In the digital age, you still have to talk with humans. What did my coworker tell me again? The wheels need to be torqued to 150 Nm or ftlb or lbft? Shoot. He’s busy helping other customers now… uhh… I’ll just wing it.

Luckily, I’m able to afford more than an 8GB SSD on my laptop. 😆

$ podman system df
TYPE           TOTAL       ACTIVE      SIZE        RECLAIMABLE
Images         2           1           2.775GB     2.293GB (83%)
Containers     1           0           3.492GB     3.492GB (100%)
Local Volumes  2           2           0B          0B (0%)

$ flatpak list | wc -l
65
$ du -hs /var/lib/flatpak
12G	/var/lib/flatpak

$ df -h
Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cryptroot  234G   31G  191G  14% /

A 256GB drive is on the smaller side and I’m barely at 14%. Storage is cheap.

I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.

1. Install as much as possible via flatpak
2. Install a bunch of other stuff in distrobox (with podman backend)

That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.

Not that I ever had any problems with native pacman installs though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess my pacman -Syu command runs faster now. That’s something…

Holy moly, I did not know this existed! Thanks! Just turned this on!

I just sold my Framework 13 after daily driving it for a year. The HiDPI display bugs and workarounds just got too annoying.

I went back to my old Dell XPS 13 9310 and I’m loving it.

I suspect that it goes down and stays down whenever there is an app update, but I haven’t confirmed it yet.

Does the plain wireguard app stay up during updates?

if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected

I’ve been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it’s an extra thing you have to manage.

It’s almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet… almost… but not yet.

Would this cause a problem? I’m assuming this would be deserialized to the same value, no?

Maybe you could go to:

Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens > Tokens (Classic)

And then create a new token there.

Then you should be able to clone a private repo as long as you have git installed.

When you git clone your private repo, git will ask for your username, enter that. Then it’s gonna ask for your password. Don’t enter your GitHub password. Enter your token.

Clone should work.

how concerned you quickly become with all types of water

LOL, yes! 99% of my problems these last 5 years have been related to water. It’s really made me want to learn more about plumbing.

Oooooooh. Kagi added this lens! Since you can add custom lenses, I thought I added this (and forgot) to my own account. Cool!

yay simplifies the AUR installation

Simple to me means not having to install some random extra tool and just using pacman like normal. That’s why I grumble.

I like package managers just fine. I don’t want to have to have a plurality of software management tools.

Same. I grumble when I have to install things through the AUR. I’d prefer if it was in the official repos.

can continue to blissfully ignore

That’s what I’ve been doing. I haven’t run into a situation where I’ve needed to mess with Flatpak. 🤷 Curious to hear other folk’s experiences though.

Also for your consideration, Flatpak seems to be mainly used for desktop GUI apps. You’ll still need your regular package manager to install CLIs. So… if you wanna keep your software management tools to a minimum…

TIL about user lingering. Interesting.

but I’ve heard these days it’s not unusual to tip up to 40%!

That seems pretty unusual to me.

I normally tip 20%.

Apparently, Floorp is another Firefox fork. Has anyone tried this?

OK! You’ve had 1 hour to check them out. :D What’s the difference between the two? They’re both Firefox forks, right?

Por qué no sale Mujico!? Claramente esto tiene que ser un error!

https://mujico.org/post/338143/173905

Ah… bueno… por eso…

the keyboard failed multiple times, as well as one of the fans and eventually one thunderbolt port

Aw, dang. That sucks.

I’m typing this on a 2020 9310 and fortunately it’s been pretty solid for me. Everything still works great. If anything, the palm rests are a little worn now, but that’s about it. I also have an older XPS 9370 from 2018 that I keep as a spare and that’s still working fine as well.

I haven’t had to open up this laptop yet, but good to know there are service manuals. Thanks!

put up a fight against management 3 layers above me

Eh, yeah. I’ve been in that kind of situation before. Sucks.

Still, you should try to go rogue where you can. Not for the company, fuck the company, do it to protect yourself. Like, maybe you could create your own git repo and push the changes there yourself. Don’t tell anyone else, just do it privately. You don’t need to use GitHub, you could push to a local folder on your computer or a USB drive.