kinda glad I bounced off of the suckless ecosystem when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

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    1 year ago

    If you’re pathologically opposed to software complexity, you probably shouldn’t be using a GUI at all. Many millions of lines of code are involved in turning UTF-8 into pixels on your screen, laying out widgets, driving a GPU, and so forth.

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      1 year ago

      Oh come off it. You know what I mean, I’m already mocking myself you don’t need to hit me in the kidneys.

      I ran headless for a while but security risls