Koopa Trooper in the streets, Link in the sheets.

(I look like a scumbag, but I will treat you like a princess)

I think this is more than just two pawns flirting, this is the queen torpedoing in from an angle to take down a castle, bulldozing any innocent pawns she hits along the way.

Amen brother

I used to have lieer’s gmi (read: mbsync with gmail tag syncing) paired with notmuch. It’s good when it works, but it’s annoying to need a service in the background.

I used to use Gnus, but Gnus is sometimes weirds out if your tag filters are too complex for it

the best resource in Guix is searching the irc logs or reaching out to their irc directly. The manual only gets you so far

I love it, but the configuration is messy. Many packages are out of date, but the Scheme syntax makes it easy to update them and build them on your system.

Problem is, getting these updates merged with the upstream never happens generally speaking (I have several open patches), so you end up having two working trees in your local Guix repo, and heaven forbid you run guix pull on the wrong branch.

Also you can’t just install these packages, you have to import the keyrings of any packages that access the kernel. That requires you to go to the website, check out the owner of the key, see their contributions and decide for yourself if you trust it

+1 for Alpine. I had my reservations due to their mistrust for glibc which rattled my GNU sensibilities, but musl is rock steady and all my apps feel stable and hackable.

Gnome is a harmless though. It’s so benign it’s reliable.

KDE is glossy and featureful and sometimes my CPU fan doesn’t go down for whole hours because baloo is scanning my entire filesystem (including various conda installations) despite me repeatedly asking it not to.

Keyboard Phones

Is there any keyboard phone out there with some decent specs?

The F(x) Tec Pro1x looks really promising, but I’ve seen many youtube video reviews relating to its various hardware issues (intermittent connectivity, speakers clipping, others I cant remember). Can anyone with one tell me if it’s worth it? I just want something I can type my idle thoughts into, sync my org-mode notebooks, and type on the web.

The Astro Slide 5G looks really good, but I want a phone I hold and type instead of a keyboard I need to place down. Also the price is astronomical.

Ideally I would just shove more RAM and CPUs on my Nokia N900 and be happy as a clam, but that world doesn’t exist.

Also: Anyone know of any phones with a good hardware keyboard case add on? A shell with a keyboard that hooks in via bluetooth or USB?

Regular Phones

On the non-keyboard front, I’m looking for a device that has a decent Lineage community around it, but also that the hardware is open enough to be mainlined by PostMarketOS.

I’m currently putting together a table of the various PmOS phones, their hardware specs, their PmOS compatibility, and the Lineage images they support.

But in the meantime, if I can get some recommendations here too. Nothing fancy: over 4 cores, 2GB ram, and can slide easily into a pocket.

I like the idea of the SHIFT6mq, due to its upgradability, but want to hear from any happy users before I do

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Pulseaudio should have hooks

# cat /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-switch-on-connect
load-module module-exec
load-module module-exec arguments="path/to/your/script.sh %s"    

(where %s resolves on trigger to the name of the sink added)

Your script.sh should then match the first argument to the name of the sink you want to control, and then run

# path/to/your/script.sh
if [ "$1" = "THESINKIWANT" ]; then
  pactl set-sink-volume $1 40%
fi

this is high level trolling, kudos sir

One should note that though Thunderbolt over USB-C offers the same speed and connectivity as a native thunderbolt cable, the native cable can be 40m long whereas the USB-C implementation is max 2m

Thank god that no one made a transfer speed standard of 88 Gb/s

ah good point

dunno, the system might ran out of RAM due to lack of swap, but the drive should be fine due to the limited writes

If the system you have has enough RAM you could load the entire OS to RAM and then change the writeback settings to a high interval

wine-staging-wow64 has been a godsend for me in terms of performance