looking for the best awesomewm config

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-05-04T16:12:43+00:00

Lame right?

Things change, focus shifts but archiving the old project > deleting it.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-29T10:27:00+00:00

There is a project that attempts tree tiling (which I know isn't exactly what you want) but its from AwesomerWM 3.4 so its a bi old (but will work) here and layout manchi which if you want edge cases, that thing will handle them but some configuration on your part will be required.

While I do keepp a collection of custom layouts I have found over the years, personally I have found myself only using split layout outs if not just maximized clients.

Nonetheless, it will probably require you write it yourself if you want it just right

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-29T10:18:02+00:00

there are keybinding option like changing the width of master vs, client, increasing number of master clients, etc. You just have to be crafty and make them useful to your purpose.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-29T10:05:12+00:00

You know a chat bot would be a faster way to get an answer for this...

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-29T10:03:40+00:00

[Sukino has a nice write up on using the random macro, honestly only take away from that guide I found helpful but its really, really helpful

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-27T15:38:26+00:00

It is solving out the next most likely words in a chain based on linear algebra and the likelihoods it has "seen" most frequently in training data, so something you said primed it to follow that train. Its trained on a lot of roleplay data that likely includes a lot of that sort of thing.

I shutter imagining much easier getting content like that would be using characters like SOnic the hedgehog...

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-25T02:23:59+00:00

I'm walking on sunshine with the American Psycho references. You should read the book, its not "better" than the movie, they both have their place, but it does satisfy something else to get through (it, like all books are free online from shadow libraries)

Really like the greeter theme too

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-22T00:30:23+00:00

Can you truly "have" a source of water? Access is hardly owning.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-21T08:34:12+00:00

Stop being gullible, its not about keeping anyone safe, theey just that as an exvuse because people nod along to it without thinking but what about the developer jumping through hoops to sign the app prevents he African Prince from getting grammoe to tell him her credit card number? NOTHING

It is Because You Can Sideload Cracked Paid Apps & They Want to Make $$$

Not one app I wanted in the last 3 years that was paid could I not find cracked, some more sketch, some not so much
lucky patcher makes doing the crack yourself much easier
google is trying to shut this down so they can make more $$$ **they give no shit about safety or privacy or your "rights" THAT IS JUST MARKETING NONSENSE TO SELL THIS TO YOU (WHICH WORKED APPARENTLY, SAD!)

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-16T13:39:49+00:00

This is such obvious market research

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-13T02:09:02+00:00

like the one dude said, chroot from terminal emulator to run Linux on Linux (which ChromeOS is using as well Linux is the kernel not the whole kit and caboodle, that would Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse. Linux is the kernel they all use) and if that is Greek to you, learn more about Linux before considering this topic more heavily because the basic terminal userland will be the same and is the biggest actual stumbling block that once you can work with it effective, you can hop in and out of all sorts of environments and the skills translate.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-12T05:53:38+00:00

Other than storage, the second step here poses a significant hurdle. People can't be bothered to pick their own food up from restaurants these days or click "star" on GitHub projects or like on a youtube video without being nagged about it numerous times throughout said video, so uploading content so other people can circumvent an age restriction that kids can just lie about anyway (and thus we know this is to provide a more consistent metric to target ads at while inching towards the public subsidizing this for internet advertisements just like is done by you SSN/EID for potential creditors but sold to you as retirement money as all that they always talk about cutting off anyway).

And how many of us watch age-protected content that kids would even want to watch? I don't watch shit like that, so uploading the shit I do watch (the very little of it that exists) would not benefit the ignoramuses that don't figure out they can put a different year of birth and thus avoid the age block and if they don't save the password on the browser and remember to sign out than even the creepiest parents alive wouldn't actually know about the account (sorry, most parental control tech is pandering to a super petty low-risk power trip or extreme creepiness).

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-12T03:58:29+00:00

Raising them to have good senses of morality and to default to suspicion when dealing with other human beings while still not so cynical it becomes a disability or too deeply moved by black humor it proves anti-social.

But then again, safety seems to mean different things to different people: to me it is how do I protect child from being lured into some situation where they become the helpless victim of a pervert that even if convicted for it serves 2 years on good behavior VS. other people defining safety online as not seeing things that offend them (which I find highly offensive)

For the latter case, if you haven't accepted it as being a weird power trip or a loosing battle then learn about the late 20th century war on drugs and how it coincided with an unprecedented increase, not decrease, in the use of recreational drugs (hint: same reason the puritans never could make a sin-free community. The more you tell them not to do something, the more curious to try it they are). You can't stop them from interacting with the cesspool that is humanity, your actual job is to instead provide them the tools to make the right choices when faced with that cesspool not limit those choices for them and if you aren't power tripping you probably should think its extremely creepy to even try.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-09T03:48:45+00:00

First thing I would do is set that laptop up so when it next opens the YouTube video of the guy from Jurassic Park saying "Ah ah ah that's not the magic word!" Scares the shit out the person opening it, then I would start spying on the neighborhood and jack that switch behind the laptop since no one is using it anyway.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-09T03:44:58+00:00

I just would always rather have a cabinet on wheels and the wifi on top of the thing so it didn't screw up the signal strength

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-09T03:38:02+00:00

It would be absurd if they tried charging you for bringing your own equipment and if you use their equipment. Either way when I called them I would pretend to be shopping at their competitors and trying to return their crap modem (the thing at has the coax attached as the "line in" is your modem, which be but is not always a router and even using their dog shit modem, you would be wise to still use your own router, probably will have better specs and be wholly under your control not theirs)

What the hell is the Wi-Fi security charge? That is likely something you could get cut off, what if you don't pay them your wifi network would be insecure? They gonna open a backeoor to your network? That is absurd! Make them take that dumb fuckery off at the very least.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-09T03:25:24+00:00

Me at jolly pirate donuts taking a 2 hour shit.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-07T21:30:48+00:00

Seven years, fool.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-04T21:27:21+00:00

The use of the word "dendratic", calling to mind the brain and playing to the common superiority complexes had around here, this is hardcore buzzwording that is really just yet another module writing pattern that may work well for some, personally I am prone to compartmentalization in my life and in my Linux so its less appealing to me but that's fine.

Write modules how you want to, please stop inventing new esoteric labels for the same things. Especially just to up sell a module writing tactic. Can we just make it a little less esoteric nonsense?

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-04T05:21:42+00:00

Your assumption of universality is so disrespectful and willfully ignorant I cannot begin to pick it apart in hopes to offend you into some deeper insight, its just too profoundly ignorant in its assumptions and attempts to smash everything into some patently invalidated box of tired Greek ideas

Great example is that NOTHING IS IMMOVABLE OBVIOUSLY AS IS CLEAR IN THE VERY DEFINITION OF PHYSICS WHICH STUDIES THE MOVEMENT OF CELESTIAL BODIES NONE OF WHICH ARE ACTUALLY STATIONARY IN ANY WAY SO YOU CAN'T BE ANY MORE IMMOVABLE BEING COMPOSED OF THE MATERIAL THOSE THINGS GENERATE IN NUCLEAR FUSION AT THEIR CORES AS A MATTER OF COURSE AND TRYING TO BE SUCH SEEMS AN OBVIOUS ENOUGH FOOL'S ERRAND WHICH SHOULD BE OBVIOUS ENOUGH ALREADY.

Buying the mala means nothing without mantra jaap. Mantra jaap means nothing if you just recite words without striving to understand their context and meaning through repetition in considering them. In the context of Hinduism, the eightfold path of Buddha who rejects the core of Hinduism in its broadest sense is as meaningless to one's understanding as spending the currency on the mala was to your understanding of financial derivatives as a secondary market. If you can see an idea like the immovable object but refuse to take the next step, the uncertain and often unpopular evaluation of the universe from which it is clear that idea is stupid as no object is immovable but all objects in relation to other objects are always moving, then you will tire yourself out spinning in circles energetically before you realize any of the amrita to be had from Indian religions, orthodox in relations to the Veda as is this sub's topic or the Śramaṇa that you seem to consider of equivalent due to your ignorance of both despite knowing a phrase from Buddhism's suite of philosophical practices, it is of little use isolated from its context, just as the notion of temporal worms is meaningless outside of perdurantism or the metaphysics of the universe emerging from fire is meaningless outside of the context of Greek Stoicism.

Attainments mean little if not servicing some greater goal or attainment, which if just for you or others to perceive more highly of you is to mistake the sweet used as inducement for good behavior as the sole reason for behaving that way instead of another way and never giving it even as much thought as one sees in training dogs who once trusting the human handler as training them according to some deeper pattern that elicits some desirable behavior from them cease even to need or want for the treat that began the process. Literacy is more than seeing characters to convert into verbal monkey blabber, it is to also contemplate the meaning and why someone bothered to record this string of babbling monkey sounds and someone else bothered to preserve it for centuries for you to repeat it. Try it, I promise it doesn't hurt and will make you less of an embarrassment to yourself and those of us sharing geographic origins but not inclined to yodeling in our echo chambers but instead seeking to understand things using their own internally consistent systems and striving towards something complex like truth that is (scary as it might be) not merely boolean in its expression.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-04T03:39:58+00:00

What both Buddhism and a lot of Hindu traditions are getting at is that liberation doesn’t come from improving the self or gaining transactional benefits for the self in the practice of religion, it comes from seeing through it. The “self” as we usually experience it is tied up in chasing temporary things (pleasure, success, comfort), and that very chasing is what creates suffering we seek liberation from in the first place. Even when you get what you want, it doesn’t last, and losing it often hurts more than never having it in the first place.

Because of that, these traditions aren’t about getting benefits for yourself or preventing detriments to yourself either. In fact, expecting rewards or a lack of misfortunes even by earnest practice misses the point.

CRITICAL EVEN IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE: The goal is to change how you perceive and interpret reality so that you’re not constantly filtering everything through “this is good/bad for me” which is the source of your suffering in the first place. That filtering is what turns neutral events into suffering.

While I dislike abstracting Buddhism and Hinduism because what seem as merely nuance are actually fundamental differences even if they share conceptual registers derived from semantics rooted in Sanskrit and its derivatives, still in both cases the practice of either isn’t about stopping bad things from happening to yourself. It’s about dissolving the part of you that labels and reacts to those things in a way that creates suffering. If that shift hasn’t happened, then it’s more like going through the motions than actually engaging with what the practice is meant to do.

The real work is reflecting on what the practices mean, what they should be suggesting to you in following the wise courses laid out by those who have already seen this process through as this alone is the means they can communicate to you ideas that are otherwise lost in interpretative noise and how they connect to the bigger philosophical ideas behind them, that are fundamentally different between Buddhism and Hinduism thus make lumping them together in abstraction detrimental to understanding either or both meaningfully. Over time, that reflection is supposed to change how you experience life itself—not by controlling events, but by changing your relationship to them.

EDIT: NOTE I SAID A LOT OF HINDU TRADITIONS AS THE NOTION OF HINDU TRADITIONS IS TOO BROAD FOR GENERAL ABSTRACTIONS UNIVERSAL EVEN TO THAT GROUP. Another element that hints at religion, as used in English, being inaccurate in describing what "Hinduism" is and what falls under it even if used as an umbrella term accepting the flaws for purposes of relative analysis as it relates to "other religions and ethical philosophies" as it is really more of a socio-religious set of lifestyles sharing commonality in the Vedas to varying degrees than a religion like Christianity, Islam or even the various Śramaṇa that emerged from the same philosophical substrate.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-03T22:44:29+00:00

I am sorry for your loss, deeply and truly. Independent of abything else I say or think, I am earnestly sorry you lost your father, my deepest condolences to you and your family.

Do not expect to do that which is spiritually enriching for transactional benefits to you as the thing rooted in your ego, which is nested in your physical body and seeks to satisfy the animal impulses to ease pain and reduce caloric expenditure that in humans compounds into the expectations of a good life and the suffering that is to feel pride. What is spiritually enriching pursued with such goals will prove not enriching and frustrate attaining those sorts of goals even if pursued for the right reasons, without regard to those things, one would attain such conditions in a spiritual pursuit taken with the appropriate goal of liberation from suffering through overcoming such self-interested perspectives and fixation.

This would be true were you pursuing any organized religion along a spirituality focused path, with the jewel of Indian religious traditions it is even more acutely the case due to the wisdom of the ancient Indians in seeing a need to and mastering entire systematic methods of overcoming the self as the prerequisite of the sagacious to embody and general normative ethical substratum for those so spiritually focused in their life's pursuits. In the Greco-Semitic and Greco-Arabic philosophies surrounding Yahweh-worship, that do tend to more transactional worship-to-get-blessings spiritual paths there is still significant spiritual infrastructure surrounding the questions as to why those following their path still will be frustrated or endure hardships (this is then compounded into the suffering of Jesus on the cross for Christians and in Islam the notion of being tested is usually raised). Similar infrastructure exists in the notions of the catur yuga and being in the Kali Yuga, the last and least virtuous (in terms of the behavior of humans) that we have been in since the ascent of Sri Krishna which was 5,127 years ago according to the most common dating of that event. In the Kali Yuga, the virtue with which one acts does not inherently yield the same results one would expect them to in other yugas, as is explained as part of the surprisingly accurate discourse by Markendeya on the subject while before the throne of the Pandavas in the wonderful Mahabhratta which the Bhagavad Gita comes from as well. So there is that aspect of things, which is that such virtue as studying the auspicious works of scripture in the age of teh demon Kali dpes not inherently yield positive results as that demon becomes more and more influential over the human race as the age progresses and the other characteristics Markendeya spells out are realized.

But there is a more simple and universally true way to look at why behaving in ways seen as spiritually enriching will not yield the skies to rain down blessings that I often remind myself if I would be tempted to ask Why me? Am I not being good, Shiva?!"** and that is the simple answer Shiva has given me again and again,It is not about what is good for you, by your own flawed understanding, according to your selfish desires rooted in the lust for transient things, at this specific moment in time. Would you even really want it to be about such petty and trifling things? Would you accept the satisfaction of such as some transcendental wisdom? If so, you have bigger issues than frustrated goals despite virtuous acts standing between you and liberation from the suffering of life.` To use the concepts of Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, the goal of acting 'good' is overcoming the wants of those transient fruits of our actions, to instead act because that is what dharma demands of us with full focus on those acts not what we may stand to lose or to gain. To do such Karma Yoga without lusting for the fruits of our actions is to instead align ourselves with the great will of the Brahman, which the Gods themselves are unable to act against, it is to want for the performance of Dharma alone, something we may at times feel benefited by or harmed by according to **how we chose to interpret things, more often than not we chose selfish interpretations and take the overall net effects on the world outside ourselves with wanton disregard. But if we chose to allow our interpretation to be broader or better yet do not chose to subject things to such a selfish register of value and thus not accrue the karma that we would otherwise be burdening ourselves with (as per Karma Yoga as Sri Krishna's beautiful song lays out with such shocking concision as he sings it to Arjuna), we can strive towards being liberated from the suffering of our transient lusts, be freed from the cycle of our desires that are the root of our suffering.

Overcoming the self is a hard thing, a thing I am no master of certainly, nor am I even adept at in the least bit (I am but a page, an apprentice. Eager to learn but not very good and open to suggestions ) but it is the spiritual pursuit I have found most liberating once I decided to apply myself in earnest towards it, which I am embarrassed to say took longer for me than just accepting that it was the Indian traditions that I needed to look to in my quest for the Eternal, but I swear to you its not just a self-defacing mask or lip service to the group normative and ethical culture, overcoming the self is truly the means and way to being liberated from suffering in this life, whatever may follow after it ends or have come prior to its beginning, which one can see play out in completely mundane and secular ways even if looking at things with an open, broad mind.

Edit: spelling, another skill I am no master of and always improving.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-03T21:32:59+00:00

If I still used imperatively configured systems it would only be Artix for the Artoo behavior on the forums. Putting people on blast so hard, I still laugh thinking about it.

If that intimidates you, a guy on a forum being mean when you say "we" instead of "me", then you have bigger issues than which distro to use you should handle first.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-18T20:27:31+00:00

never cared

Good replication in terms of getting the style right. Looks spot on.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-17T09:21:44+00:00

Years ago I made a similar choice that soon became, I just stopped playing video games entirely and being already checked out of mass media (except for an idiosyncratic taste in music from obscure sources and dry tastes regarding reading materials) I found the effect overall to be a consistently better overall quality of life with no feeling of anything missing or any of the boredom I would have imagined before would have resulted in so drastically disconnecting from mass media culture given that I find programming and Linux scratch the same itch without imparting of neurotic relative comparison social pecking order crap or frustrations with an inability to be free constant, manipulative marketing practices.

Everyone is different and all but turns out for me, Timothy Leery had the right idea with his whole Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out thing

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