Helloo,
publishing this post as part of IndieWebClub (IWC) series, the session was on cultivating digital gardens and one of the prompts was to create a living doc. I hope this comes to life.
After quitting my job, I have switched back to toying around more with tech, linux, optimizing my setups and such. As a starter project, I self-hosted Wallabag which is a read-it-later bookmark service [todo: obsidian web clipper was not working on linux] and using nginx proxy manager to redirect to port specific domains, this was not my first choice, I had originally intended on hosting omnivore, but I kept hitting CPU and RAM limits that I decided to chuck it completely for now.
I switched from the entirely GNOME desktop environment to using i3 tiling window manager which is sooo good. To actually leverage the workspace style of working, I think the key-bindings to move windows to workspace and to always have them tiled is more beneficial, now I can’t think of a use-case where overlays are helpful, sometimes my hands does automatically go to Alt + Tab but it’s been changing as that is no-op key.
But with all this goodness also comes the challenges, for example, I have to open my signal with cmd flag of where the password store is, I need to fix that, the current fix of updating desktop file, the exec cmd, with the password store flag has not been successful. I also haven’t configured how to connect to Bluetooth or wifi although it remembers the old wifi passwords and is auto connecting.
On a different tangent, so either you are on mac or windows where most things run out of the box, with the environment constraints and the quality or you enter linux, where you control everything to be how you want it to be.
I also setup polybar to make my status bar a lil prettier, I still don’t know what all those percentages mean, some of them show what’s the CPU usage and memory usage has been, so that’s helpful.
I think am afraid of knowing all this tidbits about configuring and enjoying them and then forgetting them, as to do justice to the title Flowers for Algernon is a book about gaining intelligence, spoiler alert, there’s a law the protagonist comes up with that the faster you gain your intelligence, the steeper is the rate of decline of your memory and the gained intelligence.
So me debugging something in one of the ttys when i3 config got messed up is something I am afraid I will just lose and get out of touch of in few months, and there’s sadness around it, which I’d like to pen soon.
i also setup syncthing for my phone obsidian and pc obsidian, since I am now out of corp.
Questions to self: are all niche hobbies algernonish anyway?
Thanks for reading!
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