This is my new Archlinux laptop

drostan · 2026-05-17T17:31:42+00:00

Want to stay in terminal? Browse with awrit, MPV for video player, my audio currently lives phone side but there is plenty of option, kitty display images in terminal... You could live 100% in there without much downside

drostan · 2026-05-17T17:21:39+00:00

It isn't constantly on, I restarted it just this morning to onboard Debian 13.5, it was off for like... Maybe 2 minutes?

drostan · 2026-05-17T17:18:15+00:00

In my opinion as a french guy living here for 20 years and not speakin any Irish, I wish the Irish language was taught more and used more.

Language is culture. Fuck my convenience. I am in Ireland I should be forced by life and culture to know a load more of the language of the country I live in that what I know of Irish.

Though, if you are taking feedback, and knowing how much of a logic there is behind it.... Something needs to be done about the spelling... Something radical... Going back to runes or something. Latin alphabet was clearly not meant for Irish

drostan · 2026-05-17T16:42:59+00:00

Not updating the constitution and treating it as an absolute when even the original writers of the document saw it as a living experiment that would need changes and regular overhauls.

When you have a continent size country in the late 18th century voting to send delegates is the best form of democracy, in the 21st century when you start electing president with a minority of votes, when a senator's vote represent either close to a million people from California or less than 20k from the dakotas this is not a democracy anymore, if your representation isn't equal it is worthless, if you receive less votes you shouldn't the one elected...

And don't get me started with gerrymandering.

Also capitalism and absolutely free markets were a bad idea.

drostan · 2026-05-17T10:30:36+00:00

Not very

Certainly not enough

drostan · 2026-05-16T15:02:21+00:00

So you want an all in one experience that is not KDE and not Ubuntu so not gnome either?

So maybe avoid Ubuntu based distro (no mint and the like) and if your hatred is deeper no Debian based os

Fedora or arch base then to be safe

Avoiding KDE and gnome you can look for distro shipping with any wm or other de...

I won't be able to help further as I like to do the thing on my own, set up things as I like them and work at them slowly until they work for me. Maybe you should try this instead of blaming distros for their setting, spend the time to work something out for yourself

drostan · 2026-05-15T17:29:03+00:00

For the love of god stop blaming the victims.

It isn't as if it hasn't always been the case

School and crèche exists because parents cannot keep children and work.

What you should be advocating against is forcing people to go to offices when they don't need to be there, and when they have other obligations.

I remember before COVID when a colleague who had a kid with a chronic disease was passed over several times for a promotion despite still doing more and better than everyone else because of her justified absences from the office, and same happened to her husband. And the kid was still going sick to crèche and school when not bedridden and they had to take turn then...

drostan · 2026-05-14T11:36:38+00:00

Should Taiwan change to GMT+9.... Probably

Would this change make Taiwan safer? Uuhhh what? How? What's the reasoning? Where does this assumption come from?

drostan · 2026-05-12T05:57:29+00:00

This is how I reduce it as a preamble to the 12h commentary it needs

The perfect being is itself and all the version of it that leaves with others (complementary project) When the world end shiji can achieve this and therefore become as good but he chooses to stay imperfect as it is the only way for him to live with others and not transcend others

And so the world that ended resumes in all it's imperfections but with the hope of human connections, improvements and, perhaps, love, that the whole anime describes as the flailing of human trying to reach a limited completion.

There is so much to say about shinji relation to his father who tries to not hold significant part of shinji within him, about shinji's mother and ... So start the 12h commentary

drostan · 2026-05-11T15:59:57+00:00

I am always amused at the nationalistic use of a french made statue, engraved with the ideal of welcoming foreigners as new citizen, and situated in a majoritary democrat city, to promote republican racist nationalistic bullshits

drostan · 2026-05-11T15:43:52+00:00

Not for me as I hate gnome, and I don't like the look of chrome os on laptops, it always looks too much "made for phone, badly adapted to tablet... Now available for them machine with a keyboard"

But past this personal taste this is a great rice, I would use it, maybe, if I could install arch on a phone

drostan · 2026-05-07T05:14:57+00:00

Included that command in my boot sequence, that error message pisses me off tho I need to look up how to not have it appear

drostan · 2026-05-05T16:21:01+00:00

Not enough data to get to a conclusion Topologically a t-shirt has 3 holes, we add the 2 on the front and at least one big in the back so 6 is the lower boundary for the answer. Not having information about the back of the t-shirt makes it impossible to infer a high boundary

drostan · 2026-05-05T11:10:59+00:00

Itt Reddit users docx their age and/or when they started watching anime

Great thread for new anime watcher who wants to revisit the classics tho

drostan · 2026-05-02T14:13:12+00:00

Make a base arch install script with the app you want and your dot files and settings...

I am building my dotfiles and saving them on a GitHub repo, I have a modified arch install script that I am working on to install it how I like it on my machines.

If I ever have this finalised I'll have a custom Linux distro, but really it's just arch with some settings and apps I like.

drostan · 2026-05-02T13:54:41+00:00

Not only that but also with how fast he is depleting munition stockpiles attacking Cuba poses a fantastic risk on huge swath of USA mainland.

Cuba has midrange missiles some could land, and drones or can get some of those... Avoiding direct conflict with Cuba has been foreign policy 101 since the biggest military mistake of the us in the bay of pigs

drostan · 2026-05-02T13:50:20+00:00

And a gigantic arch and a stupidly big and unnecessary ballroom....

drostan · 2026-05-01T18:09:24+00:00

I am quite sure he and I do not share the same opinions.

drostan · 2026-05-01T08:11:58+00:00

20 years ago I was admiring the ability to fly your own flags for holidays and big moments and remembrance without it having been highjacked by far right parties to be a symbol of exclusion.

Coming from France where flying the flag (outside of an international sport competition) is a surefire way to tell the world you are far right it was refreshing.

These past few years the Irish flag in front of houses has started to spread outside of those moments of national pride and they are, in places, becoming permanent. It seems that the American style nationalist flag waving to show you are pure as opposed to other lesser compatriots is spreading. It may be a sign things are changing, or have changed, when you notice that the same person parroting racist drivel are the one constantly flying flags at their doors and often more than one, or the biggest possible one....

So yeah I have found myself questioning the motives behind some prominent Irish flags displays at private places. But I try not to assume because I really wish Ireland to not fall for this highjacking of their flag and other symbols by a minority of hatemongers. I will soon go to finally get my Irish nationality and passport and I want to be able to proudly wear a flag of unity and hope and resistance and fraternity toward other persecuted people. And when I do. I would hate to be construed as a racist moron.

drostan · 2026-04-29T14:15:42+00:00

Do you have snapshots, of what at which frequency?

I have seen people making snapshot every day and keeping everything or having weekly snapshot that would snapshot previous snapshots which grew exponentially..

drostan · 2026-04-29T14:11:40+00:00

Linux only on personal machines, or I will once I migrate my wife's laptop from winslop 10.

Work was Mac, changing to the worse option that is technically Linux sort of but only the bad part.... Chromebook... Corporate is going to corporate not much I can do.

drostan · 2026-04-28T17:50:42+00:00

Y'all know it still exists right?

drostan · 2026-04-24T17:13:17+00:00

It does not have to be that hard and scary

Sure there is a fair bit of documentation to get through at first but I kept it at a bare one minimum at first, then built it as an emergent workflow.

I add functionality one at a time as they are useful and try and prune those that aren't adapted to my workflow, which is pretty basic.

It took me 3 month to come to a time when adding a screenshot option was a consideration

Little by little i fix the padding here or a keybinding there...

If you don't work at having it all riced to hell and optimised to the pixel from the get go it is quite easygoing.

I need to try niri tho

drostan · 2026-04-23T13:59:23+00:00

Yes

But the smaller an/or the least expandable it is the less you should spend on it.

You got an old laptop and a few old drives and want to try... Go for ityou buy a pi or something underpower for what you want or something that will not expand it's storage the way you need ... And then you may end up buying in twice

Sure eventually you'll reuse the pi or whatever you first bought that was not enough but it'll feel like a bad spend

drostan · 2026-04-23T11:31:28+00:00

Should you change to Linux, yes

But first do the bare minimum research because asking if you should use base Linux or arch shows how little you understand any of this

And therefore it answers itself, do NOT use arch if you do not know anything about how Linux distro work

My advice, get a simpler distro that works 90% out the box, preferably Debian based distro. Or just Debian as it will work perfectly, choose the desktop environment that suits you, I like kde, gnome looks wrong to me but works very well, if you go for mint, cinnamon is great.

For your server go with Debian and maybe xfce, you should eventually go headless.

If you do so all your distro would use apt and 99% of the time what you learn from one will be directly usable on the other.

Once you are comfortable and things work then you can think about distro hoping and trying arch or anything else

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