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xubuntu. stable and apps are reasonably up to date. i'll probably switch to mint with the whole snaps thing though. fedora is the one distro i never tried in my distro hopping phase though so...
right, so as the title suggests...
i like linux based OSes because you can pretty much mould your operating system to the shape of your brain. i call it cognitive ergonomy. and i'd like it to catch on. even on a relatively play-it-safe distro like the one i'm currently using, the repos are full of handy little applications to make life immeasurably easier for you, if they aren't installed already. thanks to xdotool, xdo, wmctrl, and sxhkd, pretty much any action can easily be bound to a shortcut key. for eg, i have xdotool search --name vimnote windowactivate || kitty --title=vimnote nvim -c "norm 13j" ~/notes/index.md bound to mod+n. it's so simple, and i was so proud of myself when i got it to work (i'm not really a scripty person). i just wanted to make something easy. then i wanted to make it a bit easier. then i was feeling like "idk this is still way too many key presses" so i found a way of making it even easier.
i've got a bunch of little hacks like this. before i found qmmp, i set up global keys for mpv so i could listen to podcasts on another workspace. i have ranger set up to give specific info from mediainfo as a preview for audio and video files. (which windows does easily in gui file browser but THAT'S NOT THE POINT OK)
anyway, the ubuntu forums and arch wiki are full of tricks that a lot of people want to set up, i'm curious as to the ones you had to set up for yourself.
yeah i just read this post header, carried on scrolling, clicked another, and got sent to a sports post. i wouldn't mind knowing how this bug can manifest itself in such an oddly specific way, but only if it can be done in say, a character limit of 300-500 characters.
well, i eschewed motion plugins for so long, but i recently installed easy motion, to quote "maybe use it minimally so i don't have to change my work flow too much". i pretty much gave up using w, e, b and f within a day of installing it, replacing each of them with a more efficient reach for the same number of key presses. similar situation with ultisnips, thinking it'd be overkill for my needs. in other words i was worried it would save me TOO MUCH time pffft. these both work really well with opening zsh commands in $editor too.
like the title says, i've been trying to replicate the snippet functionality of vim ultisnips, so i can expand "fn" into find ./ '*$1* , and then at $1 i can type "or" to expand to find ./ \( -name '*$1*' -o -name '*$2*' $3 \) $4. if i need to add a third pattern to that i can add onm at $4 to expand into -o -name '*$1*' $2 where i can add yet another onm at $2, or "! or" to add a bunch of patterns i can exclude. i have a bunch of these set up in neovim, for a bunch of commands, and they save me so much time, but when it comes to writing them in the terminal it feels like i'm typing in porridge.
i know i can open the current line in $EDITOR, and this is super useful, but it still breaks my flow more than i'd like, and unless the command is particularly long and awkward it's easier just to bash it out like a caveman.
there's also a tool called "pet", but despite going over the github page a few times, i can't work out whether it will offer the ability to nest snippets like this. it seems like it's just a glorified version of the functions i can set in my zshrc, where i'd need to write all the various combinations of the find command (for eg), rather than the flexibility of ultisnips. if you use pet and can confirm that it does this, then consider the thread closed ha.
sorry for the long post. i'm not really a codey scripty person, i'm just somebody who installed linux mint a few years back and realised that the command line is sort of really cognitively ergonomic (most of the time).
one that might play better in northern england for me - an ironic "let's 'av it". not the full on "LET'S 'AV ITTTTTTTTTTT woo" just a dead pan 'right, let's 'av it, eh?'
manjaro was my way in to arch. i used the fully configured xfce version, then several versions of the minimal install until i got something i liked, and didn't break after a couple of weeks.
if you were to ask me for a recommendation on an arch based distro i'd say endeavour, but manjaro is perfectly fine.
yeah that one annoyed me especially as the only reason netflix ever made money was because they won the war of convenience against torrent sites.
my expectations weren't very high, given how the twitter exodus played out, seeing some of the people who made very bold statements about never coming back... coming back... and subscribing to twitter blue.
you're never going to take down a giant like reddit, or twitter, or facebook, or whatever, in one swift blow. they're probably going to get through this. and your average social media user doesn't want to bring down the status quo, they just want to look at funny pictures of dogs. and that's fine. the real victory to be had is showing people that things can be done differently. enough people will stay on fedi servers to keep a community going, and by the time the next bunch of disgruntled posters come along there will be more content to keep them engaged
always nice to see peppermint rices. very underrated distro imo.
i vote sub lemmies, because i too keep catching myself say subreddits spits
don't tell anybody but i'm still doing tweets on mastodon.
glad to help. i've had all the same worries myself. it's different, and far from perfect, but the average user is more empowered in where exactly that line is drawn.
the torrent analogy is pretty good actually, ISPs can block certain connections so a good chunk of users miss out on the swarm, and the swarm misses out on them. where federation differs from choosing an ISP is it's far easier to switch your provider to this service than it is an ISP.
and where a given instance draws the line on censorship isn't the be all and end all of whether other instances federate with them. as i see it, though my understanding of this comes from mastodon, even if one server decides to properly block another, a third server might chose to limit instead, if at all. there are block lists but that requires a very obvious and widely shared red line on freedom of expression, where there are very few places on the open web where you'll see less censorship than that.
in the end, wherever a given instance draws the line, is far more democratic than other social media sites. it's easier to think that twitter, or reddit, or facebook, is more accountable, because there's at least one guy everybody can point to to blame when something goes wrong, and sure, there'd be something in that, if the scrutiny they get actually changed anything.
getting a json error but will check back tomorrow
I know i've let this get a bit messy but eh it's a new community for me so I'm letting my hair down and posting some unix porn.
Look in the top left, I've bound workspaces to asdzxc. Cool eh? I wish tiling window managers did that. Can't have split keyboards on a laptop.
xubuntu. when this install gets too messy i'm probably going to try the minimal edition and install my old openbox or awesome wm configs.
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