I don’t really follow X, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.

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Cake day: May 3rd, 2025

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  • I decided to try Cursor today (first time every using any coding assistant) to refactor my sloppy NixOS config, and I’m really impressed to far. My config is so much cleaner and very well documented. It even has automated backups, a README.md, and CHANGELOG.md now!

    The cost has been ~$22 so far (I’m still tinkering with it).

    ETA: I also use Arch NixOS btw



  • Nah it was a while back. IIRC there were multiple sources, but I don’t remember any of them 🙃

    Though, I don’t really remember the details either. Maybe it was OS specific? I know there was a dodgy FUSE implementation out there for macOS at some point, and Cryptomator depends mounts its local drive with FUSE. I use macOS and NixOS, so it coulda been that.






  • This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?

    I’ve been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven’t been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)

    I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor (“mother’s mother”) passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.



  • Yep, that’s the main problem: I live alone, and only drink 1-2 cups a day.

    I could try practicing with like soapy water or something (I think I’ve seen that in a YouTube video at some point), but honestly, I’m just not motivated enough for that kind of effort. For me, my coffee looks pretty enough with my “abstract art” 😅





  • I made a custom Linux image to run inside a web browser. No particular distro, just a Linux kernel (compiled with a custom configuration to produce a tiny binary), a shell, and a few small apps.

    When reading from the filesystem, it made HTTP requests for each file (+ browser caching), so no need to load a disk image all at once. IIRC, I got the cold boot time down to <1 second (after assets were already cached from a previous load though).

    I also got NixOS to run in the browser, but even after stripping out as much as possible, it was still really slow due to systemd. (I’m not a systemd hater, resources are just very limited when running this way.)

    I used an x86 emulator called v86. It’s a very cool project 🙂





  • Many thanks to everyone for the love 🖤 This seems like such an amazing community.

    To those who have also lost a beloved dog: What did you do with your dog’s things?

    I have a nearly-full (but opened) bag of dry food and lots of canned food, but they’re prescription stuff — kidney support diet. Does anyone know what do do with that? I’d love to give it to someone whose dog has kidney disease, but not sure how to find someone like that.

    I imagine I could clean and donate her toys to a local animal shelter or maybe Goodwill, but open to suggestions for that too.