[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

The youngest millenials are almost 30, dude's gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials haven't been the in thing for like 10 years now.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I'm using PS/2 because USBHID requires a driver in the kernel and I don't have the RAM for that shit.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

I'm using a PS/2 keyboard and trackpad right now.

Adesso ACK-540-pw if anyone is interested.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, this is actually why my first angle of attack was finding text only browsers!

Links for HTTP(s), Offpunk for Gopher and Gemini (I think it does finger too but I don't know any sites that use the finger protocol)

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

My first laptop had 256 MB and ran fine on XP. Idk what happened to operating systems but this shit is getting out of hand.

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After a recent debate I had in a comment section about whether or not 2 gigs of RAM was enough for a modern workload, I started customizing to make it happen.

In my first screenshot (second in post body) you can see my specs in a neofetch and cpufetch output. I'm running a custom Kernel to bring my RAM usage as low as humanly possible while still maintaining support for all my hardware, I am on round 1 of kernel minimizing, only things I was 100% sure i didnt need have been removed. Round 2 will be removing things I might need but not frequently, I will be leaving a second kernel installed to access them.

GTK themes are listed because I have lxqt installed, I try my best not to use it though.

In my second screenshot (first in post body) you can see from left to right, top to bottom:

  1. Links with a DDG search
  2. offpunk browsing a gemlog
  3. turbo with a sample of my writing (it isn't good, I don't pretend to be a writer)
  4. a neofetch output
  5. discordo, called by a shell script that runs it with my bot token (self bots are against discord's TOS, do not make them, or do idgaf its your account)

I am using the Ultima theme (https://github.com/egorlem/ultima.zsh-theme.git) for Oh-My-Zsh

Terminal frontend is Sakura but I used Terminator to customize my terminal colors as Sakura only allows you to change your Background and Foreground colors.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago

I don't ever mean to be a downer but I feel this will hurt users in the long run. Just simy extending an umbilicle to Microsoft's teat because they can't be assed to let go and stop suckling. M$O and Adobe CC are some of the worst offenders for SaaS bullshittery.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have my reasona for using FreeBSD, the system I'm using is ancient, about 20 years old. Its a decommissioned corpo unit, HP/Compaq DC5700S with 2 gigs of RAM and a dog slow Celeron D processor. I'm actually compiling a custom kernel right now to match my hardware because I'm severely limited on RAM and in true UNIX fashion it needs to only be doing what I tell it to, and not a damn thing more.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 days ago

Always keep a GUI tool for the job in case of normies.

I just don't go outside so I can use the terminal all I want

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Charlii boy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Mr smolface recreated on the Wii Mii channel. I was compelled to make this at midnight, sorry 'bout the scan line artifacting, it's not easy to capture photos of CRTs with cellphone cameras.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Based on your last paragraph, you might fall in the supernoob catergory. You'll want an immutable distribution, you can't break those Unless you tell it to let you break it.

As a windows user, you'll find familiarity in Fedora Kionite.

If you prefer a touchscreen oriented experience consider Fedora Silverblue.

There's a few other options on the page I'm linking, I haven't tried and therefore can't recommend either of the others.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

Edit: my formatting was 🗑️

Edit 2, electric boogaloo:

OP in your post you state you want Wallpaper Engine to work, unfortunately, you'll have issues there. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish with wallpaper engine you may be able to do the same using KDE Plasma. I personally use a VLC command line call to enable animated wallpapers on my rig, there's not exactly a standard for it on Linux so many of the solutions you find will be clunky. Just remember if you go around messing with your xorg.conf file you need to have a backup of it so you can undo changes easily in a terminal.

You're welcome to DM me if you need assistance.

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This is my programming and retro gaming rig. Running LMDE Faye and customized to look as much like the newer MacOS releases as possible (at first glance). The goal: a sleek, elegant system that performs better than elementaryOS.

Much work goes into making linux work completely on one of these boxes, I still haven't gotten my camera working (facetime-hd is a tricksy beast to install and have work) but otherwise I'm thrilled with the project.

Chassis: Macbook Air 6,2
Dist: LMDE 6 (faye)
Arch: x64
GPU: Haswell-ULT (haswell era intel integrated GPU)
RAM: Are you kidding? It's soldered in, no upgrades here. 4GB
Storage: Pictured: 250G SSD, not pictured: 512G sdcard

If anyone has any advice for using debian on this era of intel macbook, I'd appreciate it. Currently I can muster about 6 hours of battery life when just using a browser or word processor, thats fine but I'd like to see if I can stretch it to 8 without replacing my battery yet (battery health at 85%)

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 4 months ago

This is an extremely popular opinion among those who've not unpacked that what you're describing is eugenics

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 4 months ago

My one complaint in your comment is the "if you're a good artist you'll find work", it's simply not true.

I'm a shit artist (im an untrained outsider slapping paint on surfaces to vaguely resemble what my clients ask for) and I find work, yet none of my friends who are legitimately talented are finding anything.

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 months ago

Hey friendo I think you accidentally a word

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