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bizdelnick, (edited ) in Where can I post questions on how do construct formulas in Onlyoffice/Libreoffice spreadsheets?

I don’t think that formula is the right tool to do this. You need to write a macro.

Try asking at !libreoffice

ipsirc, in Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?
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github.com/sineemore/backpack

0x2d, (edited ) in What's your experience with a touchscreen laptop on your distro?

i have arch linux running on a surface pro 6

laptop specs: core i5, 8 gb ram, 256 gb ssd

linux setup:

  • arch btw
  • linux-surface kernel
  • gnome (Wayland)

the touchscreen is working very smoothly

independantiste, in Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)
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Hmmm automated web scraping 🤑🤔🤔

fossphi, in Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)

Dang, I really dislike npm shit, but I might check this out

Dirk, in Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)
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What can you automate with Beachpatrol? The sky is the limit:

  • Check your email.
  • Login to your bank account.

[…]

Oh hell no!

GustavoM, (edited )
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Yeah… I’d rather spend some time doing those manually and not risk losing money (or even worse) because of a mere couple seconds less on the internet.

INeedMana, in Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)
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your everyday web browser

I only see chromium referenced, where’s firefox?

sebastiancarlos,

“Currently only Chromium is supported. Other Chromium-based browsers and Firefox support to be added soon.”

gibzag, in Experience with KDE on Fedora?

I had a few random log outs in Fedora KDE, nothing major, but I would recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed instead.

mortalic,

Ok, why opensuse? I kind of forgot about them.

richardisaguy, (edited )
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Opensuse is stupid fast + its very very stable. Would risk saying its unbreakable(at leaat with regular updates)

mortalic,

Unstable? Would you mind elaborating with some examples? I was literally just downloading it

richardisaguy,
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STABLE****

mortalic,

Hah! Ok I was so confused

trevor, in Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)

This is really cool! Do you have a rough timeline for Firefox support?

sebastiancarlos, (edited )

It should be pretty soon. I’ve got it working already, but I need to test it more and figure out how Firefox profiles work with Playwright.

If you want you can just clone it and replace “chromium” with “firefox”. It should just work, and it shouldn’t take too long to figure out the rest.

vort3,
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Let us know when it’s ready, I’d like to try that.

sebastiancarlos,

Will do, bossman

trevor, (edited ) in Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?

People with PhDs in Vim will laugh at this, but I sometimes connect to remote systems through VS Code SSH connections when I’m working on a project with multiple files on a remote system.

kunaltyagi, (edited )

I’ve used mirror.vim for this. Pretty much similar UX as remote workspaces. Forone off editing, you can do vim ssh://remote/<abs or ~ location>

Sometimes, VS Code-ium is piss poor especially over bad connections but otherwise the remote management is quite awesome

And ofc, there’s emacs with TRAMP mode

rstein, (edited ) in Writing program

It depends on what you want to achieve.

Vi and it’s descendants are brilliant editors for a programmer but not for writing prose. So stay away from them. ;-)

Do you want just to write text without being distracted by an overwhelming gui or are you fine with the hint at options?

Do you want to write in a terminal?

How much do you want to format while typing? By typing the format commands into the text or by clicking on buttons or ctrl-key magic?

Do you need version control?

For each of your combination of answers there are different solutions.

taladar,

Vi and it’s descendants are brilliant editors for a programmer but not for writing prose.

They work just fine for writing prose too. Though you probably do not need to learn them if you only want to write prose.

qyron,

Version control is an interesting idea.

I used to write fiction as a hobbie and want to return to it again.

The blank sheet of a standard text editor messes with my nerves. I lose myself editing, formating, etc.

If I could find a prompt that I could pre set the font, layout of the final work, and then have the program leave me alone, it would be perfect.

Most writers solutions come with a lot of bells and whistles, like word counter, time elapsed, goals, etc. Unnecessary. Distracting.

SuperiorOne, in Writing program

I recommend Obsidian with community plugins. Application itself isn’t open-source but your content stored as markdown files.

toastal,

Obsidian’s fork of Markdown. Don’t expect compatibility.

Euphoma,

There are extensions for obsidian compatability in Vim and Emacs.

toastal, (edited )

It’s not compatible with other Markdown forks, but the whole Markdown ecosystem is a mess duct taped together by more forks & extensions that aren’t compatible either. Even the common denominator CommonMark is feature-barren & isn’t suitable for documentation or technical writing, but boy howdy will the next guy have his Markdown contraption to sell you.

toastal, in Do you mount an embedded Linux file system to the workstation and use your host scripts or do you SSH/SCP and deal with the limited shell commands?

You can use something like Nix + home-manager & take your environment with you.

tuto193, in Writing program

I’d recommend typst.app. Super easy to structure text like LaTeX and 100 times easier to use :)

Starfighter, in Writing program

Typst

You can use their online web-editor (similar to OverLeaf for LaTeX) or download the open-source engine and run it locally (there are extensions available for many text editors).

Compared to LaTeX I find it much more comfortable to work with. It comes with sane, modern defaults and doesn’t need any plugins just to generate a (localized) bibliography or include links.

Since Typst is very young compared to LaTeX I’m sure that there are numerous docs / workflows that can’t be reproduced at the moment but if you don’t need some special feature I’d recommend giving it a shot.

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