Ooh, custom shaders will let me properly dim inactive splits/windows - much better than my current solution which changes the alpha channel in a not-wholly-intended fashion.

Personally, I landed on using Kitty after…

• being a long time <whatever-terminal>+tmux user and getting sick of problems Ctrl+<char> or delete keys etc.
  • I addressed most of these but there was always gremlins and the whole stack felt hacky with tmux emulating essentially an entire terminal, inside another terminal
• I tried looking at tmux alternatives, but none seemed to entirely support fancier terminal features like graphics and have vim/tmux-like keybinds - looking at you ZelliJ
• I then started looking for a replacement terminal which would give me the necessary bits of tmux - splits, tabs, scrollback search & copy, vim keys. I don’t need shells to persist between logins/SSH sessions
• I landed on wezterm, easily configured in Lua like my Neovim, but it seems its not really got the attention of the original developer and gave the impression of falling behind on features, raising questions of security issues
• kitty was the only other terminal I could see largely offering the tmux-like layer out of the box, needing just a bit of config for vim/tmux-like keybindings and using Neovim for fancy scrollback features.

I’d love to know of alternatives to Kitty - the main dev’s attitude does leave me with some concerns, but he is a long time open-source developer with multiple successful and maintained projects, for now that keeps me onboard. It seems like he’s pushing forwards with new terminal features like multi-font and image support, which is interesting if nothing else.

Perhaps I should go look at herdr as a tmux replacement and use ghostty or Alarcitty, but I’m not so interested in the AI features.

My answer for this has been to use Gadgetbridge - its an open source app which can replace the e.g. Garmin app, connecting to the device and gathering activity and sensor data plus forwarding notifications etc as you’d expect the first party app to do. The data remains exclusively on your phone, no servers involved.

Its not perfect, the Garmin UI is slicker and some minor features may not be supported but overall it’s really impressed me for a community effort.

I’ve been using this since March 2025 with a Garmin Forerunner 265 without any issues.

There are a wide range of supported devices, so you can buy the hardware you like/find a good deal and not worry about privacy based on the vendor.

Gadgetbridge Site Supported Watches

Hah, as of today there at 666 supported devices!

Ace to see the confined development, I’ve used KeepasXC previously and will be happy to migrate back soon after a spell with Bitwarden - I don’t see enough value over Keepassxc & Syncthing

Thanks for sharing, that’s a really good write up.

I realise they may have more of an interest than larger platforms in giving a positive review, regardless, it’s reassuring to see a warmer resoonse than the few others I’ve read.

Its absolutely nuts if they launch this without the ability to stream from their own, Linux-based, hardware.

The article doesnt explicity state that foveated streaming is nor supported on Linux, but it does go.our of it’s way to mention Windows in every instance it mentions streaming.

Does anyone here use Homebrew on Linux, if so what’s the motivation? I can see that you might what an LTS base and a separate package manager for userspace, but why not go the distrobox route - CLI apps?

Ace, its great to see so many significant performance improvements in the kernel lately

All sounds pretty interesting, I never jumped in after the launch was so buggy and it seemed a lot of player reviews complained about unrealistic enemy behaviour.