I finished an excellent duology yesterday. A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. Really excellent narratively, for presenting an optimistic view of a future humanity - a humanity that survives its current trajectory. It looks at use V exchange value and all kinds of things. Really good stuff by Becky Chambers.

It's also really annoying that Apple's various large-screen operating systems offer a kind of shitty tiling mode. I want something that looks and acts as nicely as Hyprland appears to, but is able to be toggled. macOS in particular seems perfect for this within the already existing side-by-side thing (that kinda sucks).

I've been dabbling in Linux since probably ~2000 or so. It never really stuck with me due to requirements for other things and a general lack of discipline/commitment to do much more than CLI stuff; the various shells always underwhelmed me aesthetically (what a daft thing to be underwhelmed by, really). These days it's a wildly different, and I just spent a couple of hours installing Debian 12 on an old Toshiba laptop my partner had. Honestly probably ten years old. Runs really well with GNOME 43. Ran into roadblocks getting Jack to work with an external audio interface, but meh, that's for another time. I've been wanting to figure out a way to do at least most of what I do musically on basically any old system, so that eventually, I can simply give up all the proprietary and expensive software I use regularly (or if the software is available on Linux, that's great). Feels like a step in a good direction. Hooray. First post in however long etc.

@TQ 100%. The couple of months I was active on here was the most connected via social networks/media I’d felt in ages. Just so hard to keep engaged. We just don’t need more corporate alienation.