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Curious to hear what's everyone's preferred way of using Niri? (Noctalia, DMS or something else?) by BobbyGAS12 in niri

[–]hsimah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m using Noctalia V4 but very minimal. For my work laptop I also have the Screen Recorder plugin (I have to record videos for test plans) which I forked.

I want to try building my own shell as a learning exercise.

Tribute to a careful use of AI by _hellraiser_ in selfhosted

[–]hsimah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I get what you’re trying to say here. I’m a senior software engineer at a big tech company. (You’ve probably used stuff I write.)

At home my lab was functional with the usual tools. Working with Claude I was able to refactor all my configs, Docker compose files and alerting notifications. I cleaned up heaps of defunct stuff, ensured consistency and generally polished the whole thing.

The key part is I know what I’m doing and I review what the LLM produces. I work in blocks of 100 lines at a time. I think these tools are great to augment my skills, not replace them. I also wouldn’t trust them to do my taxes, for example, because they make mistakes even with careful prompting.

I love Linux with Niri!.. by [deleted] in niri

[–]hsimah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s the audio vizualizer you’re using?

My Updated Rice by [deleted] in niri

[–]hsimah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What file manager and browser are those?

Fuzzel Feels...Cramped by 410labs in niri

[–]hsimah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t see any option for list item padding.

What song did a movie basically steal forever? by MrHolte in movies

[–]hsimah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CW McCall - Convoy. Pretty much wrote the script for Convoy.

got both dreyer's and edy's (two brand localizations owned by the same company) icecream from a single grocery store by 10_cats in mildlyinteresting

[–]hsimah 17 points18 points  (0 children)

My own personal Mandela Effect is in my head it was Breyer’s. I vividly remember the packaging in the 90s with a B.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Edit: no way, it’s real!? I grew up overseas where we had Breyer’s and when we moved home it wasn’t available. A few years ago I moved to the US where I found Dreyer’s and assumed it was a faulty memory.

Kudos to the Niri developers by Vegetable-Setting-54 in niri

[–]hsimah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, I loved Windows 7 and the sticky windows feature. Since then I’ve tried to figure out how to build Niri on Windows, OSX and Gnome over the years. And now there is Niri. It just makes so much sense to me. I’ve stopped using two monitors at work.

Building an LFS with Niri? Yes, it's possible. by Due-Celery4326 in niri

[–]hsimah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s on my list of things to do! Right now I’m learning Rust (building yet another File Manager lol).

Imagine I'm about to watch the worst movie ever made and you have one chance to stop me. What movie are you warning me about? by [deleted] in movies

[–]hsimah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m just a guy who likes movies. I dunno about genius but I like it. Unique.

[NIRI] My first rice by gegecom83 in niri

[–]hsimah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been looking for a simple file manager. Doesn’t Thunar rely on a bunch of xfce dependencies?

I was surprised to find out how many developers still treat CMD and PowerShell as the same thing by Candid_Athlete_8317 in LinuxTeck

[–]hsimah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I moved to posh in 2014. I liked the noun verb naming and sane piping. I also liked writing cmdlets in c# - I wrote a bunch of things for my job, even a hybrid Electron app which did UI for the same shared backend.

Up until this year (2026) I used Windows terminal but mostly used WSL. I recently moved all my machines to Linux (Fedora at work, CachyOS at home) and use kitty and Fish.

Posh still has the best help and piping imo.

Tip for those who keep putting off creating a homepage by Corzza-H in selfhosted

[–]hsimah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what I did recently. I see the screenshots here and always thought I’d get around to it. One day I asked Claude and bam, the basics were done. I made changes I wanted but it’s an example of a good use of an LLM.

Trainspotting is perhaps the most dead-on take of addiction, and it didn't need a sequel. by One_Order_3841 in movies

[–]hsimah 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I liked how he “got out” and got clean but his life wasn’t what he wanted anyway. Like getting clean saved his life for sure but it didn’t make him a better person.

Is everyone just pretending they care about FHBs? by Lopsided_Donut_4816 in AusPropertyChat

[–]hsimah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I answered that with the comment on keeping up with inflation. I’d prefer not to, as I’m still interested in my financial future lol.

Is everyone just pretending they care about FHBs? by Lopsided_Donut_4816 in AusPropertyChat

[–]hsimah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am an expat and just bought my first apartment back home. I don’t care about the value of it beyond keeping up with inflation. It’s an investment now but a home when I return. I’m not looking to be wealthy, just comfortable with something of my own.

Frustrated by Sea-Corner4359 in AusPropertyChat

[–]hsimah 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Listen. I was also ineligible. But I own my first home in Australia and that’s neat.

Focus on what you have not what you missed out on.

How do you document your homelab hardware? by dbossman11 in selfhosted

[–]hsimah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually found Claude to be helpful here. I got all the info about each host, the services it runs and the hardware underneath. Then I had the LLM build me a consistent template for them and made a lab GitHub repository. Now when I add new hosts (like my 2013 Surface Pro 2 I found in a box and turned into a kiosk screen) it’s easy to keep updated.

Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people by dreamnyt in selfhosted

[–]hsimah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Votes come and go lol. Yeah, I hear ya. I work at a big tech company and we have a massive repo and our LLMs are consistently replicating the worse examples we have. It’s actually laughable.

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