Im actually surprised it’s as high as it is.

I love EOS. I have both sway and plasma installed. I prefer sway, but sometimes I get frustrated with troubleshooting and I can use plasma as a safety net. I’ve only had to do it once, but it’s nice knowing it’s there.

Yeah, I just have one that launches blueman-manager. Not elegant, but works well. I only ever use BT on my laptop. So my desktop doesn’t even have it.

For music control I added a custom Spotify element to my waybar that shows now-playing, and lets me play/pause/skip/etc without having to go back to workspace 1. That’s all I need.

Tiling is just so nice once you get used to it. No more fiddling around with window placement.

I tried to do that when I started, but now it’s just habit. Super+Shift+# does most of the work.

My only complaint with the EOS configuration is the lack of Bluetooth on the bar. And the sound/screen brightness buttons don’t give any visual/audio feedback. I have some notifications imbedded, but they look and feel kinda janky compared to how nice and clean they are in Plasma.

Sway is it. I tried originally building it all up from scratch. It was fun, and taught me how all the pieces fit together, but now I just grab the EOS community dotfiles and make a few minor tweaks.

For me, it’s not a “workflow” that is sped up, it really just helps me remember where stuff “belongs”. Workspace 1 always has my Spotify, audio mixer, and discord/signal. Workspace 5 is gaming, etc.

Resizing and swapping window locations around is so simple with just super+mouse click/drag.

EOS btw.

Okay, well maybe it’s just me that’s the lazy one!

The community sway package for eos is so good that I pretty much gave up on my custom dotfiles.

Finally some meme recognition for those of us that want to be “cool arch users” but don’t want to spend any effort getting there!

(Fucking love EOS right now. )

Just grab some prebuilt .config files. I just switched from maintaining my own “custom” set to the endeavorOS community repo for sway, and it’s seriously amazing. Not too much, but has everything I need working right out the box.

Just fyi: about 50% of crops use synthetic fertilizer. Animal waste is not a requirement. This article discusses the chemical discoveries that lead to the ability to synthesize fertilizer: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-people-does-synthetic-fertilizer-feed

Spoiler alert: it doesn’t come from dinosaurs**

tl;dr - Haber-Bosch process

I thought this was c/vegancirclejerk for a second after reading that reply 😂

Same. I’m an adult. I can choose what I want to see on my phone while I poop.

I’ve never heard of someone doing something like this before, but it sounds like it could have some pretty cool downstream applications (thinking Bluetooth speakers)

With your setup would it be possible to pair your headphones to your phone (iPhone in my case) and be able to pass audio from different computers to a central one that my phone could then relay to my headphones?

I often walk around my house/yard while listening to something playing on my laptop/desktop. And if I get too far from the source, it breaks the Bluetooth connection. So I usually end up having to drag my laptop around the yard with me. A much nicer solution would be to have my phone on my person, and use the wifi to keep connected to my “audio source” without needing proximity to the actual pc playing the sound.

Dang, that’s a nice deal. I think I want something with a bit more juice, as I would like to play Minecraft from time to time. I’m leaning towards used thinkpad

I think this is the way forward.

I’d love it if I could find something with a decent GPU so it could run some Minecraft action.

Is eBay my best bet?

Yeah… the more I read into the pine stuff, the less fitting it is. I might enjoy one to mess with, but it won’t make a great gift!

Nice. That’s the move. I am finding it more and more difficult to find smaller laptops/chromebooks these days. If I want a big screen, I’ll sit down at my desktop!

Thanks again for the resources

Thanks for the resources. I think this could be the way forward. I’ll do some research first, as I need something super stable, since I won’t be the final user. So if it breaks, I’m on the hook.

Do you have any suggestions on possible candidate Chromebooks?

Are there certain requirements, or pitfalls to avoid when digging through old Chromebooks?

I think that’s the direction I’m leaning.

Oooh, I didn’t even think about the aspect… thanks!