kota

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[–] kota@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yea I've spent a lot of time developing stuff in the gemini community back in 2021 and 2022. Most of the sites I like to read are at least semi-technical or art related, but yea it's a nice cozy loose community of sorts I guess. Pretty much everyone is at least sorta leftist which is nice. Here's a few random sites you might find interesting to browse:

or if you happen to be interested in tabletop rpgs

One of the ways these communities actually form or stay together at all is via "web rings" which literally just means a bunch of people join a list of similar sites and then on their site somewhere they link to the list and or to other sites on the list. For example: https://webring.xxiivv.com/#random

You can also find search engines and pages that attempt to categorize lots of these sites. Here's two search engines:

https://searchmysite.net/

Sites need to be manually submitted (and I think approved) to be added to the search index. For example a search of "plan9" will show articles written about the novel plan9 operating system which tend to be a lot more interesting and passionate than if you searched that on google or whatever. However, you can't really use is to like figure out your local bank's hours.

https://marginalia-search.com/

This is another interesting search engine, but it takes a different approach. Instead this one indexes most of the internet, including wikipedia and so forth, but highly prioritizes results that tend to be more "hand-made" rather than corporate.

[–] kota@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Sums up my last job perfectly

[–] kota@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

Yea pretty much, Blackshirts and Reds has a good summary of this behaviour. Great book, really easy to read and kinda hard to put down.

[–] kota@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] kota@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Yep this is the best one by a big margin

[–] kota@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Had a vegan friendsgiving this year, huge upgrade

[–] kota@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reasonably okay (but maybe don't get the absolute newest model), but not as good as the others which are all excellent. I mostly put them in the list because they've got excellent build quality, good keyboard, trackpad, etc, and a very nice screen. Basically if you want a macbook with linux (for cheaper than a macbook with linux https://asahilinux.org/) they're pretty reasonable. They also support openbsd which is neat https://jcs.org/2021/08/20/matebook

The laptops I listed are in order of preference imo. Framework is definitely in a class of itself, but if they don't ship to your country or something then getting an xps with linux pre-installed is great and then finally as a backup either a thinkpad or matebook.

[–] kota@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Yea lol sorry I dunno why I forgot to add a link. Also if you're using or planning on ever using linux I would highly recommend the new 2.8k display, it'll be a nice 2x scaling factor which is quite handy is you run any older x11 programs (games, some proprietary software, etc).

[–] kota@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Framework for sure, specifically the 13 with the new higher res screen. It’s a perfect 2x scale which is really nice.

The older screen is fine, but some older x11 programs will be scaled wrong.

There are other nice laptops of course: dell xps, thinkpad x1c, huawei matebooks, but imo the framework laptops are better in most regards and as a bonus you can upgrade the ram, cpu, and motherboard without needing to buy a new computer. You also can buy them without a windows license which usually makes them cheaper than the others for similar specs (unless you’re going for used of course).

[–] kota@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I have one and it’s pretty great, more expensive than a used thinkpad, but cheaper than most other new laptops with similar specs. The 3:2 screen on the 13” is the killer feature for me. I couldn’t go back to a 16:9 laptop at this point. Also not needing to pay the windows tax on the diy version is cool.

[–] kota@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

Alpine. It’s pretty lovely, but usually when I’m setting something up for someone else it’s either Debian or Fedora.

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