You might want to skip forward about 40 more years to be on the safe side.

I will have to update my bookmarks but the new URL scheme looks much nicer! I like the UI changes too. Can’t wait to see this on my instance.

When you have a goose that produces a reliable daily supply of golden eggs do you:

1. keep collecting your daily egg
   or
2. see if giving it a good kick or two gets you more eggs

EXWM is not particularly picky about Emacs versions or performance. I used to run with nativecomp but ended up turning it off since I value stability over performance. (nativecomp was pretty stable but I had some occasional issues)

The biggest caveat is that you must be very comfortable with whatever Emacs buffer/window management setup you use since you will be relying on that even more.

EXWM. I am a longtime Emacs user so merging the concepts of Emacs buffers and X windows is a huge benefit. Only one set of keybindings to worry about, all of my Emacs window management stuff works for X windows too. One less external dependency to worry about too. In a new environment (like when starting a new job etc) as long as I have my Emacs config I am good to go.

Mastodon does allow following (and pinning) hashtags. It’s a relatively new feature, was added in version 4 at the end of last year. Totally OK to prefer Lemmy though, there is no wrong way to use the Fediverse.

I actually have my CFLAGS set very conservatively. Stability is more important to me than squeezing out that extra juice and I like to be able to switch to a different CPU family without too much work. My desktop is sort of a Ship of Theseus, everything has been replaced several times over the years and it has gone back and forth between AMD and Intel more than once.

Been on Gentoo for a long time. My current image has been rolling forward since 2008 which is when I switched to 64 bit but I started using it long before that.

I value transparency, control and customizability. I occasionally look into other options (and use them at work and in other contexts) but haven’t yet found a better fit for my personal preferences.

I am usually not a huge fan of such tools but I am kinda ok with flatpak. The fact that it doesn’t need a daemon (or even root) and the relatively sane CLI makes it passable and I use it when the alternative is more painful.

One particularly fitting use case seems to be managing non-Steam packages on the Steam Deck. It funny to see non-Linux users managing to install and use all kinds of stuff through it.

I like it.

Didn’t know about apheleia, will have to check that one out.

Not clicking that!

Thanks, very handy! I’ve grabbed .pages.7z which seems to contain the wiki markup version of the pages, it’s quite readable.

I’d also love to hear admin experiences about bottlenecks and scaling limits they see on their instances and ways they’ve found to address them (besides throwing more hardware at it)

Very handy, thanks for the link.
I wonder if anyone has gone through it using Emacs Lisp instead of Scheme as the implementation language. Should be doable now that we have lexical scoping.

Looks like it exists now: !boardgames@feddit.de

The vc-use-package functionality was merged recently too, meaning that there is now a :vc keyword to use-package that let’s you install packages directly from git. It’s super cool that this is finally possible without any external dependencies. Still only in master, not sure if it will make it into emacs-29.

(I felt that this 6mo old thread needed a revival :) )

Looks pretty sensible. Not a fan of code ligatures but I know a lot of people like them. :)
Just curious, why does no-littering need the explicit require?

Count me in for boardgames! Looks like there is a !tabletop@lemmy.ml but doesn’t seem very active. I wonder if it would make sense to try using that or try to get a !boardgames created somewhere?

/r/boardgames and /r/emacs for me. I can get some of my boardgame fix on Mastodon but the more the better. I see that there is a !tabletop@lemmy.ml but not very active so far and not sure if the mod is still around.

Edit, apparently both exist!

I’ve been on Reddit since before subreddits were a thing. With the continuing degradation of the primary UIs the only things that kept it usable were the API and old.reddit.com. With one going away it would be foolish to count on the other staying around. I really thought that Reddit knew better than to go full Digg but I guess I was wrong.

So it’s time to learn a lesson and move on. I’ve been enjoying Mastodon for the past few months but I also like to have a place for topic-focused communities so this is the natural place to come to. Looking pretty sweet so far. With the community-based federation model it seems like the closest thing we have to a Usenet 2.0.