polymerwitch

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Do you consider the term "rice" or "ricer" to be racist? in c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
[–] polymerwitch@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not a part of the demographic who would experience racism around this. So, I can't comment there.

I am a white hipster though. So, I usually call my window manager customizations "artisanally hand crafted".

Why do Mastodon posts don't get many likes? in c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
[–] polymerwitch@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I never understood this logic.

I've been on Mastodon since 2016 and never really got into Twitter. I just don't understand why the "algorithm" matters. Who cares if people who don't follow you see your post? I want my followers to see my posts, and then favorites allow me to know that my followers liked what I posted. It's a nice dopamine boost and helps me feel closer to my community.

A lot of posts I make unboostable as well (followers only). "Promotion" doesn't really factor much into my use of Mastodon so much as being "social".

Which music streaming server? in c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
[–] polymerwitch@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

In Funkwhale, you can make different libraries and set permissions on them. I have a public library that has copyleft music in it, and then a personal library that is only shared with user's on my instance (who are just friends and family). So, no one outside of about three people can see my collection of copyrighted music.

Custom Linux OS in c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml
[–] polymerwitch@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

It's "arch based". How are the repos setup? What packages are pinned? What bloatware is added?

Sure I can write a script to migrate everything to how I want it, but at a point it becomes easier (and cleaner) to do a custom install script that will build it up how I want it.

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Custom Linux OS (lemmy.ml)
 

I reserved a Deck day one within a minute and I think I might be in the initial launch (still no expected ship date listed though the payment processed and I got the confirmation email within a couple minutes). Whenever I get it, I'm hyped.

I'm not a typical user. I do enjoy handheld games, but I also am an Arch Linux user (btw), I deploy servers, I write code, blah blah blah. My current personal computer is an old T430, and I plan to use my deck as a daily driver as a desktop at home, a media center on the couch, handheld in bed, and a tablet on the go. To meet those use cases I plan to do a custom Arch install.

Is anyone else planning on doing something similar?

Some things I'm starting to plan out are:

  • Some sort of custom lockscreen that can use the deck controls to unlock or an onscreen keyboard.
  • E-reader mode
  • Audio mode
  • Kodi for media center and plex
  • RetroArch for retro games
  • Steam (of course)
  • Removal of telemetry and possibly iptable rules to block Steam telemetry if any
  • Graphical interface to do basic maintenance tasks without a keyboard (like a script launcher window). This could probably be the app launcher in gnome with some custom desktop entries
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What are some handy youtube-dl aliases you use? (lemmy.ml)
 

I just saw the huge list of sites that yt-dl supports, and it's ... well staggering. I've been playing around with it a bit more, and I'm writing custom aliases for ease of downloading. For example I made:

alias bandcamp-dl="youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata -o '~/Music/%(artist)s/%(album)s/%(track_number)02d - %(track)s.%(ext)s'"

That alias allows me to do bandcamp-dl <http://some-album.url>, and then it creates the proper artist and album directories in my music library, adds the tracks as mp3s with formatted file names, and sets their metadata so my music app can pick it up.

Anyone else have some handy aliases or yt-dl commands that do something cool?