Damn, just found one way that #Firefox isn't up to snuff -- I'm learning that this whole new "passkeys" thing is very cool, and Firefox does not have support for it yet. :(
I was looking at tai chi places in GR. There aren't that many, it turns out. One of them seems nice, chill, it's run by a woman who's been doing tai chi a long time. There are some oddities on her site like she calls it "Tai Chi Gung" which sounds like a mashup of "Tai Chi" (taiji) and "Chi Kung" (qigong)? But the "chi" in "tai chi" is a completely different word than the "chi" in "chi kung", it's actually "ch'i". So that's a little odd, but not that odd...
In 2012 I managed to leave a shitty job that I'd been at for many years, without a raise, as the company slowly fell apart, that I was only in because it was my first programming job, I didn't have much of a resume, and life was in general pretty precarious in those days. The job was all Perl all the time - the CEO/CTO was super into Perl. (That also did not help with the whole "getting another job" thing.)
@sengi_app Seems like this would be a Frequently Asked Question but I couldn't find anything on it; is Sengi usable in a context where you don't have the ability to right click, i.e. on a mobile screen?
I decided to "mix it up" and change what distro and DE were on one of my #Linux machines, and everything I installed made me angry such that I ripped it out and installed something else that made me angrier. Tried to go back to the original arch but a glitch and a fuckup with the arch installer filled me with rage anew.
Right now it has Debian + XFCE, which I think is good, and I'm gonna leave it alone for now.
What a shitty Linux day. Should have left well enough alone.
"Hyprland is a wlroots-based tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. Noteworthy features of Hyprland include dynamic tiling, tabbed windows, a clean and readable C++ code-base, and a custom renderer that provides window animations, rounded corners, and Dual-Kawase Blur on transparent windows. General usage and configuration is thoroughly documented at Hyprland wiki. "
I don't know what Dual-Kawase Blur is but suddenly I want it so bad
@mph I'm looking at silverbullet.md, just out of curiosity. It seems kinda neat, in its own way. Looks like if there were no Tiddlywiki, here's something that could do a lot of the same things. I don't know that I'm thrilled about the interface? Like, TW is a web page. You know what a web page is and how to interact with it. Links, textareas, buttons. You know what's editable and what isn't. Silverbullet is a markdown editor running in your browser.
Brave Browser continues to be sketchy as fuck. They have moved on from sketchy cryptocurrency integrations and are working on sketchy AI/LLM integrations.
Spending all my time in a data hoarding fugue, collecting all my shit on my new home server. Old videos downloaded from youtube in 2010 that look like postage stamps. All my mp3s, which I want to tag correctly using na autotagger, which takes time and attention. Just absolutely sucking up my brain. Looping, can't stop. :\
@mph man, going through some really old backups, and I keep seeing software I'd forgotten about. An RSS reader called Shrook! Newsfire! Vienna! (i had a lot of RSS readers then I guess).
I've been using #archlinux as a laptop OS lately, because just about any odd little tool or utility I want to try out, a recent version is usually packaged for arch.
Also I am using linux lately not just as a means but as an end - I'd rather it be fiddly than boring. (If I was using it only as a means to get other more important stuff done, boring/stable/just-works would be the priority, and arch wouldn't be optimal.)
Just for fun I installed Arch Linux on a spare thinkpad. (My main squeeze gets Debian). I used the relatively new "archinstall" script to set up, it was really slick. I got a whole Gnome environment set up.
But because I had forgotten to tell it explicitly to install the "networkmanager" package, I couldn't get on the internet. Had to figure out how to reboot from the install media, go in, and install that too.
Oh Arch. You magnificent trainwreck. Never change.