A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-crazy Western Canadian.

  • 1 Post
  • 78 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 20th, 2023

help-circle


  • A really common issue with sway is that it doesn’t run as a login shell, so none of your .profile or other environment settings get sourced when you login. I think that might be the problem here.

    Try closing your sway session, then login to a tty and run sway. If the qt themes work properly then it’s definitely an environment issue.





  • Fellow Arch user here (btw). It’s exactly the same as building AUR packages. Clone a git repo containing a PKGBUILD, use makepkg to build it, and pacman to install it. The nice thing is you can host a repo of your built packages and install them on other systems really easily. The big downside is that dependency management is not automated, so it will take some time and annoyance to map out what packages you need to build and in what order, if you want a fully source-bootstrapped system.











  • We’re trying that in Canada right now, and it’s making a lot of people very angry.

    Those people are ignorant and wrong, but they’re loud enough that even parties on the left are saying “maybe we should try something else.”

    It is really interesting to think about how we built our entire society around gas being insanely cheap. You can buy a gallon of it for $3, which is as much as you would pay for a large cup of coffee in most places, something which we have essentially an infinite supply of.