Andy

Andy, 15 days ago

mpv+uosc is my jam these days.

Andy, 23 days ago

Glad you have it working. This may also work:

<span style="color:#323232;">_stfu () {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  shift words
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  (( CURRENT-=1 ))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  _normal -P
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">compdef _stfu stfu
</span>

Andy, 23 days ago

No, that’s not used by Zsh.

Andy, 30 days ago

FWIW I’ve read an Arch dev complain that folks using any 3rd party installer are not in fact “running Arch” and should not claim to be doing so.

Andy, 1 month ago

For anyone else wondering:

Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify!

Andy, 1 month ago

On the off chance that you truly don’t understand:

The nice thing to do would be to accept the feedback and add a short description. It’s confusing to others why you are staunchly opposed to performing that small courtesy, and instead jump to never posting here again.

Andy, 1 month ago

Congrats on all the labor you saved.

If you think folks here are uniquely unreasonable you could try lemmy.world/c/selfhosted .

Andy, 1 month ago

The window shade problem is keeping me from Wayland. AFAIU there’s currently no commitment to ever fix it on Wayland, it’s only a maybe.

For anyone interested, it’s being tracked here.

Andy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

By default you can use left and right bracket keys [] to adjust speed, and it should do adjustments to make the pitch sound the same.

To adjust the pitch alone, you can have something like this in your input.conf, customized as you like:

<span style="color:#323232;">ALT+p af toggle @rb
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALT+UP af-command rb multiply-pitch 1.25
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALT+DOWN af-command rb multiply-pitch 0.8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALT+LEFT af-command rb set-pitch 1.0
</span>

I haven’t looked at this in a long time. If you always need this there’s likely a conf option to always enable the “rubber band” (@rb) filter. And maybe other commands than multiply that would be better.

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EDIT: Sorry, I don’t have this quite right. Maybe someone can correct me.

Andy, 1 month ago

I have trouble with both, but more experience with GIMP. I can’t stand all the little tool buttons with no text. I want the name of each tool always visible on its button.

I have the same problem with Inkscape.

Andy, 1 month ago

I don’t know what I should be noticing there. I can’t see any text for the tool buttons along the left edge of the window.

Andy, 1 month ago

OK, I see some differences between your two screenshots, but what’s the relevance to my comment?

Andy, 1 month ago

So . . . not relevant to my comment?

Andy, 2 months ago

It’s more about replacing typed text than using shortcuts, but there’s espanso.

Andy, 2 months ago

I’ll just second the suggestion that KDE Plasma is worth a try, as it’s very adaptable once you know what you want. You don’t need to install any addons for the functionality you describe, just open the Shortcuts settings, KWin category, and have at it.

https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/bcf58741-5fc0-4b16-ac6d-3f1cbdfac9bb.png

Andy, 2 months ago

Ok next time I won’t use your computer.

Andy, 2 months ago

Ooh I haven’t seen this one. Anyone have a comment on this vs the KleverNotes project? I think that’s the name.

Andy, 2 months ago

The Power and Battery widget now responds to middle-clicks and scrolls: middle-click will block or re-enable automatic sleep and screen locking, and scrolling will change the active power profile

Scrolling on the battery applet is how I adjust my brightness. Is that no longer a thing?

Andy, 2 months ago

This link doesn’t work for me. Do you have an alternative/original? I’d like to read some context and explanation.

Andy, 2 months ago

Thanks!

Andy, 2 months ago

Sublime Text, Google Photos, Google Maps (partially)

Andy, 2 months ago

Some combination of things like performance, non distracting presentation, the minimap, multi cursor that works how I like, some plugins I like, no web browser, the way every open buffer is always safe and saved in some cache without necessarily saving to the edited file, the UX for split view across tabs, minimal fuss to get UI text and colors legible for my bad eyesight, etc.

Andy, 2 months ago

Thanks, I have, but it’s not a replacement for me. I’ll try it again once a year though.

Andy, 2 months ago

I’m not off Google Maps either, but the closest to replacing it for me is Organic Maps, FWIW.

Andy, 2 months ago

I just grabbed it. The dash cam features might possibly be useful on a bike (?). But I tried and tried and couldn’t find the magic zoom level for it to show me the name of the street I’m on, got frustrated, and uninstalled.

Andy, 2 months ago

Have you checked the system settings page that includes compositor stuff?

Andy, 3 months ago

I love Arch but you may also be interested to try Siduction for similar benefits with less change from what you know (it’s still Debian).

Andy, 3 months ago

FWIW broot is a great fuzzy finding file tree tool that can be used similarly (much better for the task IMO), with a little configuration.

Andy, 3 months ago

Yeah, since broot is a full featured file navigator and operator, you can get anywhere once it’s launched. I have alt+up bound to go up a directory, but there are other ways to get around as well.

Broot supports fish out of the box, and you can use its default fish launcher function to change your folder (alt+enter quits broot then performs a cd) or insert a path (the broot command pp quits broot then prints the path, like fzf).

I never learned fish scripting, but if anyone here has they may try to port my Zsh functions, especially to get path completion for partially typed paths. If you’re doing that and have questions about the broot config side of the equation, I’m happy to try to help.

Andy, 4 months ago

Konsole is excellent. Wezterm is even better, and can pretty much do everything, everywhere.

There’s no need to bother with the others if you like either of these.

Andy, 4 months ago

I don’t know what the install process is like for them, but FYI Siduction offers one image that is minimal but with X11, and one minimal without it.

Andy, 4 months ago

• Siduction
• openSUSE

Andy, 4 months ago

It’s unmatched for some of the things it does and sites it supports, but I think it’s a nightmare for any distro or package maintainer. It wants to manage its own installation and updates, at the user level, pulling in who knows what code or binaries.

I think that makes it mechanically hard to handle, verify, or trust.

Andy, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

For Arch Linux:

• support a different process supervisor
  • dinit, or
  • s6 with some high level sugar
• don’t use Bash anywhere
  • port down to POSIX, and
  • port up to Zsh
  • port minimal launchers to execline
• replace PKGBUILD format, maybe with
  • nearly identical but Zsh
  • NestedText containing Zsh snippets
    • use this to render Zsh based on templates
      • my favorite template engine: wheezy.template
• build packages with more optimizations, like the CachyOS repos
• include or endorse something like aconfmgr
• port conf files to NestedText

Andy, 4 months ago

For Arch, you may like a project called aconfmgr.

Andy, 4 months ago

For Alpine Linux:

• support a different process supervisor
  • dinit, or
  • s6 with some high level sugar
• add something like the AUR

Andy, 4 months ago

There are many advantages relative to bash, especially much better array handling, and comprehensive globbing and expansion expressions. You can reduce your reliance on external tools, which may have multiple alternative implementations (a source of unpredictability).

Some defenses are written up at

www.arp242.net/why-zsh.html

(not my post)

For me, fish’s differences from older shells count against it without offering any compelling benefits.

Newer shells like nushell and oils/ysh are exciting and have a lot going on, but are not mature or familiar.

Andy, 4 months ago

A good live recovery distro that can mount bcachefs is one thing I’ve been waiting for before using that filesystem for a new install.

That this will have Arch tools (including arch-chroot, probably) makes this even better.

Andy, 7 months ago

I made my account with them early on. I signed up to subscription content to eventually get around to reading, using that address. I signed up for other services, using that address, where access to that address was my only recovery option. I joined IRL community interest groups with that address.

Then I spent a long time without checking it, and they deactivated the account and I’ve lost all data and messages sent there.

And lost my discord account, too. Even though I have the correct discord credentials, discord decided to lock me out unless I can confirm I still have that tuta email address.

Andy, 10 months ago

I’m skeptical that ALL the functionality will be recreated. We’ll see.