which is why i'm excited to announce the #ovemittschallenge2025q4. this is a #self #careChallenge; starting tomorrow, for all of #Q4 of #2025, can #YOU #respect your body enough to #always use #ovenmitts whenever moving things #into OR #outof the oven, #regardless of #temperature?
i was extremely successful at achieving this. this remains to this day the only new years' resolution i've ever successfully implemented. i started out creative but developed a towel-based strategy for the long haul, and unfortunately for my hands, the habit stuck even after #noovenmittschallenge2024 was over.
@jk oh wow this is great
@jk like rly I wish more stuff could just be statically linked and just have self contained executables that can run anywhere, but I appreciate that this is so fucking hard that we came up with a whole wrapper to set up a virtual filesystem to dynamically link shit in from to work around this.
@jk it's a shame the linux ecosystem doesn't have room for "folders full of DLLs and EXEs" consistently working, too many weird assumptions about where stuff should be on a system. In theory /opt provides some clues how to do this, I think you could make a folder with bin, lib, share, whatever subdirectories and have a script that sets some environment variables?
This problem is why appimage is the most promising of the newfangled packaging stuff out there, to me at least, even if it's a hack
@jk "tamagotchi mode" is a perfect description of why I switched from Arch to Debian many years back. I inherited the very active "set everything up yourself" attitude from arch, but applied it to a distro that has stability. But I also don't run a full desktop (so i have no idea how broken stuff like icons is), and it didn't solve this problem, just mitigate it
@CarlMuckenhoupt but 2 doesn't always mean "two", if it immediately precedes a 3 it means the " twenty-" part of "twenty-three"
alice