Like two or three weeks for most tasks. I still check the manual sometimes, it’s built in :)

Check out vimtutor if you wanna learn it fast

https://vimschool.netlify.app/introduction/vimtutor/

I oft reference the wikibooks page as well https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vim

I’m relearning arduino!

I’ve got a couple 382p’s laying around and wanna build an RTOS for them, eventually drive a CYD to interface with them.

End goal: Affordable offline-first PDA.

I’m a vim stan. I love my vim. I still end up installing nano on all my machines. It’s honestly not even for me anymore, it’s for anyone else who happens to use it. Vim is great but it’s got a learning curve.

Often times I’ll just use vi, since it’s always there.

If I may make a recommendation for gaming on that machine:

Have a windows install on a second partition/drive.

Windows’ graphics drivers are generally better are reallocating system ram to be used as vram, IME the Linux drivers generally are unwilling to allocate more than is absolutely necessary to run a desktop and a few gui apps. This is one of the biggest complaints for example with Nvidia’s *nix drivers, which don’t allow ram sharing and only use what’s dedicated to the video card in hardware. Of course you’re on a team blue rig, my experience won’t transfer there but I assume it’s likely a similar issue.

You ain’t got no VRAM, lieutenant Dan.

Where are you planning to put those textures you’re loading.

I know the performance should be sufficient to game with, but Idk about that one.

But will it work with reactos yet? I keep virtualbox installed because I cannot seem to get reactos installed in ‘boxes’.

I like fedora. I used it 20 years ago. I recently switched a laptop over to it, quickly realized atomic distros are kind of a PITA if you know how to linux and hopped off.

It feels… mature? Clearly there’s a lot of work that has gone into making fedora a “Set and Forget” experience, the normie distro… if you don’t try to use it like a windows machine.

If you want a machine that just works, doesn’t bug you about just frankly stupid shit that’s been solved already (looking at you kwallet), and feels like a computer that your grandma could check her email on without feeling like she’s starting the falcon’s hyperdrive, Fedora Atomic Silverblue is the distro for you.

I am not a shill. I don’t use fedora on any of my machines currently (unless you include my partner’s bazzite rig, I don’t, personally). I don’t plan to use fedora on anything currently, but the next time I get a laptop that’s meant to be “Just a fuckin computer”, you bet your ass I’m going straight to Fedora Atomic Silverblue.

Aim for step 2.5 and be the middle guy but hosting it all on a retired PC in the closet. It’s almost like step 3.

Alternatively, I guess you could use a VPS but those can get expensive quick.

I converted my gaming machine into a server a while back. I like to live dangerously though, no proxmox. Baremetal. If my blog is slow, sorry y’all, I’m gaming. Deal with it.

For a lot of purposes, an old slow system is great. Craigslist (if you’re in a country that has it, otherwise use your local equivalent) is a great place to find super cheap old equipment to build server infrastructure from. Thrift shops too, I regularly find old UPSs that just need a new lawnmower battery chucked in to work at my local thrift shop, they charge like $10 for em. Usually found near power strips.

If I can be totally honest, the Plasma theme “Expose Metallic” by kde community contributor ‘phob1an’ is doing a LOT of the heavy lifting here. It themes the window decorations, the task switcher, and the application launcher.

I applied some tweaks with Kvantum Manager to remove transparency in some areas that felt out of place.

The Konsole Frame is just that, the “Konsole Frame” widget from the built in widget store. It adopted the silver window border automatically, which actually surprised me somewhat.

All Qt6 apps should adopt the theming automatically, but ymmv depending on the ecosystem you’ve deployed.

https://images.hdqwalls.com/download/bliss-windows-xp-remastered-2025-5k-vt-3440x1440.jpg

https://images.hdqwalls.com/download/bliss-windows-xp-remastered-2025-5k-vt-3440x1440.jpg

Yes. Definitely one of those.

This is getting really old. Can these dorks please do something valuable with their time? Maybe contribute (positively) to society a little?

(and no I don’t consider teaching arch users to be more responsible with their package management a positive contribution to society)

Oh no, I accidentally posted an image from which someone could potentially figure out my name! It would be a shame if someone searched me up and found my blog, which is the only other thing on the whole internet with my name attached as far as I know. Please no Doxxing. I’d delete the image but like, it’s already federated out, there’s no stopping it now.

Limitation is the mother of creativity

They’re really not anymore, but bbLean and it’s cousins are still floating around and still work, at least on windows 10.

I know this is technically off topic because it’s windows, but like, it was done in the spirit of unixporn.

Hope my shitpost is ok, love y’all.

Some permissions got messed up in my KDE install the other day after an update, I’m really not sure how. I tried to fix it by recursively changing ownership of /usr/ to root. Don’t do this. This kills the OS. It was technically repairable but like, I don’t wanna go through that rigamarole, I just nuked it and restored from a backup.

Sometimes I’m reminded that I often know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be safe.