NostraDavid

This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.

OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?

weird dude who writes raw HTML

Eyy, that’s me! Good excercise to learn actual HTML, instead of directly trying to jump into <insert random JS framework> and getting confused on what’s what.

Anyway, I ended up switching to Hugo as a static site generator, because it was too damn hard to keep all my <header>, <nav> and <main> aligned for all my HTML files.

Now I can just write a markdown file as an article, or switch back to raw HTML if I so need (like rewriting Alan Turing’s paper " On computable numbers" in HTML because I can’t use TTS on the PDFs I found; I still haven’t finished writing it, because I am now reading E. F. Codd’s papers on the Relational Model, which is pretty wild how we already figured that shit out in the 1970s!)

Ubuntu is a gateway drug to Arch.

Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.

Have you found appdata/local/Application Data? It’s a “conjunction point” that you can only find via the command line, and only exists for backwards compatibility. It points to appdata/… Do not EVER try to gain access over all your files in appdata/. It’ll break due to that conjunction point.

FYI: There’s a series too - can highly recommend

• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

add “before:2023” to your search query

I unironically prefer apt over pacman, simply because my monkeybrain got addicted to running pacman -S (that was how to update, right?) and I dropped in productivity. apt is just “nah fam, there’s nothing new for you” most days, which gives me the quiet time I want and need.

I ran Manjaro BTW. It was nice while it lasted, but Debian is my new friend now.

Probably not often, but as a Debian user, it’s a PITA to get back to where I was before I fucked up my system. Nix(OS) sounds like a future investment to me, just in case I ever fuck up and need to get back to where I was ASAP. Been there once already and it was NOT fun.

That was from a professional standpoint BTW, privately I’m still a dirty Windows pleb, because that’s what I’m most familiar with.

PS: I’m already using a dotfiles repo, which already saves me a ton of time in settings things up.

I’m slowly learning Nix, and I’ve learned that Nix has more packages available than any single distro could ever deliver: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs.

It even has more than AUR (Arch User Repository, BTW)

Just add before:2023 to your search query BTW.

For Keepass users: KeepassXC can read your keepass file just fine, but KeepassXC can also run on Linux, whereas Keepass runs only on Windows.

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.

a free forum

“Oh great, I’ll have to create another fucking account” - me, already having some 300 accounts in my key-vault…

PiHole if you want it network-wide (also covers mobile devices and TVs) - hosts file if you only need to modify one machine.

Ooooh, there’s also nLite, if you wanted to make a custom version for yourself!

Those were fun times!

That reminded me of TinyXP - a modified version of Windows XP to be like some 100MB install, instead of the typical 2GB of default bloat.

Good shit.

It’s LTSC (Long Term Service Channel) nowadays - It’s the LTS version of Windows 10. Fewer updates, more stability of your OS in general. It’s neat!

No Windows Store by default, but it’s possible to install that separate, should you really need it.

And the link to OOSU10, in case anyone wants it: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

I use O&O ShutUp10++ (oosu10) to do the same thing. Makes Windows feel like Windows, instead of an ad machine.

Whenever people complain about ads I have NO idea what they’re talking about.

Edge will say it’s “maintained by your organization”, which seemed spooky, but that’s just a side-effect from having some privacy.