thesaigoneer

Our man in Saigon. No-coder + Perpetually between DE and WM. Adjusts systemctl shutdown timers. Still drinks beer. Don't blame yourself or others. Learn Feng Shui & blame the furniture.

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2025-04-28 12:29:27

It was just a matter of time. Introducing my new composable Cosmix-Saigon :birthdaymsn:
You'll find Cosmic alpha 7, on top of immutable Fedora 42, but with the Ublue goodies as well. This looks to be an exciting step forward! Read here what has changed:
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta
This Saigoneer's quite opinionated, you won't find the Cosmic store, editor or mediaplayer in there. Follow the hints on my github page to enable Homebrew, the true Flatpak and off you go!
https://github.com/thesaigoneer/cosmix-saigon

2025-04-25 02:35:28

The shopping 🛒 for today contained some IPA, nuts, cheese crackers and a bottle of bourbon. It's obvious my SO is out for much of the weekend 😆😎

2025-04-21 10:31:39

Ding dong! For Obelix and Idefix (my images for Gnome and Nwg-shell Hyprland and Sway) I have just included Homebrew. No more cli stuff in the image, just brew it! Asterix (based on Aurora KDE) already had it ootb. Catch up at github/thesaigoneer. Happy brewing! 🍻
#fedora #Fedora42 #UniversalBlue #ComposableSaigon #nwgshell

2025-04-16 02:52:37

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You never looked at my github 😭 😜 Here's the one for Asterix, my KDE spin. In build.sh you add or remove what you want. The Fedora packages site delivers the correct naming of the included rpm's. https://github.com/thesaigoneer/asterix-saigon

2025-04-12 04:03:08

For all you naysayers out there (I know you're ready to barge in ;-): Atomic works great. On my old NUC I've been running my Idefix-Saigon (appropriate name) this week. That's nwg-shell, on sway and hyprland, on Fedora 42. Sprinkles by UniversalBlue. It's a container image, that automatically gets refreshed every day. I ain't going anywhere, it just works.
#nwg_shell #UniversalBlue #Fedora

2025-04-06 08:51:33

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Pipewire is way too modern for Slackware 🤣 Great you found it! So you can finalize that ARM iso! Cool!

2025-04-06 08:34:24

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Adding insult to injury :birthdaymsn: Straightforward. About 10 minutes, which was mostly spend waiting for some flatpaks to install.
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2025-03-26 23:17:40

Always disappointing when you feel like it's actually Friday, but it turns out to be just Thursday.

2024-11-15 23:32:14

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The anonimity doesn't stick 🤣 Here i was, in bliss and ignorance, of all the bad things you're obviously doing 😜

2024-10-20 07:53:40

Back on earth. External display on dwm keeps blanking out, after a certain period. No change in display type or acpi rules. Placing of application windows on specific workspaces, when opening an associated file (like a video with VLC from the filemanager) isn't working on Hyprland. It does on dwm. Also on Hypr: bluetooth connections get terminated (sleep mode of bt or so). Keeps working on dwm. Cosmic doesn't show icons, just small black squares. Call it a day. Beer at five.

2024-10-17 12:29:21

Decluttering, pt. 2. Going into /usr/share/applications and delete .desktop files you don't want to see in your app launcher. Like, basically, anything that runs in a terminal or is QT-library related. Or rofi. You get it. Tidying up to at least have something clean and lean. A great therapy.

2024-10-16 12:29:59

I've said before that for me KDE comes down to it being a great WM, with bling. Consider it a modern day floater, with all bells and whistles added as well. I am forever tainted by Openbox, at that time on ArchLabs. The ease of use by which you can make Kwin maximize your Librewolf window on startup is a lesson in UX for any WM. So, with a keyboard shortcut, you: open an application, on a specific workspace, switching focus to it and maximize its window. GUI interface to get to that. Cool.

2024-08-30 04:18:50

This Slackware thing has got me in a tight grip. And I like it. Example: the Proton mail desktop app. The flatpak is unverified, but Proton has a deb and a rpm available A simple "rpm -ivh --nodeps ProtonMail-desktop-beta.rpm" installs it on Slackware, done. Checking mail as we speak. So I have native packages, slackbuilds (native, but to be compiled), flatpaks, an rpm or two and an appimage installed. Not for everyone this setup, but certainly for me. Once you Slack, there's no going back!

2024-08-29 02:49:34

I'm always positively surprised by how much Vietnamese appreciate it when you at least try to speak some words of Tieng Viet (Vietnamese). I picked up some over my years here and I always start the conversation in Vietnamese, not in English. We are in Vietnam, right? In return they will be very forthcoming and helpful, and laughing their arses off at my pronunciation (and i gladly join them in that). Ice broken. Give it a try, you'll see!

2024-08-18 12:49:19

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My general stance in life is no to everything, especially bcs that positive yes approach gets punished straight away 👻🤣. But Slackware was forgiving 😂

2024-08-18 04:51:13

That turned out to be pretty straightforward. With yesterday's update the inittab was set back to level 3 (the default Slackware level). Simply copying the automatically made backup inittab.org back to inittab restored runlevel 4. Which you need to start a displaymanager like GDM or SDDM upon boot. Reading this back I do sound as the idiot I am.

2024-08-18 03:57:15

Doing even worse than ManUtd is of course Chelsea. They'll be swapping a mediocre player (CG) for the best marketed bench sitter in modern football, Joao Felix. So far nothing new. What happened to the club of Terry, Lamps and Drogba?

2024-08-18 00:28:00

First things first: espresso and after that hookup the laptop to download MoTD and watch the first round of the Premier League. I mean, priorities, right?

2024-08-11 23:43:54

Thank god football is starting up again over Europe, especially the Premier League.

2024-07-28 06:00:50

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after this poll i guess there won't be any others for the next 4 years

2024-07-28 05:56:36

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we've seen this before with valid results being neglected 😂

2024-07-28 05:50:44

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almost 7 gb for a kde iso is bonkers indeed. I did like bluefin though, so i gotta give aurora a go as well 🤣

2024-07-07 06:17:39

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Congrats, Matt! Good to see the Gecko is able to keep you going. Tells us something, with everything you're throwing at it. On to number 2!

2024-07-05 05:45:26

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Hoarder!

2024-07-05 03:17:46

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🤣 I'm designing the confronting t-shirt, with 'I use Arch btw' on the front, and 'But also Tumbleweed, Nix, Debian, Alpine, Void, Ubuntu etc etc' on the back 🍻👻

2024-07-05 02:40:32

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Thanks! Well, i know this guy with cool wm scripts, Debian and dwm rocks 😎

2024-07-05 00:27:43

On a totally different note: received my confirmation for the Summit in October. Looking forward to my 1st FOSS event, never too late. Have to restage the laptop into sth Ubuntu 😂 If I'm lucky 24.10 will be out with Kubuntu and Plasma 6. Looking forward to it all!
#Ubuntu #UbuntuSummit
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2024-06-29 23:49:41

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Strangely enough (seldomly happens) i had some issues after this morning's update as well. Just as all was doing fine. A refresher, that might fix it 😎

2024-06-26 07:52:16

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I'm looking forward to that Ubuntu makeover with your Gnome; credit where credits are due: Tyler warned us about this 3 years ago 🤣

2024-06-26 06:54:43

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omg, he's back (again) 😂

2024-06-22 00:14:15

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it's a humid one here. Had a lot of rain last night. Gets my wrinkles out.
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2024-06-21 00:58:10

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Rome is burning!

2024-06-14 00:19:00

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Yeah, I managed to hold on until and including Clipse and Wyclef Jean. Gotta say Beyonce at Glastonbury was impressive, and the Eras tour as well. I hope I can still 'recognize' an outstanding performer, although it may not completely be my thing.

2024-06-13 23:55:27

The sense of good music is largely lost on the Vietnamese youth. That's the old guy speaking. When i let my girlfriend listen to Robert Cray and explained to her why i like his music (the blues, drink, girls, you get it) her first response was: yes, just like you 😂. There's still hope.

2024-05-23 04:36:45

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When you insert the Ventoy, eager to install that iso, and it doesn't show up.

2024-05-21 03:31:52

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Nah, let's agree to disagree on that one :birthdaymsn:

2024-05-21 02:57:26

Everyone is so up in arms about the 'recall' that's about to be baked into Windoze. Let me remind you that, during the pandemic, this thing was already widely rolled out in Teams and used by almost every company to spy on their remote employees, keystrokes, activity and all. All companies conveniently forgot to turn that off, until now. And no, I am not a tin-foil hat kinda guy, just a realist.
#Windows #privacy #Spyware

2024-05-13 03:23:20

@npub10v4…v3j2 Matt, is there a specific extension in Gnome you use to place application windows on specific workspaces? Like Ff always opens on 1, terminal on 2 etc.? I've tried out a couple, like Automove Windows, but I'd like the focus to move with it. Possibly you found a better one?
#gnome_extensions

2024-05-12 04:59:54

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But of course we never use those overlays anyway. At least we shouldn't, but that's not IRL 🤣 That's what i like about BlueBuild, i 'bake' those items into my image beforehand.

2024-05-12 03:27:14

Note to myself (after reinventing the wheel): on MicroOS you can layer applications by using 'sudo transactional-update pkg install {program-name}'. Big gripe by users is you have to reboot, and with 6 or 7 programs that's annoying (htop, fastfetch, mc, micro, you get it).
So: install the first program with the command above, don't reboot. Then install the others one by one with: 'sudo transactional-update --continue pkg install {program-name}'. When finished with all reboot. Done.

2024-05-10 00:11:30

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it does, i was surprised as well: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7695

2024-05-10 00:06:47

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We can't have you leaving gnome for such a banality 🤣 Gimp?

2024-05-04 04:46:44

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Because Gnome knows better. No need for you to have your files in any reasonable amount of time.

2024-04-30 00:21:40

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An observation that extends way beyond just note taking 😎

2024-04-21 02:25:06

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No, i wouldn't wait that full year. It's not edged in stone, that timeframe. I think it's a sensible thing to do whenever you get the feeling it's necessary. The gains far outweigh the grind imho

2024-04-21 00:25:12

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Well, you're almost a year in, that's the usual moment for me as well to do a nuke and pave. You'll be happily surprised with the regained snappiness.