I’ve been ricing my Debian daily driver the last 24 hours or so and I feel as if I have gotten to a point where it can’t get any better (without implementing hyperspecific mods that might be difficult to reproduce after an update).

It’s in every way better than Windows and more user-friendly than all the Apple stuff should you know how to use search engines, seriously. It also simply looks better and the trimming I did reduces cognitive load significantly. I don’t have to make that many decisions during use.

All of this produces a feeling of anguish. I don’t know if it’s because it felt to easy or something else entirely. Maybe I cannot stand knowing that this could be the standard everywhere.

Colemak and various other efficient keyboard layouts exist. So do BT ergo splits and orthos. We don’t have the limitations of typewriters anymore, QWERTY and staggered keys are indeed optional. How this example from the world of keyboards isn’t the default is rather puzzling. Or take Python, why do universities, some would say even respected universities, teach this language when Go and C/++ exist? I have similar feelings about the lack of alcohol taxation and the low rate of rice cooker adoption in the west.

It really makes me want to get active to proselytize because we live in a world with all the tools available to us to create lives for at least 80% of all people that are entirely fulfilling and within personal control. Until I work somewhere where I can affect change in the direction of sustainability I have several VMs to take apart and put back together.

I hope you can forgive the weltschmerz. How do you feel about this?

  • Silver Needle@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Fellow Debian user ricing my daily driver here. Other people may call me crazy too

    that makes two of us!!

    I’ve mostly come to terms with it by reminding myself that most people are either blissfully ignorant or too busy to care.

    Active meta ignorance, making yourself be ignorant of the ignorance of others. Which is the same as ignorance but implemented as an abstraction :P

    Have you considered making a sort of Honestly, I have not. I don’t do much with sharing stuff on my GitHub since my programming stuff usually doesn’t exceed a handful of scripts save for when making websites. install script or even just a public repository for your tweaks?

    The whole idea of putting all the changes I made to my system is daunting since it’s quite a lot even though it isn’t that finicky at the smaller scales. I wouldn’t know where to begin and I take it it takes a few weeks to get a basic structure going that feels comfortable. I’ll try it though! Thank you for the good suggestion