it's gonna be nvim I'm afraid because emacs doesn't open itself in-terminal, at which point I may as well just use kate anyway is there a way to make that work? probably am I gonna when nvim just werks? naw not until I get fed up with nvim anyway
S C
I'm gonna have to rebind the movement, cause my brain is confident nextline should be k, and previousline should be j because h is previous, and l is next so obviously, since the up\down buttons are in the middle, they should be previous line, next line, in that order
I don't know why it's the way it is by default, it seems horribly unintuitive
S C
>type <C-g> to show your location brother, I do not know how to type <C-g> I do not know what the fuck you MEAN by <C-g> surely you don't expect me to literally type the fucking greentext arrows is it C as in CTRL and then g?
S C
my god it IS oh it's explained directly below lmao well okay, now I know
>>1169339 I mean it should, certainly, but it opens in that janky default terminal even when I run it directly through kitty for now I'll just learn2vim I slotted in lazyvim so now it's p user friendly, even if I still don't know a goddamn thing about the commands and hotkeys and shit Gonna have to make myself a cheat-sheet or something for that so I can easily look up like "how the fuck do I paste again?" I mean it's p, obviously, but it's an example
I was just trying to install a goddamned font but it wasn't there so I was like "oh I probably just gotta update the repos" but couldn't be fucked to figure out what the argument for that was so I just Syu'd it cause, well, that'll update them alright
alright with lazyvim all done and setup, I think I can learn to love this it's got a little helper thing on the right for me so i can ~learn~ a lot of it is gonna be syntax more than memorizing what each letter does in and of itself like I know d is delete, x is cut, y is copy(yank) and v is selection but the order it all goes in is gonna be the real hurdle
moon
how many recursive layers do YOU have to peek through to see the outside world??
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
can't the recursive layers are a trap, an infinite prism
>>1169353 i think i can see a few of yours maybe not i think about other people's thoughts a lot, about how they think as an individual doesn't everybody do that though? i feel like that's one of those unspoken things that flies under the radar because it's a little too much "under the hood" to communicate verbally
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
theory of mind yes
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
if you ask me its a bit too intangible to speak on much unless you're like Proust and are really good at writing about these types of things, words fail
moon
i find that it's heavily entrenched in the pre-lingual parts of the brain the cerebellar structures that operate very quickly off a pattern of negative imprints that preface our linguistic thought some of these thoughts exist on a plane that does not have linguistic syntax and whose structures fall through the linguistic syntax like a sieve i find that it is easier for me to type about it though than to speak about it, as the written expression of language is not so entrenched in our mandibular/vestibbular processes when we're speaking, the brain has to fetch inner models that attach meaning to sound, to prepare the expectation for vocalization and suppression of vocal frequencies in the tympanic duct so that we don't deafen ourselves from talking
i find that the freedom of attaching verbal-scale sound profiles in the multiple-second range to the meanings behind the thoughts that are operating in the millisecond-range that comes from typing instead of speaking to be a lot more accommodating for clarity of expression it's simply hard to decompress the meaning into sounds that take much longer to speak than the time it takes to think
it takes time to type things out, sure, but there's a segmentation between having the thought and typing it out that is entangled in // that's not entangled when typing but it is entangled when speaking because the auditory nucleus has a high attention demand for the expected acoustic signal
some of the scripts in the dotfiles I use do stuff like regenerate the colors files (for various themes and stuff) when you do shit like change the wallpaper or refresh the waybar, that kind of stuff Which isn't a BIG problem, but as I had just shunted my custom colors into that same file, it kept being overwritten so in a stroke of actual genious, I made a separate file for my colors
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
genious
S C
also, hyprland's configs only accept colors as like, rbg(ffffff), hex codes but without the # cause that's, as you might guess, a comment so nvim and vscodium's "show hexes as the color they are" plugins don't catch them, which is a PAIN in the ass My solution, simpel I don't write directly into the file hyprland actually reads, I write to a file with the #, and a script generates the file as hyprland wants it into a file I feed it
It's a little cumbersome, but it was the simplest way to make it work the way I want
S C
if you feed it rgb(#FFFFFF) it just goes "I do not know what that is, that's not a valid color, you fucked up"
yes but it's abysmally slow i built a second copy of llama.cpp for the purpose
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
it's using 112 gb of ram
S C
bruh I only have 32+24 to begin with I guess I could give it swap as well to have an arbitrarily high amount of RAM
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
it would take as long as the A.I in the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy if you started swapping
S C
fair
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i should have asked it 'what do you get when you multiply six by nine'
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
it's only 50% done processing the prompt still aaaaa
S C
holy moly I didn't quite understand how much faster VRAM is I mean the RAM itself is probably the same speed, but it's hooked directly into the processing module and doesn't have to go throgh the mobo and stuff, that's where the lag comes from I'd imagine, but still
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yerp well the vram is also faster but yea it all being on the card close together and standardized chips that play well together
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
okay but what it the whole thing was in the cache instead?
I have once more coded a thing It is a simple thing, but I am fond of it https://pastebin.com/NLWSVNiB
I'm gonna alias it and then I can jsut ask the robot, which basically loads into vram instantly, for basic command help It could be more elegant, but I don't know how to use case
it's nice, making little helpful scripts
S C
well, I added | glow at the very end so it actually renders the markdown glow - specifically
S C
made it entirely in nvim too :) what the FUCK is that
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i bossed claude code around a bit to make it write some basic react js code for me yesterday cost like a dollar
it's just a lot faster than going man command and scrolling through 500 fucking pages worth of documentation when all I wanna know is how the hell I get pacman to list my installed packages the AI can be wrong, sure, but generally speaking it's competent enough with basic bash
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
for sure its way better than trying to use the manual lol
Maybe this is like a cultural thing but why is car financing and taking out loans for vehicles so big in America? It seems super common but I don't know anyone here who does that shit Just buy what you can afford bro it's not like a house where there's no other option and you pretty much have to take out a loan.
(this post was written by the driver of a 2013 mazda)
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
you can't even buy a new car for less than like 50k in the US they don't make small cars anymore
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ok new camry msrp 34,575 cad but that's a commie japanese car anyway
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ford maverick starts at 28k but are you really gonna get the base trim
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
idk car culture man but they're all like super self conscious about drivin the right car
im not even a leftie tree hugging bicycle cuck like u r, I just think it's bad money management
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yes sir
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
it's a pretty fun lifestyle really just buy a car and use your paycheck to finance it then when you get bored of it buy another car and let the original one rot on your lawn
if you want to buy a 75k truck for your city commute to your white collar job that's your call. go off king I'm just saying it seems unwise to do it with borrowed money
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yes that's true but do you hate freedom? do you want money lenders to lose their jobs and their families starve and die?
I saw something about how dealerships actually make most of their money not from selling the vehicles but through financing. It's actually a pretty fucked up system. Maybe they should lose their jobs
bah gawd grep can search the CONTENTS OF FILES? just, like, by itself? just fucking "hey grep go find every instance of teh word "meme" across my whole fucking box"? and it will go do that?
I owe grep an apology, I was not familiar with its game
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
uh huh have you tried using `strings` on random files too
S C
I have not, I am evidently but a small CHILD in front of the almighty terminal
I wonder if I' ll ever start using the hjkl movement in nvim like, primarily I expect once I've got muscle memory for all the commands I might, but for now the arrow keys really are way, way more intuitive and easier to use >>1169480 I never actually played nethack
i mean in vim mostly all you need to know is j is down, k is up w is next word-boundary, W is next Word b is prev word-boundary, B is prev Word
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
is front of line $ is end of line
S C
well the movement in vim is like, I'll get used to it and kinda figure it out but mostly I'm still struggling to figure out the various motions and whatever the hell Like if I wanna select, I know that's v, and I can move well enough, but I don't know agood way to select like, a LOT of text Like if I wanna select everything, how do I do that, besides just starting at the top\bottom and scrolling?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yeah you just gotta learn some patterns for every day use
dd = delete this line p = paste it
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
gg = go to beginning of file v G = go to end of file $ = go to end of line y = yank
oooh right I had forgotten about gg and G they were mentioned in the tutorial but it's also like... not the kind of function it's easy to tutorialize because how do you produce a usecase for either of those within a tutorial? it just used it as a way to give you a reazon to go back to a specified line which I also forgot how to do
S C
I expect it's like g something ah SOME of the stuff in vim I've already got some familiarity with cause yazi uses very similar stuff like yank and xut and paste and stuff, can even navigate with hjkl though why would you with a file manager >>1169489 lazyvim DOES provide a little floating helper widget on the bottom right when you start doing something, at least, but it's not comprehensive because well, what possibly could be
I'm still not really feeling like I've got anything near confidence in my use of it all though sometimes when I hit : i go to the bottom left and there's like... a history? or something? and I gotta ctrl-c and then : again and I'm always worried I accidentally made some sort of change to the file cause I don't KNOW what that stuff is I think it's cause I'll hit q first and then : and qq seems to start some sort of recording?
lotta lotta weird stuff in vim I do not know what is and it is very intimidating
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
5G = go to line 5
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ya it helps to make a little cheat sheet like writing it down as you go
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
S = remove whole current line and start entering text (substitute whole line)
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea if you're worried about accidentally mangling the file (i get that) i just press uuuu a few times to undo and then RRRR to redo just to see what's up
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
errr C-r not R
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
q is for recording macros you don't need those yet
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yea i only know ao much of vim i just know enough to be comfortable doing every day tasks without being immersed in the esoteria as long as you mash ESC you can get back home (usually) unless you're in like a macro or something and have to press w q* to get ou
also if I open a directory with vim, I get this, which is handy, but I do not actually know how to interact with that explorer side once I've opened a document it seems REALLY useful when working with multiple files, but I have no clue what keys to press to get back there so I gotta use the mouse, and there seems to be two separate tab systems >>1169496 yeah, for navigation while there it works with jk<enter> but I mean once I actually open a file
like once I'm here, I don't know how to get back to the tree on the left mouse works, but that's clunky and seems like blasphemy against the ethos of vim as a whole
S C
also behold my absolutely scuffed, already cruft-ridden directory structure why is all that shit in vscodium_root? well, because I used vscodium to make some of it. do I use it anymore? no, even without good mastery nvim seems overall more convenient than vscodium, even if I sacrifice ollama integration (I'm sure I COULD write a plugin for it, technically, but none exist to my knowledge) why is one in python? cause I had chatgpt make it for me in like, '22?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
oh you mean working with windows? all the window commands start with C-w
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
C-w h to go left C-w l to go right etc
S C
>>1169500 my god... >>1169502 yeah I'm working on consolidating it all into at least like, ~/Documents/scripts it's not THE cleanest, but it's cleaner I'm trying to keep at least the home directory itself tidy, because on mint it was utterly fucked I've got a handful of bespoke capital letter Directories in home, just to aid in the organization Like Drives, where I've got symlinks to the mnt drives
I've also just symlinked the torrent music folder in ~ /Music, but for whatever reason quod libet doesn't like *looking through* symlinks, even if it does accept what it's already found in one if the symlink exists like, when I put just ~/Music in its library, it didn't go indexing but when I put ~/Music/okuu_music (the symlink) in there, it happily indexed it, and when I removed that entry from the library, the music remained because the actual path is still valid and within the library because of ~/Music I dunno what's up with that
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1169498 hmmm i would just make a ~/bin directory or ~/scripts or something
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
~/Documents is where i put all my pdf files that i never look at again
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i like having a theme folder for coding like ~/lab or if the project is important enough like doushio it gets ~/doushio
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
to me, intuitively, the capitalized folders in ~ are, like, GUI concerns i don't wanna have to press that shift button for CLI work
I like having the capitalized letters for my own sake honestly Like it might be something that's there primarily for GUI reasons, but it does make it easy to distinguish my Directories from like, the junk some software dumps directly into ~ cause nobody ever codes their shit to capitalize their directories like see you can tell which folders are mine as the user, and which have been dumped there by some program
S C
capitalizing directories would be a bother, but like... basically anything and everything that has reason to interface with directory structures at this point has tab completion that fixes capitalization I never type the capital D in downloads, I just type ~/dow and hit tab
I actually really, really like yazi though I miss drag'n'drop sometimes, like with moe for sharing my screenshots, but other than that it's super nice to navigate with just the keyboard and it's super fast too I'll probably put it on the laptop next time I use it, cause god knows that ancient thing needs to save what cpu cycles it can
My dad used it for work back in the day, but I think "back in the day" here means like, not vista or XP, but like... 98 it runs arch+i3 well enough, but it really doesn't like booting firefox so I use dillo primarily I didn't even bother putting kate on it, because Coping With nano is faster than just launching kate it can actually play 720p videos fairly okay though, surprisingly, and while the lightweight epub reader I put on it is fucking awful, it does at least work the awful part of it being it has no like, font size settings or anything from what I can tell, only zoom and it is literally zoom, it doesn't adjust the font size, it just zooms in on what's rendered and also it doesn't handle images in epubs all that well, I think it requires their size to be explicitly defined in the document for it to display them right, and lacking that it defaults to like, I dunno, max 50x50 or something? it's really scuffed
I tried it out just cause it looked cool at first, but then I kinda just fell in love with it part of it is because on hyprland (maybe this is jus wayland generally) drag'n'drop is kinda just... not properly set up, so you can't drag-contextmenu with a hotkey, it's only drag'n'move so to copy, you gotta actually ctrl-c or rightclick-copy shit anyway, and that's even more tedious if you're trying to make a symlink cause you gotta make the symlink either manually (I do not know how to do this. I mean I know ln, but I mean like, can you write a symlink in nano?) or with nemo you can highlight->edit->make symlink, and then you cut the symlink and then you paste it where you want it it's just super tedious, but with yazi you just find the thing, yank it, and then you hit - where you want it
wayland has a lot of cruft for the supposed "new standard" that was already old by the time I started actually using linux I don't REALLY care about the security and stuff personally, so I'm not entirely sure if hyprland is actually what I should be using, or if I should just use i3 instead but, the rice potential is crazy on hyprland, supposedly
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
hmm theres also `bat` which is cat duf which is du
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
dust* not duf
dust is kinda cool yea that's nice points out the biggest files in my home directory 730G total
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ah yea if you're in like a split window paradigm then i see why you'd want a file manager
split window? like when you open two files side by side or something you mean? oh yeah, I really like tiling
it took a little getting used to, but it's super comfortable now I actually, sort of, manually put together a tiling setup with autohotkey back on windows just cause it made it easier to manage than the stacking for most stuff, you want it fullscreen or next to something else, so the floaty windows are kind of more of a pain than a blessing I had to hit a hotkey on a window to actually put it where it was supposed to be with that autohotkey setup, but I used it basically all the time
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
er tiling window manager is the term of art
S C
windows has the whole "hey I see you moved a window to the edge, wanna make it take half the screen?" thing now, but all of those functions I just turned off because they got in the way with dual monitor and I never deliberately used them I did sometimes use the hotkey for it, like win+right or something, but it was rare and mostly for reading ebooks and stuff like that
S C
oh, actually in a regular text editor, when you hit left on the beginning of a line, it just goes to the end of the above line (same with right at the end, I guess) is this something you just do with k$ or j0 in vim, or is there like a separate key for just doing that?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i think you can just press left arrow key for that? it's more of a movement that I associate with editing mode though usually i'm tryna use / or ? to navigate nearby
S C
yeah in edit other editors that works, but not in nvim maybe it's a lazyvim diff but I think it was like that out of the box too it's not a big issue though, just a feature I find myself attempting to use fairly often because I'm used to it >>1169522 oh, neat might add that, though admittedly having it anchor to the end of the line IS useful when doing stuff like commenting things out or the like
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
> to wrap lines when moving add this to your .vimrc set whichwrap+=<,>,h,l,[,]
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1169480 playing NetHack is the only reason I can navigate vim
Yeah I didn't play much out of the tutorial but I do remember thinking the game was easy af just face roll on and mash all the buttons and you can't lose. I do have a friend who is more into it though and apparently it does eventually get harder late game.
>>1169524 some of them, ya. some more then others maybe.
S C
my god I can launch yazi from within yazi
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
brain asplode
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
you can also :!vim or any shell command after :!
S C
oh yeah true it's a little annoying to use commands within yazi cause unless it requires input or takes forever, it just like, does it and then closes out the display of it convenient for stuff like "sudo mv" or something for renaming a protected file, but annoying when you wanna just quickly peek inside a folde you don't have access to
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ah yerp better to launch a zsh or something in that case
S C
oh you can just do that, huh
S C
I am becoming more powerfuru
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
every night, i can feel my ps... and my bash... and even my top.... the history i've lost... and the temp files i've lost...
S C
in the yazi. straight up yanking it and by it, let's juts say... my dotfiles
I won't be the one really using the laptop I'm setting up, my dad's basically just gonna have it to run halflife and maybe firefox without having to go to The Computer Room (besides his desktop can't run steam anymore due to 64bit) but if I ever gotta go rooting through configs, I wanna at least be comfortable
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
man im hardly even writing code now i'm just telling claude what to do and then cleaning little things up i've become one of Them
I don't even write my own smutty fanfiction any more. I just get grok to do it.
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
>He lubed them both with a handy jar of swamp slime (surprisingly slick and warm), then positioned Mario on all fours. With a powerful thrust, Shrek entered him, filling the plumber completely. Mario gasped, pushing back, their bodies slapping together in a primal rhythm. Shrek's hands gripped Mario's hips hard enough to bruise, pounding deeper, faster, each grunt from the ogre matched by Mario's high-pitched whimpers of pleasure. "Harder, Shrek! It's-a so good!"Sweat and slime mingled as they lost themselves—Shrek reaching around to stroke Mario in time with his thrusts, Mario clenching around him, driving the ogre wild. Climaxes built like a boss battle, exploding in waves: Mario first, spilling over Shrek's hand with a triumphant yell, then Shrek roaring as he flooded deep inside.
the laptop works at least it's not a strong machine, but it's running half life now opposing force just crashes to desktop when it tries loading the fucking game, and I can't figure out why it's doing that, but between hl and blueshift, there's plenty of game there until I get around to fixing it
gotta get ssh set p on the damn thing, too, so I can tinker with it while it's in use forgot how to scp so I wasn't able to grab my configs
love too have a vertical line of function keys at the far left of the keyboard so my touch typing is FUCKED and I keep typing bullshit like auso pXMn I will commit a crime if I find the one responsible for this heinous crime against comfort and common standards
Perfect for u since you are also entry level and tiny
Mahou Shoujo Marsh-chan
(owned)
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
what the hell maaan
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
wow this thing is lightweight as hell no wonder everyone wants the chunky italian machines guess i'll start stickin out feelers for one of those one day a couple years from now
I tried making my lockscreen automatically pause my music but it completely went insane and stopped working so I gotta find a different approach at the very least
it's not like, IMPORTANT but it would be convenient cause if I've left my headset on and just walked away with music on, it's gonna lose all its battery life and charging this headset from <20% makes it utterly unusable
S C
I think the issue might be that it considers the pause command being sent to the music player to be, well, activity And when that hits as it locks the screen, which I'm pretty sure it has a short grace window for, it just doesn't know what to do
so i bought so bagels from the grocery store right, partly because they were on special, heavily reduced to clear 99 cents for a 5 pack when they usually cost $5.50 and then I scan it at the self serve and it comes up full price, so I called the person over and there was a sticker over the barcode right actually this story isn't that interesting. anyway tl;dr I was right and they were wrong
ah, they misplaced the sticker happens all the time
actually a real pain with bottles and cans because they've got a recycling deposit attached which the priced-down sticker doesn't register for some reason our current approach is to put it on the direct opposite side of the barcode so it can still be recycled, but the cashier sees the sticker if we try to scan the barcode at the register it's not perfect, but it's at least servicable USUALLY when it's misplaced, it just results in it being scanned twice, which is a pain but still
I should figure out some project to get cracking on, entirely for the purpose of familiarizing myself with nvim through sheer necessity alas, I do not know what kind of project to go for because at the moment there's not really anything I have a need to mess with that isn't in itself extremely involved Like yeah, making a gtk theme that fits the rest of my theming would be good, but also that means making a fucking gtk theme
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
have you tried writing a video game
S C
that seems like a very involved project
S C
the fucking laptop keeps cycling its goddamn mac adress for some unholy reason so it doesn't keep its IP on the wifi
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yeowch gotta love linux it's VERY well tuned for laptop life Clueless
it's not a big problem, but it's very annoying because it kills my ssh sessions all the goddamn time I'm sure I can find a way to fix it, but still
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
there is an easy way to work around that install mosh
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i appreciate my macbook a lot because it is actually tuned for laptop life like the suspend state is goated the audio does the Right Thing (TM) if i put in my earpods or whatever there's a million little QoL things that just work behind the scenes setting that all up nice in Linux would be a lot of work
S C
brother it's not a disconnect, the fucking thing changes its MAC address and local IP
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1169606 yea mosh is designed to save the session even if you're on like a shitty tethered cell network that keeps switching to wifi
I'm probably gonna dump xfce on the damn thing cause my dad's really the one using it and he can't into i3 I have a different, much older laptop, with a battery in it and everything
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i guess i could check the logs real quick
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
> error: undefined
S C
oh that's not good
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
gotta love it, gotta love it
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
its fine we just `rg 'Error by'` and find the error site
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
welp that's gonna need some more diagnostics
S C
it is possible it's an issue on this end, but I don't know how that could be
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
nah it's gotta be some bug idk what very rare to get a random 'bad protocol' but it does happen to me sometimes too
even a fucking arp-scan doesn't see it but it IS reachable troubleshooting is a lotta work at least it can into online video games now without DCing every 7 minutes
S C
haven't really figured out where to export EDITOR=nvim yet either so I gotta do that manually all the time
well the culprit was avahi so now that's been killed off now I just gotta figure out how to get half life to stop being a graphical fucking MESS which I assume can only be solved by "lmao stop trying to run it in a tiling window manager, it not built for this" because half life is coded by insane people and the game, menu, and settings menus are all distinct embedded layers that register as separate windows to i3 and it goes fucking psycho mode
worst case I dump xfce on it and just call it a day but \\\ honestly I probably should just do that anyway because it's easier to use for my dad who is the one actually using the fucking thing, but I didn't at first cause I didn't know if it could run it comfortably, and still am not because the hardware is utterly scuffed it's supposed to be able to run like, win7 but I can not for the life of me understand how it ever did so in any acceptable way single core 2.2ghz with 2gb of ram isn't exactly built for windows more recent than xp
I feel like the death stranding pack looked like it had comfortable setup though or maybe it just looked cool with all the straps
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okay so the issue was NOT actually avahi, though when I killed it earlier, it did fix itself I mean it does seem to make some sense, my desktop announces as gensokyo(.local) and DOES run avahi, but not systemd-resolved, so I'm guessing I killed the wrong one but I don't know why it like, did work before the reboot at least its IP is static now so I can access it reliably but this shit is WEIRD dude
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
sounds esoteric
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yeah it was basically a mixup of configurations between avahi and resolved causing neither to work properly got it sorted out, I think It works rn but I dunno if it will after the laptop reboots, will have to see
I caved and installed xfce on the fucking laptop it is painfully slow, by my standards, but at least it behaves itself more nicely when running games through wine just directly through wine, too, cause lutris is being a fucking asshole and not working right fucking thing is SO utterly scuffed, but at least the games my dad plays are so unspeakably old, straight up wine handles them about as well as it does notepad
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which is to say, servicable errors in the terminal come out fast and heavy, but the game runs
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oh neato, I found a thing that's gonna be very helpful for getting used to nvim precognition shows little hints for stuff while I'm in normal mode
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only navigation though, but even that's kinda handy
i need to get a guy to fix it first because I fucked up the pins but I thinking something like Fedora
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I dunno, endeavouros is solid and you get to say you use arch Mint is good for just setting it and it works Straight up arch if it's weak I guess
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I can't speak to much else though Avoid Ubuntu though, you'll be very annoyed with it quickly
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Arch will require just accepting you'll be doing a bit of manual work tbf
!ReneWy59x.
arch sams favourite os
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I like arch a lot honestly
!ReneWy59x.
I just know sammy seems to harp on about arch
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Well it's got the benefit and also the drawback of always being up to date on the packages in the official repos It's kinda unlikely you end up having issues as a result but it's something you gotta accept
If it's strong hardware wise, I think Omarchy is supposed to be good and just a fully set up, ready to use, hyprland distro So that's an option
Really the benefit of arch is you don't have to fight a bunch of pre-installed junk that conflicts with something you want instead
That and it plays really well with hyprland, which I think is good for å laptop. We'll, any tiling wm is good for a laptop cause touchpads are the devil
I can ststill recommend some branch of arch in any case cause it's been very pliable in my experience Bare arch is unnecessary, but still relatively painless nowadays by just running archinstall It even let's you encrypt the drive ez
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NetworkManager is terrible though, only had issues with it But that might be these laptops being fucking ancient
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(it also obviously is a bit beneficial since both samu and I run arch)
MIGHT wanna connect an ethernet cable cause having to setup wifi is a pain
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
bro why is everyone installing Arch these days is arch actually good now or is it all the wjn10 eefugees
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Well on a newer computer it might not be that big of a pain I think it's like uh iwctl device list station <devicename> scan Uuh Type station devicename show Station devicename connect networkname Type password
And you should be good to go?
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>1169690 its a good distro when you first install it it just has high upkeep cost of living on the edge i like stable distros where i can come back in a year and install a package and everything still works
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It's a combination of win11 refugees and also arch really isn't that hard to install since they bundled archinstall with it
!ReneWy59x.
how do I slow the help file down so I can read this shit
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Oh, you might wanna do | less At the end of help, or anything else that prints å ton
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
while true; cat README; sleep 2; done
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So like help | less
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I dunno where the pipe button is on American keyboards, mine is where your tilde is
!ReneWy59x.
hmmm what I would like to do is be able to cycle through the help commands
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I think you might have write access so you could do like help >> helptext nano helptext
So you can read it though I don't remember how to search in nano In nvim it's just /searchtermgoeshere but I'm not sure that helps cause you'll need internet to get nvim in the first place
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Once you get into an actual desktop environment of some description though, that kinda stuff is easier cause you can scroll with the mouse i3 is super bare bones but will at least get you in and has decent default binds so you can get it all working and then ditch it for something less uh, Spartan
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Happy New Year
!ReneWy59x.
sankyouuuu happy new year
!ReneWy59x.
rest in peace teacup you are still missed and loved
>>1169721 Hell yeah son welcome to the magnesium club. although i take it because I sweat a lot with powerlifting/yoga not because im old (cope). >>1169720 I was up till midnight scaping runes with the best of them.
I watched this guy ring in the new year seems like a sweet fella
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How's the install comin'
!ReneWy59x.
its uh not coming atm just ralphed up breakfast
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Ah, understandable Imma sleep cause I haven't since last year huhuhuhu, but in any event just remember if all fails, plug in the ethernet and archinstall and you'll be good You can do it manually but that's a wiki adventure
oh, rene, while not always extremely reliable, it's sometimes still pretty helpful for man pages to use grep like if you wanna know how to overwrite a file when copying with cp, you can do like man cp | grep overwrite grep by default only gives the specific line the term appears in, but you can do -B<number> to get the lines it appears below (phrased that way because A<number> is the same but above) so you can basically do man cp | grep overwrite to see if the term even appears in the first place or you gotta use a different one, and if it's there, you can do man cp | grep overwrite -B5 to get more lines above it -C<number> gets you the amount of lines both above and below
it's not the most elegant way to do it I'm sure, but it's servicable as a quick and dirty way to get the information you're looking for without having to scroll through pages upon pages of information
man and grep are super useful when you're starting out and don't know how to do stuff if you've got the GPU for it, I also honestly recommend setting up ollama with a small model like qwen2.5:3b or the like, and you can ask it for help when you like, don't know what to actually use to accomplish what you're trying to do Even the tiny lads are competent at bash, turns out I've gone sicko mode and made a few scripts that I've aliased so I can just ask the robot for help, too
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1169747 many distros have apropos which is an alias for grepping man pages
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
>>1169747 also I dont remember exactly what you said but I thought your excitement about discovering that grep also searches file contents was very funny and hrrmmm I forgot the word
well I obviously knew you can search file contents with grep, I just didn't know you could use it without specifying which file to search, and it can just do it across the whole damn system not without a bit of syntax wizardry (you could obviously do it with something like find and then for every file it finds you tell grep to look through it and then you print what grep finds)
it's just surprising cause these default tools are more powerful than expected Like you've got grep before you even actually install arch, when you've just got a terminal to work with
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
also I usually pipe search results into less
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I sometimes do that, too usually when the output is a whole fuckload though, I end up just dumping it in a file and opening it in nvim to browse through though it's inelegant, but it's pretty convenient to have the rough filtering and then do the finer filtering myself
I'm honestly surprised there doesn't seem to be a way in nvim to like select a chunk of text, and then go "put parenthesis around this" maybe I just haven't figured it out, but I sure can't figure it out (I sometimes just outright forget to put the right wrapping on shit)
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I added a headset power monitor to my waybar BIG POG actual customization it's absurdly basic, but it is functional Literally it just says "ON" "OFF" or "CHRG" based on whether it's on, alongside the batterylevel, which is "?" if it's off cause obviously I can't grab the batterylevel from a disconnected headset
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further things that need doing really boil down to making it have an icon instead of text for whether it's on or off or charging
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maybe make it run more than once a minute, too
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found out why my tooltips sometimes just disappear if SOMETHING on the waybar updates its actual output between you hovering over something and the tooltip appearing, it just cancels the tooltip call which means the cava module inherently breaks tooltips entirely, so long as you have any audio whatsoever playing that isn't a singular sound I mean, you CAN set it to 1fps, but at that point why have it
>>1169760 oh fuck you're right, you can literally just fucking / search in manpages nu teq
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if I'm gonna start writing a damn vidya though, I guess I'll have to come to terms with my distaste for python I'm sure any language WORKS, really, but python in general I'm pretty sure is more versatile
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
ummm if you're makin a text adventure game then python is a fine choice text adventure game a great place to start
yeah it's about all I'm comfortable doing as a start I just wanna make like, a system that you can play in graphics and stuff is something I might consider once I'm confident in my abilities tere
also how the FUG do I actually use the shit in lazyvim? if I do nvim directory in terminal, I get this neat explorer on the left and it opens documents on the right one I've figured out I can <C-w>h\l to go between them, but uh if I'm IN a document, how do i open that thing? :Explore opens something similar, but it's not the same thing also I can't remove .oh-my-zsh from the projects thingamajig and util.project doesn't even like, work at all I think it shows up in the main menu I get when I just do nvim (I do not know how to get there otherwise, btw) but I can't actually access it
I seem to have gotten a Bad Protocol again overnight, but maybe you fixed it after that it's hard to say when or why it happened, but probably it happened fairly quickly after I went to bed cause it hadn't loaded in any more posts than my last one but that might be because it wasn't the active tab, possibly, hard to say
first day of work in like, a week and change mercifully, weekend right after
Also I've realized, the touch typing I've developed over the course of my life is SLIGHTLY scuffed like, it works for me, but it's non-standard so it's a little divergent from what software like nvim are built around my right index rests on j, which is standard, but my left hand's evolved for gaming, so d is where the left index rests, with my left pinkie hooking on the other side of shift it's comfortable for typing generally, it works well for me, but it kinda comes into conflict with nvim a little bit cause it assumes standard positioning though, some of that is I am Norwegian, meaning my access to some keys are different from american keyboards like { and [ are common hotkeys in american stuff, even ~ is but all of those are altgr keys for me 7, 8, and the ¨ respectively, the ¨ being on the top line next to enter I could rebind those to be more convenient, use øæå for instance, but it'll break stuff like help documents and make online lookup more annoying
actually I guess the builtin key lookups and such actually just reference the top entry bound to a function, so maybe it's fine Like in the Tutorial, I would imagine the keys it tells you to press are directly read from keybinds, not actually hardcoded (at least I would expect a reference rather than hardcoding from the kind of person who uses and advocates for nvim)
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I do have the | where americans have ~ though, which honestly seems a lot more useful considering that's used more than ~, at least in the terminal ~ is only for referencing the home folder, and you rarely do that, at least I rarely do kinda wish / had a dedicated key instead of being shift+7 though
> in Australia we actually dont have the right ecosystems to support hooved animals so tbh we as a country should be eating kangroo and wombat
!ReneWy59x.
huhhh
!ReneWy59x.
tbh you should be eating kangaroo because theyre so swole steal their gains
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>>1169786 Well I do use it for home, but just in terms of frequency I use pipes way way more often than tildes I'm not even sure tilde is for anything outside of bash either
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
tilde is bitflip in C i guess
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
>>>/watch?v=u9JLKYF71jE all this repairability and then he puts windows 11 on it tragedy also he stole the lockpicking lawyer's voice
well I guess you get a motherboard too an upgradable laptop is a cool idea and something I'd consider getting for sure, but also like you're locked in with this single company's components until\unless it takes off enough for third parties to see profit in making their own, and uh... I don't think "a laptop you can modify" is something enough people even care about for that to happen The old thinkpads, while still massively popular with everyone who's used one, are absurdly niche, and they're moddable
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oh, they have cheaper lads available ~600 and up isn't that criminal ...maybe I should look into getting one of these...
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
meh i like my macbook air its light and fast and the trackpad is amazing
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
modular PCs are great but mobility has different priorities for a guy like meeeee
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
my sleep schedule is completely fricked i may have to do a forward cycle
honestly, he was going to be deposed eventually... hopefully this doesn't have a lot of casualties...
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
though funny thing about the invasion of panama a higher percentage of Panamanians approved of the invasion than Americans
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honestly you'd think the current admin would be the type to be offended at the diea they have to provide an excuse at all america is big and strong and that means it doesn't need to come up with an excuse
but I guess some guys at the pentagon and stuff were like "mr president, we do gotta have an excuse, it's the rules"
Rei !p8eYCadcMo
My uncle was involved in operation just cause. so it was fucking weird when it came up in Black Ops 2
what a painting the dang highlights and color wash are so good
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it's so fucked up the waybar tooltips stop working if something updates between the hover and the tooltip actually being shown
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well it starts fairly cool
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
big frickin' satellites
i still gotta watch the rest of S1 gonna do so with my dad
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>"we're studying what we think is a highly contagious virus by injecting it into mice" >oh no, my lab coworker got bit by one of those mice >better breach quarantine immediately and get her out into the open I'm gonna be sick
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
never underestimate the human element
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
i remember Big Yud writing about AI-in-a-box thought experiments a long time ago with the same general idea "hey human try printing this DNA in a matter compiler " "ok"
well yeah but I feel there's a big difference between like "very smart AI manipulates you into doing something for it" and "we are in quarantine, so the FIRST thing I'm gonna do when someone is likely infected is get them OUT of the quarantine"
Samu ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼
yerp that's true i just wonder if vince gilligan had any inspiration there
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It is a little surprising how this little bugger was immediately compatible with terrestial life though
