This is basically my strategy too. Though, I tend to buy from Bandcamp first and foremost. I like that most of the time if I buy physical media (either vinyl or CD) on Bandcamp it comes with a digital download.

I was disappointed that Bandcamp was bought by a company a few years back, but nothing has changed… Yet.

The energy drink really brings out all of those flavor notes!

Doritos. And a gas station hotdog.

Yeah. I know. And I could tell, but it drives me batty. But also: thorn is an English character!!

Has someone who can mostly read Greek and English. I hate this. I hate this so much.

This assumes IBM will act rationally, which doesn’t have much recent precedence.

This is what I use too. But, I would like to not have a Google device as part of my chain. (I say on my Pixel phone, with stock android).

I guess I’m not sure what you mean by “Ancient Conflict”. But the Levant was historically a strategic piece of land that biodged Anatolia/Mesopotamia with Egypt. Control over this region has been a constant battle through out recorded history.

As I admitted in my first response if you mean something like control over a homeland/holy land, like the conquest of Canaan, yeah that’s a relatively recent thing. But as far as battle ground, I think you should think more about what those battles mean in context of history. Van de Mieroop has a great History of the Ancient Near East that I would highly recommend. Mostly because ancient near eastern history is really cool.

May I introduce you to the Amarna Letters? The battle of Qarqar? The Battle of Carchemesh? The Battle of Kadesh? So while you are correct in that there is no “Conquest of Canaan” as reported in the Bible, see David Illan, ancient Canaan has always been a battle ground. You could also talk about the wars between the selucides and the ptolemies too, but, I don’t know as much about them.

When’s the last time you used Wayland? I tried a few years back and there were quite a few paper cuts.

I’ve been using sway for about six months and there is one obnoxious paper cut, and one thing that just doesn’t work.

The paper cut for me is a java app that won’t render menus correctly. Most menus work, but there are a few that don’t draw properly.

The one thing that still doesn’t work is deskflow.

Screen sharing with zoom and Google meet and jitsi work fine. Keyboard input changes work fine, and most things are just hunky dory.

This is what I use

Uh… Have you tried Fish? Or even a modern ZSH? Like oh my ZSH?

I guess I don’t want notepad tools. But I can set my key bindings in ZSH to vi bindings and do things like:

$ cat <<EOF | sparql --data=some.ttl --query=/dev/stdin
SELECT ?s ?p ?o
WHERE {
  ?s ?p ?o . 
} 
LIMIT 10
EOF

And that gives me a real basic text editor. Granted with syntax highlighting on, it thinks I’m trying to do ZSH scripts. But if you needed a ZSH script it would be perfect.

Second, tab works great for auto complete, it even suggests stuff (as long as you have that enabled, or the command supports it. Some clis do not have support for auto complete, but the shell does)

Modern shells are pretty fucking awesome.

I quite listening to a podcast that went hard into streaming crypto coin as a way to boost income. I think I like the idea in principle. But there is something that smells funny to me about cryptocurrency. And I don’t think it actually works that well in principle. Funding open source and open access content is tough.

I’m still using Airsonic-Advanced. I know there are alternatives like gonic and navidrome. But, eh. I like buy music from Bandcamp or directly from the artist, and then upload it to airsonic. Works nice.

I wouldn’t complain about using VSCode if the team i was on primarily used it (a la Typescript). But yeah, I’m glad I am more independent… And not doing web dev.

I honestly was persuaded to start using neovim (again) because of theprimegean. I don’t like his content, but I was so tired of VS Code being so fucking slow and not part of the terminal. I used vim a lot, but with too many plugins it slows to a crawl. So when theprimegean talked about neovim, I was like great, yeah, I should try that. And then a few videos later I blocked his chanel because, yeah, it’s not great.

I totally get why you wouldn’t say Arch is fun. I’m not sure if I actually like arch or if I’m a masochist, however I will say, I learned a lot about the whole OS by installing it, and fixing it when it broke. It made me much more comfortable with using Linux. I haven’t used it in a couple of years, but I am thinking about reinstalling it. Nostalgia is a bad thing :-)

I like the ideas some other people mention. Specifically: read about your specific hardware and the distro of Linux you want to install. Then, make sure you are using as many open source cross platforms apps as you can, so when you do switch, you will be in familiar territory. I do think the criticisms of Ubuntu as a bad first choice are interesting, and maybe true, but I wouldn’t over look downstream distros like Pop!_OS. It’s Ubuntu, but with Flat packs and a distinctive Desktop Environment. Mint might also be a good choice, I know lots of people who like it (I don’t personally, but to each their own).

When I started on Linux, I installed Arch on an old MacBook. In those days apple was using amd64, but they were not friendly with Linux or the rest of the computing world. However it was older hardware, and the Arch Wiki had a great page on how to install Linux for that particular configuration. Arch is not a beginner friendly distro, but the wiki is fantastic, and so well documented.

But my main piece of distinctive advice is just do it. If you have read a few articles and have a pretty good sense of what is required (and are running common, last generation hardware), just jump in. You will probably never “feel” ready, and you will come across unique problems that no starter guide will prepare you for. So just go for it, and learn along the way.