The touchpad was invented in a time where graphical operating systems was barley even a thing. I don’t think they’re meant to be used more than perhaps you sitting on the train on your way to work or something. :)

I’m sure it’s about minimalism for some. For me, it’s about doing as much as possible with as little as possible. When you have less, you usually also gets creative with what you have. When you live in excess, you tend to get lazy and unproductive. :) While my system might look and feel minimal, I consider it to be way more productive, ergonomic and functional than most other systems. However. I can understand that most doesn’t have the time or interest in learning all the thing required, and that they’re fine with less.

You have a good point about the last thing you wrote there! I guess it’s all a balance of what you’re willing to give up, your time learning all this stuff, or your health. :D

This is one of those issues where there’s a billion different solutions based on a billion different reasons.

Have you compared the configuration files? You most likely have some keybinding that root don’t have, and hopefully works for root as well.

What does $TERM say for both users? I assume you use Bash for both users?

I love eyecandy as well! It’s what got me interested in Linux back when Beryl was a thing. :) However. When it comes to tiling window mangers, I personally find it distracting, but I completely understand the appeal of it for others. A lot of the desktop screenshots looks really cool, but I don’t see how people can be productive with all the bling. :D

I’ve been a happy keyboard driven user for a long time now, and I can’t ever imagine going back to using the mouse for all the things. I still use it for my secondary web browser though, but that’s becasue a lot of websites sucks. :( I’m pretty sure that escaping most usage with any pointing device have saved my writsts from a lot of pain!

I would assume so. I have never seen anyone call it heavy, but I’m also not in circles where it’s being used either. It looks like a window manager for the younger generation. :)

Have you looked at Cinnamon? It’s modern and comes with a lot of features. It supports both X11 and Wayland.

Niri is one of those ‘modern’ tiling window managers, which comes with a lot of eye candy and what not. It’s probably a lot lighter than your average desktop environment, but compared to a traditional tiling window, I would consider it fairly resource heavy.

inotifywait in a loop? Why not something like this?

inotifywait -m -r -e create,delete,modify,move /home/.hermes/config

Mutt/Neomutt with notmuch?

That’s the downside (or upside, depending on how you look at things) of choosing a kitchen-sink distro. You get served everything and you don’t have to care or know about anything.

However. Since you seem to be more of a power-user than a casual user, perhaps you didn’t made the best choice for yourself. Perhaps building your own setup based on a bare-bones Fedora installation would have been a better fit for you? :)

It’s using your data locally on your machine. If you don’t trust one of the biggest open source projects in the community, perhaps computers is not your thing. :D

I went with ZigBee only devices to avoid crap like this. Matter is, for some reason, very popular and I don’t understand why, it seems shady at best.

There’s a simple solution to this issue: Delete your Google account, or even better, don’t create a Google account to begin with!

They sell computers, perhaps they just want to be a unique.

What case do you have? CPU fan? Case fans? How have you set it all up?

I’ve been using Mailbox.org, both private and for my business, for 5 years now. I have nothing bad to say about them or their service.

Well. I would like to see a referral program! They have a lot of paying customers because of me, but you don’t get anything in return.

No worries!

I understand that it might not be for everyone. I’m generally speaking against unethical soul sucking algorithms, which is why I don’t use social medias (other than this account and one on GoToSocial). However. I find the algorithm for YouTube to be good as long as you stay aware of it.

Those sounds interesting. I’ll have to look them up. Thank you!

I’m fully aware of that, this is partly why I would like to avoid a Google account, even though the only thing I use it for, is YouTube. I don’t like Google at all.

A local-only client (or something that’s at least privacy respecting) is what I’m looking for, which is why this I submitted this topic. Do you have any recommendations?

That’s the client that I’ve been using for a few years on my Android TV. However. It requires a Google account to work. :/