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  • I hate how I understand this.

  • I think Niri has that feature, but maybe I'm wrong. I'll definitely have to look into MaoMao later, I did not know that it had scrolling. Thanks for the heads up. It seems like more WMs are supporting this nowadays.

  • Nice rice. All hail Niri. πŸ™

  • The only thing I have that's mainstream is Bsky. Outside of that, I've been fedi exclusive for some years now. I tried to make a Tumblr, but I forgot just how much corpo ran networks suck. The moment I was hit with adverts for their crappy membership and shop, I tapped out. I have a Facebook that's only occasionally used to get contact information from old friends and family, but aside from that I'm always logged out.

    That's about it, I think. I consume Youtube through the web client and 3rd party mobile clients without an account, and I get around other sites with similar methods.

  • Thank you! I was unsure if putting it so much effort was overkill, but I'm glad I did. I'll probably do some upgraded showcase when I'm fully content with my build, cause I use a ton of TUI tools people probably don't know about. I didn't even show off half the features, either. The fun thing about Niri is so much is done for you out of the box, and the config is super detailed.

    There are a few things to look out for, though. The choice to use .kdl over .toml, .yaml, or anything people would be familiar is mind boggling. It's pretty annoying when troubleshooting as well, since Niri is only recently gaining traction. Otherwise, it's been a pretty painless process. Wayland compositors are so much easier to get started with than the X11 WMs of old, it's wild. They're all like mini-DEs.

  • Understandable, I just have a tendency to raw dog everything I try out with reckless abandon. Probably not the best thing for most people to do. I'd recommend it if you're curious. I found it rather easy to mess around with, and surprisingly usable out of the box. But who knows, I'm deep into messing with this sort of stuff, so I don't know how universal my POV is.

    If you just want a sneak peak of the workflow itself, or already use GNOME, this entire compositor was inspired by the PaperWM extension.

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
    Shin @lemmy.world

    My First Rice

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31835264

    So I've been in the WM space for a little while. Started messing around with i3 some years ago, and stuck with the basic config. Same thing for Sway, before I attempted to make my own rice, and then stole the legendary Hyprdots. I remember messing with the dots and trying to change things, and getting frustrated because it obviously was above my knowledge level. I went back to KDE for a little bit, before Brodie made a video and I was curious enough to take the leap. In short, it's crazy. It may seem odd at first, but the workflow is really hard to come back from. The freedom of space you are afforded makes even the smallest screen hyper productive. I tried going back to stacking layouts after this, but it felt incredibly cramped.

    As for Niri itself, it comes with many comfortable features and works seamlessly out of the box in many ways that surprised me. It has a native overview, screenshot tool, most of the media keys we

    unixporn @lemmy.world
    Shin @lemmy.world

    My First Rice

    So I've been in the WM space for a little while. Started messing around with i3 some years ago, and stuck with the basic config. Same thing for Sway, before I attempted to make my own rice, and then stole the legendary Hyprdots. I remember messing with the dots and trying to change things, and getting frustrated because it obviously was above my knowledge level. I went back to KDE for a little bit, before Brodie made a video and I was curious enough to take the leap. In short, it's crazy. It may seem odd at first, but the workflow is really hard to come back from. The freedom of space you are afforded makes even the smallest screen hyper productive. I tried going back to stacking layouts after this, but it felt incredibly cramped.

    As for Niri itself, it comes with many comfortable features and works seamlessly out of the box in many ways that surprised me. It has a native overview, screenshot tool, most of the media keys were programmed, and even hitting my Laptop's power button only

  • Tbh this looks very relaxing, but maybe the grass is greener or somethin'.

  • Any "hate" in regards to you using Ubuntu is more likely to do with controversy involving Canonical than it is you using a beginner-friendly distro. People are more likely to be kinder to the Mint user.

  • Oh whoa, I recognize that name! Didn't know you had a sick setup like this. Awesome stuff.

  • I think the comment speaks for itself. There wasn't anything deep behind it. It literally just mean "Linux users look at BSD users how Windows users look at Linux." Bewildered, mystified maybe? It's just lower on the "food chain", and they are surprised to see people using it because it's missing "X" feature they can't live without, for many people that being gaming. I'm in the same camp.

    It was not a comment on the quality of the software, as I have never used it. I would love to tinker with it one day to see the differences, but I can't see myself ever switching to it, even if I admire/envy some of the better parts compared to Linux.

  • Customer support is annoying or whatever but this is horrifying. Several people will die because of this.

  • BSD is to Linux users what Linux is to Windows users.

  • I think people speaking on these subjects should genuinely come together to host their content on a Peertube instance and broadcast it to their Youtube audience, because this is a pretty strong use case. To be able to speak freely about these matters and inform people is pretty serious.

  • This was very interesting! While I don't fully understand everything, based on what I can, I'm partial to the second one. If the the instance disappears, I doubt the hoster wants that stuff up anyway. It makes it easier on everyone, and the replies seem (?) to stay up as well. A win-win. Either way it goes, I can only be thankful to the engineers working so hard to make this a reality. πŸ™

  • Idk. My folders are always decently organized since I've been nutty about since I was a kid, but the specific file structures different services can demand is a headache. This is why I prefer more simplistic services without a database, but there's always trade-offs to be had with both options.

    I'm a bit split on it, but I do agree that it can be annoying and when you mess up, services and links you've sent to other people don't work and it can be quite agonizing. It'll probably get better for me as time goes on, but man it can bite at times.

  • Thank you, this makes sense. Is there any hope for Mastodon and other services to achieve a similar level of parity without eating up a ton of space? I feel like it is a big hurdle for Fedi, but I understand these things take time and a ton of work.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Shin @lemmy.world

    Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon?

    This applies to any of the microblogging software. Akkoma, IceShrimp, etc. I go to any Lemmy instance, big or small, and the up/downvote data and replies are basically all the same. The same goes for Peertube, and most services that aren't Mastodon and the gang. Why is this? Is it because of older design? Unexpected issues cropping up with scale? It seems to be such a big struggle over there, but for everyone else, it's whatevs.

    I would love to permanently reside on a smaller Mastodon instance or host my own, but I often find that many posts are unavailable and a lot of replies I want to reply to don't exist. It is an incredibly frustrating experience.