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tridactyl has a similar feature. It let's you break out the edit-pane content into a real vim/gvim editor (default <c-i>). There you have all your vim environment. I use this feature very rarely, e.g. when writing multiple lines in comments and I am in need of the editing power of vim. For simple text input I remain in the browser ui. Getting a vim-editor in all text inputs would be too much for my taste.

I'm a firefox-only user, and I read your comment in two ways. It's grumpy, but also on the point! Thanks, I feel similarly. What is your main browser btw?

FF works for me in great ways, and I am highly productive with it, as long as some plugins still work: uBlock, tridactyl, foxyproxy. And for UI: sidebery, stylus.

From time to time I feel I should turn my back towards FF when they come up with new decisions in their UI, which I drastically reduce (no menu, no tabs,...), or new features, which are more disturbing than helping.

On android, I discovered 'kiwi browser' which is FF based but does not blacklist the plugins.

Missile Game 2 years ago

Seem to be fun. But I can never play this with not inverted y-axis

This categorization seems to be based on one dimensional thinking (not in a bad way).

If you bring in more dimensions you end up with something like a taxonomy where an email contains a message and maybe also a todo or something else and may have more attributes around those identities. Then you can filter by those. I do not use that personally but I see there is no reason to define an email as a todo item.

Also, as an email is just a storage for data, you could (mis)use it as a storage backend for a file system (see fuse) or backup solution.

So an email can be everything you want.

Right. When I changed my vps to another hoster, I totally forgot how much trouble it was to get a good reputation in the beginning.

But it was really not that much work again. Just unfortunate, because one big Mail provider just discarded instead of rejecting my mails. After this was settled, everything works quite nice again. Important to me is keeping spf, dkim, dmarc and now also mts up to date. See mail-checker.com e.g.

I still wonder though, why some big mail providers do not do dkim/dmarc? I happen to realize this when I started to fight spam and gave incoming mails without dkim/dmarc a high spam score.

Actually, I am quite happy with using my budget HP all-in-one printer; private usage. I also chose to subscribe to the Instant Ink service. I took the smallest one with 10 pages p.m. This plan was, and still is for me, free of charge. So I have not payed for ink in the last 6 yrs. If I print more than 10pages, which happened once, I pay 1€ for another 10 pages. Also why I am happy with HP, is that there is quite decent support in linux (hplip). All in all at least I am happy. One drawback is, that the printer needs to send some telemetry back to HP. But that is the service, if the ink get low, they'll send me cartridges without my interaction.

Thus, I never ran out of ink and did not face the situation of a non working printer/scanner. And I got blinded by the good working service, that I did not realize the lock-in situation I am in. I dislike vendor-lock-ins like these, but for home printing I got used to it, due to the many benefits.

I still have the `HP 32SII` on the desk and use it for quick calculations without leaving the focus of the workspace. Batteries last about forever.

But also I use `free42` on the smartphone, which is a similar experience.

As you can see, I just like RPN.

I started to note down recipes as sequence diagrams. This gives me clear insight about duration (incl preparation and waiting times, etc), order of steps and parallelization of steps.

I wrote them with pen and paper. Recently I experimented with the mermaid extension for markdown. It has its drawbacks but works.

I am intrigued by experimenting with nixos. For now, my current driver for workstations is arch, on servers rh-flavored or debian. Everything is managed by ansible, plus persistent data is in backup. A lost server could reinstated quickly. Same for starting a new workstation. I understand nixos can do this, too. And also I have read about an home manager in nixos, which I think is essential too. Otoh, I'm not a developer. I think I do not need different versions of softwares. Maybe this is why I have not switched to nixos so far.

Are We Sixel Yet 3 years ago

In my memory, the patch was not in upstream and even more far away from distro packages at the time tmux came alive. I also went with tmux for vertical split (left-right panes)

Are We Sixel Yet 3 years ago

That's by far a different work experience. Imagine to start a long running process on remote, probably after hopping through a number of different machines. The long running process should not get killed. This is not possible to guarantee on ssh connections.

Similar, I keep all my work alive in remote sessions in tmux. Vim IDE, mutt, ... I would not want to re start this everyday. The best part is, I can reach my setup from office and from home and mobile. And if necessary even from my phone.

Nice article. I like that style of writing.

I'm also using dunst (with qtile). I'm using it since many many years and love it and hate it. I cannot make it work to keep critical notifications on until I acknowledge them with a click. The rest works well. Always keep it simple.

I also remember there have been breaking changes, but I did not recall. I changed my config and got it to it

I can just second most of those comments here. One thing should be clear: It doesn't matter if you have a payed or free plan with someone who stores your data. Always make backups! There are so many things what can go wrong