tyil

@tyil@fedi.tyil.nl

Free Software Enthusiast. Running a blog and cookbook on https://www.tyil.nl/.

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tyil, to random

No matter how much I play around, I seemingly always come back to #AwesomeWM.

tyil,

@cnx In the world of editors, I keep going back to #vim. I'm just so used to it. evil-mode does a great job, but then there's customizations that I already have working in vim, but not #emacs.

I did make a drastic change in my desktop setup, though, I'm running #KDE with #AwesomeWM now. I also found some library to make Awesome's tags (supposedly) work like #XMonad's tags. When this laptop gets to the office with additional monitors, I can see if it makes true on that promise!

tyil,

@cnx #XMonad's default is a single tagset, with each tag being independent of any monitor. Additionally, when you switch to a tag that is currently shown on another monitor, these tags will swap. I find it to be the most convenient means of handling tags on a multi-monitor setup.

For what it's worth, the library I found, Charitable, has proven to work reliably well on my worklaptop, and my secondary laptop. I would certainly recommend trying it out if you want to experience the Ultimate™ way of handling tags.

XOrgFoundation, to random
@XOrgFoundation@floss.social avatar

Hello, world!

Following recent changes at Twitter, the new home of the X.Org Foundation is here on Mastodon. Please follow for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community. Going forward, we will no longer post to Twitter, but we're so excited to join the Fediverse!

tyil,

@XOrgFoundation Welcome to the #Fediverse!

tyil, to random

Hyped up for #BABYMETAL tomorrow! Just gotta survive one more day of work!

tyil,

@Suiseiseki I've survived many days of work, I have no reason to believe I can't survive one more.

perlkohacon, to random

::Europe and together: The and conference in Helsinki, 14-18 August 2023.

We have extended our "Call for papers" until the 14th of May:
We need more Lightning talks, a dozen more Perl talks, and a few more Koha talks,

Submission page: https://perlkohacon.fi/cft

🙏 Share this info with people you know whom to refer 🤗
(Perl community influencers, you can help us spread the word!)

And all of you, friends, are welcome as attendees too! 🎁

MORE: https://telegra.ph/Perl-and-Koha-conference-in-Helsinki-2023-Last-week-to-submit-your-Koha-talk-for-the-KohaCon-04-21

tyil,

@perlkohacon Good to see the #Perl community is still alive, and using an open protocol for communication!

I do wonder what happened to the #Raku part of these conferences, though.

captainepoch, to random

Man, how can I transfer a reserved domain? I want to buy a .com that I don't know who owns it :notlikeblob:

tyil,

@cnx @captainepoch Yeah, do a WHOIS, find the a contact address, send them an email, they'll try to get you to pay an absurd amount, you realize it's not worth it and go for a different domain.

That's how it's always gone for me, at least.

tyil, to random

I think I'm getting attracted to 😫

tyil,

Hmm, trying to get to work, by going through the NixOS wiki page on Tinc, but I don't really understand how it accesses the (private) keys. At the start of the article they're generated to be in /etc/tinc, but then later in the hostfile definition they're supposed to be in /root/secrets.

Does any more experienced user know what's going on there? Is this incorrect in the wiki page, or is there some secret management magic going on that I have missed so far?

blacklight, to random

I've been giving #fish a try on a periodic basis every 6 months or so.

The pattern is always the same: I read an amazing article on how fish makes feature X easier/fancier than bash/zsh, I install it again, I spend half a day trying to export my two decades of bash/zsh customizations, and eventually I just give up overwhelmed by the amount of required work.

Fish is a great shell, but I don't know why they decided to go all the way and completely break the compatibility with anything that POSIX has produced over the past four decades.

I won't rewrite all of my shell functions, aliases, if statements, for loops, string concatenations, and/or conditions and environment variables to comply with a shell that is only compliant with itself, sorry. And I don't know why they decided to go the nuclear way and break compatibility so hard where they could have at least guaranteed a back-compatibility layer with (at least) zsh. Reinventing the whole wheel to make it look exactly the way you want, while disregarding compatibility with everything that already exists, is probably the biggest violation of the UNIX philosophy.

https://www.milanvit.net/post/my-ultimate-shell-setup-with-fish-shell-and-tmux/

tyil,

@blacklight This seems a problem to me with all the "modern" shells. Sure, some of the features they introduce are fancy, but if I need something fancy for scripting, I have various programming languages available to me already. #Python, #Perl, #Ruby, whatever floats your boat. These are going to do a better job if a sh or even #Bash script doesn't cut it or becomes to complex. Focussing on a non-standard shell is more effort than just grabbing #Perl in this case, and it'll limit me in various ways by still trying to be a shell language.

As for the interactive bits, #fish (and other non-standard shells) offer nothing I don't already have for years in both #Bash and #zsh.

In the end, shells like #fish (or #rc for a more recent example) try to fill a certain void that didn't need filling, by being more of a chore to get working than several dozen existing solutions which do a better job by default.

computersandblues, to random
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👏 stop 👏 using 👏 discord 👏 for 👏 open 👏 source 👏 projects 👏

tyil,

@computersandblues 👏 stop 👏 using 👏 discord 👏

icedquinn, to random
@icedquinn@blob.cat avatar

this trackball is silky af :blobcatcontroller:

tyil,

@icedquinn Post a 20 min review vid. Trackballs are vastly underrepresented in modern use, even though they are top comf.

tyil,

@icedquinn I'd watch a video about new and potentially comfier trackballs, but only if you made it.

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