after compiling my own kernel, and patching my nvidia drivers to match it, compiling them, compiling the kernel modules, fixing some stuff there as well, and rebooting half a million times in the process of figuring out what the fuck was wrong
I have never before been so happy to see a pure black screen (xmonad which is awaiting proper customization)
@metagorgon said: are you using the open source nvidia reconstruction? nouveau, iirc?
No, because nvidia is evil and doesn’t let nouveau devs use their properly-working code and thus nouveau is crap for maxwell cards. This computer is going to run games for J every now and then so having a working high-performance 3d driver is vital for nuking windows from this household.
lisp-case-is-why-it-failed asked: What are you actually doing with your machine, by the way? Are you just messing with it for funsies?
I’m turning it into a proper software development platform on which I can code effectively. My workflow relies on vim with the right plugins, shell, and browser, so having those function Correctly is Extremely Important.
Thus, I need a tiling window manager (xmonad), a good terminal without the fucking scrollbar (st), vim (custom setup), zsh (custom setup), and a browser with tabs and vi-style keyboard commands which won’t be too insecure but can render normal people’s shitty webpages that rely on way too much irrelevant crap (firefox in firejail in grsec hardened kernel, with the vimperator plugin among others).
after compiling my own kernel, and patching my nvidia drivers to match it, compiling them, compiling the kernel modules, fixing some stuff there as well, and rebooting half a million times in the process of figuring out what the fuck was wrong
I have never before been so happy to see a pure black screen (xmonad which is awaiting proper customization)
Friend have you been introduced to LFS? And then once you’ve sacrificed a month of weekends to that, come over to NixOS where you can completely customize every aspect of your system but still have it automatically (and reproducibly) composed and put together for you.
combine NixOS with Qubes and I’m sold, until then I’ll stick with my arch-grsec because I need to get shit done and I’m finally about to get to the point where I can get to the shitdonegetting part
also, this is the second day in the row that I’ve forgotten to dye my hair
I cut it yesterday and it’s very pretty now (continues to look like my profile picture tbh) but it’s all brown in the back now and it needs to get back to purple
I used to look a bit like Mokoto Kusanagi (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!) but now I’m trying something a bit more asymmetric and it’s really nice to have finally discovered a method of self-cutting the hair on the back of my head without fucking it up, too bad the method results in the hair being so short that all that’s left is the natural brown I’m very ofunfond
after compiling my own kernel, and patching my nvidia drivers to match it, compiling them, compiling the kernel modules, fixing some stuff there as well, and rebooting half a million times in the process of figuring out what the fuck was wrong
I have never before been so happy to see a pure black screen (xmonad which is awaiting proper customization)
after compiling my own kernel, and patching my nvidia drivers to match it, compiling them, compiling the kernel modules, fixing some stuff there as well, and rebooting half a million times in the process of figuring out what the fuck was wrong
I have never before been so happy to see a pure black screen (xmonad which is awaiting proper customization)
my fellow US citizens please please, we’ve got to do something about the gun violence in our country. there’s no reason someone should be able to just go buy an assault rifle or an automatic firearm of any kind. these weapons are designed to kill people, why are they sold in stores as if they have any other purpose? we have big elections coming up in November and we have to put pressure on our politicians to do something about our gun laws, to fight back against the NRA and stand up for the victims of all these senseless killings. we have to stop this happening, way too many innocent people have died because our laws favor big gun manufacturers instead of the safety of our citizens.
I’m all for this, but banning assault rifles doesn’t do much for all the shooting victims who don’t make front-page news.
Trying to ban handguns is political suicide, but maybe we could try an anti-gun campaign that specifically works with America’s cultural mythology around guns?
“John Wayne is dead, he is not coming back, you are not John Wayne and never will be, put down the damn gun.”
Ah yes, the Guns, the guns that sprout limbs and walk into gay clubs and start shooting people entirely on their own,
And while we’re at it, “there’s no reason someone should be able to just go buy an assault rifle or an automatic firearm of any kind” congratulations, that is also illegal in all US states. Literally zero automatic weapons are available in American gun stores unless you’re buying for police/military use.
Every time I see a progressive misusing gun terminology it makes me want to head to a range just to bond with people who know their shit, and I’m supposedly way to the left of all those progressives. I mean, “assault weapon” is basically the “sex change operation” of gun politics and if one is pro-accurate-terminology anti-misleading-bullshit one should be consistent with that.
(also, mass shootings are anomalies and should never ever be used as the basis of laws; if you want to legislate (recommendation: maybe count to ten and reconsider whenever you get the urge; legislating is a bad habit people should try to drop), at least do it based on the actual number of annual gun homicides and suicides instead of a single goddamn individual fucking event kthxbye)
(also, mass shootings still below slippery bathtubs as a public health hazard; maybe consider doing something about them bathtubs first if you really feel the need to save lives instead of just signaling progressive virtue)
New kernel is compiling, because even nvidia-grsec had an incompatibility with RAP and I had to disable it to get to X. I’m going to HTFU this machine and nothing will stand in my way (except annoying incompatibilities which need to get routed around) and frankly, I’ve already got a couple of months experience in using Arch so it’s about time I took the next step anyway.
