second largest population, only behind US

not a good argument in Brazil cause 16yo can vote

now I would like to see 16yo having the right to HRT, which they had until last year

do you miss a specific feature from your previous auto tiling experience?

Well, autotilers are better for automatically fitting things on screen. If you want multiple windows to fit in screen in Niri, you’ll need to intervene for that (it’s pretty simple and easy, but it’s not automatic).

This is the only thing that keeps going through my mind as being objectively worse. Some small things are different, not necessarily worse or better. I think the column logic in Niri is super easy to understand, which is great, but it kinda limits tiling possibilities (not a big deal tbh, you just learn new ways to tile).

How do you deal with if you need all windows appear on a single screen at the same time?

For 4 windows in one workspace, you can create two columns, each split in half. Something like this:

If you want more windows, you can shrink a column to 25%, then add a new column at 25% as well. Like this:

Does Niri support two windows tiled bottom half and top half?

Yup! That’s just a single column divided in two:

If i’m not wrong, Cosmic allows you to minimize windows even in tiling mode

I think they are numbered by default in waybar

i also wish other workspaces could be numbered so you can keep track of which workspaces have which windows on them

Do you mean static workspaces? You can configure something like that.

By default, Niri uses dynamic workspaces (they are deleted when empty), but you can create persistent ones.

My config file has this:

// Declare persistent workspaces
workspace "1"
workspace "2"
workspace "3"
workspace "4"

This means workspaces 1 to 4 will always exist, even if they are empty. If I open something in workspace 3, it stays in 3 no matter what.

Now, if you do something like this:

// Declare persistent workspaces
workspace "1"
workspace "2"
workspace "3"
workspace "4"
workspace "5"
workspace "6"
workspace "7"
workspace "8"
workspace "9"
workspace "10"

Then 10 workspaces will always be present (probably the only ones you’ll use). In this way, it may be easier to keep track of where your windows are.

Sadly it was bugged for me. Had to use the TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F2) to disable that Karousel extension.

Ouch. Sorry about that :(

I’m not ready to switch to an entire different window manager yet, but I’m also quiet happy anyway.

100% fair. I only changed because my last setup was annoying me

The things you show in the gif are already possible with niri via Super + [ and Super + ] (default bindings) for placing into columns

Yup! I know about it. The script just makes it automaticaly:

• If there are fewer than N (default 2) windows in the focused column, it adds a new one there. Otherwise, it creates a new column.
• It also auto-fullscreens a window if it’s the only one in the workspace.

One tiling feature of niri I love is that with Super + W you can switch to a stacked mode like in a tiler.

I use it for my tens of freetube windows :)

I can’t go back to non-scrolling ever.

Wow! For how long have you been using scrollers?

To me it doesn’t feel different from (classic) floating style of managing windows. Why? Because I have to scroll and search for the window.

This is precisely the same feeling I had when I first tested Niri. It only changed once I started treating it as a tiling that sometimes expands when needed.

“focus-or-spawn”

Interesting. I haven’t had trouble finding windows so far, but I set up the niri_search_window script from niri_tweaks as mod+tab just in case I need it.

Umbriel

Cool! I’ll take a look at it, thanks!

haha, not false :) I mean, in the end, I think Linux is mostly for neckbeards.

I started using window managers to reduce resource usage (I had a really shitty PC back then) and to stay organized. It worked for both. I really don’t like how much time you have to invest in configuring them (which is why I tried cosmic, it’s much easier to set up), but I think it’s worth it in the end.

It’s fake. you can use Hannah Montana Linux with no worries

China’s Nonsmokers Try to Clear the Air, One Confrontation at a Time

Disputes between smokers and nonsmokers are becoming more visible as a younger generation increasingly refuses to suffer secondhand smoke in silence.

By Berry Wang; Reporting from Hong Kong

Aug. 5, 2026

Amanda Zhang was planning a quiet dinner out with her mother, who had recently undergone surgery for lung cancer. But as Ms. Zhang walked through a shopping mall, she was suddenly confronted by clouds of cigarette smoke in the corridor outside the restaurant.

Worried about her mother’s health, Ms. Zhang, a student in her 20s, approached the source, a middle-aged couple, and pointed out that smoking in indoor public areas was not allowed in Nanjing, a city in eastern China. When they persisted, she went into the restaurant, pulled out her phone and began photographing them through the window.

The man rushed inside and started berating her. He shoved his own phone in her face, taking photos. His family members, who were also eating at the restaurant, joined in the scolding. “If you don’t want to breathe smoke, stay home!,” his daughter can be heard screaming in a video Ms. Zhang recorded, which was reviewed by The New York Times.

Such friction is not unusual in China, which consumes roughly half the world’s cigarettes and where enforcement of local smoking bans can be lax or virtually nonexistent. Smokers routinely light up at bus stops, elevators, parks, restaurants and even hospitals.

While tensions have simmered for years, disputes over smoking are becoming more visible — often amplified by social media — as a younger generation increasingly confronts smokers in public venues and demands stronger enforcement of rules.

“My mother told me not to meddle in others’ business, even though she has lung cancer,” Ms. Zhang said in an interview. “But the smokers have become out of control these days.”

• In June, a man in Shanghai was injured in a brawl at a restaurant after trying, according to state media, to shield his pregnant wife from secondhand smoke.

• In April, a woman surnamed Wang confronted a man who was smoking at a bus stop in Shenzhen. She splashed fruit juice on his hand, according to a police report cited by state media. Both were taken to a police station, where an officer strip-searched her, Ms. Wang said in a post online, an ordeal that set off an outcry on social media.

• The same month, the police responded to another smoking-related assault at the Shanghai Disney Resort. That 34-year-old smoker apologized and provided compensation to the 24-year-old man who had complained, according to a police statement.

Smoking is less common among young Chinese. Just 10 percent of people aged 15 to 24 were smokers in 2024, less than half the national rate.

Are you Brazilian?

Yes

They’re very well-known

Really? Guess I’m living under a rock then.

Fernanda Lima and Rodrigo Hilbert are known as “Brazil’s favourite couple”.

Never heard of them.

Everyone should know how absurdly lightweight the old games are. You can have basically every console game rom from Atari 2600 to Nintendo 64 and fit it all in a single dvd (you could even include the emulators, in appimages, apk and .exe). These games are still great, many aged pretty well and all of them will run in any potato with screen.

on a no-internet scenario, you could give a kid an old phone full of games that a lot of us dreamed to have acess when we were children. you can transform an actual piece of trash into a machine that carries childhoods of multiple generations. that’s just beautiful.

a cool and simple idea that is still missing for cosmic is an emoji selector

check cosmic-utils to make sure you’re not recreating a project that already exists.

edit: there is actually a archived emoji selector project. Also there are more projects listed here

They also sponsor a far-right influencer in Brazil.

This guy is literally a grandson of a dictator of the military dictatorship. He was also one of the articulators of the 2023 coup attempt, pressing the military to join

very cool proton

edit: giving more context in case someone wants to post this in their subreddit (I won’t): his name is Paulo Figueiredo and he still have a proton vpn sponsor link in every video on youtube.