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Cake day: February 2nd, 2024

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  • Thanks a lot for the advice!

    Grabbing the content each time is a bit of a waste

    In practice fish is extremely more efficient then bash with the script profiling at 9ms. Not amazing but since this will only run once when opening the shell its small enough to not be noticeable

    There is also a file cat /proc/loadavg

    So thats where it was! My original script tried to loop over all the cpu max and mins and calculate the percentage before deciding uptime was just more practical. Thanks for the info!

    I see you like awk a lot BTW

    Its just so damn easy to grab the piece of info you want with lol

    Really thanks for all the feedback Ill have to work some of your advice in when I get back to my computer







  • I drove Alpine a while back and the docs are amazing for getting every little thing setup. LabWC, Wayfire, and River (now river-classic) all ran perfectly with a fully custom EWW bar/launcher/notifications ontop of them. I only ever played the OG S.T.A.L.K.E.R games and Anomaly on that setup but they ran without hiccup

    Its still installed on my laptop but I haven’t really touched it in quite some time, and my desktop is on Bazzite since its mainly a gaming machine. I dont recommend Alpine as a desktop distro because of the amount of setup/configuration needed, but I find it much nicer to use as a dev system than Arch




  • In a weird way the most private email for shopping/spam you can have is gmail/icloud/outlook, since signing up to websites with any obscure email is instantly going to make you stand out. Use some alternative frontend like thunderbird and the only data google will have on you is the services you signed up for, which google will have anyway since any shopping site is using google tracking in some way or another. Use your actual email (mailbox, posteo, etc) for real contact and google for looking like a “normie” to already privacy invasive sites




  • If ypu have the hardware but not the forwarding capability like me, you can use cloudflare tunnels for free, or setup headscale on a free orical vps. Otherwise go with the cheapest vps you can find (Im using Hetzner, but ive heard good things about netcup, or even Oricals free teir vps and move off of it if you end up not ditching selfhosting), play around, and if you need more power its as trivial as backing up your services and putting them on a more powerful server



  • A HUGE part people dont talk about is how artists will not draw anything for their community unless they are directly a higher up member of that community. Not that there isnt exceptions, but with the modern commission mindset people see every public art as a transaction. Every art community ive tried to join has always had problems with even art trades, people citing the other persons art isnt “good enough” to be a worthwhile trade. Instead of seeing it as free practice or just doing something nice

    Obviously there are exceptions, and if anyone knows of any communitys, matrix/discord servers, etc that is artists trying to improve their art rather then sell it id love to join




  • Cars: Anything released without wifi/calling. I dont think any modern electric predates this, but you can convert diesels to friendlier oils or most engines to a run off wood. As a bonus higher trim older cars used a lot less plastic

    Smartwatch: Pinetime

    3D printers: id like to add Sovol, not sure about their more recent ones but their older ones either didnt have wifi or run regular klipper. The SV06/SV06 ACE are also entirelly open source except for the GUI, but you can install other klipper GUIs (theres also a repo with steps to build a minimal Debian install instead of relying on sovols firmware updates)

    Routers: GL.iNET Use a modified OpenWRT install out of the box but can be flashed to vanilla OpenWRT through the GUI