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Makes sense I guess. I mostly work with a few long-lived applications, and I hate having to do any manual window management myself. I'm fairly sure you could use scripting to come …

I'm surprised to hear that niri didn't work for you, I feel like it's a really good middle ground between tiling and floating window managers. It handles a lot of window resizing a…

I feel like this is regional, because I keep hearing it but I never run into these places.

You may be able to get by in the US without a credit card, but every purchase will literally cost you 2-5% more if you aren't making smart use of them.

Yes, Jobs is kind of an exception to my general point, but I think it's a bad idea to live your life assuming you can be the exception. I'm also not talking about having a great fa…

I was going to comment something similar to this. To an extent, dressing and grooming well is a sign of respect you show to other people as well as to yourself. If you can't clear …

Try out something like Timeleft ( https://timeleft.com/ ). It's in most major cities now, and it will set you up with a dinner reservation for you and 5 strangers who are also look…

Anecdotally, I found I developed a dependence on nicotine pouches very quickly. It was also very easy to exceed the nicotine equivalent of a pack of cigarettes daily without even n…

There's also FUTO Keyboard ( https://keyboard.futo.org/ ). Nothing against Heliboard (I actually don't even remember why I chose it over Heliboard). Just another good option.

The 3 justifications I remember for Wayland were security (isolating windows from each other), multi DPI, and eliminating tearing. All are now features of XLibre.

Lem is an Emacs-like editor built in Common Lisp. It's very impressive and usable for its age and I can see why some people see it as a better Emacs. Still has nowhere near the min…

Nah, Chris is definitely a real sysadmin and his blog has been pretty popular in this space for a long time.

To be fair to corporate, Emacs has a pretty terrible security model. There's no reason a program like Emacs couldn't exist which had something like capabilities baked in, but as it…

I've read a couple articles like this now, and my dream device is an e-ink tablet that is programmable by handwriting. Something like Emacs crossed with the Remarkable tablet cross…

Nothing wrong with that. One thing I like about my approach though is that I can get what little value there is out of platforms that rarely ever serve up anything useful to me. Fa…

A good chunk of the social events I attend are coordinated mainly through very busy group chats, and then announced with Instagram stories (yes really, even though they disappear a…

If it works for you, great! I've tried that before and it didn't work for me. I like the stuff I find on Hacker News, and I need Instagram to keep up with my friends, so this was t…

I would encourage people to consider permanent solutions to use social media more intentionally instead of taking a month off here and there. Two things that the apps really want y…

Email is still the best thing about the internet. I know it can be unwieldy if you don't spend the time to figure out a good strategy for dealing with it, and for that reason there…

A surprising number of my friends even think their phone is constantly listening to their private conversations throughout the day in order to feed the algorithm. And yet they stil…

Looking at that list of extremist indicators, I would agree that they qualify as common beliefs. It's hard to be too outraged though, because they also seem to genuinely reflect de…

Much appreciated!

Would you mind sharing the list of tweaks you make to systemd machines? I can't really avoid systemd altogether, and I like parts of it. But I also dislike that it does so much, an…

That's a very uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote. No, I'm not lying to myself, and what I'm doing is almost the opposite of worrying what other people think. I'm trying to…

I do this with sports to fit in better and make it easier to socialize. I do this with music, films, and books because I think some things are objectively better than others in way…