Notices by Benjamin Hollon (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org), page 6

@RL_Dane Deno. JS is my most comfortable language and for a personal site I wanted to use what I’m comfortable with, but I didn’t want node because npm is owned by Micro$oft.

@sotolf @RL_Dane Rust? Deno is JavaScript.

@RL_Dane @sotolf What I enjoyed about writing rust was how well thought out you can tell everything is; everything is accounted for and there don't seem to be any loopholes that might cause issues later. The syntax is tough, but I mostly saw that as something that would get better with exposure to it.

@RL_Dane @sotolf That's an interestinc comparison. That's not what I was thinking; I was thinking more of the Rust mindset of "whatever you're doing, make sure you get these things right before continuing." "these things" would include accounting for every case, memory safety, optimization, etc.

@sotolf @RL_Dane Remember that I have only very rarely used static typed languages or even compiled languages at all. I don't know much of what's in that world. :)

@sotolf @RL_Dane Yesss arch is very much one of those things that doesn’t feel very appealing to me, but not for much of a specific reason.

Python is another; I hate python, it feels like pulling teeth to use, I actively avoid apps using python, but there really isn’t much reason behind it.

@RL_Dane @sotolf I use Fedora Server Edition, by the way. ;)

@fu @sotolf @RL_Dane Nope, and I’m proud of it ?

@ctietze @RL_Dane @fu @sotolf I don't use a file manager; I'm just that hardcore. :)

@sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane That plus trash-cli and rofi's filebrowser mode. ?

@sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane Wimps who don't want to accidentally delete a file they'll need. ;)

@sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane There's a reason I know where every file on my system is by memory; I remove or archive the ones I'm not using anymore! ?

@sotolf @RL_Dane @ctietze

1 s
2 p
232 l
20095 d
137077 -

Rather cryptic; what's it mean?

@sotolf @RL_Dane @ctietze I will say, I believe this is just home directory, correct? I have a private mirror of the entirety of Project Gutenberg in /srv/ ?

@RL_Dane @sotolf @ctietze I'd just gotten a new Framework Laptop with 2 TB of storage space, what else was I supposed to do with it? ?

I don't use it very often, but I love the bragging rights of having every Project Gutenberg book, audiobook, musical performance, etc. on my computer. ;)

Man those audio files really take up the vast majority of the storage space, though.

@sotolf @RL_Dane @ctietze Heh, it's 960 GB, so yeah wouldn't work on that drive.

I'm considering moving it to an external hard drive I have, but it took three days to download and iirc the estimated transfer time to move it to the hard drive was eight hours.

@sotolf @RL_Dane @tulpa @ctietze

I feel like I have to get into this one-upping of hardware now.

Not quite the same, but my raspberry pi was the first computer I owned that was undisputably mine and not a shared family device. ;)

@RL_Dane @sotolf @tulpa @ctietze It's a 3B+, I believe.

I've nuked and paved it so many times and usually changed the hostname each time to something relevant to my current project...

My favorite was astrochicken, which was surprisingly relevant.

@RL_Dane @sotolf @tulpa @ctietze

It was when I used the camera module to make a camera that streamed footage through my telescope to my phone through an ad-hoc wifi network.

As for the "chicken"; I'll have to show you this picture of my custom-built mounting solution (the mounting hardware fits perfectly over the telescope lens)

@RL_Dane @sotolf Fair. When I'm opening a bunch of files I use rofi's filebrowser mode.