That was the url my personal Z-library url redirects to, unless my personal url was compromised? Like, remember when they first went back online and you had to register to get your own url to access zlib? I’ve just been using that

Try https://z-library.se/ ?

If not, libgen normally has what i’m looking for anyway

For the border it’s just css. In your style.css:

window#waybar {
  background-color: @background;
  color: @foreground;
  opacity: 1;
  border: 1px solid @accent;
}

(where those are variables representing my waybar colours, you can ofc use literal values instead)

Yep, waybar. Much better than polybar as you can customise it with css

TIL about Trinity. Honestly looks pretty cool and cosy, although maybe that’s just the nostalgia talking. It’s always nice to see projects to maintain more retro visuals while running modern software on modern hardware.

I’ve not tried them personally but I’ve seen quite a few aero themes for KDE and I think XFCE too if you want an aero look. Or if you just want a glassy texture you can adjust your blur settings in your compositor and add translucency/transparency. I have a very nice-looking matte frosted glass look on my Hyprland laptop.

I have heard from friends that they got banned for using adblockers on free Spotify. I used a tool, forgot what it’s called, for the brief time I had Spotify Premium where you could give it access to your account via the API and it’d search music piracy websites to download all the songs and albums in your library. After I had downloaded my library I cancelled my subscription. So that was entirely within Spotify’s ToS. (Music piracy is still illegal, but the violation didn’t happen against Spotify.) I suppose if you wanted to do this then doing something like that, where you just look the song up on music piracy sites and don’t actually download from Spotify directly, would be less likely to get your account banned. You still need Premium to access the API, but you could just scrape the webpage if you want.

Hm, I have lsof installed. Wonder why it’s showing Sway then. Not a big deal, I won’t waste time trying to get it to show

I’m showing you the parts I’m happy with—a lot of programs are not customised! Also, it’s a placeholder wallpaper & neofetch theme, etc

Why are you being this defensive? I didn’t say GIMP was bad, I like it and I use it regularly. I just don’t think it’s better than Photoshop is all. I’m sure the devs are actively trying to improve the UI too. This seems like a massive overreaction

You are in a piracy community

As in it’s unfortunate that there isn’t a foss photo editor better than gimp (which us quite clunky and awkward to use)

GIMP is the best you’re gonna get unfortunately.

If you just want something that’s free as in price, honestly the best thing (in terms of functionality only) is pirated photoshop natively on windows. I’ve found PS is kinda crap on Wine.

Photopea is proprietary so at that point you may as well just pirate photoshop, at least then you’re getting the real thing.

I don’t “refuse” to pirate anything. If I buy something I see it basically as a donation, that I like what the creator does and want to support them. I tend to buy indie games for that reason; I wouldn’t buy a AAA game because obviously they don’t need the money. Oh, and I buy books if I know the author is actually a good writer, ie if I’ve read something by them before and I want to support their writing. Also seconding what people are saying about FOSS; I’ve donated a lot more to FOSS projects than I’ve paid for proprietary software.

That’s a shame about musl, musl sounds cool.

I wonder if you have thoughts on Artix? I’m going to do an Artix install soon, I like the sound of it as it’s systemd-free (you can use runit with it like Void) but still lets you use the AUR. If not for that I think I’d go with Void instead though, I hear fewer people complaining about things not working with Void so it sounds to me like Void might be more stable than Artix.

Looks really nice. I think I’d use Void if not for the AUR.

Really great aesthetic, nice stuff.

Btw, I’d recommend imv for an image viewer as it has native Wayland support (not that it’s a huge deal, xwayland for an image viewer works fine, but I just like using native Wayland programs wherever possible)