My gender is liminal, I’m just passing through. she/ae/aer
Former Hare Krishna, Trekkie, digital minimalist, Vim evangelist, Chaos Buddhist, statistician. Not necessarily in that order.
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I use fish mainly just for the quality of life increase that its predictive features and command history give. I also really like that it uses functions to play the role of aliases, and it’s super easy to write and save new functions on the fly.
That said… I haven’t put in the time to really learn its nuances and I still write shell scripts using bash. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but it works for me.
I did Startpage, then self-hosted searx for a while, then switched back to Startpage, and recently subscribed to Kagi, which I very much enjoy. I do not mind paying a provider for search built with the user in mind rather than their advertisers.
There’s a Firefox addon called “Add custom search engine” which will allow you to add a local instance of searx.
You’ll want to give it the full search query, with %s where the search string goes. for you, it’ll be something like:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/search?q=%s
I find the lack of Space Quest titles in this thread unsettling. For me, it’s Space Quest IV, but they are all absolute gems.
This is really weird. The AI stuff is weird, but also, this zoo is local to me, and it’s weird that somewhere just up the road a bit is making national news because of this. I’ve fed their giraffes many times; I haven’t been there since the spotless one was born, though.
I have a pretty straightforward solution. I keep a text file called ‘todo’ in my Syncthing sync folder, and I added ‘cat Sync/todo’ to my Fish greeting.
I left Thunderbird ultimately because of dwindling O365 support. How is it now? My work and school emails are all O365, because evidently companies think Microsoft is the only option.
“Dad, don’t call me Jeezy Creezy! Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby Doo!”
I have Comic Mono too, it’s great. I’m using Comic Code for ligature support.
can’t live without:
That’s it really, my needs are simple.
Also, TIL about “I don’t care about cookies” so I’m tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies… but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it’s probably fine.
Comic Code has ligatures, but it’s not free. Still $30 well spent for me. https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
I love Comic Mono. I use Comic Code - it’s not free but it does support ligatures, which was worth it to me. The legibility boost is excellent.
You’ll have to pry Comic Code from my cold dead hands!
Honest question; why would someone need a touchscreen, or a display at all beyond a battery indicator, on their earbuds case?