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… “both sides”…?

Why concrete?

It’s energy intensive (~& polluting), unhealthy, and does not last.

Various other options are available now. Lime hempcrete, and various myco-based solutions, for a couple examples.

With various suppressed technologies, if de-secreted and availed, we could even be building giant forest arcologies, and even linking them up to create vast forest arcologyscapes, increasing the carrying capacity of earth into the hundreds of trillions. Not saying we should, just saying we could, and that we have so much headroom without these crooks, these rentiers, seeking to keep others down just to maintain their power over others, even if it means making themselves worse off than what they could be in real terms, in egalitarian freedom and abundance.

Also, I hear there are already sufficient number of empty housing to house all the homeless… but the hoarders do not want to avail that for good use. They want to remain complicit in the manufactured scarcity to increase their return on investment, keeping the bubble growing.

It’s the freedom, not the Linux.

I’ve won when everybody gets the principles of free software philosophy, along with other essential freedoms, free roaming, free speech, free assembly, free press, free energy, free healthcare, etc.

It’s the freedom.

Free to use, study, share, change.

The Free Software Definition

The free software definition presents the criteria for whether a particular software program qualifies as free software. From time to time we revise this definition, to clarify it or to resolve questions about subtle issues. See the History section below for a list of changes that affect the definition of free software.

The four essential freedoms

A program is free software if the program’s users have the four essential freedoms: [1]

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.

In any given scenario, these freedoms must apply to whatever code we plan to make use of, or lead others to make use of. For instance, consider a program A which automatically launches a program B to handle some cases. If we plan to distribute A as it stands, that implies users will need B, so we need to judge whether both A and B are free. However, if we plan to modify A so that it doesn’t use B, only A needs to be free; B is not pertinent to that plan.

^ from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Thanks for that reply.

And…

Thanks for the update edit.

I’m on bedrock linux, already got my X server from other distro strata.

Spent (more than) a couple hours wrestling my artix today, and it seems to have other issues (that I have ideas how to remedy tmro after sleep), that had been further preventing me from trying Konform, failing on gpg. Shall see how it goes in the morning.

… packaged for void linux would be cool too. ;)

I already know that I won’t be able to use apt,

… You can. Could hijack it with Bedrock Linux, and brl fetch <any distros using apt> or import <any distros using apt>. Of, if that’s too non-trivial a system change, perhaps just Distrobox? It’d let you use apt too right? (I don’t know, I’ve never used Distrobox since I already use Bedrock). Or could go really wild, and make it like PCLinuxOS, and have apt handle your rpms. Or just alias the commands to make it familiar.

What should I expect switching to Fedora?

Smugness.

^ All part of the fun of KDE.

So much to fiddle with.

And never perfect.

Even from a development side, not just user configuration side. They mend something and break something else. Many perfect features, but never at the same time.

After 2y on Linux I can say with full confidence that switching from GNOME to KDE (for me) is a bigger barrier than switching from Windows to Linux ever was.

Huh?

How’s that a bigger barrier?

You install it, you select it from your login(“display”) manager on next login, et viola, you’re using it… and you still have access to all your prior installed programs too. No backup required, no complete operating system install, no great leap of learning an entirely different operating system paradigm, no reading new software licenses… it’s just install it, and log in to it.

How important is a DE to you?

None at all.

Xmonad’s been my fave since around 2007-2008ish.

Tried dozens of other window managers. [Special honourable mention to herbstluftwm.]

Tried over half the desktop environments too.

Much more nice without unnecessary clutter and resource wastage and faff of a desktop environment, and just a window manager.

And, as for trying new DE/WM, and needing to log out and back in to try them… even that hurdle can be eliminated. ;) There be ways to switch them without losing everything you’re currently running. https://codeberg.org/Digit/wminizer

Oooh. Big fan of LibreWolf. Shall have to check this out…

Aw. On Artix, it wants to pull in wayland. No thanks.

Aw. https://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=konform no ebuilds on any listed overlays for Gentoo yet.

I’ll try remember to keep an eye out for it in any of the repos available to me.

What are your favourite emacs tips and tricks / configurations?

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap

(There are some others in other git repos… But I’ll presume that’s the ideal one to use, and less janky than the one I first found and added after being inspired by Kate’s minimap).

Even though I find I rarely enable it, MiniMap is probably my fave. At least of the ones springing to mind currently.

Honourable mention too to Rainbow-Delimiters. Very handy for keeping those parentheses in order.

[Edit: (^ whimsical image, as posted https://lemmy.wtf/post/34037404 , shared again here because I said parentheses, and it reminded me of it… seemed fun and relevant… because parentheses are like plates… get it? Gotta keep 'em clean. Hehe.)]

Oh, and did you know emacs can be used as a… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4

M-x doctor if you’re feeling down.

;D

Besides the lemmy text clients Rimu posted, there’s also https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el for emacs.

Yus. Opened this post just to make sure it’s about browsh (and that there’s not another similar I didn’t know about).

Nice to see that it’s Bread On Penguins’s video about it, and showing other ways to access web from terminal. :)

Good stuff.

vendefoul

https://vendefoul-wolf-linux.sourceforge.io/index_en.html / https://sourceforge.net/projects/vendefoul-wolf-linux/ back on my radar, with its IceWM/Xlibre/OpenRC release, after seeing the intro to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGf5OeL4YHE

• Already a fan of IceWM, often recommending it. It’s super light and super simple and familiar to windows users since the 90s (meaning it has a panel and “start menu”).
• XLibre, a fan, though only from afar so far, yet to try. Glorious to see X11 & Xorg(fork) getting life extension, rather than euthanized by the corporation.
• OpenRC is thorough. :) Solid choice.

All this saves [computer and headspace] resources for what you really want to do. :)

so I might try something else first. Any recommendations?

https://distrowatch.com/

try 'em all.

Edit: PS: distrowatch’s search is handy: e.g. https://distrowatch.com/search.php?defaultinit=Not+systemd [Edit: PS: maybe try {in approximate increasing ambitiousness] antix, devuan (or other respins of devuan, like expiron, peppermint, vendefoul, shebang, gnuinos), pclinuxos, salix, slackel, slackware, calculatelinux, artix, obarun, voidlinux, decibellinux, gentoo, crux (or kwort), sidelinux(?), milis(?),bedrock, guixSD, LFS. Or whatever… :) Have fun exploring.