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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I wheeze-laughed at "Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts."

    Now I kinda want to do that.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I'm pretty sure Emacs can do that

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I'm pretty sure Emacs has a video player somewhere in there.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'm pretty sure Emacs has a portal to Narnia somewhere in there.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I've begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I've stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless...

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    I went the opposite way, got sick of all the wireless stuff disconnecting, battery dying, or not working before the os boots so I switched to wired everything, I went as far as running a usb over ethernet extender to my couch area so I can have a wire keeb and mouse while gaming on the tv

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Weaksauce. Everyone knows you configure at least one Vulcan-nerve-pinch dead-key chord that primes the following key chord to switch the layout.

    Only half joking. I'm the guy with Ctrl-Super-Alt-Shift-Pause set to put the PC into Suspend mode.

    Unrelatedly, I hope the meme name isn't a dog-whistle of some sort, because that really would be weaksauce.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    My favorite part of your suspend shortcut is that you can call it "hyper pause" and that describes both the shortcut and the action lol

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Once worked for a software company where we could run Linux on our machines if we maintained them ourselves and wouldn't ask admins for support since they were only supporting the default windows installations. Right before Christmas new coworker joined, early twenties, got into a project that was apparently hard to get it set up locally, we told him get the project running and then spend time to configure your laptop the way you like it to be. Low and behold, he spends Christmas setting up and configuring some fancy desktop environment on Kubuntu, returns to work, shows off the fancy looks and within a week fails to get the project set up and everyone else in the project was using windows. So one week later he was back using windows and super pissed that he wasted like 5 days configuring his desktop. My heart is still bleeding for that poor guy :(

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    That’s why I’m sticking to Windows at work even though I hate it. I couldn’t stand the glares of the others when I fail to fix even a noob distro.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    A lot of people did this at that company as well. But mainly my point was that it might be better to first get productive, or verify you can be productive with the OS you installed before you waste tons of hours configuring it in some obscure ways.

    Especially since it was usually the ones straight outta university who did the fancy configuration, tons of alias, custom theming and so on stuff while most senior Devs using Linux just used default Ubuntu, Fedora or whatever installations. Something that just worked.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    can write 260 w/p on his own machine, will not find the escape key on any other

    I swear, when I need to touch other people’s computers, I can’t get them to believe me that I program for a living.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Oh lord that escape key bit is me

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Lol same. I stopped remapping it tho.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Ugh the caps lock key is too useless for the home row!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    HUH? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sideline him by giving him a android phone with the paid nova launcher.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I don't use arch, but this applies to my android habits.

    Nova has way too many settings now, though.

    I use gestures and look&feel and that's about it. Custom icons here and there. Maybe my app drawer has custom folders, colors, tabs. And maybe my folders use custom gestures, transparency, and colors, and icons.

    But that's it.

    On Linux I use the fuck out of custom aliases for basic commands like ls or grep or less - mainly for appearance.

    This is the most useful alias to me personally: ls='ls -aph --color=always --group-directories-first'

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    ... I've been using nova for like, 14 years. It's not complex. Now if you want a lot of options, FairEmail will overload your brain. Which I also have...

    Backing up config files is actually a lifesaver.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Bro where did you find this?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    Thanks. I might know the guy who posted it

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    little off-topic but

    postman hands him card reader

    why does the postman have a card reader?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    Ours carry a small contactless POS so you can pay for the order on arrival. Maybe that's what they meant?

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The config file thing works better for NixOS, but the même is still very funny !

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    NixOS shills be like "your entire system is set up in one single file".
    They don't tell you that the documentation looks like this:

    https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    NGL I was THIS close to actually looking into trying nixos out, I mean the concept is intriguing.

    But after seeing that.............

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    This may be the longest single page I've ever seen. The scrollbar moves almost imperceptibly.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    That page is 17MB (of just text, no images)

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    Lol I did the exact same thing

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Honestly still using the half finished hyprland build for games, studying, and work. If somethings missing then I fix it or simplify stuff I do all the time otherwise it's largely stock and janky. I'd say it's better than my taskbar freezing in kde or gnome. We don't have to talk about how annoying gnome is to use daily.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    never had kde or gnome freezing, what are you doing, running testing repositories?