Just don’t end up as the this guy
or Futurama’s version of it

I enjoyed reading the posts but if I try to take it seriously I can’t buy it. The argument stretches “Unix philosophy” so far that Lisp systems end up being a better fit for it than Unix itself. To me that just makes the whole thing lose meaning.

Emacs doesn’t particularly fit the Unix philosophy and that’s fine! Emacs is a modern day Lisp machine that does an excellent job at integrating with Unix-like systems. It’s best to embrace and love it for what it is.

I will go further and say that no GUI or TUI application fits into the Unix philosophy. This includes almost all text editors. I don’t consider Vim to be a better fit than Emacs and even vanilla vi is a major stretch unless you only run it in ex mode. The only text editor that more or less fits is ed.

System Shock (2023) at a new low at $17.99.

Maybe a stickied thread with suggestions and each week pick the highest voted one that hasn’t been discussed yet.

Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack

Costs a lot less than therapy too.

Not OP but my answer to this is that I only add sources that I know I need to make sure I understand where everything comes from and to keep that attack surface lower.

I only add some app-specific repos to get more frequent updates on those. Newpipe and Fedilab in particular.
I know that I could use other tools to install directly from their release images but sticking with F-Droid for now for simplicity.

I’m only here to appreciate OP’s username. Quazatron is such a cool game, I still fire it up every once in a while.

I don’t use that but looking at the source it looks like it’s accessing the password store directly by reading the gpg files so I’d expect it to work the same regardless of the pass implementation used.

I am only a casual user of it but pass.el (also in MELPA) works for me. This is for the original pass but since gopass is highly compatible it seems to work for that too. It uses password-store.el under the hood so you’d do something like (setq password-store-executable "/path/to/gopass") to point it at the right executable.

If I am honest and base it on my actual play patterns it has to be The Binding of Isaac and Slay the Spire. Or maybe Ascension (digital version of the physical deckbuilder) especially if there is ever more content for it.

Maybe they are not to your taste but games like Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry are undeniably top tier at what they do. They are in the play store too with 1M+ downloads and high ratings.

Autotype is already solved - ydotool, wtype and dotool exists (and possibly others as well).

These tools work by creating a virtual keyboard so they don’t let you send input to a specific window. The input goes to whatever happens to be focused at the moment. This makes them less reliable than the X11 equivalents and unusable for tasks where you need to guarantee that the right window gets the input.

not having kludges 42 levels deep

There are already almost a hundred extension protocols and you need dozens of them to implement just barebones desktop functionality. If you look under the surface the Wayland ecosystem is arguably already more complex than X11 ever was and it’s only going to get worse.

There is a fairly compact Thinkpad USB keyboard which would be much easier to connect if you can make it fit somehow. It has the trackpoint but no trackpad.

Yeah, I ended up doing something similar but using my own Dockerfile where I specified ebook-convert as the entry point.

Yep, I realized that as soon as I posted and tried to ninja-delete but too late :)

If I sum up the numbers from March 2022 it’s 26% AMD and 38% NVIDIA.

I would like the ability to do a CLI-only build since I only really use the ebook-convert command. Never felt the need to “manage” my ebooks.

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