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Working on more stuff, trying to make everything work!

Hey all, I'm still on GNOME lol, but I am using extensions

with it nowadays. Much easier. Anyways, a lot will be

happening! I might be moving. Also, I started using

Joplin for notes. It's pretty good. I will try to

start writing more here and on the website,

and sometimes on Spartan and Gopher(I decided to

bring those back).

Also, any updates on anything will be sent to Mastodon

for more exposure. I have to get my writing out

somehow :D. I also deleted my other Mastodon

accounts on SDF and bsd.network since I never

use them, compared to hackers.town.

In regards to OSes, I am still on NixOS for my

main system, but using BTRFS since I don't care

about home system snapshots anymore. Also I'm

using Fedora Silverblue a lot on every other

system I have. It's pretty nice, altho the

terminal application selection leaves something

to be desired.

So I switched to GNOME, and generally am using NixOS with

ZFS+snaps again. But on my laptop I am using a somewhat

new distro, Fedora Kinoite. Anyways, it's nice to use hassle-

free distros for when you really just want to do things rather

than fight with the operating system in regards to installation.

To be fair, NixOS offers an easy to install option now with a

GUI installer, but you can't use ZFS in it still. I think when

Fedora 37 releases(Which is soon), I will switch from NixOS fully

because everything I want is offered by Flatpaks. I don't like

the Flatpak infrastructure compared to a regular repository

yet, and I think it needs a lot of work, but it's getting there.

In other news, I took down the Spartan and Gopher servers, simply

because not as many people would use those compared to Gemini

and my website. I think that Spartan and Gopher are great,

and I love how simple they are to use, but having to provide

updates for all them proved to be too much of a hassle.

I am also planning on converting most of this server to a pubnix.

To that end I will be beefing up security and clearing the way

for it. Look forward to it! Sign ups will happen soon!

The following is my experiences trying to run Emacs for

everything as a non-lisp programmer. I want to try programming

more in lisp, but it's hard to get used to all the parantheses

and whatnot, speaking as a person used to Python and C++. I know

you can do lots of powerful things with lisp and stuff, so it is

on my todo list.

Anyways, here's the following programs I use to do everything:

This one is a pretty good Mastodon client, has

all the features I need.

IRC client with notifications.

RSS feed reader. I like how everything is organized in it.

Gopher/Gemini browser. Not too bad, still getting used to

navigating around in it though.

Epub reader. Someone of the authors I read publish DRM free

ebooks, and they're in .epub format. This reads them pretty well.

Epub Org exporter. I like how I can export any number

Org files as epubs, makes writing so much easier.

Same as above, but for Gemini!

EMMS+Elfeed work great together. I heartily recommend them!

Big Brother DataBase. I installed this today, and imported

a vcf file that was originally from Gmail. The default importer

didn't really work well, so I used one from the Melpa emacs

packages repo and then it imported every correctly. Still

figuring out what I can do with that...

Personal organizer. Killer app it is... everyone

should give it a try.

Email client. I like it for my personal email, but

still getting used to the interface.

Directory browser/file manager. A little confusing

at first, but still getting the hang of it.

Emacs Shell. Everyone says it's really powerful,

so I'm learning this as well.... apparently it has an in-built

ssh client!

Journal/Calendar. I don't journal that much,

but I'm trying with this!

That's everything so far I use Emacs for... whew!

Working on the gopher side of LagrangePoint. There's

4 things on LagrangePoint so far. A gemini, gopher, spartan

and httpd server! They are at the following addresses:

gopher://lagrangepoint.xyz

gemini://lagrangepoint.xyz

spartan://lagrangepoint.xyz:3000

http://lagrangepoint.xyz

I will be taking signups for 10 people currently, in an

effort to turn this place into a tilde. LagrangePoint runs

on NixOS, so you every user can install their own software

with the following command "nix-env -iA irssi.nixpkgs" as

an example. That means a lot more flexibility compared to

other tildes! I'll also have to explore putting users in

NixOS containers. That might complicate things too much

though. I would just like every user to be able to do

things their own way and through their own methods.

Anyways, to reach me, send an email to: mdsj at disroot dot org.

Please send your public key so I can add it, and then you'll

be good to go!

I will be implementing a IRC server at the very least, that will

only be facing on the internal network. I might have to totally

restructure the server to add more services, but that's relatively

easy to do with NixOS.

Added more links to the links section! Check them out!

The new Direct was pretty good. Eager to try some of the games

in it!

Looking forward to the new Nintendo Direct 3rd Party Mini tomorrow!