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Mar 15

Was watching a Chris Titus Tech video recently. The one where he reacted to LTT team doing a 30 day Linux challenge. In it he said that for most people new to Linux, he would recommend Bazzite because it's going to just work and it will be hard for them to break in a catastrophic way. I agree completely with this. I'm really leaning towards recommending new folks try atomic distros and flatpaks, and only after they've become familiar with the ways in which Linux is different from Windows/MacOS, should they start branching out to more advanced and potentially risky setups. I really like the looks of: - Bluefin (gnome desktop, mac-like, dev focused) - Aurora (KDE desktop, windows-like, dev focused) - Bazzite (KDE or gnome desktop, gaming focused) - Origami (Cosmic desktop, dev focused) All of these are based on Fedora Atomic but built by other teams. For the official Fedora build, there's Silverblue (gnome), Kinoite (KDE), Atomic Sway, Atomic Budgie, Atomic Cosmic. In my opinion none of these is as compelling as the above alternatives. But they're probably still good options. For Ubuntu purists, there's VanillaOS, which is an atomic ("immutable") distro based on Ubuntu. I even found one distro called ShaniOS which claims to be an Arch-based immutable desktop, but I'm not so sure about that.

Mar 15

This is so cool! aetheros.computer lets you log in with your AT Proto account and access this simple web-based operating system. It's got a notepad, task manager, calendar, and more. But that's not what makes it so cool. What's really special is it's actually reading your PDS data, and you can go throught the file explorer and read every file that's on there! Here's the Standard Site entry that serves my blog post to all AT Protocol blog readers.

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Aether OS

Aether OS

A desktop environment for the AT Protocol. 42+ apps running in your browser — your data stays on your PDS.

Mar 15

A lot of people commenting on the Firefox profile pic change with tons of negativity. I think they all think that Firefox is going to ditch the fox in favour of a purple circle. I'd this is extremely unlikely. Instead, I suspect this is just to get people's attention while subtley hinting at the redesign, they're about to launch. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-nova-redesign

Firefox Nova - our first look at the browser's big redesign - OMG! Ubuntu

OMG! Ubuntu

Firefox Nova - our first look at the browser's big redesign - OMG! Ubuntu

A new-look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a 'Nova' redesign that introduces more curves and colour. First reported by tech

Mar 15

Started the day with Channel 5 exposing ICE detention centers feeding inmates rotten meat and choking them to death with no consequences. Then on to the UN **Economic and Social Councillor** being excommunicated from the global **financial system** so you all get some trickledown.

Mar 15

Ironically, as these wars are being fought to maintain hegemonic power over money and energy flows, and it’s going to push people to adopt decentralized solutions to both of these. Local solar and private crypto are both going to be the most important technologies of preventing and undermining aggression going forward. And we should do everything in our power to enable them.

Mar 15

Another respected UN member censored by the global financial system for criticizing the US and Israel. We live in an alternate universe where everyone turned a blind eye to the Nazis and the holocaust and the instruments built specifically to prevent this are used to enable it.

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Mar 15

I still recommend Bear to everyone. Obsidian I only recommend to a certain kind of person. That said, while Bear replaced Apple Notes for me for the majority of my note taking, Obsidian is still what I write my blog in because the files are true .md

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Mar 14

This app I had shared a while ago when it was in TestFlight, is officially in the App Store. Looks really good. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/monero-one/id6757898541

Monero One App - App Store

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Monero One App - App Store

Download Monero One by Zenith Foundation on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like Monero One.

Mar 14

Anyone played with Osaurus yet? https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus

GitHub - osaurus-ai/osaurus: Own your AI. The native macOS harness for AI agents -- any model, persistent memory, autonomous execution, cryptographic identity. Built in Swift. Fully offline. Open source.

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GitHub - osaurus-ai/osaurus: Own your AI. The native macOS harness for AI agents -- any model, persistent memory, autonomous execution, cryptographic identity. Built in Swift. Fully offline. Open source.

Own your AI. The native macOS harness for AI agents -- any model, persistent memory, autonomous execution, cryptographic identity. Built in Swift. Fully offline. Open source. - osaurus-ai/osaurus

Mar 13

Hot take: if you want to use Cosmic Desktop, you should not use Pop_OS! But instead use Origami, Fedora Cosmic Spin, or CachyOS with Cosmic Desktop. Pop has a pretty long history of bugginess and it’s based on Ubuntu which has a pretty long history of bugginess (especially with respect to graphics cards and system updates) Origami = opinionated, dev-centric Fedora atomic spin with cosmic Fedora cosmic spin is just Fedora but with cosmic instead of Gnome or KDE CachyOS is a polished Arch-based distro with quick and easy setup and one click setup for basically every desktop environment or window manager

Mar 13

The folks at Project Bluefin, a dev-centric Fedora Atomic-derived distro from Univesal Blue (the people behind Bazzite) want to give users a simple, powerful, and cross-OS terminal experience, so they built a nice little cli suite. https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-cli-mac-wsl/

Bluefin CLI for Mac and Windows | Bluefin

Bluefin CLI for Mac and Windows | Bluefin

We like to say "The command line is our passion. Therefore we invest in the command line experience, knowing that most people will never see it." Sounds grandiose! Bluefin CLI is a a terminal experience designed around shipping a new "default terminal experience" with modern tools. But it also has things like the just task runner, making the community shared aliases and shortcuts easy. And that just lets the good stuff float to the top.

Mar 12

Times I have accidentally triggered the compose button on any app besides besides Farcaster: 0️⃣ Times I accidentally triggered the compose button while scrolling Farcaster for the last 20 minutes: 6️⃣

Mar 12

How long until Base pivots to Solana?

Mar 12

Is your ls aliased to: 1. colorls 2. eza 3. something else (comment) 4. nothing, just regular ls 5. 1) what

Mar 12

If you use Hugo (or other static site builders) for your blog, you might like this. I wanted custom social cards that don't feature any trackers, remotely-loaded content, and which I could style to look native to my site. So I designed my own and they're available on github for anyone who wants to repurpose them. Examples for Bluesky, Mastodon, and Farcaster cars, as well as more info about how and why I built them, is all in the post 👇 https://thumbsup.me/posts/building-custom-social-post-embed-cards/?7

I built custom social cards for my blog

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I built custom social cards for my blog

And I shared the code for you to use.

Mar 9

My beloved Nuphy Halo 96 is the inspiration for this awesome work

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Mar 9

New banner by @yonfrula. Stoked to get to display it alongside my @ilyakazakov pfp on all my socials

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Mar 8

Mar 8

It’s pretty wild to me that when I was a kid, most of the lightbulbs in my house were drawing 60W a piece and today I’m running a home server that’s replaces Google Drive, Netflix, Spotify, Audible, Kindle—for multiple users—on around half of that.

Mar 7

This is a test. Disregard it.

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