thejevans

thejevans, 1 day ago

It works out of the box on my Linux PC with AMD CPU and GPU, and has pretty great dynamic resolution, so it probably works great on the deck.

thejevans, 1 day ago

that’s unfortunate.

thejevans, 2 days ago

The game has functionality that does not work on the Steam Deck. Valve is completely in the right here. If the developers wanted it to get a rubber stamp from Valve, then they shouldn’t have made part of the game broken on Linux.

thejevans, 2 days ago

I just walked from my office to get some lunch. There are a few options nearby, which is nice, but to get to any of them, I have to cross multiple massive parking lots and at least two non-signaled pedestrian crossings at stop signs that are 40+ feet wide. Between walking the 1/4 mile to lunch and back, I had 3 cars almost back out of a parking spot while I was walking by, and had one van roll into the crosswalk right in front of me at a stop sign.

EDIT: Also, there are only sometimes sidewalks available.

thejevans, 3 days ago

Majora’s Mask Decompiled on my Linux PC

thejevans, 6 days ago

I have been on a similar search.

I don’t think Joplin does real-time collaboration, if that is the kind of collaboration you’re looking for. If you don’t expect you and your wife to edit documents at the same time, it may work for you. For me, I almost exclusively want to real-time edit lists with my partner.

My current system gets around real-time collaboration needs by using 3 obsidian notes in a shared obsidian vault. For example, my partner and I each have a grocery list with a dataview showing the other’s list in their own. That way my partner can edit their list and I can see what they’re editing while doing the same on mine, thus avoiding collisions. Then, I have an in-store grocery list view that joins the two lists and groups by isle, and we just check off things on a single phone as we put them in the cart.

I would LOVE to get away from this system.

Hedgedoc 2.0 will have an Explore Page when it comes out, and with that, I think it will solve my use case. It has a good-enough mobile interface, and markdown isn’t terrible.

For the music festival, have you considered something more robust like a wiki?

thejevans, 6 days ago

Again, with the probable ADHD, that sort of workflow would never work for us. I can understand why you want to get away from it.

I have ADHD. Setting it up took some time and effort, but I haven’t had to mess with it since.

thejevans, 6 days ago

There is nothing here saying it will be FOSS or open-source, just source-available.

thejevans, 6 days ago

You can contribute to things that don’t have open source licenses, it’s just probably a dumb idea.

thejevans, 6 days ago

sure, and while we wait, claiming that they are releasing it as open-source is speculation, so lets not do that.

thejevans, 6 days ago

nope, open-source. claiming that they are releasing under an open-source license is speculation. The only thing we can claim is source-available.

thejevans, 6 days ago

I just switched from Nobara to NixOS on my gaming PC. I’ve had NixOS on my laptop for almost a year and decided I’m comfortable enough with it to use it full time, and it works great for gaming.

Before NixOS, I was a die-hard Arch user. The only reasons it would break were because I was trying a bunch of stuff from AUR to play around with Wayland + Nvidia when that was brand new, or when I would forget to update for a while.

It breaking was primarily due to me tinkering around and not fully undoing those changes. Now I can do that with no fear on NixOS, and it’s fabulous.

thejevans, 8 days ago

My job is all Google and Microsoft. It sucks, for sure.

What frustrates me more is that students are trained to use specific proprietary tools like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace or Adobe Creative Suite, especially at public schools. The school systems are just further entrenching these tools.

thejevans, 9 days ago

I don’t see anywhere on their site if it can do threads as well as spaces. I need both, and I’d love to move away from Element/Schildichat.

thejevans, 10 days ago

A basic, local text-to-speech app using home assistant’s piper would be great. Feed it a document and have it read the document to you, highlighting along the way.

thejevans, 10 days ago

The todo.txt format and the software being built around it.

Namely sleek and ntodotxt

thejevans, 11 days ago

I’ve been running NixOS on my framework laptop for almost a year now. I’m a huge fan.

The only thing I couldn’t get working was a flake + home-manager-as-a-module + sway setup, but I haven’t tried for 6 months or so.

Currently running flake + home-manager-as-a-module + COSMIC and it’s fantastic.

I’m running Nobara on my gaming PC, and was originally planning to switch to Bazzite if anything broke, but now I’m working on prepping my NixOS config for gaming.

thejevans, 11 days ago

So far it seems just fine! I’m finding a few bugs here and there, but I think that has more to do with COSMIC than NixOS. I’m going to do some more testing on Plasma to narrow down where the issues are. You can see my config here:

github.com/thejevans/nix-config/…/gaming.nix

thejevans, 11 days ago

Decided to take this as an opportunity to just go for it. It works great on my gaming PC with Plasma 6. I tested Balatro with Proton, and Baldur’s Gate III.

I have a Ryzen 5800X3D CPU and an RX7900XTX GPU.

thejevans, 12 days ago

Just played a few hours. fantastic!

thejevans, 10 days ago

I have lots of projects going on and I’m making incremental progress on all of them.

I’m designing furniture to make everything I own take up less space so I can move to smaller apartments in the future.

Through self-hosting, I’m slowly removing big-tech software from my life, and I’m helping friends/family to do the same. I recently set up a small invidious instance that my friends and I share.

I finally have Linux’d all the things and have my computers under a single NixOS configuration.

I’m using Home Assistant to monitor and reduce power usage.

I started urban-colorado.wiki to be a repository for people in Colorado to get information about recent and upcoming housing and transportation legislation, how to get involved, local urbanist communities, and social programs available and how to access them. It’s still VERY much in its infancy, but anyone in Colorado is welcome and encouraged to contribute.

I’m also saving up for a cargo bike to replace the vast majority of cars trips that I still take.

thejevans, 10 days ago

indieweb.org has a lot of good resources. Static site generators like Hugo are also great. If you want something more traditional like a Wordpress blog, I recommend www.reclaimhosting.com

For a domain registrar, I HIGHLY recommend porkbun.com

thejevans, 15 days ago

I currently use nextcloud + todo.txt

I don’t have my todos in my calendar (I think that may be what you’re asking for?), but both are solid systems.

I sync my todo.txt files via nextcloud. I use sleek on my desktop and ntodotxt on my phone.

thejevans, 17 days ago

If you’re in the US and have a microcenter nearby, they tend to have a lot on display

thejevans, 17 days ago

I built a budget custom board using this chassis, gateron yellows, and cheap no-name keycaps from amazon for about $150. Judging by the images I found online for “cassette futurism”, this may be your style and is pretty quiet.

ymdkey.com/…/gb-ncr-80-r2-vintage-mechanical-keyb…