yepguy

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by yepguy 6mo ago
Makes sense I guess. I mostly work with a few long-lived applications, and I hate having to do any manual window management myself. I'm fairly sure you could use scripting to come up with a Niri workflow that worked for your use case.
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by yepguy 6mo ago
I'm surprised to hear that niri didn't work for you, I feel like it's a really good middle ground between tiling and floating window managers. It handles a lot of window resizing and arranging for me, without being too rigid.
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by yepguy 6mo ago
I feel like this is regional, because I keep hearing it but I never run into these places.
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by yepguy 6mo ago
You may be able to get by in the US without a credit card, but every purchase will literally cost you 2-5% more if you aren't making smart use of them.
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by yepguy 6mo ago
Yes, Jobs is kind of an exception to my general point, but I think it's a bad idea to live your life assuming you can be the exception. I'm also not talking about having a great fashion sense though, and it's okay to prefer a
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by yepguy 6mo ago
I was going to comment something similar to this. To an extent, dressing and grooming well is a sign of respect you show to other people as well as to yourself. If you can't clear that relatively low bar, don't be surprised when p
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by yepguy 6mo ago
Try out something like Timeleft ( https://timeleft.com/ ). It's in most major cities now, and it will set you up with a dinner reservation for you and 5 strangers who are also looking to make friends. I had a tough break
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by yepguy 6mo ago
Anecdotally, I found I developed a dependence on nicotine pouches very quickly. It was also very easy to exceed the nicotine equivalent of a pack of cigarettes daily without even noticing. But it was also easy to quit by substituting nicoti
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by yepguy 7mo ago
There's also FUTO Keyboard ( https://keyboard.futo.org/ ). Nothing against Heliboard (I actually don't even remember why I chose it over Heliboard). Just another good option.
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by yepguy 9mo ago
The 3 justifications I remember for Wayland were security (isolating windows from each other), multi DPI, and eliminating tearing. All are now features of XLibre.
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by yepguy 10mo ago
Lem is an Emacs-like editor built in Common Lisp. It's very impressive and usable for its age and I can see why some people see it as a better Emacs. Still has nowhere near the mindshare of Emacs, though, and it has a long way to go be
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by yepguy 10mo ago
Nah, Chris is definitely a real sysadmin and his blog has been pretty popular in this space for a long time.
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by yepguy 10mo ago
To be fair to corporate, Emacs has a pretty terrible security model. There's no reason a program like Emacs couldn't exist which had something like capabilities baked in, but as it is, every package has access to anything it wants
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by yepguy 11mo ago
I've read a couple articles like this now, and my dream device is an e-ink tablet that is programmable by handwriting. Something like Emacs crossed with the Remarkable tablet crossed with a new programming language optimized for handwr
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by yepguy 11mo ago
Nothing wrong with that. One thing I like about my approach though is that I can get what little value there is out of platforms that rarely ever serve up anything useful to me. Facebook, for example, hardly ever gives me any value, but som
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by yepguy 11mo ago
A good chunk of the social events I attend are coordinated mainly through very busy group chats, and then announced with Instagram stories (yes really, even though they disappear after 24 hours). I'm not really in a position to change
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by yepguy 11mo ago
If it works for you, great! I've tried that before and it didn't work for me. I like the stuff I find on Hacker News, and I need Instagram to keep up with my friends, so this was the solution I came up with mostly to keep myself f
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by yepguy 11mo ago
I would encourage people to consider permanent solutions to use social media more intentionally instead of taking a month off here and there. Two things that the apps really want you to do, but that you should resist as much as possible, ar
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by yepguy 1y ago
Email is still the best thing about the internet. I know it can be unwieldy if you don't spend the time to figure out a good strategy for dealing with it, and for that reason there will always be those that hate it. But I'm consta
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by yepguy 1y ago
A surprising number of my friends even think their phone is constantly listening to their private conversations throughout the day in order to feed the algorithm. And yet they still keep their phone on them at all times, so they are seeming
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by yepguy 1y ago
Looking at that list of extremist indicators, I would agree that they qualify as common beliefs. It's hard to be too outraged though, because they also seem to genuinely reflect destructive beliefs that are absolutely antithetical to A
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by yepguy 1y ago
Much appreciated!
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by yepguy 1y ago
Would you mind sharing the list of tweaks you make to systemd machines? I can't really avoid systemd altogether, and I like parts of it. But I also dislike that it does so much, and wish I could find a list of all its non-essential com
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by yepguy 1y ago
That's a very uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote. No, I'm not lying to myself, and what I'm doing is almost the opposite of worrying what other people think. I'm trying to let good art affect my soul and keep b
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by yepguy 1y ago
I do this with sports to fit in better and make it easier to socialize. I do this with music, films, and books because I think some things are objectively better than others in ways that don't always line up with my own tastes.
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by yepguy 1y ago
Lots of Debian Developers run unstable, and stable gets the most QA, but I'd be careful about running testing until it gets closer to the next freeze. When I used to daily drive testing, there was a period when it was completely broken
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by yepguy 1y ago
Unstable means that updates could change things about your system that you rely on. This could be a package getting removed, but it could also be a package upgrade that necessitates a change to your workflow or code running on the system..
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by yepguy 1y ago
My new bookmark solution is email, with some extra steps to get back single click bookmarking. 1. Use Raindrop and its browser extension (or mobile app) for saving bookmarks. 2. Subscribe to the RSS feed of my new bookmarks. 3. Use Feedmail
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by yepguy 1y ago
Well Thiel did name his company after an artifact of evil in the LOTR universe. I love Tolkien but using his name in political discussions is pointless. He was basically an anarchist whose views wouldn't support any major active politi
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by yepguy 2y ago
It's worth noting that you can opt out of that too. You should have received a privacy disclosure with every credit card you've opened containing instructions on how to opt out. Usually you have to make a phone call - you won&#x27

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