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homepage update: i added a xerox mode to my flat pages with css svg filters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ read about it and also more of my linux adventures on my blog: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#linux-xerox

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thanks! <3

i think i've just been mindlessly hanging onto the residual steve jobs aura underdog apple for the past many years but it's become more and more clear that that era is fully over and done. recent apple developments and decisions really highlighted that shift for me and pushed me to take the step. i wrote about it in this post and some other recent posts: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#framework-fedora-me

i never thought i would ever get out of the apple eco either but it was actually not that bad. i'm not totally out of it ofc but it's definitely been downgraded in my daily use. slowly but surely. sadly there's no good phone alternative imo (tho i'm considering just switching to a dumb phone) 

i picked fedora because i like its philosophy of open inclusiveness, its dedication to foss, and its stability. i tried ubuntu a long time ago and didn't like it. arch is interesting but i also didn't want something to constantly mess around with. fedora also works very well with framework hardware!

I've been motivated by the exact same disillusionment even though I was very late to the party— my first personal macOS device was a hackintosh I put together in 2015, and my first iPhone was a 13 Mini in 2021 after I rage quit from being a Googler.

Philosophically I'm much more aligned with linux + the /homelabs movement, so it feels like I'm just waiting for a catalyst moment to make the jump. However reading your blogs, these two points are quite compelling

> the first is that i wanted a non-mac machine for testing my homepage on

> system search so much better, more accurate and smoother than spotlight on mac

I have the dock totally hidden on macOS, and Spotlight leaves a lot to be desired. Raycast gives me the ick for being a very integral part of how I interact with my computer while being VC backed and thus inevitably subject to making me the product, not the user.

I sorta daydream about trying omarchy, but it's a little too flashy for me. So instead going with Arch and using something Spotlight-like with fzf and hoping for the best. But having the "just works" functionality that Apple has taken so much credit for seem within reach on Fedora makes it very appealing!

As for the phone... I'm somewhere in between wanting a dumb phone or just a 13 Mini sized degoogled android phone that can play nicely with my theoretical linux machine.

I've become very invested in agentic coding (for better or for worse) and having a phone with a terminal emulator app + ssh + tmux was surprisingly easy to set up and more surprisingly ergonomic to do tasks while away from my desk.

All this to say, as usual, I find your posts inspiring and am always grateful you come around to share an update. I should probably stop putting off getting an RSS reader again as it's clear there's some more blog posts of yours I haven't read! And it's yet another thing I'm philosophically very aligned with just been held back from setting up out of laziness v___v

1. Loooove the xerox mode and the zine feel and the early memory of your mom; it's a sweet touch with a really clean execution
2. Linux??? I've been Linux + Framework curious for years now but have been too bought into the Apple ecosystem to see myself breaking away for the sake of trying something new.

What brought you to getting a new laptop for Linux? And why Fedora over say Ubuntu or Arch?