24 may 2021
Was up late last night switching our computer over to Void Linux from Arch- we tried it in a spare laptop and really liked it, so we decided to switch over. It's nice to have something that has what we like about Arch without the parts we dislike. Running into oddly specific XFCE4 problems now though. Cursors won't change outside of GTK applications. Upon waking from suspend, the computer is unlocked for about a second before it locks itself and prompts us to unlock it (better than rainbow glitch hell thanks to bad configs we imported, had to delete them all and start from scratch). It's a few little graphical issues like that. We'll report them as bugs if we can't find a fix. Once we fix the little issues, think we'll be pretty happy with Void- and even then, nothing critical is broken. It's all working. Also see why people praise runit now- holy crap, it's fast. Manages to beat our Arch install in boot times by about a second, which is impressive for an already sub-10 second boot. Getting used to different commands is a bit of a pain but worth it. Honestly, we don't have strong feelings about systemd, but we haven't looked into why other people do yet.
But hey! Successfully using our ssh keys on a differently-named user! Learned a bit about ssh file permissions in the process. It's pickier than expected about permissions- only root or the owner can be allowed to access the config file and private key for ssh to work. Smart!
Worked on our website for a while yesterday (not the tilde one, Neocities). Kaz wanted a page for themself and we're working on improving equality of collective members, so you'd better bet they get a page if they want one. We'll admit we (peeps) didn't particularly want to because Kaz's preferred aesthetic is... decidedly not ours, but it's not right for us to dictate what they're allowed to do and we're working on being less controlling of other people in the collective. It's a lasting problem of ours thanks to having been in control the majority of the time for years, but it's a problem now rather than a protection and everyone here deserves the chance to do what they want so long as it doesn't hurt our body. Us being control freaks doesn't let them do much at all and it's just not okay for us to try to control them. Started doing a song a week with a few people thanks to an IRC chat. Finished a rough draft of it two days ago and now we need to edit it so it's ready by Thursday. Having fun with this!
Outside of tech: there's this squirrel that keeps hanging out on the front lawn. It's always the same squirrel as far as we can tell, and he's eating the seeds falling out of the trees. We really want to name him. He feels like a Fred, or maybe a Carl.