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Cake day: August 28th, 2024

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  • Well the best thing about it is that she wouldn’t even touch linux before this. She’s primarily a mac user. But after I dragged her to see my desktop modifications, after 10 eye rolls, she said she could do much better job than me.

    Hours later she was still at it, hairs scattered, baffled looking… saying how could someone live with so many choices lol.

    The good thing out of this was that now she’s starting to see the point of linux after all these years.









  • As the other commentator stated, you’re looking for a FP.

    The things you’re describing can be easily found… but they usually cost a lot to have all of the qualities at once.

    That is unless you can get your hands on chinese FPs where you live. I get mine ftom aliexpress.

    Now from my own personal experience you can’t go wrong with either Jinhao X159 or Jinhao Dadao 9019.

    You can get a fine nib which I think is the perfect balance between smoothness and crispness.

    Another tip: if you find that the feeling of the nib is not to your liking, you can tune the nib. There are many excellent tutorials for this and you can do it at home without special equipment.

    Since money is a problem, you’ll probaly have to substitute it with your time in getting exactly what you want.






  • There are so many. By usage however:

    Smart Audiobook Player: None of the apps I tried had all the features in one, like reading my complex audiobooks folder structure and auto grouping the books based on that. Timer to pause audiobook that is automatically reset by moving the phone.

    Maps: No foss solutions work better where I live than GMaps

    YTMusic: So this is a tough one to beat because of the nature of the platform itself.

    Notes: I am looking for a P2P syncable note app that can also have a web interface or atleast a Linux version of the App. Allows drawing your notes on an android phone or tablet using stylus, and other usual features. Can also use cloud storage as a backup or sync source. I know this one is a really tall order.


  • My man wrote a whole essay to start a casual conversation lol.

    Anyways to answer: fountain pens. I got some cheap chinese ones from Ali Express, the company is Jinhao. A really good bang for your buck. You can get a pretty good one under 10 bucks these days…

    Anyways the appeal of the pens to me lie in how deliberate they feel. You give importance to your writing by using a FP.

    Another appeal is the feels of the pen. I have on occassion thrown away ball point pens by pure gut reaction if I accidentally grabbed one.