dustinmr
I did find it was handy to scroll with the touch screen occasionally. More an artifact of being a regular iPad user than anything else.
But if I need to do anything else I immediately go to the trackpad or keyboard.
I’m surprised an open source accounting package hasn’t popped up that handles the accounting well. The backend could largely be the same (or at least modular) while the front legitimately needs to vary based on what type of work, how sales are done, whether they hold inventory, local taxes, etc, etc.
Gets stuck on cords and in corners. So does the one I bought in September 2025.
I remember picking the first one up and saying out loud, “that’s where the name came from!”
After Hurricane Maria in 2017, I wrote off island suppliers asking for any support they could give. DO write back very quickly crediting us 3 months of hosting based on our prior billing.
And besides, the rep sent a very nicely written note wishing us the best. It was a very human response. Good people to do business with.
If windows don’t behave, I put them in floating mode with Super-f or Super-shift-f to toggle. As you say, full screen when they shouldn’t be, or vice versa. In practice, the only app I have issues with is Zoom.
The i3bar implementation, includes battery charge, network info, etc. a click takes you to gnome-settings, where you can make changes. One of the few changes I make to i3.conf is to move the bar to the top. Personal preference.
If you tried it and liked tiling before, regolith is worth a shot. It’s pretty well done.
Take a look at https://regolith-linux.org/
I tried i3wm, a tiling window manager a few years ago, and it just sort of clicked with me. Eventually I set up a laptop with it, and decided I like it better than Mac. Around that time, Regolith was announced, and I found it to be a great looking, and great set of defaults and starting point. Gnome is still available if you get lost or break something.
Incidentally, I eventually arrived to using PopOS, and then installing regolith from the package manager. Working well so far.
In the OPs case it sounds like if they do that, they won’t realize a benefit. Their client will expand the work to fill the available time.
I do the same to myself often. It’s hard to avoid.
https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2019/12/generate-images...
Graduate the port fees based on average speed for arrival.
If you haven’t worked much with a large government, you don’t tend to realize just how fractured it all is.
And you need to configure i3br/polybar, amongst lots of other things.
I ended up on Regolith mostly to see how someone else who’s used i3 for a while sets things up. I’ve found I like it pretty well. It’s a nice middle ground. I may sometime go back to building my desktop from the bottom up, but Regolith has been a good way to get a working i3 setup to build from.
It’s also a very fast way to have i3 setup and use for a week to see if you like it. If you do, then you can build what you like. But if you start from building first, your initial time investment will be much greater.
The thing is, you don’t notice that those voices aren’t you until someone points it out. And you see it most clearly through meditation. Because when you think your mind is empty, it’s not, you’re telling yourself tales constantly. At least I am. But I never thought I was until I sat back and observed how my mind was working.
It’s like those drawing that ask if you see a cat or a woman and you see a cat. But then someone points out the woman and you just can’t unsee the woman. That’s the best analogy I can find at least.
As I said, I am early in experimenting with meditation, but it really feels like a game changer.
I’ve tried to read a variety on the topic. Being that I’m of the more secular bend, I’ve really enjoyed the Sam Harris book and app, Waking Up. If you want an intro, start with either. If you’re of a more spiritual bend, I’m sure there good other options.
And why is that mouse looking at me?
And you’re right, I don’t regularly keep vegan. But I do like the option sometimes.
From the writer of this blog: https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/
In general, it matters very much how the money is appropriated for whatever you’re going to do with government money. What you might not be able to do under one particular program may not be prohibited at all under another. Or, some official may be empowered to waive some requirements. I would expect, for example, that FEMA might be able to waive the requirement you speak of, if, for example, they found it was less expensive, or even just convenient for the government.
And in terms of what the specific person I was talking with had to say, his bid on work with PREPA included proposals based on getting funding for upgrades as he had previously done in Florida after another hurricane. Which seemed reasonable when he explained. Basically, Florida Power & Light got grants from FEMA to do various upgrades to their grid because the upgrades were likely to save the feds money in a future hurricane. Or at least, that was his explanation. And it fits with my experience in DC early in my career as well.
Every replacement part need requires that PREPA either have the part machined specially, or they need to purchase a production run of whatever the part is.
The conversation left me with the impression that its likely less expensive to simply replace large sections or even re-engineer than to incrementally improve the existing infrastructure.
About the only thing I miss is a full keyboard for sms & iMessage. And I have an old Mac Mini laying around that could be put to use if necessary.