Fedora - One Month Later

I’ve officially been using Fedora for a month on Tachyon and I have enough changes made that I think it’s time for me to do a progress post. At a glance, I’m using: Alacritty as my terminal emulator. Bash as my shell. Starship for my prompt. Tmux as default. Dunst for desktop notifications. i3 as my WM. Picom as my compositor. Rofi as my app/script launcher. Polybar as my bar. Catppuccin Mocha as my theme for everything....

March 17, 2024 · 2 min · 239 words · Rithika Silva

Update: Interacting with the School Server

After having a conversation with a friend, I realized I had gone through several different “approaches” for interacting with the University of Waterloo’s student server for completing some of my coursework. While I think the workflow I have right now is the best that I have used, that is also what I thought with each of the previous iterations so I’m positive that this will probably change in the future again....

November 24, 2023 · 3 min · 591 words · Rithika Silva

Setup Check In - November 2nd, 2023

I haven’t done a check in for my current work/school/play setup in a while, so I thought it was about time. Core Devices Tachyon Tachyon is an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2022) with a Ryzen 9 6900HS, Radeon RX 6700S, and 16 GB of RAM. It is my daily driver machine (after the forfeiting of Photon - my old DELL G3 - to my younger brother), and I haven’t had any problems with it....

November 2, 2023 · 3 min · 572 words · Rithika Silva