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  • curtismchaletoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    I’ve been on Mac for around 10 years and the price of the hardware was a huge motivator. The 13" Framework came out and I jumped on that modular bandwagon. I do still use my Mac as a video ripping station but otherwise I earn all my money as a dev on Fedora 40 and have a secondary tablet with NixOS on it, because the draw of an easily reproducible system is strong.

    Now Apple just continues to do stupid shit and I just want to own my computer without them looking over my shoulder and charging me a huge price to do it.

    I do need to upgrade the Framework (started with the cheap i5 chip) to the fastest AMD variant available so that streaming works better without the fan spinning up, or just build a desktop for streaming and video work.







  • curtismchaletoBicyclesState Bicycle Co.
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    1 year ago

    I commuted around town on one of their fixed gear bikes for 5 years without issue. I swapped in new brakepads, and lubed the chain every few weeks in the rainy winter outside Vancouver BC. It was way cheaper to purchase that bike than to do the maintenance required to commute and train on my regular road bike

    I had no issues with mine and sold it before a move to a hilly town for around 50% of the purchase price.






  • curtismchaletoLinux@lemmy.mlfully supported usb c docks
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    1 year ago

    I have a Kensington SD5700T and a CalDigit TS4. Both of those are USB 4/Thunderbolt 4 docs and they work fine under Fedora. They support 2 monitors out via USB C or a combination of USB C/HDMI.

    I’d recommend the CalDigit dock though as the Kensington one has developer coil whine so if I’m not using the linux laptop I power it down and unplug the laptop to stop the annoying sound. The TS4 has no such issues.





  • One bigger ride (300km ish) from Prince George down past West Lake on gravel and around to Quesnel. Then back up to PG. At some point we’ll detour back into the mountains on the East side of the highway but a bit more scouting needs to be done to see if the route goes as the roads are old and may not be maintained.


  • I’ve tried AwesomeWM but couldn’t get anything going with it really.

    I then moved on to Material Shell (yes that’s a Gnome Extension) and it brought enough to really make me want to dig in more.

    Now I’m slowly working on a Sway configuration on my Fedora 38 machine. Can’t work in it yet, but unlike my attempt at AwesomeWM…I’m actually making progress on getting things setup. My 4 monitors were configured fairly easily, but now I need to figure out why dmenu isn’t working to launch applications. Could be on my end since I’m using a Moonlander keyboard with a custom DVORAK profile.