Arkhive (they/she)

Yeah when I went down a terminal config rabbit hole I landed on JetBrains Mono with all the nerd font symbols. Can’t really provide a particular reason I like it over many other fonts, but I just do.

You could maybe setup a SMB share targeting your download location, mount that on the computer you’d like to install on, then point the setup.exe at the SMB share for the bin files.

Yeah. I rock climb as my job basically, and my finger health is in the bin most of the time…

I use Sunshine with the Moonlight client for Remote Desktop. With my computer running Tailscale I can connect to it from anywhere. It’s designed for game streaming on a local network, but tweak the bandwidth settings down and it works a treat for remote work.

Some other books that handle time travel in fun ways and play with explicitly making changes to the past.

• Asimov’s The End of Eternity (might have gone without saying)
• Jack Finney’s Time and Again (read it as a kid, so might not actually be that good, but it’s illustrated which is fun!)

I use Tailscale for the virtual LAN setup

I don’t really play Minecraft anymore, different block game has taken over, but I used to be big into modded Minecraft and map editing. I believe a tool called Amulet is kind of the “modern MCEdit”. Might do what you’re looking for.

Getting to put time into smaller, slower games has been lovely!!

I don’t know the vibe of the cafe I found yet, if it’s only super competitive I probably won’t frequent it at all.

Yeah I just used the one I keep handy in text expansion shortcuts in my phone. Didn’t even think twice about needing to escape the character. Oops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do this a lot too, and most of my friends are very understanding, which has also prompted me to get better about remembering what they were saying so I can recenter the conversation on them once my tangent is over. I had an ex (both of us non-binary) that really couldn’t get past that and see it for what my other friends do (the ‘tism) and only perceived as my (amab on feminizing hrt) talking over them (afab not on hrt) in a “domineering man” kind of way, even though they have way more traditionally masc traits then me (competitiveness, impatience, over confidence in their understanding of things to a point of stubbornness…). I really liked them and thought they understood because they’re also neurodivergent, but just couldn’t get over it or learn to work with it, or even give me the time to improve on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glad your friend seems to be on board!!

I’m looking to leave behind the graphical Obsidian app for neovim and plugins as I already use it for most of my other text editing. What is your setup and what plugins you recommend for neovim for general use, coding, and writing?

Maybe check out a local internet or gaming cafe for those periodic sessions? I just found one near me I’m considering going to a few times a month for the “slop” games. There’s a couple I still get the urge to play now and then.

I use Tailscale instead of hamachi these days. I find it way better. Used to use hamachi in the early days of Minecraft multiplayer, was always so jank and maybe it’s gotten better, but Tailscale has the added bonus of letting me easily share other services with the people I host servers for.

For me it was Destiny 2. I genuinely enjoy the moment to moment gameplay, and no other game has really matched it for me. The story and characters were engaging enough, even at the games lows, that I wanted to see the saga through to the end. I did week one of the raid for “The Final Shape” and then I booted into my Linux install and have not booted windows since. I’m about to fully wipe that drive and reuse it in a different Linux machine. My desire to quit windows, and my acute awareness of how much of my life and money I had put into Destiny over the last decade or so, made the switch honestly pretty easy.

I still game a good amount, but it’s much more intentional, and I don’t play any live service games which frees up money I don’t feel guilty putting toward indie games.

I quit League in 2019 when I finally built my own PC. I refused to put any games from Riot on the new computer. I played enough of the game to enjoy following the competitive scene to this day, and every now and then I get the desire to play. I’d really only do it with premade scrims of people I know.

I’ve recently found a gaming cafe in my city I might go to a few times a month to play a couple of those games I either can’t or refuse to install on my Linux machine.

I daily drive linux, but I don’t work in a field that involves computers much if at all. I’ve always tinkered with whatever OS I had installed. It was OS 9 then OSX and macOS as a kid. Then windows once I had my own computers, and now Linux. I jumped the windows ship “relatively” early. As in a good bit before copilot and such, still definitely “recent” on a broader scale. I’ve been on Linux for over a year full time.

I’m now looking into helping other people around me adopt Linux and just FOSS in general. A friend and I have talked about opening a tech repair shop that also offers custom system/home/network builds. Would love to see more Linux being used in local businesses.

I find Linux reacts better to my tinkering. Or at the very least gives me an actual error message to work with when I tinker to close to the sun. I dove right in with the Arch minimal installer, and built my system from the command line. Inevitably my first install had some jank, so I’m trying to make a more refined version in NixOS to see if I like the paradigm shift.

I’ll also toss in that it was actually Syncthing that got me into Linux and also inspired trying NixOS. I got very fed up with the clunky options for running Syncthing on windows. That among other reasons sent me to Linux, and once I started learning more the idea of using Syncthing to manage NixOS configs across all my machines started to bounce around my mind. Syncthing already kind of gives this feeling that all my devices are just one big distributed file system. Carrying that over to the actual OS completes the process of making it a completely distributed single system, simply with different interfaces for accessing it.

I use Unix Pass connected over Tailscale to a git server I host myself. The interface options for various devices are a bit clunky, but it basically “just works” outside of that.

Edit: I used to use KeePass and syncthing, which I think is probably the best (balance of simple and effective) combo for most users.