“The things, you say,
You’re unbelievable.”

yep, MTNU Susu at that point – I still really like the spherical tops, but currently I’m using a custom Yuzu Keycaps set so I can give myself lots of hints

• fitting your layout into a standard 60% case is a pretty common test case (I’ve gone through a lot of iterations of my own 42-key layout including a phase of trying to fit it into one of my 60% cases) – Montsinger’s Rebound and dcpedit’s TeeShirt are classic examples
• with any of the ergo-mech boards, there’s always a balance between minimizing finger reach versus minimizing chords – no-more-than-1-key-travel versus holding-down-4-keys-to-get-1-letter
• if you’re focused on prose, your next step could be looking at one of the keywell designs (Dactyl, Charybdis, Glove80) – work really well if you live with your hands on the keyboard all day long

(sidetrack: crontab guru helps you make sense of the first part of each crontab line)

• -auto-orient – auto-orient will read from EXIF
• -strip – strip will remove all metadata
• WARNING: if you’ve already used -strip, then -auto-orient will do nothing

Logseq is planning on moving to a database model (database is the source of truth) whereas Obsidian is staying with your text files always being the source of truth

in addition to RISC-V, China is also backing LoongArch (Loongson’s successor to MIPS)

China’s already started by cutting out the US and doing better off by it

(wiþ, ðat, ðe)

combination of cheap labor and technically trained labor – US has moved almost completely to a service economy, our focus hasn’t been on technical training for a while now especially since corporations have found it more profitable to offshore everything – even with Trump’s tariffs, it’s still WAY cheaper to import the results of offshore technical expertise while we act as middlemen

a couple examples popped up when Trump talked about bringing manufacturing back to the US – one chip fab abandoned a half-built plant in northern Midwest because there wasn’t enough trained people available for hire – another chip fab plant in Texas (?) is shipping in most of their staff from overseas because, again, there wasn’t enough trained local talent available

“Thicc Bleach: Ichigo Claps Back”

I think the only real advantage for the Pixel (and Nexus) series was they came with stock Android – no worrying about manufacturer overlays and carrier overlays adding their own levels of bloatware and delaying updates

• Rust has Redox
• Hare has Bunnix

Vibe Coding Day 8

Alpine Linux + LabWC – as I update my hardware, I seem to end up paring down my software – the more powerful the computer is, the less use I make of its capabilities 🤷 – I’ve worked with Macs and Windows, and settled on Linux more for its simplicity than anything – I don’t have any problem with MacOS or Windows themselves so much as the companies behind them

Alpine is a nice, clean, lightweight distro that works surprisingly well on a desktop despite the whingers complaining it’s for containers only … Pop!_OS ⇒ Debian Stable ⇒ Alpine (with Gentoo back in the dawn of history)

LabWC is the spiritual successor to Openbox, a nice simple stacking window manager that I’ve added a handful of tiling keybinds – I’ve added utility programs as I’ve wanted them rather than going for the cohesiveness of a proper desktop environment … Gnome ⇒ Xfce ⇒ LabWC (and with Openbox way back when)

oh hey, a project that actually has a manual to read

that’s what happens when you let corporations bribe lobby your politicians

(change the ‘x’ to ‘xcancel’)

Florida has a lot of alligators – DeSantis is building a concentration camp in Florida (in the middle of Big Cypress National Preserve, a environmentally protected area) – and the conservatives came up with the bright idea of calling it “Alligator Alcatraz”

[everyone else is trying to decide between “Alligator Auschwitz”, “Everglades Concentration Camp”, or “Gulag 34141”]

“hacked” or just used the FBI’s own backdoors?