I’m curious, how are you discovering new music this way? my understanding of soulseek and nicotine+ is that they’re great for finding music by artists you already know, but idk how they would work for discovery…?

very cool! loving these low-res rices - there’s something really appealing about them. this also reminds me of my chromebook that I’ve done a similar thing with (turn into a writing-focused machine).

I’m not usually a fan of cursors outside of the regular black & white, but that cursor goes perfectly with the whole theme here!

I can’t believe someone has paid for that domain name for 23 years… O_O

Nice, thanks! I haven’t tried customizing the default KDE bars yet; it’s cool to see they can be changed a decent amount.

Nice, thanks! I haven’t tried customizing the default KDE bars yet; it’s cool to see they can be changed a decent amount.

What are you using for your top bar?

I like the friendlier feeling of Seaford (the o shapes have a little tilt to them rather than being straight on the grid), but I’m guessing they leaned towards the most “generic” of the five because as a default font you want it to become “invisible” almost. I think a more unique font would stand out and then become a little grating over time given how much it would be seen.

Really clean! Now you just need to theme that pihole dashboard to Nord too ;)

What font are you using for the clock/taskbar? Looks nice! I’ll have to poke around KDE for that taskbar too, it automatically gave me the icon only version and idk if I like it.

I’d think about it at a high level and then get more granular. What are your favorite riced screenshots? What parts of them particularly appeal to you? On the other hand, are there things about your setup that bother you? Then, take what you like and don’t like and let that guide you in customization.

I am pretty opinionated, so I care about changing little things. Examples of little things I tweaked when installing KDE recently:

• made the digital clock display on one line instead of two
• removed blur from lockscreen
• hid user info + switch user options from lockscreen

For me the rest of the visual adjustments came from picking color schemes, fonts, icons, and wallpapers I like.

Interesting. I wonder if it’s worth putting a Faraday cage around a home NAS – but it sounds like the electrical surge from it being plugged in might fry it as well.

Unfortunately a decent amount of active communities are on lemmy.world – but here are some other cool places from my subbed list:

• mander.xyz — this place has a lot of nature and science communities; their houseplant community is great, they have a native plant gardening community, a moss community (please join and post more moss!!), and more.

• sopuli.xyz — they have a map enthusiasts community I like, popular steam deck and meme communities, EDC, and more.

• slrpnk.net — they have solarpunk and zero waste communities, no lawns, etc.

• lemmy.zip — has good game specific communities, like Disco Elysium, Hades, Starfield, Diablo, and others

I’ll also recco lemmyverse.net as a great way to browse the communities that are across the fediverse!

Never heard of them, but just looking at a registrar comparison chart, their renewal costs are pretty high. eg. $20 for .wiki renewal at Porkbun and $30 at Hover. Maybe they bundle in a lot of services along with it that make the price worth it? but unless you’re taking full advantage of those (if they’re offered) then you could def get a better deal elsewhere.

Namecheap has okay starting prices but man their renewal prices aren’t great compared to other registrars.

I just transferred all my domains out of Namecheap into Porkbun. I think Porkbun is 10 to 50 cents more expensive than Cloudflare, but they seemed a bit easier to use and could hold all my TLDs. So far, a way better experience than Namecheap!