jennraeross

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[–] jennraeross 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like most everything has been answered, but I’ll note that if you struggle with arch, endeavor os has the same underpinnings while being a fair bit more beginner friendly (graphical installation, easy drivers, utilities to rank mirrors and update your packages, etc.). Arch wiki is great for questions that have already been answered, endeavor forums are useful for asking questions when the wiki falls through.

[–] jennraeross 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Last I’d checked, Vivaldi isn’t open source, so do you have any way to verify their privacy claims? Don’t trust black boxes.

Like, if you like it as a browser, that makes sense, it’s ui is well designed and customizable. But every company tries to claim to be privacy respecting, and it’s rarely true.

[–] jennraeross 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you want a tiling window manager, I’d also take a look at sway. In most regards, it works just like i3, so there’s a good amount of documentation available by proxy, but it uses Wayland instead of x11 (so probably don’t use it if you have an nvidia card)

Edit: ninja’d

[–] jennraeross 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Either a safety razor or Phillips one blade are excellent investments. The former is a smoother very economical shave, the latter is very fast and convenient (can’t cut yourself, and don’t need water). They don’t last as long as an epilator, but it’s a worthwhile trade off for the convenience.

As others have said, lasers are supposed to be great if you have dark hair, but I’m sharing what I’ve settled on as a person with nothing but light blonde.

[–] jennraeross 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm… I’m still torn on ai assisted coding. On the one hand, less work is good, on the other hand I trust myself to make my code error free more than I do a glorified chat bot that won’t have to deal with the consequences…

Somehow I’ve become the crotchety person upset about how things are changing, and I’m not even 30 yet…

[–] jennraeross 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Helix. It’s fairly vimlike, but with sensible defaults and no plugins so I don’t have to waste any time configuring it. It has good lsp and linting support for the languages I use (js & dart). My config is one line, to set the theme to match my terminal.

[–] jennraeross 4 points 1 year ago

Please do not take this as support of ai use of copyrighted works (I don’t), but as far as I can tell, yes we are machines. This rant is just me being aspie atm, so feel free to ignore it.

We are thinking machines programmed by our genetics, predispositions, experiences, and circumstances. A 2 part explanation of how humans are merely products of their circumstances was once put forward to me. The first part is that humans can do anything, but only the thing we want to do most.

For instance, a common rebuttal is that people can choose go to the gym even when they find the experience of exercise undesirable. However, when that happens, it’s merely a case of other wants out balancing the want to not go to the gym, typically they want to be fit.

We want to not spend money, but we want to not rush going to jail for stealing more, usually. We want to not work overtime, but sometimes we want the extra cash more than that.

The second part of the argument is that we can’t choose what we want. When someone talks themselves out of the slice of cheesecake, they aren’t changing what they want, they’re resolving said want against the larger want they have to lose weight.

And if we make decisions by our wants, while said wants are not decided by us, then despite appearances we are little more than complex automata.

[–] jennraeross 1 points 1 year ago

Being asexual, I’m very aware of the fact. This is still a super sketchy way to express the sentiment.

[–] jennraeross 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, I get that it’s a meme, but the way it expresses its sentiment makes me uncomfortable is all.

[–] jennraeross 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Orrrrrr…

If you aren’t feeling up to do it, just say so?

Like, communication would’ve been easier on both sides…

[–] jennraeross 1 points 1 year ago

Theme: any Nordic dark theme Icons: Papirus, it just can’t be beat Cursor: Do people actually care enough to change it? They’re all kinda same-y

[–] jennraeross 3 points 1 year ago

Heh, por que no los dos? I’ve got a MacBook, thinkpad and steam deck. Thinkpad runs pop os, steam deck is used as a small gaming desktop with the described setup (as well as krohnkite since I’m addicted to tiling)

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