26 may 2021
Popped over to EndeavorOS today because we got fed up with Void and wanted Arch back, but we honestly didn't feel like doing a manual install and doing all the troubleshooting again. Endeavor installed flawlessly, wifi seems to be working as it should, and everything is installed. Bonus: We've been wanting to try a tiling WM and Endeavor offered i3 gaps as an option (standalone or alongside a DE), so we decided to go for standalone i3 and see how we liked it. Long story short: We LOVE it, holy shit. Now we get the hype. We had keybinds to tile XFCE4 and used them constantly, and having our WM do all the work for us is amazing. Customization is pretty intuitive (though we already borked it once- whoops! Luckily it makes itself easy to fix by giving error logs when it breaks) and all the things we wanted on our panel/bar were already there, so we just need to make it look pretty and fix the time so it's not military time. We prefer AM/PM most of the time. This is also giving us a chance to really use workspaces, and have to say they do everything we did on one screen but better for a tiling WM. It's nice! We've almost got importing our ssh keys and fixing permissions down to a science now. What is this, time number 3? We have them backed up to a few places just to be safe. Interestingly, suspension wake bug followed us, so we're thinking it might be a hardware issue or a new packaging issue. It's a problem either way. Today it outright froze the screen and we had to reboot to fix it. Hasn't cropped up again after that but it has us wary of closing the laptop lid. Hopefully we find the problem soon.
Worked on our website more yesterday- Hider Girl got a page. Next thing to add is Lotus's page since ae's being very clear that ae wants one. Other than that, nothing interesting happened today. Started a painting for class and have no idea where we want to take the colors, but maybe primaries only? Could be a neat look, though contrast will be a trick. We have to have this finished by Friday too, so it's going to be a mad rush to finish everything. Did some work for philosophy class- talking ethics now, which is going to be a mess when people start to disagree in discussions. Lots of talking in circles with no resolution, which is both a reason we like philosophy and don't like it. There's no right answer and most arguments have value, but there's no action to be taken because there isn't a right answer. The problems happen when people think there IS a right answer and act accordingly when the whole point of philosophy is thinking about things that don't have an answer. The class's professor summed it up nicely: "as soon as it has a definite answer, it stops being philosophy and starts being science."