missed opportunity to cast Kenny Omega as Charlie…would have been hilarious to see Cody and Kenny interacting again.

maybe I’m just old fashioned or just simply old but I don’t get the new trend of using shells. Isn’t the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?

to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It’s just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I’m tiling, I’m going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that…why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?

Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don’t get it and I feel like it would slow me down.

I wonder if there’s a bit of a bias considering pretty much Ubuntu’s main source of support is via AskUbuntu which is on StackExchange.

but the results just scream junior web dev to me.

I use NixOS myself and I love it, i’ll never use another distro again. plus with distrobox I don’t even need to use another distro, I already have all the major ones on my NixOS System.

If you do decide to go the Nix route keep in mind there’s really no right nor wrong way to have your system set up. it’s all personal preference. Some people will say flakes are the way to go, some people will say the opposite. Some people like having their system in modules, some don’t. Some like using the home-manager, some don’t. It’s all up to you. All I will suggest though is if you do try Nix set up a Git repo somewhere like on codeberg for it. Just makes things easier.

what’s that say about you?

yup that’s the way to go. just whatever you want to do think “can I do this via the terminal?” and it’ll all flow from there.

AND if you start using Neovim you’ll start getting addicted to vim style navigation and want to apply it to everything…which you can for a lot of things. you’ll then find that using vim nav and doing things via the terminal is a lot faster than using your mouse in a GUI.

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One of my favourite games of all time. man I wish i could play it again.

just him? Roman Reigns is in it also.

I remember a few years ago a client I was working with hired this kid right out of school for web dev stuff who was an absolute wizard with SVGs. Like he was showing myself and other senior devs things we’d never seen or imagined before.

SVG’s are seriously incredible and under utilized but man you really have to have the brain to wrap your head around them. I envy and give kudos to people that can.

I would suggest easing yourself into it. Since you’re in Mint start off with just installing and uninstalling programs via the terminal. If you really want to get into terminal use what helped me was this. “is there a GUI that I use a lot that I could potentially do from the terminal? lets research how.” So for example instead of using a package manager, use the terminal. Instead of using a file manager use the terminal with something like Yazi or Ranger and then from there you can use the terminal to manage files quite easily.

Want to unzip something? instead of doing it via the file manager look up how to do it via the terminal. need to empty your trash bin? same deal.

Instead of trying to learn everything at once when you’re doing something on your machine think to yourself “could I do this via the terminal?” and then look it up.

As far as programming goes I still firmly believe there’s nothing better out there than Vim/Neovim or Emacs/Doom Emacs. If you want to go that route instead of using Vim checkout Neovim with Lazyvim. both are extremely easy to install. OR if a total package and then some is what you’re looking for check out Doom Emacs. I use Doom Emacs currently for all my dev work and I love it. on my server I use Neovim just because it’s a bit faster since I have to SSH into it and it’s offsite.

shouldn’t surprise anyone considering spez used to mod r/jailbait.

So wouldn’t surprise me if she and her husband were buddy-buddy with Spez at some point. she clearly is still buddy-buddy with someone in the admin team or higher or simply several reddit mods.

Reddit is a pedophile, facist, and zionist haven. If you’re still using reddit guess what? you’re having a pint of beer in a pedophile-nazi bar. get off it.

10 USB sticks? why? just use ventoy and throw them all on an external SSD or something. that’s what I do. can even use that with specific dotfiles you need for each distro along with ventoy. much easier to deal with than 10 usb sticks.

Krohnkite is fine and all but it’s quite janky with certain programs.

it’s fine, people are blowing whistles at them, that’s for SURE going to stop them…

“StopAntisemitism” oh please. These people will continue to use that as a crutch until the sun burns out. I’m anti-zionist, I’m anti-israel, and if that makes me an anti-semite then so be it.

Being labeled an antisemite doesn’t hold as much weight anymore as it used to. It only holds weight for the people committing mass genocide.

so 2025. instead of wearing stars of david or getting tattoo’d with numbers you get a watch.

Hey Americans, when do the gas chambers and ovens start up?

ok champ.

I could see them detaining you simply for having linux on your laptop. If they can’t navigate around it then you’re obviously up to no good. I don’t use a display manager and could see them cuffing me simply because you need to login to my machine via TTY and know which WM i’m using.

simpler times when the biggest stories in Toronto were this monkey and the vigil for a dead raccoon.

I want to go back.

the password was “starwarssux”