I read the farseer trilogy last year and… man it’s a tough read. Not because of the writing - I was blown away by the prose, it is incredibly evocative - but just because they’re so relentlessly harsh.

Still taking some time off before any further Hobb books for that reason alone.

aerc is a very nice, a little less fiddly modern alternative for me nowadays

I may be misunderstanding your argument but just to make sure I want to point out that

desperate people will do desperate things to survive

does not run counter to

if you can’t afford to live, then you certainly can’t afford to move to another country

Otherwise also codeberg.org has a pages feature for a while.

And others that come to mind are surge.sh, Netlify, and Vercel that I think all offer simple one-push static hosting. Vercel and Render can also do dynamic pages, not sure about the others.

Edit: oh and of course GitLab if you’re looking for an almost 1-to-1 Pages experience.

Whoa I didn’t know that was an option, is it part of the export menu? That would make some of my - we needed to change something after all - situations much easier at work.

It uses a completely different paradigm of process chaining and management than POSIX and the underlying Unix architecture.

I think that’s exactly it for most people. The socket, mount, timer unit files; the path/socket activations; the After=, Wants=, Requires= dependency graph, and the overall architecture as a more unified ‘event’ manager are what feels really different than most everything else in the Linux world.

That coupled with the ini-style VerboseConfigurationNamesForThatOneThing and the binary journals made me choose a non-systemd distro for personal use - where I can tinker around and it all feels nice and unix-y. On the other hand I am really thankful to have systemd in the server space and for professional work.

Yeah, 3 out of 4 weeks I also have to follow a strict routine with the same morning and evening rituals, and a new note file for each day tracking intent and follow-through, otherwise nothing gets done.

It’s that 4th week where my brain rebels and needs to get taken off the schedules for a little bit and roam free, otherwise the routines will start to falter, which in turn means no more work done at all.