Look into rockbox. Custom firmware for the iPod.

Arch wiki is the documentation gold standard

Definitely. Why not use something off the shelf! That by itself would make it much more approachable

I’ve been on arch around a year now and also considered the jump to NixOS. I was actually dual booting it with arch for awhile and I found pretty quickly that the shit documentation was a huge turn off for me. I ended up nuking the nix partition and reclaiming it for arch.

Kinda giving me Dexter’s brother/Ice Cream Truck Killer vibes.

Not a fucking chance.

age verification can get fucked

I don’t use AI at all. What you described is the principal reason. I also don’t like how these giant corpos are sucking up the entirety of human output to train these models without a care to the implications of it.

That is a great book!

Right! It’s kinda wild when you do see them. I always equate it to the feeling of being in a casino.

What really throws me is tv commercials. When I do see one, like in a waiting room or something, all I can think is, “people fall for this?”

Not yet. I have to look at my bookshelf and the card and see what might fit.

Do you have any lined up yet?

I don’t know of Amy open source projects that do this, but if you’re at all comfortable with bash (or another scripting language) and a little self hosting you can roll your own with Olivetin, which is what I did for all my personal data tracking.

I have it running on a raspberry pi zero w and access it through the pwa.

Hey now. In harsh3466 land only I have the authority to mint pinecones!

I am always shocked when I have to use a browser without an ad blocker. How do people tolerate it?

I mean, I get it. I know many people have no idea about adblocking, etc. But goddam. It’s so awful without it.

It sure does! I’m no car expert but I can and have been doing basic maintenance on this car. Its a hooptie but it’s serving us well.

It’s why I’m holding onto my dumb early 2000s car as long as I can. I don’t want a fucking surveillance machine on wheels.

I was thinking about doing this as well!

Doesn’t solve the whole problem, but here’s a great resource for car manuals called OPERATION charm

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