My final straw was getting a new MacBook Air (I was at that point fine with how UNIX-y macOS was) and realizing I couldn’t dock the laptop to more than one external monitor without some weird hacky third-party software fix. Why, you ask? Well not at all because the laptop technically couldn’t do it, but because Apple said it can’t, because they want to overcharge you on a Pro.
I promptly returned the MacBook, bought a Framework on eBay, and learned NixOS.
10/10, I haven’t looked back since.
Depending on how old the iPod is, you might have some luck installing rockbox firmware on it.
But, in any case, yes, moving your music over will functionally be as if copying it to an external drive.
This is absolutely nuts—even macOS doesn’t have a single program that does all of this.
Love Minetest. Unfortunately, though, like with many other FOSS projects, it’s hard to find anyone else using it…
Anyone got a server for us lemmings?
Anyone using this? I can’t tell what problems it actually solves for the end user.
Chezmoi looks interesting. I’ve just been using xstow.
Not to my knowledge, but music.youtube.com is a pretty clean interface, and it’s easy enough to grab links from.
Keep in mind, you can feed yt-dlp both playlist (including album) and channel (artist) links, as well as individual videos.
As far as where you get the music from, you’ll have to determine for yourself what audio quality you require.
To test this, use something like Soulseek to get a high quality version of a song you are very familiar with, and then get the same song off of YouTube with yt-dlp (better yet—do this for a few songs).
Then, open both songs in separate media player windows, randomize the layout of said windows so you don’t remember which is which, plug in your favorite headphones and see if you can guess which is which.
For me, I found the difference between a lossless or 320kbps download from Soulseek and a 128-196kbps download from YouTube to be negligible (or outright nonexistent) in most cases, so I mostly download off of YouTube, which is very simple to do.
Depending on where you get the files, you may need to add metadata yourself. For this, I recommend MusicBrainz Picard.
The people I know in my program (undergrad History) use their computers for little more than Google Chrome (specifically Google’s Office suite), a PDF reader (sometimes also Google Chrome), sometimes Zotero, and sometimes MS Word. We get a lot of Mac’s around here, so one can imagine Microsoft products are not highly relied upon, generally speaking.
Everything’s through the browser nowadays, so I’d say just pick a stable distro, install 2 or three browsers in case something doesn’t work (like Google Docs with Firefox in my experience…), and submit everything as PDF.
Can’t speak much to LibreOffice as I write my papers in Typst (and before that in LaTeX, which got me brownie points with some of the older professors), which I find much faster, easier, and more flexible than WYSIWYG word processors.
Damn polybar looks much easier to configure than waybar…
Fourthing sway, specifically swayfx and (as someone already mentioned) autotiling, both of which are available in the Nix repository without hassle.
qutebrowser and Nyxt are both projects I desperately want to be capable of replacing my web browser.
As far as rounded corners and easy to use, I’ve had a tremendous time with swayfx for the past few months, which I switched to from Hyprland.
I used Doom for a while, but it was still slow. I’ve been replacing emacs with more unix-y tools (helix/neovim as editor, yazi for file manager, etc.). I really just miss the design of emacs (the self-documentation, the infinite extensibility, etc.). I hope someday maybe Lem will fill my needs (which I just learned about yesterday).
A fine day that will be!
I recommend the PDF Expert app by Readdle. I’ve never paid a cent for the pro features, but I like the free dark mode.
That’s my first time hearing of Lem—it looks fantastic. What’s the issue with it on NixOS?
Newbie question: does this affect people using systemd-boot? Does anyone use systemd-boot?