No I’m really really really lazy… and I hate source installs because you don’t get updates and need to do them yourself. So I guess I’m going to try to figure out how to make an AUR package. Being lazy sure is a lot of work 😅

That looks really cool !

(But I’m lazy so I’ll just wait for the AUR package 😅 )

That’s only because you’re dumb. What do you need heating for ? You could just wear a turtleneck and save on energy costs (according to the French government asking people to turn the heating down to 17° in winter)

Same as every day :

• Make a To Do li… oh squirrels !

Aeon Flux. For a weird experimental cartoon, it’s very good and very weird. I could rewatch it forever.

Yes same in France… we have the saying “en Avril ne te découvre pas d’un fil” (in April don’t remove any clothing) because it’s supposed to still randomly get very cold very quickly 😭

I fear that in 10 years we’ll all be climate refugees in Iceland or Canada

If you mean climate change, all-time high economic disparity and fascism, then yes… but hey at least it’s home-grown fascism. For most people, only german fascism is bad, apparently.

All they need to know is basically “Just pick an instance close to you and be done, and if it ever stops working well just pick another”, which is the same thing as when creating an account on the Fediverse except that instances come and go a lot more.

So it would depends entirely on whether they can find the list of public instances easily… which is admittedly a problem 😅

You’re right about the website, there is a link to the list of public instances on https://docs.searxng.org/ but it’s a bit drowned amidst all the other stuff. If I was a regular user I would take one look at the website and run away really fast.

The Wikipedia page on SearXNG does link it, in the section about instances, but I’m not sure how many people would check the wikipedia page rather than the website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG#Instances

I don’t know about other countries, but in France we are perfectly capable of home-growing our own brand of awfulness. No need to import any from the US, thank you very much.

Yep, no words needed.

It’s late April and already starting to get hot, I’ll soon need an electric fan and in one month it won’t be enough. Half the year is unbearable, and it’s only going to get worse with time.

That would depend on whether Mozilla would still get the Google bribe to make it the default search engine, which is their main source of income. Without it they are fucked anyway even without all the new users forcing them to scale up

OH GOD THAT SMILE WILL HAUNT MY NIGHTMARES 😱 😱 😱

He probably means that people who want extreme privacy and would use such a tool would also not trust anything close source, even if it’s based on an open source project

Since you included decentralized solutions like Peertube, maybe add SearXNG instances for searches ?

Hey it’s not a dumb idea just because AI suggested it, ChatGPT probably just pulled that setup from somewhere on reddit I wasn’t saying it was stupid but the reverse : it probably would be too technical for me to set up and a bit overkill, but it’s tempting to try anyway. If you managed to do it it’s awesome !

System :

• zram (who says you can’t just install more RAM 😄 )

Terminal :

• kitty (terminal emulator)
• fastfetch (must take screenshots to show off every new Linux install, it’s in the EULA)
• zsh (thought I’d like to try nushell one of these days) with zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-completiions and zsh-suggestions
• GNU Stow (to manage symlinks, I store my dotfiles in a repo witch contains home, etc and usr folders, and I use GNU Stow to symlink them respectively to /home/username, /etc and /usr, that way all my config is in the same place so I can back it up easily and have version control)
• rsync (to sync backup folders)
• btop (system monitoring)
• clamav (antivirus)
• brightnessctl (for screen brightness control, but I should probably use brillo instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGOaSS8nEQA)
• yt-dpl (for downloading videos from YouTube/TikTok/wherever else)
• ani-cli (for watching anime from the terminal, obviously a must-have for any Arch Mint user)
• figlet (to write text from fonts made of ASCII art)
• cpipes, asciiquarium, cbonsai, matrix for when I get bored in meetings
• hollywood and rust-stakeholer if I ever need to pretend I’m doing something productive
• lots of TUI apps from https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

General GUI apps :

• Sway (tiling WM) though I’d really like to try niri (instead of several workspace it has a single one of infinite length that you can scroll through)
• rofi and rofi-calc (app launcher that can also do a lot other stuff if you want like file browser, ssh menu, calculator, emoji selector, it’s very light and superfast), also rofi-emoji (emoji selector)
• VSCode (code editor)
• KeepassXC (password manager)
• lutris, steam, protontricks, ProtonGE (gaming)
• FontManager
• Ventoy (for making USBs with multiple ISO on them)
• LibreOffice

Internet :

• Waterfox + LibreWolf (web browsers) with the following extensions : uBlock, Consent-O-matic, DownThemAll, KeepasXC-Browser, Copy PlainText, Copy Link Text, EPUB Reader, Markdown Viewer Web Ext, Sponsor Block, Return YouTube Dislike, YouTube Anti Translate, CanvasBlocker, Font Fingerprint Defender, WebGL Fingerprint Defender (I had to give up on User-Agent Switcher because it causes me to be blocked on too many websites)
• qBittorrent (BitTorrent client)
• FileZilla (FTP client)

Media :

• XVview (image viewer)
• ksnip (GUI screen capture)
• Gimp (image editor)
• Inkscape (vector image editor)
• MPC and VLC (audio/video players)
• Libation (to liberate Audible audiobooks from your account)
• cheese (camera)

I’m on Arch so the package names might be a bit different

Oh that’s a shame, I hope they manage to improve it it woul be very convenient

I meant not too slow to load on a potato-grade laptop… Thunderbird takes a while 😅 I hadn’t heard of mailspring before, I’ll check it out thanks !

Lmao that’s what ChatGPT recommended after I ranted about all the email clients I had tried 😂

fetchmail/getmail6 to fetch the mails via POP3 in maildir format + a local roundcube server + CLI tool to still be able to read mails outside home but I thought I might be a bit overkill 😅