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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 09:49:21 JST prettygood
   Okay, *now* we're going for a reboot. If you never see me again, just wait longer; you aren't getting rid of me.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 09:53:32 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @prettygood have a happy reboob. I have to see if I'll remove plymouth or not, it seems it requires too much handheld setup unless all you wanna use is the bgrt theme.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:00:19 JST prettygood

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     @mischievoustomato I never bothered with it, I like seeing boot messages, lets me diagnose things that are broken but not stopping the boot process.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:03:01 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @prettygood I never have issues and the lines are more or less the same i've read a hundred times across distros, so I prefer the pretty boot. If stuff breaks I'll have to diagnose regardless so I can just disable the thing.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:03:21 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @prettygood but yeah I tried the KDE theme... no font for the password prompt for luks unless i do some wizardry... tried the text theme... it's the same but worse actually since it doesn't register my keystrokes. Weeeeeeeeeeeird
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:03:46 JST prettygood

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     @mischievoustomato I think I'm using the breeze grub theme, I think I enabled it just to figure out how to enable a theme and just left it.
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     @prettygood @mischievoustomato boot messages are aesthetic tbh, especially if they have nice decorations around them and aren't just the bare vga chrome most linux distros ship with
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:04:53 JST prettygood

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     @allison @mischievoustomato you can pry my vga text vomit from my cold dead hands
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:06:33 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @prettygood grub theme != plymouth theme
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:07:02 JST prettygood

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     @mischievoustomato sure but we already established I don't use plymouth, just a related anecdote
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:07:07 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @allison @prettygood to each their own, it's something that i don't really have to see, but eh, if I can make stuff slightly better I just go for it.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:07:24 JST prettygood

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     @allison @mischievoustomato comfy, honestly.
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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:07:25 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     @prettygood @mischievoustomato ok but have you considered picrel (you're not gonna get the sun-style openfirmware consoles on modern pcs but this is damn near the next best thing)
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:08:02 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @prettygood ah ok thought stuff just got confused. I don't use grub but systemd-boot too
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:09:55 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @allison @prettygood i guess that's a bootloader -> running system kind of thing that feels smooth?
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:12:42 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @allison @prettygood the font looks fine but i don't really see anything GREAT beyond the freebsd bootloader, i do find that sexy
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     @mischievoustomato @prettygood it's freebsd's default efi bootloader using the (originally made by sun) console font gallant. imho sun, sgi, and next had the best taste for aesthetic boot screens out of unix vendors.
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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:14:46 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     @mischievoustomato @prettygood I love the font, I actually have it set as my terminal font on the laptop. That and sony-fixed are my two favorite bitmap fonts which are free and clear to use.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:23:53 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @allison @prettygood nice, nice. My previous "favorite" font was SF Mono. I found it to look just plain nice. Though I don't wanna really just do copycat stuff (though I do have a macOS-like setup on Gentoo+KDE, because it genuinely does feel ergonomic to me).
     Currently I just use Fira Code. It looks stylish and is quite readable. I've also used Input Mono, Commit Mono, and some others.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:25:47 JST prettygood

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     @allison @mischievoustomato I enjoy the Fira font family. But for a terminal I'm addicted to Terminus because it looks good at tiny point sizes so I can cram more text on the screen at once.
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     @mischievoustomato @prettygood Fira Code is basically a cleaned up screen optimized monospace version of FF Meta, definitely a solid choice IMHO as far as outline fonts are concerned
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 10:27:52 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @prettygood @allison fair. I don't have great eyesight, plus I just want to have a pretty font and be able to read comfily.
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     @prettygood @mischievoustomato https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/ as far as sans serif bitmap fonts are concerned, I've recently become quite enamored with uw ttyp0
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     Eugene Bawerk (clort@freebeerextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Dec-2025 22:23:22 JST Eugene Bawerk

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     @allison @prettygood @mischievoustomato Does it have square-pixel braille (u2800-u28FF) glyphs? https://github.com/fcambus/spleen/issues/44
     If not pls do encourage the font designer to switch to full-pixel 'braille' glyphs. Vast benefits for semigraphics, no drawbacks for blind people! (No, really!)
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