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  • Thanks a lot for the advice!

    Grabbing the content each time is a bit of a waste

    In practice fish is extremely more efficient then bash with the script profiling at 9ms. Not amazing but since this will only run once when opening the shell its small enough to not be noticeable

    There is also a file cat /proc/loadavg

    So thats where it was! My original script tried to loop over all the cpu max and mins and calculate the percentage before deciding uptime was just more practical. Thanks for the info!

    I see you like awk a lot BTW

    Its just so damn easy to grab the piece of info you want with lol

    Really thanks for all the feedback Ill have to work some of your advice in when I get back to my computer







  • I drove Alpine a while back and the docs are amazing for getting every little thing setup. LabWC, Wayfire, and River (now river-classic) all ran perfectly with a fully custom EWW bar/launcher/notifications ontop of them. I only ever played the OG S.T.A.L.K.E.R games and Anomaly on that setup but they ran without hiccup

    Its still installed on my laptop but I haven’t really touched it in quite some time, and my desktop is on Bazzite since its mainly a gaming machine. I dont recommend Alpine as a desktop distro because of the amount of setup/configuration needed, but I find it much nicer to use as a dev system than Arch



  • If ypu have the hardware but not the forwarding capability like me, you can use cloudflare tunnels for free, or setup headscale on a free orical vps. Otherwise go with the cheapest vps you can find (Im using Hetzner, but ive heard good things about netcup, or even Oricals free teir vps and move off of it if you end up not ditching selfhosting), play around, and if you need more power its as trivial as backing up your services and putting them on a more powerful server




  • Cars: Anything released without wifi/calling. I dont think any modern electric predates this, but you can convert diesels to friendlier oils or most engines to a run off wood. As a bonus higher trim older cars used a lot less plastic

    Smartwatch: Pinetime

    3D printers: id like to add Sovol, not sure about their more recent ones but their older ones either didnt have wifi or run regular klipper. The SV06/SV06 ACE are also entirelly open source except for the GUI, but you can install other klipper GUIs (theres also a repo with steps to build a minimal Debian install instead of relying on sovols firmware updates)

    Routers: GL.iNET Use a modified OpenWRT install out of the box but can be flashed to vanilla OpenWRT through the GUI





  • One big diffrence between NixOS and Guix not mentioned is NixOS(the operating system only, the package manager is agnostic) is directly tied to systemD. Nothing against systemD but if your also interested in crafting/learning everything about your system your have more freedom with Guix and the NonGuix repo (nonguix is like an unofficial AUR for guix)




  • As someone else mentioned the framework pro is a good pick and also the cool new kid on the block with the repair and upgradablity(however you spell that). However spec and build quality wise, any high end business laptop will have full linux support since their be used for IT/software dev and robust enough construction to not break in a few years

    That Dell looks good, ive heard good things about the new Lenovo too, really just go with whichever option is cheaper