I’d just like to interject for a moment…

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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I think rmpc can do this too, which is an mpd client with album art support, but it’s terminal based and requires some manual configuring. I’ve been buying CDs over the past couple of years to get rid of streaming as well, and i think i’m finally ready to cut the cord. I’ve been experimenting with different music players but ended up ditching mpd. I like to be able to switch between audio outputs easily, like alsa or pipewire, and since mpd is configured through a config file it kinda sucks for that. I also like to be able to play CDs directly, eventhough i have ripped them all, but i haven’t been able to get any terminal player to play a cd, except for mplayer, which is too minimal for my taste. At the moment i’m really liking audacious. Also tried deadbeef and strawberry, but deadbeef doesn’t have mpris support ootb, and strawberry feels a bit bloated to me. Audacious feels like a nice middleground. Audacious does support viewing lyrics but not synced from what i can tell unfortunately.






  • Niri is definitely cool. Unless i missed it before, last time i tried it i don’t think it had the overview feature yet. I went back and updated my config a few days ago, tweaked the animations a bit as well, and was impressed with how sleek that overview looks. I’m still not entirely sure if i’ll ever get used to scrolling though. Recently i also tried maomaowm after i saw someone post about it, which also has a scrolling mode, but what i really liked about that implementation is that they have an option in the config to maximize the window if it’s the only one on the workspace, and then change size to whatever column width you have set when you start opening more windows, similar to other tilers. It makes it much more pleasant to use imo because i get kinda annoyed at pressing an extra keybind everytime i open a single window to maximize it. It’s a small thing but it feels like it makes a pretty big difference to me. Maybe it’s worth opening an issue on github for it (unless niri can already do this and i missed it, if so please let me know lol).


  • For me it’s pretty basic. It’s mostly aliases for nix related commands, like rebuild-switch, updating, garbage collecting, because those nix commands are pretty lenghty, especially with having to point to your flake and everything. I’m thinking of maybe adding an alias for cyanrip (cli cd ripper), because i recently ripped my entire cd collection, but going forward if i buy another cd every now and then, i’ll probably end up forgetting about which flags i used.


  • Why would you customize your terminal on windows if you never use it though lol. Also for me it’s the other way around. Had to start dualbooting again recently and i started using winget, because it’s much more convenient than going through websites and downloading exe’s. Maybe not as good as on linux, but a nice improvement.


  • Well i have to admit i’ve actually been treating gta online as a single player grind game for the most part. On ps4/5 i did play together with a friend of mine though, but playing in a lobby with randoms can definitely be frustrating, especially if you are a grinder because lots of people like blowing your shit up. I’m honestly still shocked that rockstar allows you to pretty much do everything in invite only lobbies now, because i remember having to do all kinds of tricks with my internet connection to get into a public lobby by myself.


  • Gekoloniseerd. And personally i’ve also been considering air cooling my cpu again just to switch it up a bit and see what it’s like, plus on linux it might make my life easier because i can just let the bios control the fan speed instead of relying on reverse engineered open source alternatives to get it to work. I don’t think i’ll buy a new cooler until my current aio dies though. I’m pretty sure i’ve had it for 6 years now and it’s still going strong.






  • If i remember correctly you can pass a txt file to pacman when installing packages, but i could be wrong. There is also BlendOS, which from what i can tell has an immutable base, with a toml config on top of it to install the additional packages you want. Never tried it myself though. I also use NixOS because i wanted to be able to reproduce my riced out system more easily if i have to reinstall. I do wish this space had some more competition, because it might make this way of running a distro more approachable. The closest thing i’ve seen aside from guix is probably those ublue customized images that you can build, but i’m not sure how comparable that is.