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towb··on My NixOS Desktop Flow
Used NixOS for a short bit, it was easy to get going with and most things works good out of the box with a pretty simple config. Didn't want to replace my linux knowledge with something this different though so moved back to something more normal for my desktop. Thinking about using NisOS on my home server though, already have the configuration.nix to get it up and running very fast which is nice obviously.
towb··on What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
We had about a half to one week of empty shelves here, at least that was what I saw, wasn't there every day to look, no idea where it came from but glad it's not a problem at all anymore. Here in Sweden we have the raw material and the factories so the last thing that we'll run out of is toilet paper. Not sure how the situation is in other countries so i wonder... where is your toilet paper made? How long did you have to wait for it to get fully restocked (not just the sandpaper nobody buys in normal times)?
towb··on iPad Pro is better than any Mac
Uhm. I grew up reading in bed at night so I'm just very strong.
towb··on Ask HN: How can a intermediate-beginner learn Unix/Linux and programming?
Jump in on the deep end. Install Arch, a tiling wm of some sort, and make it yours. Soon enough you realise this isn't the deep end anymore. You get a lot for free by just using linux every day and dealing with whatever problems might pop up.

Keep the terminal open, if it can be done in a terminal it may turn out you prefer it when you get used to it. Torrents, IRC, playing music, email, file explorer, whatever makes you stay in there. It makes you comfortable navigating the system and you get to see what a GUI hides from you.

Programming? You're not gonna benefit from diving into any deep ends there, continue with JS if that's what you like. Learn databases and web servers, here your new linux skills comes in use. Try some stuff and see what you like.

towb··on iPad Pro is better than any Mac
With the big screens and high resolutions on modern phones, all I use my iPad for is Netflix in bed, pretty much. Youtube before phone screens got large-ish. I don't want a tv in my bedroom, takes too much space, cables and dust and all that.
towb··on Ask HN: Is RSS dead?
Me 3
towb··on Night train connecting Amsterdam to Scandinavian capitals under consideration
I remember reading about ideas of a hyperloop tunnel between Stockholm and Helsinki a few years ago, that would be something! I would go to Finland more if that was a thing. Or just a regular underwater train tunnel! One can dream ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Aw, second... Stared too long at the map to figure out the best route and took too long to post.

towb··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
Yes, it's easy to ignore open tabs too. No system is perfect but I do this to increase the chance of me reading or watching whatever it is. I wouldn't let it go to 3000 so it sort of works for me, better than bookmarks anyway!
towb··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
I keep the tab open until I read it... or just as likely, until I close it x months later. At least I won't have 5 year old bookmarks that I never looked at.
towb··on The Å-Machine
Which is usually a thing even on local sites for some reason.

Nothing huge ever happened because of my Å name, but it piles up over the years. Biggest issue was when a very confused man tried to check me in at an airport and had no idea how. Took maybe 20-30 minutes and the solution was "AA". Probably not as much manual typing these days, this was 10+ years ago.

towb··on The Å-Machine
Å is a good letter in many ways, but not for names. Just my opinion, and I do have around 30 years of personal experience :P
towb··on Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
Woops! Late answer.

~/ is backed up nightly and ~/.dotfiles is on github, have some other configs on there too that I don't keep in .dotfiles, not that it matters.

The remember part is just that it doesn't really do any difference in the end, I will install what I need when I need it anyway, the important part is to keep the config that I have spent hours and days making mine. :)

towb··on Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
No need to over complicate things. I just have my ~/.dotfiles and if I remembered I saved a list of installed packages on my old install that I can go through and pick whatever I need. Could add some scripts for the things I know I need to do but that's already adding too much. My feeling is you'll end up working hours and hours to create the perfect setup (which doesn't exist so you just keep tweaking it forever).
towb··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
Location: Stockholm, Sweden Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JS/Node/TS, HTML/CSS, Linux, Docker, Bash, PostgreSQL, Mongodb, and more. Résumé/CV: Been working on solo projects for too long, so not at the moment. Email: me@tobiasaberg.se

I'm up for anything related to the technologies mentioned or similar.

towb··on AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
As long as I can do it easy in the bios menu and it's not some windows only software that's fine. But still unnecessary which always will annoy me.
towb··on AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
Don't think it adds at all on the most common pieces that has them, so you can't even get away cheaper and happier without!
towb··on AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
Yes. But less stuff to pick between in every price range.
towb··on AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
Because it limits what I can get. Some light might be leaking out of whatever case I end up with. Why is it on everything? It's a waste. I didn't want it when I was 16, I don't want it when I'm 30. I can't be alone.
towb··on AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
Was looking into building a new computer today, after 5 years with my current one... Saw that even the ram sticks comes with leds. I don't want a single light anywhere but that's not going to happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
towb··on Beluga whale retrieves cell phone, returns it to tourist [video]
I want one! D: No but... Not sure I could stay in the boat if this happened, there's something with these animals that makes you want to be in there with them. Head says "it's snowing and freezing cold..." body just dives in.
towb··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
I used Enpass for a long time but it's just not good. It was, got a big update that made it worse, I waited a long while for it to get better but nothing happened so I decided to move on. This is when I found out that there was no way to export passwords from Enpass in the latest version, so I had to do it manually. Not cool.
towb··on Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain
Good to know! Things that has gone bad usually doesn't taste that great either so that's a good way to find out!
towb··on Expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain
I just bought some fancy chocolate for almost nothing the other day. Best before was end of january but it tasted very good! If I didn't know old chocolate goes white I might have throw it away.
towb··on Am I the only one seeing the '90s retro theme, with the unicorns and sparkles?
Ugh. A good joke would be to have no crappy joke one year, and then tell everyone that they should look out for a good one next year. Repeat.
towb··on Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
This works really good for TS compared to anything else I've tried. I don't think this is as flexible as some of the alternatives, this one is a bit weird compared to many other vim plugins that I'm used to, but it works pretty much out of the box.

Don't forget to install yarn, not super happy about that.

towb··on Vim.dev is redirected to Emacs website
I would be very surprised if VS Code isn't replaced in five to ten years. Simply because people get tired of editors and want the next thing to be different, not necessarily better.
towb··on Block Ads in Apps on Android
When it's between 10+ ads per hour or very expensive monthly premium for a pretty bad but addictive game, this is at least a battery saver.
towb··on Google .dev domain early access
Yikes! My one was and still is $63.70/year. I wonder what makes a domain "premium" anyway, and what makes it more or less premium? Never even seen a live .app domain anyway so that sort of makes them not premium at all.
towb··on Google .dev domain early access
On my so far unused premium .app it is the same as the initial price but who knows what happens if I put something successful on it.
towb··on In Search of the Northern Lights
I'm from Stockholm, so it's not part of what I see if I go outside on a random day. But I've seen it enough (edit: never in Stockholm), it does NOTHING with me. Meh!

Maybe it's me just knowing that "we" have it that makes me not care. I don't know.

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