Daniel BarlowI wanted my pinephone to have an on-screen..."

I wanted my pinephone to have an on-screen indicator of when it was doing filesystem access, so I can see if it's busy or just ignoring me.

I haven't yet found a way to do that (at least, without polling /proc/diskstats, but "polling" and "battery life" are often not good bedfellows), but I have distracted myself into writing a #fennel status bar program a la i3status or waybar so at least when I figure it out I'll have somewhere to display it

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@dan@terse.telent.net hmm, maybe there's some eBPF hook I could use

@dan@terse.telent.net "when testing whether it's picking up the stylesheet, use a colour scheme that makes it really obvious when it's succeeded"

Although, sad to say, the more I look at this, the more it grows on me

screenshot of panel indicator in garish yellow and purple