juipeltje

Can’t wait till he’s dead

Helix is a solid choice tbh. I’m not sure if it works on NixOS, but you could always try something like Doom Emacs that comes preconfigured, similar to things like Lazyvim on the Neovim side. But yeah Emacs is a lot to take in and can be a pain sometimes. I actually just got done troubleshooting and making some changes to my config to solve an issue i had where simple things like scrolling up and down in a file was causing very high cpu usage. I ended up figuring out the issue with the help from a kind redditor, but i was kinda on the verge of considering a different editor if i hadn’t manage to solve it lol.

If you’re just using it to declare packages and some configs then yeah you could definitely run like a post-install script or something on top of a minimal distro. I’ve done this for a while when i was using Void. It’s get trickier though when you consider that nix can also lock your config at a specific version of all the software you have installed, which i don’t think can easily be done on the average distro. There’s also the rollbacks, though i suppose you could use btrfs for that, but i’ve never tried it.

Haha, yeah i’m just goofing around, but at the end of the day, just choose what is most interesting to you. It’s kind of ironic how i got into Emacs anyway, cause before that i chose to use Helix instead of NVIM, cause i didn’t want to bother spending so much time configuring it. Then i tried Guix, which is a distro that you configure in Guile Scheme, so Emacs felt like the perfect fit for that, but in the end i still spent hours configuring my Emacs lol.

Try VIM Emacs instead of Nano ;)

When i said unique i was purely referring to consoles going up in price instead of down. RAM cartel was already a thing long before trump though, as much as i hate the turd.

Even if that were true, the prices wouldn’t increase either. I think there’s more factors at play though that make consoles cheaper over time.

The market conditions are very unique right now since this is caused by all the AI-slop, and consoles going up in price like this has never happened before. If we think long-term though, i think it will still apply like it used to.

Just did a quick search and yeah apparently there aren’t really xbox controller drivers included in the kernel from what i can tell. I assumed it would just work cause it has been the case for all the controllers i tried, but i have never even owned an xbox controller so i never tested that. I figured such a popular controller surely would work ootb, but i guess not.

I don’t see how it would be any different from using a dualsense or something. Drivers exist.

I think i like strawberry the best out of the ones i’ve tried (i also tried deadbeef and audacious). Maybe it’s an issue with my distro’s package, but strawberry didn’t want to play CDs anymore, which is pretty much the only thing i use these players for now, cause i have my music collection hosted with navidrome and then stream it with supersonic. So now i use audacious instead. I usually like to play a CD directly and listen to it before i rip it, so that’s why i still want that functionality occasionally.

Pretty sure audacious does indeed have a lyric plugin that can look up the lyrics for you. I don’t think it does timed lyrics though.

I switched to get away from the windows telemetry that started to freak me out, but i stayed for the customization that allows me to completely make it my own, and the fact that linux doesn’t do shit in the background without me knowing it and just does what i actually want it to do. I tried using windows again in a dualboot configuration when i wanted to play gta online, plus i ended up needing hdmi 2.1, but i just couldn’t do it, it was too frustrating and annoying to use. I bought a dp to hdmi adapter and figured i’d rather give up on anti-cheat games like gta online if it means i never have to touch windows again.

Yet another reason for me to consider ps5 being my last playstation console and just fully focussing on my pc. Sure steam still has drm games as well, but at least we also have stores like GOG, cracked games, piracy, etc.

I don’t think this would be feasible because of how the ps5 is designed with a specific board, that isn’t really upgradeable. Even if it could be done then i think the cost would be pretty high to get it done, to the point where you may as well get a ps6. I think the best solution is for people to just stay on ps5 if they think it’s too expensive. In fact that’s what i was already planning on doing anyway even before the price increases. If the ps4 lifecycle is anything to go by ps5 will still get releases years into the ps6 cycle, plus on top of that, i feel like ps5 > ps6 will be less of an upgrade compared to ps4 > ps5. Even if it’s usually not full resolution, the upscaled base ps5 image looks good enough on my 4k screen. Worst case scenario maybe games will stop offering 60fps modes to compensate. That might be the only reason for me to consider upgrading, but even then, if it costs a fortune i’d probably still just ride it out.

• agree
• disagree
• agree
• disagree
• don’t really have a strong opinion on it one way or the other i guess

(I use GNU Guix + GNU Emacs btw)

Bro is just salty cause he has to admit he likes using AI slop if he wants to publish on steam

They have a list on their project page. I pretty much only use the clock and date features right now. It’s kind of a shame that the main swaylock project isn’t interested in adding a clock. Swaylock-effects also seems to be able to blur images, but i chose to do it with imagemagick instead.

Well i guess rice is a bit of an overstatement, since swaylock/swaylock-effects doesn’t have a ton of options besides some coloring mostly, but this is what my config looks like. Some of it like the clock stuff is specific to swaylock-effects. I used a few basic colors from gruvbox, and i use a script that swaps out the colors to different themes that i use. Other than that i just put a blurred version of my wallpaper as the background image that i blurred with imagemagick.

Another vote for gtklock. I liked it and used it for quite some time. I switched to swaylock-effects a while back purely because i switched to a distro that didn’t have gtklock packaged, and i couldn’t be bothered to package it myself. After i actually put some effort into ricing it a bit i’m not hating how it looks so i think i’m sticking with it. I suppose you could also try hyprlock since it has a password field as well, but i keep seeing tons of posts that show it crashing, so idk how reliable it is. From what i’ve seen it can be made to look really good though.