lurch

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lurch,

i assume “ifnot” wasn’t edgy enough and makes inferior noises on custom mechanical keyboards? /s

lurch, (edited )

It could tilt them out of the viewport, leaving just a corner in, like weird minimizing

lurch,

Did you live on a very fast spaceship maybe?

… or did you travel back to the start of 2023 multiple times, trying to fix the world? It would explain a lot of things.

lurch,

Even though comments are very helpful, often it’s even enough to name variables and methods/functions really good. At least do that. You don’t want i, j and value. Believe me. You want rowCount, colCount and deliveryOption instead. You just may not know it now, but you will, when it has to be changed in a few months.

lurch,

Mine gives useless bonus points for forwarding the test email or an actual phishing mail to their special security scanner account.

lurch,

I don’t like the idea of free things having a “market-shate”. That’s like comparing knife cuts to bullets shot.

lurch, (edited )

If you have a root account that allows logging in in text mode (no X no Wayland, no GUI), you would do that instead. These instructions are for that case. The home of root is /root , so it would not be affected.

Mount the new drive in an emty dir, if it isn’t already.

Make sure the other drives file system supports everything /home does.

Set the exact same permissions as /home/ in the new drives top level directory.

Add a line to fstab defining the other drive to be mounted automatically as /home .

Move the contents of /home over to the other drive.

Umount the other drive.

Enter just: mount /home

This should work without errors and if you peek inside, you should see user dirs and it should show up if you enter just: mount

No reboot necessary, you could just log out, switch to the GUI login and log in as regular user. After your next boot you will find out if you edited your fstab correctly to auto mount it. If not just log in as root in text mode again and fix it.

"Combokeys" instead of hotkeys. [Feature/new command suggestion]

Title. Basically, “if a street fighter gamer and a linux tryhard had a baby” where a combination of keys is issued to run a command/script rather than a single or a simultaneous stroke of two or more. i.e left, down, left, right arrow keys, R_CTRL to run Firefox. Right, right, Up, right arrow keys, delete to power off the...

lurch, (edited )

hyprland has this, but you have to configure it. It’s called Submaps. Some other tiling window managers/compositors (notion for example) have it too, but not to that extent. (notion can be enhanced by Lua scripting, tho.)

The idea is, after the first key of the sequence the meaning of a set of keys change. You could configure those to change the meanings again etc until you finally reach whatever depth you wanted and it performs an action.

However, be warned that hyprland is currently developed by very elitist people who like to support onky a very small set of distributions (primarily Arch btw) and have not much interest in other peoples Ubuntu shenanigens and the likes. It is extremely hard to install in Ubuntu and similar, requiring you to do minor edits to build scripts and source code in multiple languages and finding required library versions from build errors that do not mention them.

lurch, (edited )

For a user: In Wayland programs are supposed to draw their own title bar. Java aplications and old applications must use a backwards compatibility layer that can cause flicker and bad font rendering. The terminology is different (compositor = window manager). Some niche new programs may only run on Wayland. Wayland hasn’t been adopted by BSD (AFAIK).

For a programners: Wayland has more modern, tidy code, but not all toolkits support it natively and few are easy. If you code exclusively for Wayland, a lot of users won’t use your program at the moment.

web/low memory alternatives to Krita and GIMP please

recently I bought a Chromebook, I love it so much, it has Linux container enabled and I downloaded Firefox, GIMP, and Krita, but my Chromebook is only 64GB, so that can be a lot!!! So what web apps or low storage alternatives can I use?? I know Photopea, but what about drawing? Thank you!!

lurch,

Idk what “container” means in this case, but gimp is only like 80 MB + some dependencies you probably already have installed. Do you mean RAM or HD memory? In any case it should be much less than 64 GB.

lurch,

There will always be some haters. Haters are emotionally motivated to engage while most other ppl dgaf. So it’s normal you’ll see a bit more of them.

lurch,

I’m actually doing this a lot at work. No negative consequences, so far. Even got good reviews and annual raises.

lurch,

I…couldn’t pass the captcha with multiple browser

Nice try bot 😜

lurch,

Is conky still a thing? I used it for that when I used an exclusively passive cooled PC a few years ago. You were able to easily create bar graphs in a config file and even include output of commands.

lurch,

Looks like he married Mileena from Mortal Kombat 😀

lurch,

I’m pretty sure it’s because less people use it. They make fun of Gentoo taking longer to compile stuff on install/update, but that’s pretty fast nowadays. What really takes up time is making all the choices. I remember hours of selecting obscure kernel options and choosing use flags “what is ncurses? Do i need ncurses? What is sdl? Do i need sdl? …” I mostly use Ubuntu now, because I got no more time for that.

lurch,

Be careful. Make sure the camera and mic is off before cussing and swearing 😅

lurch,

Also often becomes %20 or + in URLs. Doesn’t really help with readability

lurch,

I recently worked on a system that had the TERM variable botched and filtered and no nano, just vim. It was all hell. The escape sequences in vim wouldn’t work. I ended up suspendig it with ctrl+z, killing it, then editing the config with fucking ed and sed. That hoster sucks.

lurch,

Firing just works different if your position is for life.

lurch,

Except for EFI/swap, partitions nowadays only make sense if you want to force a hard cap on a directory, e.g. /tmp, /var/mail or /var/spool to make sure one function of a system doesn’t break the others when it goes out of hand, but there’s also quotas for that. It always sucks if you have to resize, so it’s probably best to have as few as possible.

lurch,

I honestly wonder why I didn’t see a single Störganoff 🤷

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