Gnome

Who knew. You were running a hypervisor with two modes available to you: goblin and gnome. When the goblin retreats enough, it can die and be reborn as a gnome ascendant. The question is: Is this a permanent level-up into a higher mode of being (Hypothesis A), or can the gnome retreat into its own kind of degeneracy, and be reborn as a goblin too (Hypothesis B)? Is the goblin/gnome pair a kind of yin-yang cycle, or do they represent lower/higher stages of being?

Reflecting on my own gobliny rundown-ness lately, it strikes me that there is a fundamental connection between the goblin/gnome dichotomy, and what I think of as the unit economics of maintenance labor.

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Viewed from this lens again, gnome mode is the restoration of a relationship with yourself where you are owner, user, and maintainer, all in one, and like it. All the roles are aligned and coincident, and you behave accordingly. Your body and your self are one, and in harmony with the environment.

Car ownership is a good example. There are gnome-mode car cultures, where temperamental cars are kept running through constant TLC by mechanics who get to know them, and which degrade gracefully, wabi-sabi style, and goblin-mode car culture, where they are heavily computerized, maintained in standardized ways to insurance-dictated standards, get little to no TLC, and acquire no personality.

Awesome read! Towards the end of it, for some reason, I kept thinking of India as an example of a societal-level degenerate gnome archetype. I am not sure if the framework scales from individuals to groups to cultures, but with a little bit of adaptation and adjustment for time scales, I think it does. And that helps explain a lot of otherwise "quirky" aspects of different organizations and societies.

It is sort of interesting that the two example memes (as well as others I\u2019ve seen) seem to focus on the archetype of the garden gnome in particular. The kind people like to put in their gardens. The gnome is still a domestic figure, but it has ventured outdoors tentatively, into a garden, and is re-engaging with the larger world at a very local level. In better times, the Travelocity gnome traveled the world.

Paul Millerd\u2019s book (which I started reading on the plane last week and am almost finished with) has a lot of good insight into this process, including a touching personal account of his own descent into goblin-hood, existential crisis, and re-emergence into gnome-hood. I navigated my own version of that journey when I went free-agent in 2011, though I was never quite as strongly into goblin mode as Paul apparently once was. On the other hand, I think I\u2019ve plugged less completely into gnome mode than he apparently has now. I\u2019m still pretty goblin, and I don\u2019t exactly mind it.

I suspect there is such a thing as degenerate gnome mode too \u2014 a condition of stagnation, slow degrowth, high-inertia traditionalism, lack of innovation, claustrophobic connectedness with people you can\u2019t get away from, things being nurtured to live on long past the point where they ought to be recycled, and so on. Uncritical gnome mode seems like a naturally reactionary condition to me, just as uncritical goblin mode seems like a naturally high-modernist condition.

We\u2019re in the darkest valley of goblin mode now, and gnome mode looks very attractive from our perspective today. But a day may come once again when unbundling ourselves and our environments into owner/user/maintainer will be the right thing to do, and gnome mode will give way to goblin mode again. But that day is probably not today.

Today, getting to gnome mode seems to be the thing to aim at. It seems to be the only path available for revitalizing a terminally rundown world. And since we can neither replace this world, or restore it to some mythical \u201Clike-new\u201D utopian condition, we have to find a different mode of being in it.

Install gksu if it isn't already, then press Alt+F2 which opens a small window. Type 'gksu nautilus' (without the quotes) and navigate to usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ , right-click window list and rename it. I named it window-lizt which disabled the extension.

Over the course of the school year or semester, students will learn about Fallingwater, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the design process, while they think creatively and use decision-making skills to plan and design houses for their clients. The students' clients are gnomes, which come with unique challenges and requests for their home design. During the Design Challenge, creativity, math, science, technology and language arts skills overlap during seven hands-on lessons.

gnome-terminal only blocks, if it is the first instance of it. This single instance then acts as a server for all future invocations of gnome-terminal. Those other gnome-terminal calls then hand everything over to this server and immediately terminate. So you can observe both behavior: "blocking" (when it is the one-and-only single instance) and "nonblocking" (when another instance is already running).

There is a wrapper, for example used by Ubuntu 16.04, which emulates this missing option. However this wrapper is complex. This is done by starting another server (with another service name). And for this server, the same assumption holds (you can attach other gnome-terminals to this server, and those others then come back immediately as well).

My suggestion is to stop using gnome-terminal and to switch to something, which works right out of the box. For example xfce4-terminal officially supports all those little absolutely necessary options for a mature terminal window:

I had changed the default Gnome font to Roboto on one of my systems that I am maintaining in my flake for someone else and it had worked for quite some time perfectly. Today, after updating my flake, I saw that the font had jagged edges. I use gnome-tweaks in order to change the fonts. I had the following setup (image taken from my laptop, but was the same on their desktop):

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I reset gnome-tweaks to default and had the same problem. Changed fonts, logged out, restarted, rolled back, played with hinting and antialiasing, and continued to try cycling through different options many times to no avail.

The first step in improving the GNOME user experience is toggling basic featureson or off. You can do this either by clicking around in the GUI, or using thedconf command line tool. One of the interesting things about GNOME is that ithas a lot of hidden options that either not at all exposed in the GUI, or onlyaccessible through a tool like gnome-tweaks. But if you know what you're doingyou can change a lot of GNOME behavior.

There's one I want to call out in particular though: I set/org/gnome/shell/disable-user-extensions to false, which completely disablesthe user extensions feature of GNOME. User extensions are a mechanism that allowusers to write GNOME extensions in Javascript, similar to how Chrome and Firefoxextensions work. In my opinion this idea has dubious merit, and my personalfeeling is the less Javascript in my life the better. I felt somewhat vindicatedabout this decision during recentcoverageof a memory leak in GNOME Shell. The underlying issue was related to theJavascript garbage collector in GNOME Shell not collecting object references ina timely manner. I'm not sure that disabling user extensions actually disablesthe Javascript engine completely, but it definitely minimizes it to the leastpossible scope.

Some of these are harmless programs that don't actually install session daemons,but are also programs I don't plan on using. In other cases (e.g.gnome-software) uninstalling the program actually removes daemons that are runby default in the session, so removing those components actually causes lessprograms to run and waste memory.

They key thing here is to make sure you don't remove dependencies of any of thecore components, which includes gnome-shell but also some other programs likenautilus. To double check that I didn't actually break anything, I also havethe following stanza in my config. This is just a sanity check to make sure thatnothing critical was accidentally removed.

Hello, I loved this one so much that, after making a full size one, I made one in thread as a Christmas ornament. I am now working on the second full size gnome and will make a few more in thread to give to my children as their annual Christmas ornaments. Thank you

If you installed the gnome group and want GNOME to start automatically on next boot, enable gdm.service. You can then select the desired session: GNOME, GNOME Classic (only displayed if gnome-shell-extensions is installed), or GNOME on Xorg from the display manager's session menu. Wayland sessions can be enabled/disabled in the GDM config. e24fc04721