#on a personal post

[journeymode]

the story of my brief adventures in linux customisation has been steadily ongoing, culminating in a 24h experiment with @arch-official yesterday.

(unfortunately i do not have the willpower, patience, or energy to learn and tinker in such depths that arch requires me to, so it was but a brief excursion)

(though i definitely want go give it another try in the future!)

went back to my beloved opensuse tumbleweed again this evening, but instead of doing what i've always done (kde plasma install), i went with a mininal desktop. aka just icewm.

from then on i installed @hyprland-official and set out on some much lighter-feeling tinkering.

(important to note that i went with hyprland on arch yesterday too, and have also done some brief, failed experimenting with it in the past year)

it's been fun! i've noticed though that the minimal install came with a start-sign-in-package that i didn't like so i installed sddm to replace it. and god is the basic basic version ugly. and idk if i'll be able to get it to look the way it does when i simply go for a kde install.

seriously it's jarring how ugly sddm looks out of the box (which. i been knew but still).

plus i can't log in with root??? like. i can't switch my user???

so i might do yet another quit reinstall of tumbleweed tomorrow morning but with kde plasma as a backup de, even though i don't want to go through the whole clean-up process because kde comes with too much stuff i don't want or need...

(it's almost certain that i will reinstall again)

hyprland becoming my main work environment is a given though, and i'm really excited to spend even more time really customising everything to fit my wants and needs :3

[podcastwizard]

my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[madphantom]

Our local newspaper ran a story about the legendary graffiti artist who recently passed away and. Literally everything about it is fucking insane. I'm insane about it.

So this guy has been extremely active for around fifteen years, during which he spread these beautiful, high quality pieces all over the country, way over a thousand of his standard signature, and probably thousands more. He did completely batshit stuff like literally spray painting an entire train from top to bottom or leaving his signature at the top of a 600ft tall overpass and this whole time, only five people from his crew know who he really is. To everyone else it's a complete mystery.

And then he dies at the age of 35. A few weeks after his death, his crew shows up at his completely unassuming parents' doorstep, reveals who they are and asks if they can host a memorial exhibition of his art.

Turns out, this dude has been leading an insane double life. In the daytime he was a meek little office worker with a partially paralyzed arm and no social life to speak of. In the nighttime he was a fucking legend. Not only did he climb that fucking 600ft overpass, he did it WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY. THE MADLAD. And throughout the entire time, fifteen years, he got caught once. ONCE. HE DID ALL THAT UNNOTICED. THAT'S INSANE.

[the-elder-polls]

appalachia is devastated. towns i loved, towns i visited all the time, are gone. not damaged, GONE. they are leveled to the ground. there is nothing left but rubble and ruin. people are dead. appalachia is poor to begin with and relies on tourism for a lot of its income, and multiple of those tourist locations are just...gone.

my town is okay, but it's flooded and wrecked. trees are blocking all but one way out of our neighborhood. power lines are hanging limp in the roads. we've been without power for over 24 hours and will continue to be without power for likely another 24+. disabled people and poor people are GOING to die from this. gods save appalachia.

[electronicmail]

some of my friends are stem majors

[eternalgirlscout]

i adore being confronted with the staggering breadth of what individual people can get obsessed with. there's nothing better than having That One Mutual with an advanced degree in ancient greek tragedy who writes minecraft youtube fanfiction to remind you that anyone can love anything

[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

[gokusclit]

This won’t leave my mind like help. You bitches on tumblr were doing this shit too i didnt forget

[michael-the-rouge]

Do I have to say it?

[gorgo4ne]

Can the guy at the bottom kill himself or something

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Toby Fox: ok now cry

Me: yessir right away sir

[madeleinefjall]

Knitted a moth sweater ✨ bought the pattern for it here!

[waveoftheocean]

doors exist and someday batman will learn to use them but today is not that day 🙂‍↔️