Undertale* is a classic and must-play.

*might also make you cry

Visual novels like Doki Doki Literature Club! and Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It come to mind. Both are free and pretty good.

Ctrl+Q closes Firefox (very easy to misinput due to being so close to Ctrl+W): browser.quitShortcut.disabled = true

dupeGuru has a great GUI for finding similar looking images (videos are not supported). See How to deduplicate files on Linux with dupeGuru for a tutorial. There’s a similar tool for videos called videoduplicatefinder but I did not try it out.

I will now share my experiences with using dupeGuru. I ran it in Picture mode and selected “Match pictures of different dimensions”. It was nice to see that it found a few low-quality JPEGs that look identical to higher-quality PNGs. One feature that I really like is the option to “ignore duplicates hardlinking to the same file”; let me explain why: I sometimes download the same image into multiple subfolders of my fan art collection, so I want to keep both images despite them being exact duplicates. This can be accomplished by running rdfind -makehardlinks true . to turn exact duplicates into hardlinks, and running dupeGuru afterwards.

I experimented a bit with with “Filter Hardness”. On the first run, I set it to “≥95% match” and the results did not contain any false positives! I later went down to “≥70% match”, which reported more duplicates, but also some false positives. If you have many comic doodles in your collection, choose at least 80%. However, if you want to detect crops of other images, you have to choose a lower percentage. On my collection of 3000 images, dupeGuru took about 5 minutes.

dupeGuru has one major downside: The current release version ignores webp images, but you can build it from source (Arch users can install dupeguru-git from the AUR). Another downside is that it automatically chooses the biggest file among all duplicates as the reference file. This is often a good heuristic but fails badly with webp images that have better compression ratio than other formats. So, if you want to keep only the image of highest quality for every group of duplicates, you have to select it in the GUI and press Ctrl+Space, or export the results to CSV and do some scripting.

You can also put this in ~/.config/xkb/symbols/us-custom (create the parent directories if necessary) and set the environment variable XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us-custom. This works in most Wayland compositors, including river and niri. For Hyprland, you can add this to your config file:

input {
	kb_layout = us-custom
}

If you use GNOME, run

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources mru-sources "[('xkb', 'us-custom')]"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us-custom')]"

and restart GNOME.

This is my keyboard layout (I explained some bits of it here):

default partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
include "us(de_se_fi)" // Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and €

include "level5(rctrl_switch)"

key.type[Group1] = "EIGHT_LEVEL";

// Number row
key <TLDE> {[ grave,      asciitilde,  dead_grave,           dead_tilde                                       ]};
key <AE01> {[ 1,          exclam,      onesuperior,          U2081                                            ]}; // x₁
key <AE02> {[ 2,          at,          twosuperior,          U2082                                            ]}; // x₂
key <AE03> {[ 3,          numbersign,  threesuperior,        U2083                                            ]}; // x₃
key <AE06> {[ 6,          asciicircum, dead_circumflex,      dead_caron                                       ]};
key <AE08> {[ 8,          asterisk,    enfilledcircbullet,   U22C5,               infinity                    ]}; // dot operator
key <AE10> {[ 0,          parenright,  NoSymbol,             NoSymbol                                         ]};
key <AE11> {[ minus,      underscore,  endash,               emdash,              U207B                       ]}; // x⁻
key <AE12> {[ equal,      plus,        notequal,             approxeq                                         ]};

// Top row
key <AD01> {[ q,          Q,           NoSymbol,             U211A,               NoSymbol,      NoSymbol     ]}; // ℚ
key <AD02> {[ w,          W,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_omega,   Greek_OMEGA  ]};
key <AD03> {[ e,          E,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_epsilon, U2203        ]}; // ∃
key <AD04> {[ r,          R,           NoSymbol,             U211D,               Greek_rho,     U03F1        ]}; // ℝ ϱ
key <AD05> {[ t,          T,           U03D1,                Greek_tau,           Greek_theta,   Greek_THETA  ]}; // ϑ
key <AD08> {[ i,          I,           U21d2,                U21d4,               Greek_iota,    integral     ]}; // ⇒ ⇔
key <AD09> {[ o,          O,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_omega,   Greek_OMEGA  ]};
key <AD10> {[ p,          P,           section,              paragraph,           Greek_pi,      Greek_PI     ]};

// Home row
key <AC01> {[ a,          A,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_alpha,   U2200        ]}; // ∀
key <AC02> {[ s,          S,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_sigma,   Greek_SIGMA  ]};
key <AC03> {[ d,          D,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_delta,   Greek_DELTA  ]};
key <AC04> {[ f,          F,           NoSymbol,             NoSymbol,            Greek_phi,     Greek_PHI    ]};
key <AC05> {[ g,          G,           degree,               NoSymbol,            Greek_gamma,   Greek_GAMMA  ]};
key <AC06> {[ h,          H,           U2190,                NoSymbol,            Greek_eta,     U2225        ]}; // ← ∥
key <AC07> {[ j,          J,           U2193,                NoSymbol,            NoSymbol,      NoSymbol     ]}; // ↓
key <AC08> {[ k,          K,           U2191,                NoSymbol,            Greek_kappa,   U03F0        ]}; // ↑ ϰ
key <AC09> {[ l,          L,           U2192,                NoSymbol,            Greek_lambda,  Greek_LAMBDA ]}; // →
key <AC10> {[ semicolon,  colon,       dead_diaeresis,       NoSymbol,            NoSymbol,      NoSymbol     ]};
key <AC11> {[ apostrophe, quotedbl,    rightsinglequotemark, NoSymbol,            NoSymbol,      NoSymbol     ]};
key <AC12> {[ backslash,  bar,         U2500,                U2502,               NoSymbol,      NoSymbol     ]}; // box drawing

// Bottom row
key <AB01> {[ z,          Z,           NoSymbol,             U2124,               Greek_zeta,    U2220        ]}; // ℤ ∠
key <AB02> {[ x,          X,           multiply,             NoSymbol,            Greek_xi,      Greek_XI     ]};
key <AB03> {[ c,          C,           NoSymbol,             U2102,               Greek_chi,     copyright    ]}; // ℂ
key <AB04> {[ v,          V,           doublelowquotemark,   singlelowquotemark,  Greek_psi,     Greek_PSI    ]};
key <AB05> {[ b,          B,           leftdoublequotemark,  leftsinglequotemark, Greek_beta,    NoSymbol     ]};
key <AB06> {[ n,          N,           rightdoublequotemark, rightsinglequotemark,Greek_nu,      U2115        ]}; // ℕ
key <AB07> {[ m,          M,           U2212,                plusminus,           Greek_mu,      NoSymbol     ]}; // minus
key <AB08> {[ comma,      less,        dead_cedilla,         NoSymbol,            U27e8,         NoSymbol     ]}; // ⟨
key <AB09> {[ period,     greater,     ellipsis,             dead_abovedot,       U27e9,         NoSymbol     ]}; // ⟩
key <AB10> {[ slash,      question,    division,             questiondown,        NoSymbol,      NoSymbol     ]};
};

GNOME Settings shows a visual preview of the first four layers:

See also this writeup by Leon Plickat.

Store your Firefox profile and all tabs in RAM for snappier browsing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Profile_on_RAM

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a great Rouge-like.

#!/bin/sh
# Select a file with fzf from a database sorted by frecency and open it using
# xdg-open. frece can be found at https://github.com/YodaEmbedding/frece

DB_FILE=${FRECE_FILES_DB:-$HOME/.cache/frecent-files.csv}
item=$(frece print "$DB_FILE" | fzf --tiebreak=index --scheme=path)

[ -z "$item" ] && exit 1
frece increment "$DB_FILE" "$item"

xdg-open "$item"

#!/bin/sh
# Update frece database

DB_FILE=${FRECE_FILES_DB:-$HOME/.cache/frecent-files.csv}
tmp_file=$(mktemp)
fd -H . ~ > "$tmp_file"  # use ~/.fdignore file to exclude certain dirs
frece update "$DB_FILE" "$tmp_file" --purge-old
rm "$tmp_file"

Wired has removed the story because it “does not meet [their] editorial standards”.

Wired has removed the story because it “does not meet [their] editorial standards”.

Make sure that toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets is enabled in about:config.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

That learning styles exists

Thanks, I was confused because I thought “not supporting Taiwan independence” means being fine with China annexing Taiwan. In both versions of the readout, Biden wants to keep the status quo in Cross-Strait relations, but this is phrased differently in each readout.

It’s good that China and the US keep up the communication. However, I would like to see an US version of this: Did Biden really “reiterated that the one-China policy of the US has not changed and will not change, and that the US does not support ‘Taiwan independence’.”?

You guys are overreacting. DDG said they would only down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. It’s normal for search engines to downrank low-quality sites such as SEO spam.