I dropped that one and never picked it up again

It’s a ton of fun with people you’re familiar with over Discord or whatever. I miss those days.

My brother tried so hard to get me into it. I was all, “Where are the dungeons?”

HOLY CRAP

Let’s say I run a command that spews output. Are you saying that with Zsh I can use only the keyboard to navigate the spew, copy a bit of it, and paste it in a new command?

If so I should try it out!

Oh man

I’m pretty sure I’m sticking with it for the foreseeable future. But it was touch and go for a minute. I knew Debian, it was comfortable, and I had to fight the urge to run screaming back.

There are a lot of moving parts and I wish they were less abstract. Going in I had no idea I had to learn a foreign programming language. The other day I was surprised to realize that the bash NixOS module is different than the Home Manager one. In my inexperienced opinion I feel they should be one and the same. Some important packages are behind Debian. Debian. I’m on the unstable NixOS channel.

It’s not all doom and gloom. I feel I’m learning a lot more about the bits that comprise a Linux distro. It feels a lot more mine. I can keep the config in my head. I’m a software engineer so the build error messages don’t scare me. I’m on the latest kernel. I wrote a package for a little software tool that I wrote and I like how it fits right into NixOS. If I change the code one command will build it, run tests, and install it in my system. That’s rad.

Yeah, in retrospect it was unwise to try to figure out both NixOS and Home Manager at the same time. Oh well.

Edit: I love how easy it is to jump straight to the actual source from NixOS search. And I appreciate that the infrastructure is modern. Debian’s is absolutely ancient in comparison.

Thank you. What did you dislike in Cinnamon what you felt GNOME was doing way better?

The polish thing again. This was years ago when GNOME 3 was a thing. I adapted fine to it. Cinnamon was mandated as an attempt to continue with the traditional GNOME 2 paradigms. I tried and I was immediately repelled by the lack of polish. I’ve been doing UIs for ages by that point and I had gotten pretty sensitive to UI issues. I immediately put GNOME back even though I had to support it myself. I was happy to and it was easy.

The cohesiveness and polish of it (I’m a UI engineer). I understand some lament the lack of options and the heavy handedness of the GNOME folks but those issues don’t bother me personally.

Granted I don’t have much experience with KDE. I have used Cinnamon enough to make me go out of my way to get back to GNOME.

I don’t have the desire to explore because I’m pretty happy with GNOME

I think GNOME as a whole is ridiculously awesome. I can’t believe I get it for free.

I switched a couple of weeks ago (from Debian unstable)!

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Linux and the ecosystem are freaking amazing

I moved from Debian unstable to NixOS this past Saturday. It’s been…interesting. I’m fighting the urge to run screaming back to Debian.

I tried purging Git from my system last night as an experiment. Try as I might I couldn’t get all references to it to disappear from the Nix store. I disabled it from configuration.nix and Home Manager. Removed all system and Home Manager generations except the current. Still there after various combinations of nix-channel --update, nixos-rebuild switch, and home-manager switch.

THE Brad Boimler?

Sup

Reaching the top of the mountain in Celeste was pretty awesome too now that I’m thinking about it

Not the greatest of all time I don’t think, but the greatest in recent memory

At the end of Chapter 12 of the Entropy Centre I really felt like I was saving the world against all odds. And Chapter 13 immediately after was a trip in a good way. If you’re curious, having a good setup (TV, speakers) helps a lot.

Sure, the pixelated look is “simplistic” but I don’t feel it detracts from the gameplay. It’s deep, your choices are interesting and significant, and it’s oh so addicting. And most importantly, it’s fun! I recommend it to friends and they think it’s fun.

Balatro has received universal acclaim from game critics,[2][3] selling more than 5 million copies by January 2025.[4] Along with several other awards and nominations, Balatro was named Game of the Year at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards and nominated for the top prize at The Game Awards 2024, the 28th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, and the 21st British Academy Games Awards.

From Wikipedia

Balatro is well done

I write my code for future maintainers. I optimize for clarity, testability, and readability.

I’ve become a huge fan of dependency injection. That does not mean I like DI frameworks (Guice). I tend to do it manually with regular code.

When I maintain code and I sit there wondering what it actually does, I write a unit test for it right then and there

And so on

On the web client, if you go to Trending, you will see “hot” posts (I have no idea how they’re ranked) by folks you’re not following. The official Android client has this too. It’s where I spend most of my Mastodon time.

For a while I took my own toilet paper to work it was that bad