2026-10-23T04:58:02Z https://nostr.now Stephen Ramsay https://nostr.now/npub1c3hlels3q0d5w7qkya4qjyunw6hxsmeuhfmpe22vj3whvnlnxvesty2r2x https://spaces.hcommons.social/accounts/avatars/109/297/345/211/826/013/original/2d337cb365ce40fd.jpg https://spaces.hcommons.social/accounts/avatars/109/297/345/211/826/013/original/2d337cb365ce40fd.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsruv4eeteca0jwy8kl9s6gsmz6rvlx2s907q69406gnuhattmzdlgzyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxxv6gqm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8292k3twezfgnx6klff96ms6g33rt4ph5vqmm36w4m63lk8frxdcz7rfdr'>nevent1q…rfdr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is without running cmatrix, though, which I&#39;d normally have running constantly. ;) 2026-08-17T15:52:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8292k3twezfgnx6klff96ms6g33rt4ph5vqmm36w4m63lk8frxdczyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxzkqhaw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspu7whrrdsg56g4rp8rqejuct7w65nzf8vc3k2krvhsxzhjswtncqgzujy8'>nevent1q…ujy8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I want to run some more controlled tests, but basically: there is no meaningful difference (in terms of power draw) between cage+foot+tmux and kmscon+tmux. There isn&#39;t even that big a difference between those two and just starting tmux in your console. It&#39;s all very efficient. What isn&#39;t efficient is running a browser. So in some sense, these systems might be more useful for the energy discipline they tend to impose than for any inherent quality. 2026-08-17T15:49:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8kks4vvdk5zmwcegnj68eapd62q6sl4ed9tqunm72z3m7d8eu7pgzyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxfjlrpx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszq0qgyex6kjkap34y3pwhy3flsxm3qxu4wxgepgdk4cwdd3l20usw0hf3u'>nevent1q…hf3u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I now have this running. It is really much easier -- no futzing with ttys, no dealing with hardware quirks. Escape to browsers/viewers if you need them. It&#39;s really slick. I&#39;m going profile your way, my way, and sway (s-way?) with powertop and see how they do. I suspect the difference between the first two will be negligible, though I actually don&#39;t know how much power a wayland compositor eats up. Also: foot was already my favorite terminal, so my beautiful config just works. 2026-08-17T14:38:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp5ekqextx4wfntdwfxyd4jhxsgzvnmvs4kwckg6nts93dukhhzcczyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxagr0ax In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28x0xqxtxe6tknyvxqzqzr7ullaj2gvlyc4k39k3qr8n3klvxsmqfekhwj'>nevent1q…khwj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yikes! I am definitely going to try it your way. kmscon is cool, but it can get easily you in a situation where you&#39;re kind of locked out. 2026-08-17T14:08:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgp3uy90znx87cj3h9lv9fkp3j2hggxrx88swwag9lk9j3hyyrrhczyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxsufyuk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqz7xa6dtspuwqcecca352mancdk6qasv9srcn9fpnj8zgaur5sgqyywhum'>nevent1q…whum</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It is entirely possible that what I&#39;m attempting here is not a distro or an overlay, but a README for the odd person that wants to join my weird, GUI-hostile cult. 2026-08-17T13:51:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsygxh0m3egkk4e5auh7xl89t3du7xsj0gf575za8k4rskdmjmtfjqzyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxe9yyjh I&#39;ve been sort of playing around with a project that may turn into something. <br/><br/>Basically, I&#39;ve set up a really fancy console-based Linux system. There&#39;s nothing terribly new; it uses kmscon and tmux. But here&#39;s the thing: it *looks* really cool, because I&#39;ve hacked a theme for it.<br/><br/>It&#39;s true that any Linux install can be headless (server installs by definition), but this makes me wonder about a distro that is *for* framebuffers only. Not servers, but ancient laptops, low-power systems with displays . . .<br/><br/>#Linux #CLI 2026-08-16T22:39:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxj2ykawuhwetsskhtk9ke6x82xe8p6z3hhl2v2qpz2ajyr7k2v2szyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxsdufss Just discovered that ToneBoosters now has all their plugins in beta for Linux.<br/><br/>I used to use their stuff when I was on the Mac (in particular, Reelbus, which is an excellent tape saturation plugin). There have always been rumors that their offerings were more-or-less equal to that of certain rather famous Dutch developers (at a fraction of the price).<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been playing with their limiter (Barricade) and their Reverb, and I think those rumors are true.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.toneboosters.com/">https://www.toneboosters.com/</a><br/><br/>#linuxaudio 2025-08-12T14:12:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyck2ugfwz9x07njmqlmh749tp26aedy8ntld3n76kt7haagcar4gzyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxzp53h9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9my2jdyzzgk3qr4200d09gzkwdz3q3c3fynrcd0a32t43rxusa8cna5d07'>nevent1q…5d07</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You know? I&#39;m embarrassed to say that I didn&#39;t quite know what guix was about. I&#39;m a 20+ year #gentoo user, so I haven&#39;t paid attention to Nix and all that. It does look reallly, really cool. 2025-03-26T14:14:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqct42wl69xm6htt9lytwfnzf989pvvmcc0tjlarqq4903zp2dcmszyrzxll87zypak3mczcnk5zgnjdm2u6r08ja8v89ffj296aj07venxf56nft I&#39;m not sure I can trace how I got there, but something had me playing around with GNU Guile (I&#39;ve always liked the idea of an embeddable Scheme, I just never got around to looking at it closely).<br/><br/>Anyway, Guile is way cooler than I thought -- way more &#34;unix-y&#34; than other Schemes I&#39;ve known.<br/><br/>But the real surprise was a static site generator -- Haunt (<a href="https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html">https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html</a>) -- and a full-blown web framework -- Artanis (<a href="https://artanis.dev/">https://artanis.dev/</a>)!<br/><br/>I am so glad both of these things exist.<br/><br/>#Scheme #Guile #Webdev 2025-03-26T14:07:05Z