I started out on Void, then to Arch and finally to Artix. The Artix experience really feels like a mix of Arch and Void to me. As for gaming, I'm really not a big gamer at all, not having played for years. I do remember playing Minecraft without issues as well as a few Steam games such as CSGO. So it's fine as far as I can tell.

I'm on Artix and I have removed sudo after installing doas. I do have a symlink sudo -> /usr/bin/doas in /usr/bin. Have had this configuration for about a year, nothing broke.

No stabs 👍 All my homies hate stabs.

I see, didn't know about the new Cherry switches. Regarding Cherry giving up the lead in the enthusiast space, I think it's even worse. GMK bought their tooling from cherry when they started. Cherry could not only have been a leader in switches but in double shots at the same time...

Void linux

What switches do people use now?

The "now" part I'm not sure about because I'm out of the hobby for some years. The "people" part depends on who we are talking about. Maybe Cherry is still popular in boards you can buy in shops or on big online stores, I don't know. But in my time, Cherry was far from a popular choice to put in custom keyboards. Almost all switches used were cherry style switches, meaning they fit the same keycaps, are roughly of the same size, fit in the same pcb's, etc. But people usually get them from other companies, eg Kailh, Gateron, etc. There is just more choice in terms of materials, colours, bump profile, smoothness, springs, click mechanism, you name it. It was also common to combine switches, like using the top of one switch with the bottom of another or swap stems. Other brands were perceived to be higher quality. Cherrys were known for being scratchy instead of smooth, having a weak tactile bump, clicky variations being rattly instead of crisp as well as lacking in some other areas such as stem wobble and sound. For example, I'm typing right now on Gateron Ink Black v2 switches lubed with Tribosys 3204, filmed with Kebo films and springs swapped for bag lubed Tx L 16mm 62gr springs. On the other hand, there is a smaller group of people that is all about vintage Cherry switches, desoldering them from old boards to use them in new builds. The sheath on the stem switches you saw are probably some sort of box switches (I think it's supposed to reduce stem wobble and thus smoothness in practice).

So basically they are in trouble and in order to appease their creditor they need to reduce costs? Moving production to China might reduce quality, but Cherry switches are only used in prebuilds for people with no knowledge or experience with custom boards so I don't think it will matter. Unless something big changed from when I stopped paying attention onward, almost nobody puts contemporary Cherry switches in their builds.

I watched ARIA the animation, and yea, it's really good. I also finished NEW GAME!! Which is quite good, I like CGDCT in a workplace environment for a change (so not a school environment). Lastly I watched Yurumeitsu. Critics often say that nothing happens in CGDCT. The yuru mates really don't do shit basically. They sleep a lot. So yea pretty good, but nothing special. I started watching slow loop. Which is very comfy, they cuddle a lot.

I like fucking around and finding out. I also don't like roll backs, real men only roll forwards :)

(don't take that too seriously please)

Artix because it is more Arch then Arch according to Arch's own goals: "focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance". There is no way systemd is more simple, minimal and elegant than its alternatives. I don't think systemd is bad, but I do think it is a bad fit and Artix is what Arch should have been.

Bocc combining the aero frame with the parachute like open jacket 🤣

This looks like something I might be interested in but I haven't seen season 1 yet.

Most plastic keycaps are ABS or PBT, also vintage ones. But there are some white on black double shot cherry profile POM vintage keycaps as far as I remember. You would have to find them on ebay or something or research on which boards they came in order to get em.

edit: I just look it up, it seems you can buy POM keycaps new. The vintage one just stuck in my head for some reason.

0. 100, 銀魂
1. 100, 日常
2. 95, らき☆すた
3. 95, ひだまりスケッチ
4. 92, のんのんびより
5. 92, けいおん!
6. 91, 苺ましまろ
7. 91, きんいろモザイク
8. 91, あずまんが大王
9. 91, ゆゆ式

Honourable mention: こげぱん (very short). Copied from my little text file where I keep track. Ratings purely based on vibes and emotions nothing objective or weighted sum of categories.

NHK ni youkoso kinda hit hard the days after I finished it. I listened to the 2nd ending on repeat lol. In order to combat the big sad, I started watching ARIA. I have seen two episodes and it is very promising. Aria-sachou is so cute...

So you use default vim bindings with dvorak? I use neovim and type in qgmlwy but I remapped the bindings in my config.

Unless you have a particular reason for sticking to POSIX, who cares? I'll take the user experience improvement without worry.

I like fish abbreviations. They are like aliases but expand when you press space or enter. That way you can edit it, and also still see the full command so you are less likely to forget it when you don't have your aliases. Of course I have some scripts as well.

Hidamari Sketch. The first two seasons have an achronological order. Each episode is a day in their life in one of the twelve months. Online you can find alternative orders that if you follow them, the story is told chronologically. Although I don't think it would make that much of a different experience given the episodic nature and lack of overall narrative. One thing about the release order is that sometimes the characters refer to something that has happened but the viewer hasn't seen that yet. That is something that would disappear with the alternative order. From what I heard the manga is mostly chronological so it would be more true to the manga.

I finished NHK ni Youkoso!. It's quite a lot of action and drama for someone like me but I got through it fine. The plot feels quite forced at points, but I guess I feel that way about seemingly any plot based anime series so I don't know if that says anything about this one in particular. I thought the characters were quite human and the subject matter is presented very well despite it flaws.