Deebster

I moved away from Nova when it last changed owners - there are so many other options that I enjoyed trying the different ideas for what a launcher could be.

Anyone who’s used this, please tell us if it’s any good.

It sounds like you were doing some fairly advanced troubleshooting if you’re customising your kernel, so congrats on both persevering and succeeding!

(Also, I think your post was the opposite of a rant, since it was positive)

This is quite interesting. I’d been looking into dbus lately and was confused by a few design choices so it makes sense to me that the design is faulty.

Running both simultaneously seems pretty feasible since the session bus bus should be quite lightweight (worse case would be a lot of inter-bus traffic if/when that gets implemented).

Security and kv are excellent features.

I feel it might have more luck gaining adoption if its name did t tie it to hyprland.

You mean Cloudflare is down this evening. Timezones, how do they work?

Having at least your OS’s install/rescue media as well as some dedicated rescue ISOs (Ultimate Boot CD, SystemRescue, etc) on a Ventoy usb stick is something you will never regret - and future you may be so grateful.

Also, if you ever find yourself being lazy while creating symlinks and not making them relative - this story should make you realise why your system root might not always be root. Those ugly ../../usr/lib/ are preferred for good reason.

That’s how I understood it, but you could read it as saying the author’s experience with Win11 revealed problems with his previous setup (i.e. Linux).

On first glance, I understood the title as saying there were nine problems in Win11; it might be ambiguous but I don’t think it’s fair to label it as very deceptive.

I like “Rolling Relase” more - halfway between release and relapse.

I’ve been using nushell for a year and while it is great mostly, and means you don’t need to use external tools like jq, the verbosity is tedious at times. I have a lot of aliases set, and I often use the caret escape hatch to run the traditional command if I just want a quick answer.

Niri does have named workspaces so you can absolutely switch to fixed workspaces like you describe.

I have fixed workspaces but then temporarily add extra workspaces for side tasks - these are relative to the named ones but don’t stop you jumping to your named workspaces (assuming you’ve got your shortcut keys set up to match).

I think that the little extra work to have separate services is a small price to pay to have the kind of top notch user experience that you can only get with a dedicated tool.

Besides, it’s cool to have a load of different services. Most self-hosters seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next thing to install.

I think we’ll see a bump in users centred around October, since that is when MS had announced support for Windows 10 ended. They have recently announced that you can (maybe) get into the Extended Security Updates program for a year for free, but that’s perhaps too little too late.

I’m currently configuring my new linux dev/gaming machine. Thanks for giving me the push I needed, Microsoft!

extraSpecialArgs has real_escape_string energy

Has anyone here generated their own keys? I’d looked into it before and it didn’t seem too complicated (but never tried).

FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the [ and ]() around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/

I added banana (for scale) and it’s on the up and up: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,crap*,bastard,penguin,banana

Also there’s that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there’s a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.

E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to “The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)”:

Podlet is really useful in this area.