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Thread: IRC
Post: RE: IRC
| I don't like freenode for their policy of mandatory registration, at least it was true for 90% of the channels I tried to connect to, maybe it isn't freenode but channel OPs doing it? Some threw me to... |
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stratex |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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19-05-2021, 11:52 AM |
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Thread: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
Post: RE: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
| Guix System or Nix OS, you write your config and everything else is automated. |
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stratex |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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11-05-2021, 11:32 AM |
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Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
| (11-05-2021, 02:26 AM)jkl Wrote: What’s wrong with Gentoo?Core devs behaving like a bunch of entitled dickheads, they are not even supporting their own shit properly anymore (openrc, elogind etc). T... |
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stratex |
GNU/Linux
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11-05-2021, 11:28 AM |
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Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: Picking a new distribution
| I want to migrate from Gentoo and thinking about my options. My main goal is to be portable, in a sense of my package manager, I want for "install x" to install x in any distribution/system I happen t... |
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stratex |
GNU/Linux
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08-05-2021, 05:45 PM |
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Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things
| I keep most of information as org files which I outline, edit and view in emacs orgmode.
I fuzzy search among notes/files using helm-rg (ripgrep for helm).
I use org-fc for flashcard drills.
I use org... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-05-2021, 07:17 PM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| Terminus in all editors and terminals, and in the browser I don't even know, the default one. |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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30-03-2021, 07:22 AM |
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Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.
| I heard 10x developers are using just Black background. I don't know if it's true or not, but it looks bad ass, though not original.
I use #102030 mainly because I use Black for screen locker, and I w... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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15-03-2021, 05:31 PM |
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Thread: Fixing the forums
Post: RE: Fixing the forums
| I have 110% default zoom for all sites in Firefox, with such settings current nixers.net font is too big, if I set it back to 100%, the size is OK, but it doesn't remember it. I think nixers.net font ... |
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stratex |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-02-2021, 10:22 PM |
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Thread: Sci-fi and Futurism
Post: RE: Sci-fi and Futurism
| (22-02-2021, 08:39 AM)movq Wrote: (16-02-2021, 11:19 PM)stratex Wrote: Unfortunately it is not in English.What language is it in? Can you link it anyway? :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcaCam... |
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stratex |
Off topic
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22-02-2021, 06:58 PM |
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Thread: Sci-fi and Futurism
Post: RE: Sci-fi and Futurism
| The Matrix is my most favorite movie, but I must admit that I didn't fully understand it for the past 20 years, only recently I saw a guy on yt did so deep analysis of it, it blew my mind completely, ... |
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stratex |
Off topic
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16-02-2021, 11:19 PM |
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Thread: People complaining about your tiny font
Post: RE: People complaining about your tiny font
| I still use Terminus-9 with relatively big screen: 2560x1440, I tried different fonts like JetBrains Mono-13 but it doesn't feel good. Either fonts are too big, but good looking, or fonts are small ho... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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12-12-2020, 11:11 AM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| No one expects you to learn yet another programming language just to switch distribution. If you know python,bash, and somewhat of C you are good to go for any linux distro, except those two, where th... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-12-2020, 07:39 AM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| Having infinite canvas is interesting idea, our brain actually maps spatial information much better than numeral. Very long time ago I was playing with "galapix" GPU accelerated image viewer, it was s... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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41,843 |
08-12-2020, 10:12 AM |
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Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
| I would like to update window title at least each 0.25sec, to not perceive that much of a delay. But updating the entire panel each 0.25sec seems wasteful. I guess it would be OK if it was just a sing... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-12-2020, 12:13 AM |
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Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
| To the opposite I like to de-brand things, so my sticker is a black tape over logo/brand name, camera and the microphone. I don't like stickers because using them you may see me in a particular way th... |
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stratex |
Hardware talk
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02-12-2020, 09:06 PM |
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Thread: Running a Mainframe in your basement
Post: RE: Running a Mainframe in your basement
| The hardware is so specific and outdated that I see no reason to, it would not even be valuable for your employment prospects. Experimenting with RISC-V would be much more interesting and valuable lon... |
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stratex |
Hardware talk
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02-12-2020, 08:46 PM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| If it's a short gig you can carry a flash drive with your preferred setup.
If it's a long term employment you can write a bootstrapping script to install and configure your working env.
For servers de... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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02-12-2020, 08:34 PM |
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Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
| You can also use a regular terminal window and a cronjob to do your notifications, my own weather example (bash):
Code:#!/bin/bash
urxvtc -bg "#232323" -fg "#909090" -name notification -geometry 33x7+... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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02-12-2020, 07:58 PM |
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Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
| I haven't used any kind of bar/panel for about two years now, the only things that I regularly use (that you usually would place on your panel) are date and time, but I call it from the terminal. Now ... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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12,096 |
02-12-2020, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: How To: Refresh your status bar in response to a hotkey
Post: RE: How To: Refresh your status bar in response to...
| This is much more difficult than I expected. How would you update something like - current machine's IP, Weather, BTC price, your inbox from mutt etc? These things do not require frequent updates, but... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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02-12-2020, 07:30 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| (25-11-2020, 12:40 PM)opFez Wrote: >$13.99: Buy now
wow, a wm you have to pay for?+$9,999.00 for a Mac ($8,999.00 without a monitor stand) |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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41,843 |
25-11-2020, 12:59 PM |
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Thread: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
Post: RE: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
| I like that people are doing very simple sites over-there, no JS, no heavy css, mostly browsable in something like lynx, there should be more of such sites on the web. I don't like centralization/fede... |
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stratex |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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24-11-2020, 08:08 AM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| I'm really not satisfied with either stacking or tailing modes of operation. On my 1440p monitor tiling is very wasteful, ironically I feel more claustrophobic with big screen and a tiling wm, yes you... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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41,843 |
22-11-2020, 06:46 PM |
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Thread: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, where does pkg management stands
Post: RE: The role of distributions &/or Unix flavors, w...
| My thoughts on package management, and overall system complexity:
Millions of developers are writing code, then many other developers are writing more code which relies on top of already written code,... |
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stratex |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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12-11-2020, 08:24 PM |
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Thread: File extensions
Post: RE: File extensions
| (12-11-2020, 03:48 PM)jkl Wrote: That’s why the shebang exists.It is not the same thing. You perhaps didn't get what I ment. You can't quickly look at ls and see shebangs of all your .sh files. It's... |
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stratex |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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12-11-2020, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: File extensions
Post: File extensions
| For a very long time I thought that .txt or .exe extensions are Windows world heresy and have no real use in GNU/Linux or Unix-like world. But then relativelly recently, I know it's stupid - but I rea... |
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stratex |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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12-11-2020, 02:57 PM |
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Thread: You worst moment on a Unix system
Post: RE: You worst moment on a Unix system
| 1) Lost about 20000 Tux coins, by thinking that I backed up the private key while in reality I did not. (I have ~80 different coins) which leads to confusion and management issues sometimes. Tux is wo... |
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stratex |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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12-11-2020, 02:24 PM |
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Thread: Steno typing (Plover)
Post: RE: Steno typing (Plover)
| I've been practicing key positions for some days now. I feel like I internalized them well enough, and ready to move on.
Did more research on steno. Most important terminologies I found:
Writing - co... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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30-10-2020, 03:48 PM |
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Thread: A simple licensing question.
Post: RE: A simple licensing question.
| (20-02-2019, 01:53 PM)zge Wrote: (19-02-2019, 01:10 PM)mrtn Wrote: Most of the times? Unlicense - because I don't care.
You really shouldn't be using Unlicense. It's vague and problematic in some... |
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stratex |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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28-10-2020, 08:32 AM |
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Thread: Steno typing (Plover)
Post: RE: Steno typing (Plover)
| I decided to start with internalizing the steno key layout, because it's quite different from qwerty.
For that I've made another layer, basically like for Steno machine, but with regular qwerty keycod... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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3,180 |
27-10-2020, 11:25 AM |
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Thread: Steno typing (Plover)
Post: RE: Steno typing (Plover)
| Initial hardware/software setup.
I have a QMK based custom hand-wired keyboard, with atmega32u4 controller (teensy 2.0). And I run Gentoo Linux, so most of what I will describe below are for my partic... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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3,180 |
26-10-2020, 06:12 PM |
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Thread: Steno typing (Plover)
Post: Steno typing (Plover)
| I was thinking about it for so long, imagine how cool is that to "type" at a whopping 250-300WPM (1250-1500CPM), that's how I see a true hacker would type. Of course it doesn't matter that much for pr... |
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stratex |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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3,180 |
25-10-2020, 03:00 PM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
| Mental Outlaw? No, it isn't me, I don't even have a Google account. There are a dozen of people on youtube running Gentoo and making videos about it, it's not that rare anymore. Also why is the defaul... |
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stratex |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-10-2020, 11:57 AM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: Hello
| Hi all!
After seeing that the forum is now became somewhat active I decided to stop lurking around and created an account. I'm a GNU/Linux user, currently using Gentoo, bspwm and lots of terminal appl... |
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stratex |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-10-2020, 10:50 AM |