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My first thought as well. drag-and-drop is also fantastically useful for data you cannot Cut (e.g., moving an email attachment from one draft message to another)

Emacs users (myself included) would feel less like cramming every aspect of our work into Emacs if more tools embodied the freedom and hackability that comes with using Emacs. It's not that Emacs is better, it's that other tools are more restrictive and not self-documenting.

Cool, I don't have to set my clocks back this December.

Pro motion and battery life for me

Is Gentoo an outlier or do all Linux distributions deal with this problem?

I was gaming on Linux when steam first came out for that platform, but there were too many broken games. Tried again with Proton debute, and more problems. I switched back to Win10 for about 5 years on my gaming machine, but the push to Win11 made me want to try linux again for gaming. I installed Guix and Steam, and I am still just floored at how much progress Linux gaming has made in 5 years. Basically every works, and it feels only imperceptibly slower than gaming on Win10. I'm on AMD card, so ymmv!

I'm about to beat Lies of P :)

There's nothing appealing about costco to me anymore. Living is suburban DC... The parking lots are packed and dangerous, there's too many people in the store, the produce quality isn't there, and it takes forever to checkout. It doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore, and I'm the perfect candidate for someone that could benefit from going there once in a while.

Here's some good configs

https://github.com/podiki/dot.me (nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament (guix and nonguix maintainer) https://codeberg.org/cmargiotta/dotfiles (good gaming stuff) https://codeberg.org/daviwil/dotfiles/src/branch/guix-home (I modeled off this) https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes

Yes, separately. At home i run guix system but at work i use Guix package manager on Ubuntu wsl. My dots are private but Ill share some good repos to learn from when i get back to my desktop.

I’m moving slowly in the direction of Guix home for dotfile management, but until it covers all my bases, I’m fond of the gnu stow method

+1 for FreshRSS (recommended at the bottom of the PC Gamer article). I just started my mass migration to self-hosting (it's way better in 2026 than it used to be), and I'm very pleased with the FreshRSS webapp and NetNewsWire integration. I consider it a solid hedge against enshittification. I probably won't go full self-hosting, but I'm enjoying the move.

Synctrain

Good tip, I'm going to check that out!

overkill for a single personal user compared to a kdbx file on a webdav share.

Maybe. I'm looking into VaultWarden for my personal passwords because keeping a KBDX file up to date on iOS is painful (without a corporate cloud backing).

The standard of living that one could afford with a "living wage" looks to be very very low. Like, 0 vacations and no house low, for my metro area.

Neither is xfce

I resisted Wayland for a longtime, but I'm sold now that I see how well it does on old hardware.

I have an old Thinkpad. Firefox on X is slow and scrolls poorly. On wayland, the scrolling is remarkably smooth for 10 y/o hardware, and the addition of touchpad gestures is very nice. Yes, there's more configuration overhead for each compositor, but I'm now accepting this trade.

Guix is the combination of so many cool things: declarative OS, lisp programming, hygenic development, bootstrapping. I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months. I'm looking forward to putting in on my desktop when I have some free time. I love love love having my whole system (and home) instantiated from a small set of text files.

You need a new job to feel energized again (and so do I)

Is this less buggy than UTM on apple silicon?

I find the whole “corporate blogging about fonts” subculture really funny

Why the “y” look so wrong in the special font.

Yeah, probably a good idea to remove it since i use github everyday and have no idea what a toast is .

Taking away Emacs may just lead you to procrastinate on something different, not work on something productive. So, I'm not sure that this is a tool problem or a personal problem.

What statistic are you proposing? Number of repos / avg stars ?

Do we really hold editorials to the same standard as the rest of the news? These are opinion pieces, you should expect bias, no?

Such a bitchy blog post

News.gmane.io is up. I use it daily to track a few projects.

I have a feeling that most data scientists using R have no need to touch any of the object systems, hard to believe that would be a deal breaker.

I just install librewolf.

I’ll just say that I bought a kinesis advantage a few years ago and did not like it due to the learning curve. But after trying a couple other ergonomic keyboards, and then coming back to the low force, kinesis advantage 2 LF, it’s now the only keyboard I want to use.