- Insulin
- Sourdough Starter
- An SSH private key that might come in handy later
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Ohhh that makes sense... Somehow... about Jeff Geerling. He always felt off to me in a way I couldn't put my finger on. Guess now I have a proper reason not to watch him.
Also yes Alec is fantastic.
I'm not really that purist - I'll use closed-sourced software when necessary. For example, I have Davinci Resolve and Bitwig Studio installed. Sure I would prefer if those were open, but the target audience here are creatives, who largely won't care.
On the other hand, Jolla is trying to sell exactly to those people that DO care, which makes the choice so hard to understand and support.
I really like the idea of the Jolla and am seriously considering getting one. I'm also the exact target audience (Linux nerd, privacy conscious, FOSS advocate, want to own MY device fully, hate having to use a US-based duopoly in my current daily life).
That's exactly why I don't understand their decision to keep parts of their system closed. The overlap between people who want a Linux phone and who are OK with that Linux phone not being fully open seems to be tiny.
You killed him! NOW IT'S JUST "Lake"!
Lmao this is fantastic, thank you.
- MuseScore 4 is a (the!) free music notation software. It is genuinely fantastic. It's also a lot of fun, if you know some notation basics and want to play around.
- Darktable is a Raw photo editor in the vein of Lightroom. Except where lightroom is sleek, polished, user friendly and Adobe (🤮), Darktable is FOSS, and clearly so both in the design and functionality: it could easily make a UX designer cry, but if you're willing to give it a try, there does not exist a more potent raw editor on this earth. Lightroom is a toy in comparison. (Now whether you need that is another question... But I've been using it for more than 10 years, and am still finding new, incredibly useful sub-menus, drop-down contexts on hidden sliders,...)
- rmpc is a really cool TUI music player
Yeah Librewolf is amazing. I dialed some if the ootb settings back for usability, but all the "new" stuff Mozilla adds is filtered right back out upstream, so I never even see it.
Awesome! Have fun. And I know I'm just an internet rando, but feel free to ask here/dm if you get stuck with something. The initial learning cliff definitely exists, but it's absolutely worth it!
Not really. (When was last time?)
The reason is more that the config language that you have to learn if you want to use NixOS is the exact same you use to package applications for NixOS.
So any user is also just a tiny, non-intimidating step away from being a contributor and package maintainer.
I know for myself, I never packaged for the AUR - just seemed way to intimidating and a lot of new stuff to figure out - but I maintain a bunch of packages and modules in nixpkgs, and they're all stuff that was "huh, this is cool but not packaged yet; alright, I'll package it in my private config; oh that was easy, let's upstream it".
Nothing else even comes close, except the AUR, but even that not really:
- Signal
- XMPP
- Matrix
In that order. I self-host both XMPP and Matrix, and I wouldn't want to stop using matrix. Spaces, arbitrary amounts of self-chats, and so on are great. I use matrix every day.
But for chatting... It sooner or later fails you. It's slow. Notifications break. Messages are shown as sent, but somehow do not appear in the recipient's devices until TWO WEEKS LATER (yeah IDK, happened twice already, in different chats and directions. Best part is, I'm not even federated!). Encryption is great IF YOU KNOW SOME CRYPTOGRAPHY BASICS, and utterly confusing otherwise.
XMPP just works. Especially the calls, holy shit, I had to fight Matrix for so long to make voice and video calls work, and xmpp just... Works. Notifications are way more reliable (as in, have been absolutely perfect). I really like monocles as a chat app on Android. (The downside is: can't decrypt old messages on new devices, and desktop clients are ugly.)
So why Signal above XMPP?
Because it's not your fault should something ever break in a vital service. Also the encryption and privacy afforded by it a great.
Idk it took me 3 attempts to learn (neo)vim, but now every Linux system I SSH in I just go straight for vi(m), because moving around and editing in Nano is just so slow when you're used to vim keys.
I swear I'm not trying to proselytize. People should use whatever they want, and these discussions are pointless. It's all just tradeoffs and getting used to things.