Librarian_HCM

joined 8 months ago
[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For real. Like I do understand and respect why AES countries make it difficult for anyone to just move and remain, because the imperial core would 100% utilize that to infiltrate, but damn I wish it was easier.

Basically, I work in academia, and it's at least feasible for me to move to Vietnam through that. It's not perfect, and still suffers from Vietnam not having very long visas, but I'd still take it if it comes to fruition

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're definitely tough for long term residency! I have a narrow pathway that could work, so I'm thrilled. But I really wish moving countries (especially just leaving the US at all) was easier

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, what are some of the concerns with Manjaro?

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Oh definitely for sure. And I objectively see that CachyOS is great. Will try it out eventually haha

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Fascinating! Thanks for your thoughts!

I tried out Void for a bit back in the day, but bounced off of it because of the DE, so it felt arcane to me. Very admirable group though, so I respect their work.

Yeah the Nvidia stuff has been a really tough one in the grand scheme of things to manage. I've been an AMD person from the start, so it never crosses my mind, (and now I'm constantly looking at the Chinese competitor market for when they overtake AMD and Nvidia).

Niri is really fascinating! I have yet to experiment with it or the other tiling styles, but one of my friends uses Niri and loves it. I think I'm just so used to my normal workflow at this point.

Oh, that makes sense. I don't have a SteamDeck, but that makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't want to be tied to steam/valve, but the stability and interface makes a hell of a lot of sense.

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've been intrigued by CatchyOS, but it might be the contrarian in me that I side eye it because "that's the popular OS at the moment" lol

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Love seeing more openSUSE in the wild. Pairing it with Debian seems clever as well!

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Nice! I haven't messed with Arch based distros much, only used EndeavorOS for a while back in 2021 for awhile.

I really appreciate it for a lot of things and think that the design is elegant.

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Just a general life update thing: I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my career. I'm currently at an institution that is not great, but pays decently. In the future I have been wanting to apply for jobs in my field in Hanoi, or back to the UK. Move and settle.

But I have been leaning towards Vietnam overall. But a position is open, that basically aligns with NY skills very closely, back in Scotland. I'm obviously applying (but not expecting much). It just feels like a crossroads of "If I do this, it basically locks out my moving to Vietnam, which sucks. But it'd suck as well to lock out UK.

Anyway, just a lot to process. But the UK job probably won't even pan out, so I shouldn't worry too much anyway.

 

I've been a Linux user for about a decade and a half, most of that time I've been using OpenSUSE, but recently I've been hopping again.

For my main machine, I needed a distro that natively runs and installs .deb packages at root for the program used for my language lessons (fcitx5 nor ibus played well with sandboxes) so I've landed on Kubuntu for that machine.

But I'm really intrigued by the setup of VanillaOS, apx seems like such a perfect solution in many ways to my needs, but I don't have as much experience with immutable distros.

Lastly I'm fascinated with NixOS, and really want to get into it, but life is just so busy that I don't have the energy to devote to learning it.

So, what about you folks?

[–] Librarian_HCM@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I wasn't an active poster or commenter there, but the writing on the wall really made me decide to finally move to Lemmy.

Greetings comrades!

(photo is how I'll feel when I'm arrested for Marxist-Leninist memes) Ho Chi Minh when he was arrested