I’ve never heard about sailfishos before. Are there any phones running it now? Also, forgive my lack of knowledge, but what’s stopping people from running it on their samsungs or whatever?

The whole thing does look interesting. Hopefully it picks up so that in 2 or 3 years when i’ll be shopping for a replacement to my pixel 8 I’ll actually have some good options.

Its not that bad to start with arch it’s not as hard as it used to be. I started with endeavourOS approximately a year ago and most things just work out of the box and you don’t need to do much and honestly i find it easier than having to navigate layers of abstractions.

Most of my time went into configuring stuff like hyprland, nvim and other stuff and arch just worked.

I came with 0 linux knowledge, the only terminal commands i knew were cd and ls and if not for arch I don’t think I would have been hooked on linux. That being said, I get it and sometimes it is frustrating but just putting it out there that it’s doable.

I wasn’t aware of any “dramas” so I had to look it up, is this what you’re referring to ? https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

For some reason I don’t think it’s such a big deal as the post if making it out to be.

Yeah I noticed the main AUR package was last updated in June 2024. Thought they abandoned it but the GitHub shows the last release was around the same time. Downloaded sioyek-git instead and it works great.

I think I’m sticking with Sioyek. It checks enough boxes for what I need from a pdf viewer. Well documented, no performance issues, and it supports epub too.

The command line tools, portals, ruler for reading, keyboard text selection, searchable highlights, easy file opening, marking. Really vim-like. Need to customize some keybinds but otherwise don’t see a reason to look elsewhere for now.

Just tried it, setting gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled to true made firefox unusable with all sorts of visual glitches so I changed back both.

Kinda annoying. Somewhere a month ago firefox suddenly turned sluggish. It loads fine, video playback is ok as well, but the UI animations on the video player like seeking, changing volume, subtitles or video speed are really laggy.

I switched to a completely new profile and tried disabling all of my extensions but it’s the same. Kinda accepted it at this point and am ignoring it. It came out of the blue hopefully it gets fixed as well.

Oh Sioyek looks interesting. Also the blog is great !

I personally want something more minimal.

dows direct bare metal access to your linux computer is imo not recommendable, at least if you leave your linux drives plugged in while booting windows. It can and has fucked up peoples linux installs and i wouldnt risk that. So either put it in a VM or figure out a way to easily unplug

I heard that things like that can happen, that being said, I switched to linux around 8 months ago with dual boot and so far nothing happened. Maybe lucky.

Interesting. So manually converting a prompt into poetry had more success than asking AI to turn it into poetry.

Some have called it “the revenge of the English majors,”

The study looked at 25 of the most widely used AI models and concluded that, when faced with the 20 human-written poetic prompts, only Google’s Gemini Pro 2.5 registered a 100 percent fail rate. Every single one of the human-created poems broke its guardrails during the research.

To be fair, Gemini 2.5 pro is in general pretty “mis-aligned” and easy to jailbreak from my experience if you play around even without poetry.

What are the main things Wezterm does better than Kitty, in your opinion? Back when I looked at trying a different terminal I was just not convinced there’s that much of a difference between say Kitty and the other hyped ones.

That being said, back then I didn’t need any of this session stuff and multiplexing as I used ZelliJ.

You just have to make it expensive / hard enough to cheat that most people don’t bother.

I understand peoples distrust in kernel level anti-cheats and why they suck, that being said, back when I still played multiplayer games Valorant (that has a kernel level anti cheat) was so much ahead of CSGO that it was not even a comparison. I don’t know whether it was due to CSGO’s anti cheat being bad or Valorants being good.

When you have to spend 50 eur / month to cheat most people don’t and that’s good enough for the casual player base. Not sure what the case now is with CS2 and other online games in general.

Yep, he showed around Calibre in the interview and most of it’s features. The calibre-server thingy is cool, you can host it on your home server and access your library from any device through a web interface.

Oh interesting I wasn’t aware of how all of these things work. So even on the strictest CSS font visibility setting system fonts are not hidden (provided Document Fonts is enabled)? Local fonts I assume are hidden?

I remember thinking how strange it is that websites can know all of your installed fonts when I was playing around with https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and https://www.amiunique.org/

I’m on linux and I have some extra fonts installed. Just the combination of them alone is so unique to me that you don’t need anything else.

It has a lot of momentum, so it will continue to dominate. But I wonder if it will decline over the long term as Linux continues to improve. Similar to how smartphones barely differentiate themselves from one another these days (compared to the past) maybe operating systems will have a similar fate. Maybe I’m a bit naive, but perhaps Linux will eventually have all the stability and ease of use of Windows, while also offering privacy, customization, and open-source benefits so there will be no real reason to use windows and the split will be more even.

Maybe… eventually…

I didn’t like it either on first play-through but I will try it again soon !

I got it from play store. I use it to sync markdown files (Obsidian) works like a charm.

Not a safari user so don’t really know but on a quick google search did find this : https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari

On a related note, try Vimium (FF / chrome extension) that brings vim motions into your browser. You will have a more complete experience.

For those that want a quick summary, they’re doing these things:

1. Reducing Parking Supply, Not Increasing It
2. Creating “Superblocks”: This is a flagship project where the city designates several city blocks, restricts through-traffic, removes parking spots, and transforms the space. The reclaimed asphalt is used for:

• Green Spaces: Planting trees and bushes to combat heat islands.
• Public Spaces: Adding benches and areas for people to meet and rest.
• Active Transport: Expanding bike lanes and pedestrian areas.

3. City-Wide Parking Management:

• Eliminating Free Parking: Since 2022, all on-street parking in Vienna requires payment.
• Time Limits for Non-Residents: Non-residents are limited to two hours, discouraging long-term commuter parking in neighborhoods.
• Revenue Reinvestment: The significant revenue generated (around €180 million annually) is funneled back into improving alternatives, specifically cycling infrastructure. This helps build public support.

4. Empowering Local Communities (“Neighborhood Oasis” Project): Residents can petition the city to convert parking spots in their area into small green spaces or seating areas
5. Providing Strategic Alternatives (Park & Ride): Recognizing that some car use is inevitable, Vienna built convenient, affordable Park & Ride facilities on the city’s outskirts. These large, cheap parking garages are directly connected to efficient and affordable public transport (buses and trains), making it easy for commuters to switch modes for the final leg of their journey.