From the desktop of Joseph Dickson
It’s been an afternoon of trying to figure out why Firefox is having difficulty connecting to this website from my local network. I think I’ve got this… Mostly worked out. At least for now. It’s between one of the solutions from Firefox documentation and checking in with my webhost. Additionally, I think the WordPress app may also be triggering a firewall setting so I’ve uninstalled it from my phone for now.
Created a simple Child Theme for the forthcoming TwentyTwentyOne theme to add support for the webp image format and my custom fields for my Current Status.
It occurred to me today that I’ve never optimized Debian and i3 together for my own purposes. I’ve themed it in Lubuntu and Ubuntu which consisted of adding it alongside those distributions. However, for Debian I decided to start with a lean install of components add i3 and only what I actually need. This resulted in an extremely stable, lightweight that will only really needs occasional updates.
This system will be used for web projects, offline backups, and general web surfing. I don’t have a need for any proprietary extras or the latest versions of anything critical. Even as a web developer Firefox ESR will be just fine. If I require the latest and greatest version of anything I may install flatpack, snap or AppImage.
Naturally, I included several traditional GUI applications that I can’t live without which did lead to about 100 extra packages in all.
The result is a lightweight multitasking system that I’ve been using for nearly 10 years still handles everything I throw at it without breaking a sweat.
Yesterday I spent a great deal of the evening ricing the desktop and customizing it to my liking.
After installing “all the things I’m nearly at 1000 packages. RAM is at a respectable 1.5GB with a LAMP webhost and several tabs open in Firefox.
If you’re curious about my setup I’ve linked my latest configuration files below.
