return {
  {
    "glepnir/dashboard-nvim",
    event = "VimEnter",
    opts = function()
      local logo = [[
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              ]]
      --             local logo = [[
      --            ▄ ▄
      --        ▄   ▄▄▄     ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄
      --        █ ▄ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █▄█ █ █
      --     ▄▄ █▄█▄▄▄█ █▄█▄█▄▄█▄▄█ █
      -- ▄ █▄▄█ ▄ ▄▄ ▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
      -- █▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ █ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ █ ▄
      -- ▄ █ █▄█ █▄█ █ █ █▄█ █ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █
      -- █▄█ ▄ █▄▄█▄▄█ █ ▄▄█ █ ▄ █ █▄█▄█ █
      --     █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █▄█▄▄▄█
      --             ]]

      logo = string.rep("\n", 8) .. logo .. "\n\n"

      local opts = {
        theme = "doom",
        hide = {
          -- this is taken care of by lualine
          -- enabling this messes up the actual laststatus setting after loading a file
          statusline = false,
        },
        config = {
          header = vim.split(logo, "\n"),
          center = {
            { action = "Telescope find_files", desc = " Find file", icon = " ", key = "f" },
            { action = "ene | startinsert", desc = " New file", icon = " ", key = "n" },
            { action = "Telescope oldfiles", desc = " Recent files", icon = " ", key = "r" },
            { action = "Telescope live_grep", desc = " Find text", icon = " ", key = "g" },
            { action = "e $MYVIMRC", desc = " Config", icon = " ", key = "c" },
            { action = 'lua require("persistence").load()', desc = " Restore Session", icon = " ", key = "s" },
            { action = "Lazy", desc = " Lazy", icon = "󰒲 ", key = "l" },
            { action = "qa", desc = " Quit", icon = " ", key = "q" },
          },
          footer = function()
            local stats = require("lazy").stats()
            local ms = (math.floor(stats.startuptime * 100 + 0.5) / 100)
            return { "⚡ Neovim loaded " .. stats.loaded .. "/" .. stats.count .. " plugins in " .. ms .. "ms" }
          end,
        },
      }

      for _, button in ipairs(opts.config.center) do
        button.desc = button.desc .. string.rep(" ", 43 - #button.desc)
      end

      -- close Lazy and re-open when the dashboard is ready
      if vim.o.filetype == "lazy" then
        vim.cmd.close()
        vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("User", {
          pattern = "DashboardLoaded",
          callback = function()
            require("lazy").show()
          end,
        })
      end

      return opts
    end,
  },
}