RATE MY RICING :PPP (im not exactly a beginner to the concept of linux but a literal beginner in terms of customization)

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a small Python project I have been working on called halo.

It is a terminal screensaver / visualizer that renders a particle flow field using 3D Perlin noise, Braille cells, and 24-bit ANSI color. The main idea was to see how much visual detail I could get out of a normal terminal without opening a GUI window or relying on an external rendering engine.

The renderer uses Braille characters as a kind of sub-cell pixel grid, so each terminal character can represent a 2x4 block of virtual pixels. Particles move through a vectorized noise field, leave trails behind, and the output is diffed frame-to-frame so it only writes changed cells back to the terminal.

It includes a few color presets such as neon, sunset, ocean, forest, and fire, and it should work in modern true-color terminals like Windows Terminal, WezTerm, Alacritty, kitty, Ghostty, and iTerm2.

Install from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/programmersd21/halo.git

Run it with:

halo

Example:

halo -c fire -p 600 -s 2.0

This is not meant to be a serious productivity tool. It is just a small terminal art experiment that I had fun building, and I tried to keep it lightweight and readable.

Repo: https://github.com/programmersd21/halo

I would appreciate any feedback, especially from people who enjoy terminal graphics, creative coding, or small CLI projects. Consider checking out the repo and leaving a star!

Btw I have almost 3.3 gigs of total walls now lmao

Built a wallpaper script to show live aircraft information over the specified area upto a certain radius using api from adsb/openSky/airplanesLive.

• OS - Archlinux.
• WM - Hyprland.
• Configs - Ax-shell.

Graphics (arrows, fonts, background, colors) are generated by claude

Hey everyone,

I just pushed a update to Lyre, my terminal-based music dashboard.

v1.3.2 is officially out with features ike zen mode or focus search and debug stuff

GitHub: https://github.com/DeadZone-0/lyre

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lyre-tui

What's New in v1.3.2?

1. Live Visualizer Tweaker (f)

You can now adjust the physics of the visualizer waves in real-time. Toggle the Tweaker to adjust Sensitivity,Smoothing (Integral), and Gravity with interactive sliders. Lyre dynamically rewrites the CAVA config and restarts the engine instantly while you listen.

2. Search in File Browser (/)

Navigating large local libraries is now instant. Open the local file browser (b) and press / to start typing. The list filters in real-time as you type, just like a modern IDE.

3. Focus Mode (z)

I’ve upgraded "Zen Mode" . Visualizer Focus: Press z during normal playback to hide everything but huge, screen-filling waves. Lyrics Focus: If you have lyrics open (v) and press z, it enters a dedicated "Focus Lyrics" view—minimalist, centered text with zero distractions.

4. Fully Rebindable Keys

Every single hotkey is now customizable. Don't like j/k for volume? Want Escape to quit? Just edit the "keybindings" section in your ~/.config/lyre/lyre.json.

5. Debug Mode (--debug)

For users with issues , I’ve added a comprehensive logging system. Run lyre --debug to generate a trace log for easy troubleshooting.

Installation

If you have cava, mpv, and playerctl installed:

npm install -g lyre-tui

lyre

I’d love to hear what you guys think of the new update

So this is my acer Nitro V 15, 3050 6GB, Ryzen 5 laptop, it came with windows but as I realised and I wanted to learn stuff as well so I switched to Arch linux via Endeavour OS and as you can see I have been using it for a while now.

I bought this laptop around September last year in Flipkart BBD and today I just randomly decided to test it's battery life to see how long it lasts, the last time I saw it was around 2-3 hrs on windows and according to my knowledge Linux is more power efficient i.e. it doesn't have many background tasks. But when I tested it today only in like an hour of coding and Spotify online at the same time reduced its battery from 80% to 28%.

I am not here to rant I just wanna know if I am missing something or is there anyway to improve the battery life, as of now the battery health is at 98%.

Meanwhile my friend, using an acer aspire of the same 3050 6GB variant just with Intel i5 and windows 11 only got down from 100% to 70%, doing the same exact tasks as me.

Please help cause I genuinely didn't expect it to have this shit of battery life, even on linux.

Yo so made my first rice, uhmm most of the stuff is done with ai (gemini pro 3.1) but yeah ig the result is cool

I followed a video and reached the step where you put linux mint in pendrive then boot using the pendrive to install the OS. I did not turn off the bitlocker so i could not install it at that time. I removed the pendrive. Then i turned off device encryption hoping it would solve the bitlocker problem. Then i deleted everything from the pendrive to have a fresh start. Then i followed same steps and when i tried to boot my pc this error showed up. Please help me i really wanna switch to linux. Pc is lenovo ideapad slim 5

i use mint btw :(

So will i have to install any sofware for theat protection and is there anything pre installed like window defender ,

rip inglish , kuch bata do bhai log

Planning to dual boot my laptop, i am a bit familiar with ubuntu ,can someone recommend which distro will be good for it .