i use pretty lightweight tools. dwm and st. i don’t change the configs much, and have been trying to trandfew from firefox to surf. no more 10 tab browsing

Awesome. If it helps, i’m using the default browser on LineageOS.

thanks! i appreciate all these links. i am bookmarking this thread and coming back when i have more free time to look into these. gb-studio looks pretty cool. gameboy was my first video game platform and maybe always my favorite

Hey, looks fun! I subscribed to rss, but only by guessing the url. when i tapped the feed link, all i got was “rss.png.” not sure if it’s my browser, but maybe worth testing on your end

i guess the question is whether people are willing to give up the extra functionality for that simplicity, or whether simplicity in this case just means “abstract away what the computer actually does” because, it’s easy enough to just use gnome out of the box but the options and configurations exist because people want them and shared libraries exist because people want a lot of big programs on their system.

no, silly. lockdown to prevent plagues is great and brave. locking down to prevent plagues is what is authoritarian.

that is so cool. i will definitely keep my eyes on it. Is it all closed source though?

Have you seen ed! man ed

I can’t speak for this sub, but i think a lot of people have been moving from reddit and creating similar communities here to break their dependance on the proprietary reddit platform

i recommend love2d and some tutorials there. i think it’s a great way to learn because, it’s pretty easy to get going, and with simple game-dev you can get immediate visual feedback

no problem.

Short read and definitely worth my time.

Glad to see that the posts are automatically added to my RSS feed too! Good work

I guess perhaps the difference is one of priorities. In my mind the power of UNIX is the power of the user to control their system, or in multi-user systems the power of the admin to control the system they manage. I don’t have a problem with /etc being writeable and I think configuration should take place in /etc. If I want to set doas permissions, or define who can access my system I should do that from /etc.

No problem! I’m just passing it along. I tought I would add that I use a proportional font on my website too and put my ascii art in '<pre><code>` tags. Then I just have my css unobtrusively switch:

pre {
        font-family: monospace;
        white-space: pre;
}

Without borders, it works well inline, and the font change isn’t super obnoxious when it’s just ascii art.

Follow up question. I’m not a hardware person. How hard would it be to go in the other direction. Make a hardware device that runs like the fantasy console instead of an emulator that runs like the device?

You’re right that it isn’t what is typically done, but my point was that if you really wanted your disk to encrypt and unencrypt on login/logout it shouldn’t be /that/ hard to just add a hook to a login service. You needn’t rework the idea of a home directory, and create yet another configuration paradigm to do it. If that were all he were proposing, I’d be totally onboard.

The hot-plug home directory does seem sort of cool, but again that would take near universal adoption for it to be very useful, and you can already set up your personal computers to do that without a new standard. unencrypting with an external device is already possible and easy, but requires people have the external device, and even if the linux OS you use adopts the hot-pluggable home, the public library won’t, nor will the computer lab at your school. at some point, you may be better off with a live-USB os.

Isn’t this article about a new proposed standard for linux condifigurations and home directories?

The tic-80 looks pretty cool. And it’s MIT licensed, so I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on that