I’ve been keeping a sandboxed chromium on my machines only to access Facebook. For everything else I use qutebrowser.

When chromium started doing this (letting it access my keyring was not an option), I decided that instead of looking in the config or switching to firefox, it’s time to finally drop Facebook from my life. Problem solved, hundreds of megabytes freed :)

Has anyone not mentioned Openbox yet? Window decorations look like the NeXT style, just colourful.

Kudos, I think that is a great DIY solution!

A coworker who’s a quarter of a century younger than me is well on the way towards that ideal. Libreboot and all. I caught the bug and decided to start with Guix on my home server, but it turns out a Mac Mini is not the platform to go fully libre with XD The itch does persist…

Gitlab.freedesktop.org won’t let me in on GrapheneOS’s default Vanadium browser, lol. 2 1337 4 U XD

In defense of OP, I do this a lot and go for similar moves in other languages too if the conditional bit is just a line or two. Pro choice!

That’s how you do it. Waiting to drown but suddenly learning to fly :D

I just posted a picture of my first Linux CD box, and that includes ‘Red Hat Mother’s Day release +0.1’. Maybe you had this same article :)

Here’s what I started with. The release of Windows 95 lured me away from Amiga, but as the Amiga was a very customisable environment, I had this for an escape plan :D

In the Amiga days I was ridiculously lucky and bagged a Silicon Graphics Indy system for pennies, so Unix was no stranger at this point.

google ‘tlp linux’

Thanks for the share!

Since this has seen some interest – here’s how much disk space this opulence costs: Arch x86 repository is 113 Gb and Arch ARM is 123 Gb :)

I have my homeserver rsync three Arch mirrors and three Arch ARM mirrors in rotation on three days every week. Thus I have full local repos for these. All my machines are configured to use this local repo. The reason I do this is precisely to be prepared for the inevitable ‘Internet is broken’ scenario.

Also Reticulum Network Stack! Much more ambitious than Meshtastic.

Cosmic supposedly does tiling pretty well. Haven’t tried it yet, but it might be the one new thing I’ll try since going all in on i3 / sway a long time ago…

Thanks for tipping the previewer’s name. Not concerned with the (valid) sec aspect personally, but I’ve accidentally hit space a couple of times since meta+shift+space is Sway’s default for floating / tiling a window and I don’t use the preview anyway. Let’s uninstall.

Gnome 48 arrived on Arch and guess what – absolutely nothing broke! The only change was that fonts on non-Gnome apps got a little bit bigger. Quickly found a new switch in dconf-editor to the effect of ‘let the framework decide how to display fonts or respect user’s settings’ – flicked that from ‘Automatic’ to ‘Manual’ and everything was back to how it ought. Best Gnome update ever <3

Unmounting is enough if the disk has spindown configured. I’ve got this in /etc/udev/rules.d/ : ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]", ENV{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}=="S2H7J9FZB02854", RUN+="/usr/bin/hdparm -S 70 /dev/%k"

You’re not going to believe this, but I’ve found Arch is it. My desktop install was in December 2018: Sway with Gnome apps. Save for Gnome rolling dice on every major update, it’s been perfectly boring and dependable.

It’s a map of fairground lots for a service that takes bookings, bills the customer and deals with providing relevant safety info to authorities. In use again this season :)