penguin's microblog documenting my downfall

if you make a webcomic and i can't change pages on your...

if you make a webcomic and i can’t change pages on your site using my keyboard, i’m going to find where you live and trigger an airhorn every time you try to fall asleep

hold still i'm installing freebsd on the microchip inside your brain

hold still i’m installing freebsd on the microchip inside your brain

ATTENTION: YOU MUST BE SPOOKY FOR THE NEXT 31 DAYS. ANYONE CAUGHT...

ATTENTION:

YOU MUST BE SPOOKY FOR THE NEXT 31 DAYS. ANYONE CAUGHT NOT BEING SPOOKY WILL BE SUBJECTED TO DAYS OF VIRTUAL SUFFERING.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

get turned into an amoeba, idiot

get turned into an amoeba, idiot

i think the reason i don't stick with tiling window managers of...

i think the reason i don’t stick with tiling window managers of any kind is because the major ones always force the keyboard-centric workflow and it just doesn’t work for me, both because i work with a lot of graphics-heavy applications where you can’t do everything by the keyboard and i find managing windows solely with the keyboard to be unintuitive and somewhat frustrating.

i like the approach cosmic takes with it, but given that it’s beta-quality software, i’m not really going to daily drive it (although there definitely will be a point where i give it serious consideration, really like that there’s another desktop that isn’t just rearranging gnome or kde bits to try and make something work). the forge extension for gnome has almost always been there, but i’d rather not have to deal with gnome shell’s lack of customization and poor performance.

settled on an actively maintained fork of krohnkite, a tiler for kde plasma, the desktop environment i already use on my debian machine. it works pretty well, a little rough but it definitely meets my needs/wants better than a standalone twm

TODAY'S MISSION: get the child watching youtube shorts off of the only...

TODAY’S MISSION: get the child watching youtube shorts off of the only computer that can connect to the printer

the undertale and deltarune soundtracks are absolutely fucking...

the undertale and deltarune soundtracks are absolutely fucking fantastic but the community’s half-decade of shitposting has been forever attached to it and i don’t have a word for how i feel about that

i remembered!

i remembered!

found out that you should probably read the release notes whenever you...

found out that you should probably read the release notes whenever you update minecraft after missing a few major versions when i got my ass handed to me by an unkillable walking tree

i’m very sure that the moment claude code hit the market and...

i’m very sure that the moment claude code hit the market and the moment a service i use started to degrade in quality being the exact same moment is definitely just a coincidence

somewhat considering installing altstore/sidestore/something like...

somewhat considering installing altstore/sidestore/something like those on my old iphone since i don’t know what else i’m gonna use this thing for

fell for the rolling-release propaganda, just this once

Cinnamon Desktop running under Arch Linux, using the Everforest color palette, showing output from the catnap system information tool.

fell for the rolling-release propaganda, just this once

being forced to use git is a direct pipeline to accepting nihilism

being forced to use git is a direct pipeline to accepting nihilism

the iphone duo is probably going to be everything some random guy...

the iphone duo is probably going to be everything some random guy has always wanted, but the death of the dynamic island and being able to vertically arrange app controls on the brick-shaped phones too is what i want exponentially more

when you ssh into your server and the last command was "exit"...

when you ssh into your server and the last command was “exit” instead of “logout”

i don't usually take my friend's media recommendations because they...

i don’t usually take my friend’s media recommendations because they are usually strange and/or concerning but i’m willing to make an exception for dungeon crawler carl

we're just supposed to not ask why bowser needed that many toasters?

we’re just supposed to not ask why bowser needed that many toasters?

new haiku beta released a few days ago and it's really cool

new haiku beta released a few days ago and it’s really cool

praying to every known deity that my cs5.5 dvds aren't complete...

praying to every known deity that my cs5.5 dvds aren’t complete fucking coasters because fuck you adobe i already paid for this software i’m not paying for it monthly fuck you

go shower. you can drink water in there. kill two birds with...

go shower. you can drink water in there. kill two birds with one stone