It took me an evening to get my initial Hyprland config working, then about a week of tweaking before I was truly happy with it. That sounds like a lot of work, and honestly, it was, but it also doesn’t have to be work I repeat every time I install Linux. Now that the core setup was dialed in, I can copy my Hyprland config, keep related dotfiles for tools like Waybar, Wofi, my terminal, and notifications in one place, and bring most of that desktop with me to the next machine. I’ll still need to adjust hardware-specific details like monitor names, scaling, and input settings, but the hard part is already done.

Yeah that sounds like something I might have done 30 years ago, at around the same time I hand-compiled mplayer and all of its dependencies to be “just right”. When I manually adjusted the kernel config for my desktop PC and patiently waited 45 minutes for the kernel to finish compiling. Back when I gave a shit about getting the “optimimum”.

The only reliable way to get rid of this kind of nimby opposition to clean energy projects is to let the nimbys have a part of the cake. It works for wind energy turbines here in Germany, it should work for solar, too. When people get a share if the money, all concerns magically vanish…

Of course not, but that line of reasoning sounds similar to “I was just following orders”.

Honestly, most people working at a large corporation are not that impactful. Just a cog in the machine.

Just like any soldier in Nazi Germany’s army. Being a cog in the machine does not take away the guild from killing someone, or, if we are talking about “evil” companies, from denying someone treatment, or violating someone’s privacy, or…

My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there when Linux started.

That is what happens when I try to write a reply to an OP on my phone. Sorry!

Freddy Mercury, for sure.

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Lots of good stuff mentioned already, but nobody mentioned the Rivers Of London series yet. It is about a young police constabulary who solves crime using magic. Sounds pretty silly, but it’s pretty good. The author, Ben Aaronovitch, also wrote some scripts for Doctor Who (Remembrance of the Daleks, for instance) and Blake’s 7, so there’s that.