opt out. Usually you have to make a phone call - you won't find the option in your online banking portal.