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The vi family 2 months ago

well, i've got this in my muscle memory too for a reason (that linuxes tend to use vim instead of vi and enable mouse there by default):

:set mouse-=a

FVWM-95 (2001) 7 months ago

2.6.9 is around 6yo now. I had been procrastinating for too long too, with my almost 30yo fvwm2rc, but finally migrated to x11/fvwm3 last month. Wasn’t too complicated in the end

I’ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job - chats work, calls work, presentations work, screen sharing works. or should I say mostly work… sure, it’s as glitchy as it ever was and may fail for any reason at any time, but you don’t really need an app to experience all that

It used to have a steep learning curve, I’d say. Once I’ve had a long complicated manually written configuration of all my devices, integrations, automations etc, which gradually got replaced by simple clicking in the gui. On the other hand, this also meant a lot of breaking changes over the years, when I had to re-configure my staff the new way

a lot of people do, for example me. apple maps sucks badly where i live (eu). say, it has no idea my house (built 6 years ago) exists, it builds routes via non-existing roads, is not aware of road works, detours or most of the businesses around

apple maps is completely useless here, even though i don’t like using a google app, there’s no alternative

i can. so you can too. the hardest part is finding a clean ip in a clean block. the rest is quite simple and straightforward. dkim+spf set up was enough for my opensmtpd to deliver my mail to all the big players without any going to spam

HA is nice, and I've been running it on RPi for a few years, mainly to make my air purifiers work in the way I want, plus some light switches and a motion detector

The only annoying thing are random breaking changes which make me overhaul my configs a couple of times per year

short answer: it will pass

longer answer: been there, seen that. carry on, find yourself a hobby and a couple of friends who share it (might require some effort, but it’s worth it). kids are also very rewarding (probably not for everyone, but surely for me), albeit very demanding too. anyway, it will pass, just dont try to drink or drug it out - that will only make things worse

good luck

heh, yeah, right, in the former ussr too there are people who fondly remember a lot of stuff their nomenclature families did have, which the other 99% didnt. and they certainly dont remember any shit the lowly plebs been through

what they are actually missing is the lost great times when they were able to feel being so high above the others

if i am writing a youtube comment and care about it, i always recheck if the comment is still there after a couple of minutes and then a couple of days. because the comments are now "disappearing" more and more frequently the last time my comment got automatically deleted right away was a couple of weeks ago for "bottle opening" words (in my language) put together. replacing a few letters in these words with different same-looking characters helped for some time, but eventually even these got deleted a few days later. i should probably give up using this last google service i still use

when driving through poland recently, i've heard a commercial on a radio for a locally made halloumi [0] (a cyprus' protected origin cheese). they somewhat amusingly called it "haluni" [1]

so, the chinese-abibas-style is still alive and kicking even within the eu with all its "disputed systems of geographical indications"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloumi

[1] https://www.krasnystaw.eu/produkty/ser-haluni/serek-haluni

i’d only advice to go for the 1st edition - the second was "modifed" to fit the tsarist narratives (e.g. "russia" was added everywhere, which was obviously absent originally)

Vivaldi 4.0 5 years ago

today you cannot even set a proxy anymore without changing your system settings (not browser settings).

you can in firefox settings

you can also do it in chrome with the cli parameter --proxy-server

Week numbering is absolutely foreign concept for most of the world

Say, I have no idea what week 26 is. I can only suggest it’s probably somewhere in [26/4]=June

I would not even know where to quickly look it up without googling - my calendars do not have this numbering

I can speak Polish in Slovakia*, get responses in Slovak and mostly understand each other.

i'd call slovak a "middle-slavic" language, the phonetics and the lexicon makes is easy for the other slavic spekers to understand

say, i can communicate with slovaks in ukrainian and there are no significant issues with understanding too. strangely, it doesn't work for czech. at all.

FreeBSD 13.0 5 years ago

without a network

pacman -S arch-wiki-docs elinks

does pacman install docs and elinks without network?

interesting