DeltaWingDragon

joined 9 months ago

But how can a healing crystal cause skin cancer? The sun is a deadly laser, after all...

unless it's also a laser crystal! Gotcha, Illuminati!

Don't tell me you still believe in oxygen! The sun is made of phlogiston, so it instantly ignites. Since there's no air in space for the phlogiston to saturate into, it can keep burning for millions of years!

Upvoted solely for the last line

Everything here reminds everyone of that.

It wasn't anything big that caused me to switch. It was just a general feeling of "oh, maybe I'll switch" and annoyance at Windows, and then I got a new SSD.

Here's a few of the micro-hacks that I've hacked up in the past.

A 2-line script to chroot into Debian when logging in as a certain user on FreeBSD.

#!/bin/sh  

clear  
doas chroot /linux /bin/login

I didn't have an IDE, so I just made a script called ide which runs Vim, and then compiles the code and makes it executable.

#!/bin/sh
#Works only for C
vim $1.c && cc -O3 -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused-result $1.c -o $1
#MODE=`stat -f "%OLp" $1`
if ("stat -f "%OLp" $1 | grep -e 6 -e 4 -e 2") then
	chmod +x $1
fi

This thing, called demoronize, which does what it says in the comments

#!/bin/sh

#dos2unix -O -e -s $1 | sed 's/    /	/g' | sed 's/“/"/g' | sed 's/”/"/g'
cat $1 | sed 's/    /	/g' | sed 's/“/"/g' | sed 's/”/"/g'
#Convert DOS line endings to Unix ones and add a final newline if there isn't one,
#replace sequence of 4 spaces with tab,
#and replace "smart" quotes with normal ones

I just keep those ones for historical value, but there's one hack I use every day. My keyboard doesn't have a function key (Fn), so I use the Super/Windows key instead.
I have xdotool keyup Super_L keyup Super_R keyup F4 key XF86Sleep bound to a custom keyboard shortcut. It unpresses the keys used for the shortcut (Super + F4), then presses the sleep key.

Damn Taskbar is gold

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is unclutter?

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And your first pet's name, and your social security number

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not really trying to accomplish much, just trying to save a few seconds in the manual installation process.

Mounting /var/log in RAM just seems like more trouble than it's worth.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if I'm on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn't use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I'm not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.

 

If I'm using Arch or another minimal distro, is it a good idea to install a syslog daemon? Or can I go without?

 

Looks like a dragonfly, flies like a moth.

I have video, but can't post it here and now.

 
 

On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?

 

I used to be on KDE. It had night color control integrated. Then I switched to XFCE, and it did not. So I installed Redshift.

Oops! Redshift requires location access so it can automatically set the color temperature based on the sun's position in the sky. Now it doesn't work when the network is deactivated. And on my system, I can't set it to redden/bluen based on the time only.

I go to AlternativeTo, to find an alternative. It looks like all of them do the same thing, or are discontinued.

Is that what everyone wants? Is that all that's out there? Just ""smart"" programs that access your location to automagically change the colors based on astronomical events?

Even on Windows you could set the night color control based on the time. Am I living in a backwards world where Linux uses the invasive complicated way and Windows uses the private simple way?

Is there a simple program out there that can set night color control with only the time, none of that other crap?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
 

How do I get the preview pane in KMail to stay the same size? I can resize it, but whenever I restart the app, the preview pane is back to the default size.

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