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That El Reg links breaks this report much better than some other reporting. It projects a tripling of carbon emissions from bit barns by 2030, with 40% of that increase being due to construction and materials fabrication and 60% from their operation.

I’m boring and just use Thunderbird nowadays, but sometimes I yearn for those simpler days when I daily drove aerc.

I’m 100% with you on Docker. I haven’t used BSD jails in a very long time, but do you have a view on how they compare to other Docker alternatives in Linux like LXC containers and systemd-nspawn?

to run a virtual pipe organ

This sounds like an incredible use case.

I think their venture into crypto was a remarkable shift in their proposition, one that led me to immediately end my subscription. I moved to Migadu the same day they announced Proton Wallet.

I think it’s probably useful to mention the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) here which describes most of the tree structure detailed in the diagram.

The directory layout mostly adopted by most distros evolved over time though, with major differences existing in how distros view usage of different parts of the filesystem, making it more of a standard that documents how the filesystem is laid out rather than one that defines it.

On a personal note, I hated /run for the longest time, thinking it a pointless, redundant quirk that exacerbated inconsistencies across distros. More recently though, I’ve come to value a space that is now (mostly) implemented consistently as a tmpfs mount from which to handle runtime data.

I used it for a while. The flipped mode of thinking with it was weird at first but I liked it once I got used to it.

I don’t remember the specifics, but I vaguely recall encountering an issue with its LSP implementation that drove me toward thinking the whole LSP approach is insane and I went back to neovim.

Uh, just trying non-modal vim for the first time and… how do I quit it? I can’t :q.

Zsh is a shell like bash that supports shell scripting like bash (though with some syntactical differences). It’s a bit more like ksh than bash, but anyone familiar with bash will have no problems with zsh.

You can check out oh-my-zsh for an accessible preconfigured version of it (though I’d suggest installing via your package manager rather than the script on their website). I like the jreese theme.

I like the human-centred language, strange as it feels on the tongue. I wonder if it might help frame development a bit better in place of ‘user’ or ‘customer’ — aside from the more real distinction between humans and AI we’re all going to have to get used to in design.

Sway by default lets you move windows by dragging their title bar. Minimise/maximise doesn’t make sense in Sway, but adding fullscreen and close behaviour to buttons on your menubar of choice or extra mouse buttons would be pretty easy. Graphical app launchers exist too — I use one in Sway on my Yoga since I primarily use its touchscreen.

I appreciate those things aren’t in place by default, but they are kinda antithetical to the tiling paradigm, and if you’re using something like Sway then you’re probably tinkering a ton with it anyway.