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recommendations

distros

uhh its complicated

• fedora if u like something that just works
• opensuse is pretty similar to fedora but without some codec issues
• nixos if you like funny wacky but quite interesting shit and arent afraid of having to dive into configs
  • its like actually pretty cool how it works if u look into it.
• not arch. anything else please.
  • manjaro is included in this

text editor

• my fav editor is helix. its like neovim with out of the box sane defaults and no annoying plugin ecosystem
  • plugins are cool but having to use them for basic features youd expect in an ide is weird
  • it also has different keybinds to vim. it swaps the model of it a bit so it's more intuitive
• if u hate cli use like, vscode or intellij idea
  • i tend to use intellij exclusively for java nowadays
  • i usually hate using it tho because i dont get the helix binds

social media

• i like matrix but nobody else does
  • its getting better
• idk. discord?
• im not a big fan of activitypub stuff because it feels like it perpectuates the same communities twitter does
  • im sure other people like it
  • i just dont think microblogging is a good medium for any productive discussion. just use it to post about food or something idk
• can i put rss here? rss is great. you can just have feeds from anywhere on the internet.
  • there's plenty of services that let you get feeds from the Big services:
  • RSS Bridge theres like another one but i cant find it

hardware

• i quite like my thinkpad t480s. its pretty light. get it off ebay if u want
• phone is sony xa2. its like, a phone.

notetaking apps

• oh god. oh god. aahg...g aaghahghlkjhgahdlkshfakjdshfkjsadhflkajshdklfjhakjshfdlk
• so like, im a big proponent of markdown. its an open format which is pretty cool for notes
• but it doesnt let you do complicated things. which is why you need extensions to the spec.
  • or a different format

                     need supercomputer
                              ↑
                              |
                              |
                              |
                 joplin³      |
          notion*             |
                          overleaf
                              |
      ez ←--------------------+--------------------→ hard
                              |
         apostrophe¹          |
       libreoffice            |  setzer²
      onenote*       paper⁶   |
             word*            |
                              |
                              |  md w/ pandoc
       pen and paper⁵         ↓              latex⁴
                     need grandma's pc
                                                    groff

1. or equivalent markdown editor, like ghostwriter, or remarkable
2. or equivalent desktop latex editor
3. or equivalent desktop web-app notetaking app like obsidian
4. it is possible!
5. really its the only good option sometimes. you could also use one of those fancy ipads idk
6. this is a program called paper, not the medium.

*. not open, or not open standard

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