If you go with Wayland, use Hyprland. It’s pretty easy to find configs for Hyprland on github and/or tutorials on YouTube. I watched a few YouTube tutorials to get an understanding of how it works and then adjusted the base config to my liking.

If you’re using x11, there are more window manager options to choose from. I have no recommendations there, but I know i3, DWM, bwspm, and openbox are all popular and should have tutorials and configs readily available to work from.

Jaded outcast

Agree.

Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 somewhere around 2000. Ran that for a year or two until the PC it was on died.

Next time I was able to run it was 2008ish on a pos dell laptop on which I installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). When that laptop died a year or so later I went macOS and was happy there until about 2022ish.

Now I’m running it across several machines for different purposes.

Arch dualbooting OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my tinkering laptop.

Ubuntu Server 22.04 on my server (started with 18.04)

Fedora 41 on family computers/laptops

Asahi on the last bit of Apple hardware left in the house

Raspberry Pi OS on a number of PiS serving different purposes.

A subscription web service

This can be applied to anything, but the quote as I read it in a book by Piers Anthony (I know, gross, I was in middle school), was:

Power is a means to an end. Don’t let the means become the end.

I often think of it as:

Money is a means to an end. Don’t let the means become the end.

I really want to figure out nix, but damn is there a steep curve, and the documentation needs some serious work.

I’m really liking tumbleweed! Been using it lately and its pretty nice.

I run a bunch of stuff because I like to tinker as well, and because like you I want to own my data and not be treated like shot by big tech.

• thinkpad: currently dualbooting arch and openSuse. This is my machine for tinkering and breaking. Have also run fedora on it.
• server: Ubuntu server. At the time I set up the server Ubuntu was what I knew and was comfortable with, and I wanted a dependable base for all my tinkering with docker and services. I periodically think about switching, but this is my production environment now and I want it stable so I’ll likely stick to Ubuntu.
• Mac mini: asahi fedora. Only option here. Looking to integrate this and put it to use. Might become a new playground
• 2014 iMac: fedora. This is my work machine. By that I mean I do my financial and other bookkeeping and household paperwork on this. Chose fedora because I wanted something stable and I got tired of fighting Ubuntu over the Firefox snap.
• assorted Raspberry PiS: all on raspberry pi os. One is my nas, others are doing various jobs I wanted separate from the server.

I did as well, small comfort.

And it’ll be subscription based.

I expect an affinity subscription plan.

Awesome!

I use my airpods with my graphene os device (also a 7a) every day. One thing I’d recommend doing is first connect the airpods to a macos/iOS device and go into settings to customize the double tap/squeeze options for your airpods. This will then be the behavior those actions will have with your graphene device. Then have all apple devices forget those airpods.

Once that’s done you should be able to have your 7a find and connect to the airpods once you put them as n pairing mode.

Well shit. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I really like storygraph. Every year or so I check on their progress for an api. It’s on their long term roadmap and I’ll be a happy person when it comes to fruition.

Guess I’m lawful neutral.

Used to be true neutral, but haven’t had to convert an image to a PNG in, goah it’s been years now.

As I trying to learn as much ad I can about bash, I’d probably end up doing it lawful good.

Got it. I misunderstood your comment. My apologies!

The sentiment isn’t dumb. It’s true. The Democrats don’t give a fuck about us plebs. I voted for Harris and absolutely will vote for/choose the lesser evil as long as I’m still able. Doing so does not mean the Dems give any fucks about me.

Remember when Bernie had real momentum behind him and the Dems sabotaged him because Hillary was determined to have her run at the presidency? If the Democratic party gave a fuck about the voting public they’d have gone whole hog behind Bernie.

It the Dems cared about normies, they’d be doing more than performative filibusters that accomplish nothing. If the Democratic party cared they’d be throwing up every fucking roadblock they could to actually try and stop that motherfucker Trump and his fucking cronies.

Are the Dems a better option than the Republicans? Yes. Do the Dems care about us? No. They’re just the less shitty choice.