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yayy

come join me in wallowing in self pity

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hi geeks and freaks (if you're not one of those why do you follow me),

long time no see. been trying to spend more time doing other stuff than scrolling tumblr. might return to activity eventually but for now probably not.

can i get some advice? i've done the easy part of figuring out that i am, in fact, probably girl or girl adjacent but i've had that done for a while but have done nothing about it. all of the actions just seem too scary and i don't have many close irl friends so idk what to doooo :( just buy a skirt and wear it when i'm alone and suffer? i'd really appreciate some input.

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like, if a model of wireless card that isn't preapproved is installed the device fails to boot. stupid fucking tactic to make companies a bit more money on upgrade parts because they can

i think wireless card whitelists should be illegal actually

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woe is me 3: the bios modding site i was looking at called them the old terms so they stuck in my head. I'll do better next time :[

noo dont deadname them :( theyre called blocklist and allowlist now

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i think wireless card whitelists should be illegal actually

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considering starting up a personal Real Actual Blog on neocities or a similar site. any advice on how to maintain a website like for realsies? specifically how to integrate a rss feed into it :3

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yay yippee yahoo

openbox is still better btw

we are proud to announce that we will soon be releasing awesomeWM 4.4, our first minor release in over 6 years. patch notes below cut

removed every single line from the sample rc.lua that still lets the thing boot up

removed some extra lines on top of that. write them yourself

removed all examples from the documentation. you figure it out

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holy shit it me :3

please look at this beautiful mouse

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yeah considering rescinding my statement on the entire "give mozilla money" thing.

why can't the firefox corpo just do firefox :(

speaking of, can i get UBO/Sponsorblock/all that crap on any of the firefox forks?

uhm...

WTF MOZILLA???

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

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oh cmon the best thing to come out of KDE is trinity. and maybe kate

Been following you for 87 years now and I just learned you actually use kde Plasma?

Unfollowed, blocked, reported, sent evil spirits to your house

smh fake fan, poser, pipebomb in mailbox, hired goons at front door

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my personal vote is for some wms. *box ones in particular

i should make a ${RANDOM_LINUX_DISTRO}-official blog... cant tell what i'd call it tho since theyre all already taken aahgsgahskdh

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you could always be a wm or de too :3

or hell, any piece of free software

i should make a ${RANDOM_LINUX_DISTRO}-official blog... cant tell what i'd call it tho since theyre all already taken aahgsgahskdh

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what even is a linux anyways

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yippee i forgot how good the new wallpapers are. i'm still on 4.18 because debian stable but i might use the official wallpaper for a while after i switch

messing about with other desktops than Plasma on my PC, and i quite like Xfce

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compiz my beloved ❤️ i wish it had xfce integration

iirc @wayfire-official does some fun effects but i haven't been able to get it running with xfce so idk

compiz needs to come back

like seriously

all other WMs are fucking boring as hell

make my windows wobble

make my windows go up in flames

make my windows fold up into a paper airplane and fly off screen

turn my desktop into a cube

WE NEED MORE SILLY WINDOW MANAGERSSSS

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replying with my own quick thoughts:

tangara seems fun, but is also Fucking Expensive, even compared to the ipods it's supposed to replace. i got my ipod mini for 20 bucks, new battery and flash adapter and 64 gig sd card for another 50 ish, so my total cost in was about 70 dollars. even so, it has some drawbacks. i'm anti bluetooth headphones so no problem there, but the bulk of my library is in FLAC so i spent a few hours whipping up a script with ffmpeg to convert everything to the archaic form of AAC the thing needs and 256kbps. from there, you need to use some sort of impenetrable software, either libgpod based or itunes, to actually load it on-no cli utilities for it sadly.

I'm working on my own sort of no-frills music player thing at the moment, working with similar hardware to tangara (esp32, i2s dac, eventual capaciative touch wheel) but targeting a lower price and experience threshold, and aiming for the easiest loading of music i can get (rsync a directory onto a fat32 card and off you go). still in very early development stage but i'll probably shill for it on this blog once i get a rolling chassis up and going.

overall, the options on the market are:

15-20 year old hardware, with limited file support and proprietary sync options (ipods and other golden-age mp3 players)

new open hardware, with better file support but a higher cost (tangara)

new proprietary hardware, with worse ui and better file support but still a high cost (audiophile stuff)

new proprietary hardware with even worse ui but a rock-bottom price (aliexpress sludge)

and rockbox. which i don't like but might be nice for some.

I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.

Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"

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not much, if you're not hosting anything. usually people who separate out /var and /tmp are using docker or some other program that throws a bunch of files into those dirs. i personally stick with the /, /boot, /home, swap partition layout.

welcome back to the best worst OS collection btw!

Tumblr, it's 2025 and I haven't set up a fresh Linux install in over a decade.

What benefit, if any, do I get from a SSD partition setup more fine-grained than /boot, swap, /, /home?

(potential benefits I am aware of: (1) mounting super-specific directories from another OS; (2) insulation from stupidly large logfiles or other self-DOS'ing)