Working on more stuff, trying to make everything work!
Hey all, I'm still on GNOME lol, but I am using extensions
with it nowadays. Much easier. Anyways, a lot will be
happening! I might be moving. Also, I started using
Joplin for notes. It's pretty good. I will try to
start writing more here and on the website,
and sometimes on Spartan and Gopher(I decided to
bring those back).
Also, any updates on anything will be sent to Mastodon
for more exposure. I have to get my writing out
somehow :D. I also deleted my other Mastodon
accounts on SDF and bsd.network since I never
use them, compared to hackers.town.
In regards to OSes, I am still on NixOS for my
main system, but using BTRFS since I don't care
about home system snapshots anymore. Also I'm
using Fedora Silverblue a lot on every other
system I have. It's pretty nice, altho the
terminal application selection leaves something
to be desired.
So I switched to GNOME, and generally am using NixOS with
ZFS+snaps again. But on my laptop I am using a somewhat
new distro, Fedora Kinoite. Anyways, it's nice to use hassle-
free distros for when you really just want to do things rather
than fight with the operating system in regards to installation.
To be fair, NixOS offers an easy to install option now with a
GUI installer, but you can't use ZFS in it still. I think when
Fedora 37 releases(Which is soon), I will switch from NixOS fully
because everything I want is offered by Flatpaks. I don't like
the Flatpak infrastructure compared to a regular repository
yet, and I think it needs a lot of work, but it's getting there.
In other news, I took down the Spartan and Gopher servers, simply
because not as many people would use those compared to Gemini
and my website. I think that Spartan and Gopher are great,
and I love how simple they are to use, but having to provide
updates for all them proved to be too much of a hassle.
I am also planning on converting most of this server to a pubnix.
To that end I will be beefing up security and clearing the way
for it. Look forward to it! Sign ups will happen soon!
The following is my experiences trying to run Emacs for
everything as a non-lisp programmer. I want to try programming
more in lisp, but it's hard to get used to all the parantheses
and whatnot, speaking as a person used to Python and C++. I know
you can do lots of powerful things with lisp and stuff, so it is
on my todo list.
Anyways, here's the following programs I use to do everything:
This one is a pretty good Mastodon client, has
all the features I need.
IRC client with notifications.
RSS feed reader. I like how everything is organized in it.
Gopher/Gemini browser. Not too bad, still getting used to
navigating around in it though.
Epub reader. Someone of the authors I read publish DRM free
ebooks, and they're in .epub format. This reads them pretty well.
Epub Org exporter. I like how I can export any number
Org files as epubs, makes writing so much easier.
Same as above, but for Gemini!
EMMS+Elfeed work great together. I heartily recommend them!
Big Brother DataBase. I installed this today, and imported
a vcf file that was originally from Gmail. The default importer
didn't really work well, so I used one from the Melpa emacs
packages repo and then it imported every correctly. Still
figuring out what I can do with that...
Personal organizer. Killer app it is... everyone
should give it a try.
Email client. I like it for my personal email, but
still getting used to the interface.
Directory browser/file manager. A little confusing
at first, but still getting the hang of it.
Emacs Shell. Everyone says it's really powerful,
so I'm learning this as well.... apparently it has an in-built
ssh client!
Journal/Calendar. I don't journal that much,
but I'm trying with this!
That's everything so far I use Emacs for... whew!
Working on the gopher side of LagrangePoint. There's
4 things on LagrangePoint so far. A gemini, gopher, spartan
and httpd server! They are at the following addresses:
spartan://lagrangepoint.xyz:3000
I will be taking signups for 10 people currently, in an
effort to turn this place into a tilde. LagrangePoint runs
on NixOS, so you every user can install their own software
with the following command "nix-env -iA irssi.nixpkgs" as
an example. That means a lot more flexibility compared to
other tildes! I'll also have to explore putting users in
NixOS containers. That might complicate things too much
though. I would just like every user to be able to do
things their own way and through their own methods.
Anyways, to reach me, send an email to: mdsj at disroot dot org.
Please send your public key so I can add it, and then you'll
be good to go!
I will be implementing a IRC server at the very least, that will
only be facing on the internal network. I might have to totally
restructure the server to add more services, but that's relatively
easy to do with NixOS.
Added more links to the links section! Check them out!
The new Direct was pretty good. Eager to try some of the games
in it!
Looking forward to the new Nintendo Direct 3rd Party Mini tomorrow!