Hey Fedi! If you use Linux and use an init system / service manager other than systemd, what do you like about what you are using? Everybody asks how these compare to systemd, so I wanted to see what people thought of them stand-alone. #Linux #OpenRC #SystemD #RunIt #s6 #whathaveyou

New post up on my blog (now with a custom domain name!) about the first week of solile development and some basic ramblings about it.

Aster's Blog

solile Development: Week 1.5

Deciding key details and brainstorming.

#solile #MobileLinux #Linux

Announcing MUD. MUD is an attempt to create an entirely new desktop based on philosophies from Lomiri, targeting mobile form factors only. The goal is to be as generic to Unix-likes as possible, only requiring wayland support and minimizing Linux-isms. Another major goal is to keep the project as simple and modular as possible to prevent feature creep and make dev easier. More information is coming soon... #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #Linux

I honestly don't know much about how accessability works (or doesn't) on Linux. I know about brltty, orca, and accesskit, but that is about it. I'd like to make postmarketOS more accessable though. #Accessability #a11y #PostMarketOS #Linux

niri being in postmarketOS is awesome! (Still ironing out the kinks right now. Gotta send in another MR to make things smoother.) #niri #postmarketOS #Linux

step-by-step guide to mainline a device step 1: Prepare the device. step 2: Cloak the device in the traditional garb. step 3: Draw the sigil

pmOS system development really is just: 1: "We should do [thing]." 2: "That would break [really niche thing]!" 1: "Who in the world uses [really niche thing]?" 2: "John MarketOS." 1: "Ah. We can't break John MarketOS' [really niche thing]. Back to [previous idea for thing]." 2: "You'll never believe this..."

Happy International Asexuality Day! #InternationalAsexualityDay #IAD #postmarketOS

Okay, so what is actually the deal with trackballs? I am looking for ergonomic peripherals to prevent myself from getting something like RSI in the future, and I was going to go with an Evoluent vertical mouse but heard about trackballs being theoretically better. I don't know how, since it looks like you would end up just hurting your thumb instead of your wrist / arm. Thoughts? #Ergonomics #Evoluent #Trackball #Mouse

Fun fact:

LibreWolf Browser

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

exists and after the whole TOS situation is now definitely better than Mozilla's PoS. #LibreWolf #FireFox #Mozilla #WebBrowser