Here's my light theme:

0#ffffff
1#ac4142
2#90a959
3#f4bf75
4#6a9fb5
5#aa759f
6#75b5aa
7#000000
8#000000
9#ac4142
10#90a959
11#f4bf75
12#6a9fb5
13#aa759f
14#75b5aa
15#000000

< Legend: {color number}"#"{hex code} >

Hmm it builds but I have to restart my laptop to apply changes to the virtual consoles… 😛

I'll see if it's applied when I next restart, I guess. I don't want to lose my spot in the albums I'm listening to right now.

It works! I have a gruvbox light tty!

Now if only I could figure out raising the font size… It's *tiny* on my HiDPI screen.

yeeaaah right off the bat I can tell ya that it won't work on NixOS. ;)

~] tree /usr
/usr
└── bin
├── env -> /nix/store/l6jgwxkc3jhr029vfzfwzcy28iyckwsj-coreutils-9.1/bin/env
└── joplin -> /home/benjamin/.joplin-bin/bin/joplin

1 directory, 2 files

What I'm going to look at having to set is console.font:

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=22.11&show=console.font&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=console

I assume I can add whatever package the font I want is in using console.packages:

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=22.11&show=console.packages&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=console

In some ways this is more straightforward, but it could sure use better documentation.

Hmm I think I probably solved it based on https://discourse.nixos.org/t/setting-tty-fonts/14799, but

~] reboot
Backing up; try again later.

As glad as I am that I added the lockfile to my backup script… I wish I could just try this out. 😅

Setting TTY fonts

I have a HiDPI screen and would like to select a larger TTY font. Here are the relevant settings in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix: { # ... i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.

^{NixOS Discourse}

Oh wait, it looks like it went ahead and applied, unlike the color changes.

Still I see some messages in the thread about it not sticking on reboot, so I do want to try that.

…and it works! It's not applied for the LUKS unlock prompt, but that's okay. Everything else is the proper size.

Now I just need to figure out how on earth I switch tty with my custom keymap…

Yeah, last time I tried to do my caps <--> esc swap in the TTY, it royally b0rked up X11. Not sure about wayland.

Still not sure why I bother with the greeter. It's an extra piece of software just to save me from a single 'exec sway' command. 😛

Well I'm more thinking about the fact that I don't *have* leftctrl. XD

And I'm also using my QMK config, which is firmware-based.

A display manager does help you with some security things, tho. For example, if sway crashes, it doesn't just drop you back into the tty, you're back at a login screen.

That does seem to work.

Ehhh I like agreety.

What does it do that getty and a tiny shell script couldn't?

You can't even change the font size. AFAIK

163 ppi. A little hi-res, but not quite HIDPI territory.
My #PinebookPro is 1080p 12", I think.

I think it's got to be at least 200ppi to be considered HIDPI, but I doubt there's a hard-and-fast rule to it.

I just know that the first HIDPI Macbooks were around 288ppi

It's a fun little thing to carry around. It's basically a 2016 chromebook with Linux

The keyboard is decent, the tackpad is kind of disappointing, and you won't be very happy in a web browser, but everything else is fine.

I *do* believe video is hardware accelerated in Firefox, but I always play video (YT & otherwise) in mpv, because I don't have the patience to deal with the modern web in something that's got the CPU power of an iPhone 7.

I'm not sure it's such a good buy in 2023, but I've had mine for about 2 years and it's been great.

Maybe look at the #Pinetab 2?

The Pinetab 2 has a 2020 CPU...

@fbievan @benjaminhollon @sotolf

Yeah. I haven't seen Apple be this far ahead technically since the early nineties.

And I haven't seen Apple be this lost and soulless since the late 90s.

Strange times.

Sad because they had, if nothing else, the semblance of a proper mythology back in the 80s through the naughties.
Even if they weren't noble, the had *some* noble ideas, even if those ideas were in the service of greed. It wasn't *all* greed, even if it was mostly greed.

Now it's worse than just greed.

I was there 6000 years ago, Gandalf.

I sat before the very first Macintosh and looked on in wonder as its glow filled my eyes.

Even as a wee lad, I *knew* it was something unlike anything else I'd ever seen.

They *did* change the world. Probably for greed, but yes, they certainly did.

I don't think they've changed anything since 2010 or so, and probably not anything for the better since 2001 or so.

Old iFanboy roots showing, but to me, Apple took the Xerox Alto *demo* and made it into a working product, and took something that would *become* a $10,000 workstation and shrunk it down to a $1,999 home computer (yes, it sold for $2,495. Purely John Scully's fault).

I don't think Microsoft contributed a single thing, not one solitary innovation in their entire first decade of life.

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ah, so basically just copying what others did but with better advertisements, like they did with the phone market.

They used to quite a lot of programming language development, and still do, that's basically the main thing that they do quite okay.

Really? I figured you'd *hate* Objective-C.

Man, don't discount Bill Atkinson's mathematical genius. It's easy to think of GUIs as no big deal today, but with the slow CPU, limited RAM, and limited dev tools they had in the day, that work was MIRACULOUS.

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objective-c was pretty nice like a lovechild between c and smalltalk, created at NeXt 😀

The GUI would come anyway, I'm still not convinced it wasn't a bad idea, I still dislike most of the things it has resulted in 😛

The democratization of tech that resulted from it was good, but the dumbing-down of tech was bad.
Honestly, I think that the GUI was pretty good overall, but smartphones (particularly the iPhone-derived variety) were disastrous.

Of course the GUI would come anyway, just as someone would eventually land on the moon. The remarkable thing isn't that Armstrong was first, but that he was first in 1969, when the technology was barely ready.