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[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 119 points 1 year ago

I wheeze-laughed at "Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts."

Now I kinda want to do that.

[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago
[-] lost_tortie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Vim’s predecessor, vi, switching modes was easy, with the ESC key located neatly by the Q on the keyboard of the ADM-3A terminal. On modern keyboards, though, it’s a pain ...

A simple trick in vim to alleviate the pain of reaching for the ESC key is using alt + l.

However, this may or may not work depending on the install. I don't remember what exactly this keybind is for but on some systems I've seen it insert a special character. I've found it typically works with vim-enhanced and neovim.

[-] brotundspiele@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

I have switched ESC and Caps Lock for years now. It really makes things so much easier, but now I am the guy in that meme. At least partly: I struggle to find the ESC key on other people's computers, but sadly I'm not 23 anymore.

It's "setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape" btw.

Or get a keyboard where the thumbs aren't entirely wasted solely on the space key.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Or just disable caps and use that

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I've begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I've stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless...

[-] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 1 year ago

I went the opposite way, got sick of all the wireless stuff disconnecting, battery dying, or not working before the os boots so I switched to wired everything, I went as far as running a usb over ethernet extender to my couch area so I can have a wire keeb and mouse while gaming on the tv

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Weaksauce. Everyone knows you configure at least one Vulcan-nerve-pinch dead-key chord that primes the following key chord to switch the layout.

Only half joking. I'm the guy with Ctrl-Super-Alt-Shift-Pause set to put the PC into Suspend mode.

Unrelatedly, I hope the meme name isn't a dog-whistle of some sort, because that really would be weaksauce.

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Ooooh yeah. I didn't even consider that, but it looks like it comes from 4chan so there's a good chance you're right about the dog whistle.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

My favorite part of your suspend shortcut is that you can call it "hyper pause" and that describes both the shortcut and the action lol

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[-] starman@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure Emacs can do that

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure Emacs has a video player somewhere in there.

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure Emacs has a portal to Narnia somewhere in there.

[-] radiant_bloom@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

The config file thing works better for NixOS, but the même is still very funny !

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NixOS shills be like "your entire system is set up in one single file".
They don't tell you that the documentation looks like this:

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

NGL I was THIS close to actually looking into trying nixos out, I mean the concept is intriguing.

But after seeing that.............

[-] radiant_bloom@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly you should ! Unless you want to do crazy stuff you actually don’t need to learn the entire documentation.

I was able to setup full disk encryption with encrypted boot loader pretty easily, there are great tutorials out there. I’m going to figure out Secure Boot next.

The nice thing is that once you’ve managed to do something, it’s in your config forever. My main problem with Arch was the absence of rollbacks, and having to remember all the stuff you do when installing it that you inevitably forget before the next time your system breaks and needs a reinstall. There’s none of that with Nix, and it’s awesome.

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I was able to go zero to Nix in probably 6-10 hours, and could’ve done it sooner if I’d known about this sooner (and I’m not a super technical person).

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[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

This may be the longest single page I've ever seen. The scrollbar moves almost imperceptibly.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That page is 17MB (of just text, no images)

[-] radiant_bloom@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Now I’m not a shill but I did switch from Arch to Nix (because my Bluetooth was irremediably broken on Arch, and no one responded to any of my posts) and it’s honestly a lot less complicated than the documentation suggests 😆

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's the raw documentation. There's plenty of other articles that are actually useful.

[-] knolord@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't it kinda sad that one has to rely on third-party articles to even understand the package manager/OS one wants to use?

[-] sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Nobody said anything about third-party articles. The page linked above is supposed to be a reference, not a tutorial. But the official Nix website also has actual tutorials.

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's what I meant. Helped me with set up my odd pc easily

[-] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Do not set up your entire config in one file please, break that shit up

But I do love nixos(I am the person in the image)

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This just makes me want to get into nix even more. Put configs in a git repo and build vms until you have the config you want, then update only when you're doing something new. I use Arch btw. For desktop. Otherwise it's a mix fedora, red hat, debian, Ubuntu, cent, bsd, armbien, openWRT, and a few others.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

little off-topic but

postman hands him card reader

why does the postman have a card reader?

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Ours carry a small contactless POS so you can pay for the order on arrival. Maybe that's what they meant?

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

often they have a lil thing that you sign your name on, it looks like a card reader

[-] megabat@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Oh lord that escape key bit is me

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol same. I stopped remapping it tho.

[-] megabat@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Ugh the caps lock key is too useless for the home row!

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

HUH? DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?

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[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can you even use vim without remapping the caps lock key?

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do. For me, the bottleneck isnt input. I'm a slow thinker. The change in my performance is marginal at best.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Sideline him by giving him a android phone with the paid nova launcher.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't use arch, but this applies to my android habits.

Nova has way too many settings now, though.

I use gestures and look&feel and that's about it. Custom icons here and there. Maybe my app drawer has custom folders, colors, tabs. And maybe my folders use custom gestures, transparency, and colors, and icons.

But that's it.

On Linux I use the fuck out of custom aliases for basic commands like ls or grep or less - mainly for appearance.

This is the most useful alias to me personally: ls='ls -aph --color=always --group-directories-first'

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it..

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[-] ture@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Once worked for a software company where we could run Linux on our machines if we maintained them ourselves and wouldn't ask admins for support since they were only supporting the default windows installations. Right before Christmas new coworker joined, early twenties, got into a project that was apparently hard to get it set up locally, we told him get the project running and then spend time to configure your laptop the way you like it to be. Low and behold, he spends Christmas setting up and configuring some fancy desktop environment on Kubuntu, returns to work, shows off the fancy looks and within a week fails to get the project set up and everyone else in the project was using windows. So one week later he was back using windows and super pissed that he wasted like 5 days configuring his desktop. My heart is still bleeding for that poor guy :(

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

That’s why I’m sticking to Windows at work even though I hate it. I couldn’t stand the glares of the others when I fail to fix even a noob distro.

[-] ture@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of people did this at that company as well. But mainly my point was that it might be better to first get productive, or verify you can be productive with the OS you installed before you waste tons of hours configuring it in some obscure ways.

Especially since it was usually the ones straight outta university who did the fancy configuration, tons of alias, custom theming and so on stuff while most senior Devs using Linux just used default Ubuntu, Fedora or whatever installations. Something that just worked.

[-] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly still using the half finished hyprland build for games, studying, and work. If somethings missing then I fix it or simplify stuff I do all the time otherwise it's largely stock and janky. I'd say it's better than my taskbar freezing in kde or gnome. We don't have to talk about how annoying gnome is to use daily.

[-] kier@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

never had kde or gnome freezing, what are you doing, running testing repositories?

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

can write 260 w/p on his own machine, will not find the escape key on any other

I swear, when I need to touch other people’s computers, I can’t get them to believe me that I program for a living.

[-] Magister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty excellent :)

[-] shimdidly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Guess I'm the weirdo. Installed Arch with KDE Plasma, changed the wallpaper, installed Steam, accepted the defaults of everything else. Use it as a daily driver.

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