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You can be frugal without spending a lot of mental energy on your expenses. It seems contradictory but it is possible to 'live' frugally without thinking about money all that much …

You can also get excellent results with User Scripts that connect to a local language model. 1. Run LM Studio (download the Gemma 4 model), which has a 'local server' w/ API. 2. Us…

The best part about choosing a simple WM is you never have to think about it again. I installed and configured DWM many years ago and it just works. Never had a single issue after …

This article fails to mention that a lot of current commercial scale battery co-locations' purpose is to capitalize on rare but highly profitable periods where demand spikes and sp…

As someone who has used Firefox since 1.0 (~20 years ago), I fully support returning Mozilla's sole focus to its users. Huge amounts of 'free' money has a tendency to de-focus orga…

This will lead to a game of 'homeless hot potato' among neighborhoods in larger cities as each pass ordinances that ban various 'homeless activities' in their borders.

Some interesting facts: * ERCOT (Texas) has more renewables generation than every other ISO, including CAISO (California) * ERCOT is setting new renewables records almost every mon…

I had the opportunity to hear a guest lecture of his in Colorado a little over 15 years ago which inspired my further study of philosophy at the time. He had a keen mind and will b…

For info, I checked and it looks like none of my AGPL licensed repos are included in The Stack. Neither are my private repos.

There is no evidence patents increase innovation. I suggest reading 'The Case Against Patents': https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.p...

I've never gotten ads on Youtube with Firefox nor my Chromium-based browser. Maybe they didn't roll the adblocker-blocker out to everyone.

Seems weird to be writing about croissants here but the Costco croissants are no where near the quality of a croissant made by a skilled baker, to the degree it is hard to call the…

Lifetime Pricing going to sink you. Best of luck though otherwise.

IMO, Suckless is about providing the minimal feature set possible. If you patch in an extra feature, that is what you get and nothing else. You always end up with exactly what you …

People seem to forget the web existed before widespread advertising. Ads are not necessary for all content on the web and, personally, I'd be fine if every last ad supported site o…

The statement is that it is shameful to grab for powers that invade the privacy of law abiding citizens.

> If you require the absolutely lowest latency possible though and don’t care about screen tearing then X without compositing, with VSync disabled is a better fit for you. You can …

It is unfortunate but forced vsync means I will never adopt Wayland. I do not want a frame+ delay when I'm gaming. I do not want v-sync lag when my framerate occasionally drops bel…

I live in the middle of a large city, in an old building, and don't really have noise issues. However, if I did I'd sound-proof my office. The noise insulation works both ways.

This post: A long article about weight loss that is built on a calorie-centric approach to food instead of questioning that fundamental premise and differentiating between types of…

> I even briefly used a tiling window manager before very quickly returning to the floating ones; the appeal of such utterly inflexible window management I will simply never unders…

It means 83% of reviewers gave it a 'passing grade' which is defined as a 6/10+. The formulation is a way to collapse precise scores into a binary classification of thumbsup or thu…

Living in the US, I often fantasize about living somewhere I can bike freely in the sense the article describes. Somewhere bikes are actually prioritized over cars, not just accomm…

Good to know and, yes, that was the issue (grub-mkconfig without grub-install). Somehow I've never had this issue in Arch before now and wasn't aware of this idiosyncrasy.. but now…