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What the? Vivaldi 8.0 is incredible.

So nice not having AI integrated, I could use this in place of Firefox with no issues.

#archlabs #vivaldiBrowser

@jloc0 Yeah, after that first go I went all in on OpenBox and landed on ArchLabs, where I met @nwgpiotr, who was doing his first Sway magic. And he picked up on Hyprland very quickly. Since I wanted to go in on Wayland I used his toolkit pretty extensively, mostly with Hyprland. That's how I ran into you; the rest is greybeard history 😂
#archlabs #nwg

@jloc0
Bug hunting 101: for some obscure reason Spectacle wasn't working in Slim 6.7. (Re)install tesseract and leptonica (available in your repo anyway), all good!
It's always the user that effs something up 😆
#slackware #archlabs

It's difficult to grasp, perhaps. But that you build your own dwm, and just schlepp it around with you, remains unbeatable.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

It's difficult to grasp, perhaps. But that you build your own dwm, and just schlepp it around with you, remains unbeatable.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !

#slackware #archlabs

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !

#slackware #archlabs

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !

#slackware #archlabs

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !

#slackware #archlabs

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !

#slackware #archlabs

Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22

#bytemagazine #archlabs

Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22

#bytemagazine #archlabs

Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22

#bytemagazine #archlabs

Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22

#bytemagazine #archlabs

Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22

#bytemagazine #archlabs

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo

Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo

Geek speak: today, Labor Day, we are all free here. What did I do?
Reinstall Gentoo, openrc, uefi, xfs, encrypted rootfs and using ugrd as initramfs.
Making notes about that now slowly turns into a personal quick reference guide for such an install. I've done around 20 Gentoo installs so far, always reinventing the wheel. Many, many ah yes moments 😂
Installing xorg et all now (somehow I didnt dare to go the xlibre way yet), it has been a great day, very well spent!
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

Geek speak: today, Labor Day, we are all free here. What did I do?
Reinstall Gentoo, openrc, uefi, xfs, encrypted rootfs and using ugrd as initramfs.
Making notes about that now slowly turns into a personal quick reference guide for such an install. I've done around 20 Gentoo installs so far, always reinventing the wheel. Many, many ah yes moments 😂
Installing xorg et all now (somehow I didnt dare to go the xlibre way yet), it has been a great day, very well spent!
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

Geek speak: today, Labor Day, we are all free here. What did I do?
Reinstall Gentoo, openrc, uefi, xfs, encrypted rootfs and using ugrd as initramfs.
Making notes about that now slowly turns into a personal quick reference guide for such an install. I've done around 20 Gentoo installs so far, always reinventing the wheel. Many, many ah yes moments 😂
Installing xorg et all now (somehow I didnt dare to go the xlibre way yet), it has been a great day, very well spent!
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

Geek speak: today, Labor Day, we are all free here. What did I do?
Reinstall Gentoo, openrc, uefi, xfs, encrypted rootfs and using ugrd as initramfs.
Making notes about that now slowly turns into a personal quick reference guide for such an install. I've done around 20 Gentoo installs so far, always reinventing the wheel. Many, many ah yes moments 😂
Installing xorg et all now (somehow I didnt dare to go the xlibre way yet), it has been a great day, very well spent!
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
#gentoo #dwm #archlabs

First workday today with FreeBSD as the main system, running Mango WM on the Dell Inspiron 7300, with hybrid graphics.
Very important note to myself: think in solutions, not problems. Rethink and it'll work for you. and RTF Handbook!
No easy bluetooth? All my devices have at least one radio dongle (Dell kb mouse combo) or analog cable (Edifier MR3). The Linuxies are perfectly fine running all that with BT. So switch the 'old' core to your BSD machine. FreeBSD is blessed with an excellent Wayland stack, so mango, fuzzel, waypaper, wdisplays, nwg-look etc etc are all available. And that one 'unmissable' Linux app? They have a web interface also. No Linuxalators necessary. Great!
#freebsd #mangowm #archlabs

First workday today with FreeBSD as the main system, running Mango WM on the Dell Inspiron 7300, with hybrid graphics.
Very important note to myself: think in solutions, not problems. Rethink and it'll work for you. and RTF Handbook!
No easy bluetooth? All my devices have at least one radio dongle (Dell kb mouse combo) or analog cable (Edifier MR3). The Linuxies are perfectly fine running all that with BT. So switch the 'old' core to your BSD machine. FreeBSD is blessed with an excellent Wayland stack, so mango, fuzzel, waypaper, wdisplays, nwg-look etc etc are all available. And that one 'unmissable' Linux app? They have a web interface also. No Linuxalators necessary. Great!
#freebsd #mangowm #archlabs

First workday today with FreeBSD as the main system, running Mango WM on the Dell Inspiron 7300, with hybrid graphics.
Very important note to myself: think in solutions, not problems. Rethink and it'll work for you. and RTF Handbook!
No easy bluetooth? All my devices have at least one radio dongle (Dell kb mouse combo) or analog cable (Edifier MR3). The Linuxies are perfectly fine running all that with BT. So switch the 'old' core to your BSD machine. FreeBSD is blessed with an excellent Wayland stack, so mango, fuzzel, waypaper, wdisplays, nwg-look etc etc are all available. And that one 'unmissable' Linux app? They have a web interface also. No Linuxalators necessary. Great!
#freebsd #mangowm #archlabs

First workday today with FreeBSD as the main system, running Mango WM on the Dell Inspiron 7300, with hybrid graphics.
Very important note to myself: think in solutions, not problems. Rethink and it'll work for you. and RTF Handbook!
No easy bluetooth? All my devices have at least one radio dongle (Dell kb mouse combo) or analog cable (Edifier MR3). The Linuxies are perfectly fine running all that with BT. So switch the 'old' core to your BSD machine. FreeBSD is blessed with an excellent Wayland stack, so mango, fuzzel, waypaper, wdisplays, nwg-look etc etc are all available. And that one 'unmissable' Linux app? They have a web interface also. No Linuxalators necessary. Great!
#freebsd #mangowm #archlabs

@dobbie003 Thanks 🤓 I'll try to keep up with it 🤣 Tbh, right now the Debian btrfs project by Drew (with dwm and qtile amongst others) is an awesome project. It installs through a tui he build himself from bash scripts. He previously referenced #archlabs and #archbang as his 'examples' that he really enjoyed using. It's cool. Recommended!
#butterbian

@dobbie003 Thanks 🤓 I'll try to keep up with it 🤣 Tbh, right now the Debian btrfs project by Drew (with dwm and qtile amongst others) is an awesome project. It installs through a tui he build himself from bash scripts. He previously referenced #archlabs and #archbang as his 'examples' that he really enjoyed using. It's cool. Recommended!
#butterbian

@dobbie003 Thanks 🤓 I'll try to keep up with it 🤣 Tbh, right now the Debian btrfs project by Drew (with dwm and qtile amongst others) is an awesome project. It installs through a tui he build himself from bash scripts. He previously referenced #archlabs and #archbang as his 'examples' that he really enjoyed using. It's cool. Recommended!
#butterbian

@dobbie003 Thanks 🤓 I'll try to keep up with it 🤣 Tbh, right now the Debian btrfs project by Drew (with dwm and qtile amongst others) is an awesome project. It installs through a tui he build himself from bash scripts. He previously referenced #archlabs and #archbang as his 'examples' that he really enjoyed using. It's cool. Recommended!
#butterbian

The vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many scripts to install additional sw (Helium, Zen, ghostty etc etc).
- TunaOS: the bootc concept for enterprise Linux, based on Alma and CentOS. But also Bonito, which provides Fedora44 and Niri!
Wild!

#archlabs #rakuos #dakota #tunaos #butterbian

The vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many scripts to install additional sw (Helium, Zen, ghostty etc etc).
- TunaOS: the bootc concept for enterprise Linux, based on Alma and CentOS. But also Bonito, which provides Fedora44 and Niri!
Wild!

#archlabs #rakuos #dakota #tunaos #butterbian

The vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many scripts to install additional sw (Helium, Zen, ghostty etc etc).
- TunaOS: the bootc concept for enterprise Linux, based on Alma and CentOS. But also Bonito, which provides Fedora44 and Niri!
Wild!

#archlabs #rakuos #dakota #tunaos #butterbian

The vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many scripts to install additional sw (Helium, Zen, ghostty etc etc).
- TunaOS: the bootc concept for enterprise Linux, based on Alma and CentOS. But also Bonito, which provides Fedora44 and Niri!
Wild!

#archlabs #rakuos #dakota #tunaos #butterbian

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.

#freebsd #archlabs #mangowm

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.

#freebsd #archlabs #mangowm

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.

#freebsd #archlabs #mangowm

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.

#freebsd #archlabs #mangowm

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.

#freebsd #archlabs #mangowm

Living nerd-life on the edge.
For the non-initiated it's hard to grasp, but in my throwback mood I have enabled the global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE flag again. To install the latest KDE obviously. In the 5.28 days I used that setup of Gentoo for about 4 months before I broke it.
And it fills me with great joy to see that screen roll by again. Let's see how this ends 😎
#archlabs

Living nerd-life on the edge.
For the non-initiated it's hard to grasp, but in my throwback mood I have enabled the global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE flag again. To install the latest KDE obviously. In the 5.28 days I used that setup of Gentoo for about 4 months before I broke it.
And it fills me with great joy to see that screen roll by again. Let's see how this ends 😎
#archlabs

Living nerd-life on the edge.
For the non-initiated it's hard to grasp, but in my throwback mood I have enabled the global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE flag again. To install the latest KDE obviously. In the 5.28 days I used that setup of Gentoo for about 4 months before I broke it.
And it fills me with great joy to see that screen roll by again. Let's see how this ends 😎
#archlabs

Living nerd-life on the edge.
For the non-initiated it's hard to grasp, but in my throwback mood I have enabled the global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE flag again. To install the latest KDE obviously. In the 5.28 days I used that setup of Gentoo for about 4 months before I broke it.
And it fills me with great joy to see that screen roll by again. Let's see how this ends 😎
#archlabs