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God I miss Linux. I don't think my Mac has worked out the way that I envisioned when I got the thing. To be honest, though, I probably underestimated the depth of the change and the amount of work that it would take to get up to speed in a different OS, even having been familiar with it from years of previous use. I am a very different user now compared to when I had a MacBook. I also just ended…
My god, I hate to say this. I am leaving the Linux desktop. I have genuinely loved using Linux and thought I would forever. It sparks joy in me. But some things have changed on my end: I need better accessibility features to keep RSI away I need better support for my Wacom tablet Where I'm at Now Linux-Wise I'm currently using Bluefin. Overall it's been great, though it can have some weird suspend…
One thing I feel MacOS does really well out of the box is support for typing diacritics. Those are the accent marks that languages like Polish or French, for example, make use of. It's impossible to just...omit them and remain coherent in the language, so if you type anything but English ever, you gotta have em (you can't even type the name of the French language without one! Français ). I wasn't…
Quick post: I bought Hades II Early Access on Steam and rushed to install ChimeraOS /SteamOS so I could play it on my PC. I kept getting this error when I tried to launch the game. Sad times: Fatal Error: Renderer creation failed. Please check your GPU meets minimum requirements. This fixed it (I have it set to Proton Experimental as well): Open Steam Go to the "Library" Right-click the game which…
This is my first post written in org-mode and exported to .md ! Works quite well. Picking Up Emacs in 2024? Why would I do this to myself? What brought this on? I actually fought this for a while–somewhere in the corner of my mind I was writing “I will not try out Emacs” on a blackboard over and over to avoid "wasting time" trying Emacs. My argument against trying Emacs was that…
I do a decent amount of hanging around the discuss.privacyguides.net forum, and one of the questions that comes up repeatedly is the trustworthiness of the Signal flatpak. It's even come up in a Github issue in the Signal repo. This post is a review of what the Flatpak is actually doing. The manifest (or the instructions + helpers for building the Flatpak) is open source, so it's easy to check.…
I had this nagging issue with grim where it would dump my screenshots straight into my home directory regardless of what I set the GRIM_DEFAULT_DIR environment variable to. There's even an issue that describes my exact problem ! I use fish just like the issue submitter (so my hopes were up when I found that thread!)...but the solutions described didn't work for me, naturally. I tried setting the…
Congrats, you completed the challenge! I've started to do little 'sprints' where I focus on levelling up a particular skill. It's going pretty well! Much better than trying to chase twenty rabbits. Recently I did one focused on bash, and I found it really fun and helpful. Broke a few barriers that I had just never cracked before by using Exercism and cmdchallenge.com . On occasion I'd open the…
I'll get straight to the point. Raivo was sold, many people want alternatives. Check out this thread if curious: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-raivo-otp-ios-mfa/13305 All of the below options are open source. iOS & Android: 2FAS This one is easy: just export from Raivo, then use the built-in function in 2FAS. iOS: Tofu There is no import option, but you can manually move your tokens…
I've been in the process of switching from an iPhone to a Pixel running GrapheneOS. The big question is--why? iPhones probably win as an overall package(ease of use, privacy, features) in my view compared to Android, especially if you are not a "tech person." Apple's walled garden is nice inside, but it has some critical flaws (iCloud's lack of E2EE/zero knowledge encryption, for one*). *edit:…