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Recent musings

• The Compose key is magic
  Fast emoji and special character input on your Linux desktop? For free? In THIS economy?
• The state of Linux music players in 2026
  Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.
• Everything is a File
  In this first half of a build-your-own-synthetic-file-system adventure, we take a look at what even is a file, and some inspiration behind building a synthetic file system.
• Stop arguing each other over LLMs, you stupid fucks
  Your fellow man is not your enemy.
• Replacing a running Linux system with NixOS over SSH
  Juggling chainsaws.

Find me elsewhere

• @crescentrose on GitHub
• @crescentro.se on Bluesky
• crescentr0se on last.fm
• crescentrose on RYM
• viora on Steam

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