chilie

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by chilie 3y ago
https://github.com/philipl/pifs my favorite file system is based on this!
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by chilie 3y ago
I help maintain the phones/computers for several non-technical and/or elderly family members. Their computers are a mess. No matter what pro-active measures I take, every time I get involved, they have a bunch of nonsense installe
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by chilie 4y ago
Am I alone in disliking ligatures? I want a font that displays the characters I type in exactly the form I type them. I really don't see the appeal.
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by chilie 10y ago
I'm not big into IoT yet - what sort of devices would it be necessary for the network to remain functional if there was no internet connection?
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by chilie 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but what would most users need to be able to use the network for if the internet is down? The only use case I can think of is transferring files around? Do you think that's so common amongst mo
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by chilie 10y ago
These are just issues that someone unfamiliar with a field would face. None of them are problems for those of us in the field. First, the expectation thing. He's using a special case, E(X), and complaining that the more general case do
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by chilie 12y ago
I completely agree with 1 and 2 - my question was related to a local machine with a tiling WM. For 3, can you elaborate? How is it less context switching? You're doing the same set of operations in both settings - switching, moving and
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by chilie 12y ago
Can someone explain the benefits of using tmux or screen or something similar over opening multiple terminals in a tiling WM? The two arguments I could see are resource usage (not an issue on modern machines) or detach/attach (which is
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by chilie 14y ago
I've got a Macbook 7,1 with Ubuntu 12.04 running Xmonad, and its by far the smoothest linux experience I've ever had. I ran it under Gnome Unity for a bit and that was fine too. I've never had the mouse issues you refer to. The trackpad wor
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by chilie 14y ago
I currently do this with my entire .emacs.d directory, but it sounds like Derbasti only pulls his .emacs, and then has code to check for installed packages and get any that are missing.
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by chilie 14y ago
Would you mind sharing your .emacs so we can see how you have that set up?