[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fancy skin wishlist:

  • No drying and flaking
  • No sweaty palms
  • No hangnails
  • Impenetrable by mosquitos
  • Immunity to paper cuts
[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

It's probably habit, but it just feels somehow wrong to blow my nose without a piece of paper snugly against my nostrils. Like trying to poop without being seated on a toilet bowl.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I fancied the opportunity, but there were no other speakers of the language at my school.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

The Pixel Tablet with GrapheneOS is the gold standard, but there's even more than just the tablets with LineageOS support if you are adventurous.

I was gifted a Samsung Tab A7 Lite, which is without LineageOS support. However, I've been able to flash TrebleDroid Generic System Images (GSI), which are vanilla AOSP images modified to support as many devices as possible. They come with no Google apps or services.

Nearly everything works as expected, performance is much better, and battery life is unchanged. I can even run Android 15 smoothly when Samsung will end support for my tablet with Android 14. If anyone wants a writeup to the best of my memory, feel free to reply.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

If you are flashing GrapheneOS, it is a very simple and safe procedure. I've even interrupted the flashing when my laptop went to sleep, got the system corrupt warning, and just flashed again without a hitch. All that's needed now is a browser with WebUSB support and USB cable.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

The text editor shortcut on my taskbar runs a sort of autosave script in ~/.drafts. I wanted my text editor to function more like the one on my phone so I can just jot down random thoughts without going through the whole ritual of naming and saving. It creates YYYYMMDD_text in ~/.drafts (or YYYYMMDD_text_1 etc. if it already exists) and launches Pluma, which I also have configured to autosave every 10 minutes.

The other thing extends beyond Linux itself a bit. I like to joke that I have the most secure NT 4 / Windows 95 lookalike ever put together. Aside from the encrypted and hardened Debian base (/boot is also encrypted), I was in part inspired by Apple's parts pairing (yikes!). So my coreboot is configured to only accept my boot disk. If it's swapped out or missing, or if I want to boot something else, it will ask for a password. In the unlikely event my machine gets stolen, the thief must at a minimum reflash the BIOS or replace the motherboard to make it useful again. Idk, it amuses me every time I think about it.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Perhaps several years due to socks and shoes wearing out. The rest should last several decades, assuming I quit using the dryer.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Virginia Tech did. But university shootings seem far less common.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Nice thing is that the X230 still closes properly with a thin sliding webcam cover.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago
  • Debian stable (w/ XFCE). No-nonsense, excellent community support, well-documented, low-maintenance, and runs on anything so I can expect things to work the same way across all of my machines, old, new(ish), or virtual
  • Just flexible enough that I can customize it to my taste but not so open-ended that I have to agonize over every last config
  • It's been around for many years and will be around for many more
  • I often entertain the idea of moving to Alpine or even BSD, but I can't resist the software selection available on Debian
[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

same here but with hentai on searx.be

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Windows 10. When your OS no longer respects your choices and you have to fight it every minute, there is something wrong. The creeping invasions on privacy have only cemented my use of Linux

Truthfully, I'm not sure if I would have ever switched over if Microsoft kept the Windows 7 paradigm. But I started my search for alternatives when Windows 8 - already too adventurous for me - came with the computer I bought.

Towards the end of my time using Windows 10 as my primary OS, the realization that the UI is not an inherent component of the OS sealed the deal. As a Windows 2000 fan, I fell in love with the way Chicago95 Debian replicated the look and stability that I had sorely missed.

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