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I think there are some Emacs or Vim users who could describe their setup just like this. Heck, I’m probably one of them. “A few things to know before stealing
by ashton314 3y ago
I think there are some Emacs or Vim users who could describe their setup just like this. Heck, I’m probably one of them.
“A few things to know before stealing my laptop and/or using my editor config.”
- zdw 3y agoI run an ergodox split keyboard and a thumb trackball. Half the Keys have no labels, unless it's the one with the clear caps, which has no labels at all. Right shift is mapped to Escape (for vim, of course) There is no Caps-lock, only Control. Nobody messes with my stuff. :)
- astrospective 3y agoSame, few more labels and a more stock mapping but I’ve seen people give up after seconds of attempting it.
- __mharrison__ 3y ago(Cool. I've moved on from ergodox to lily58 and have a cst trackball.) This last weekend I pulled out my 12 year old Thinkpad running custom qtile window manager to transfer old DV movies to mp4s. Sadly my muscle memory was mostly gone and I had to revert to gnome... (Hanging my head in shame.)
- zoky 3y agoI'm shining a laser pointer into a fiber cable to write this comment, come at me
- fennecfoxy 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- snapplebobapple 3y agoI quantum entangled some atoms in my brain with some atoms in each of the starlink satellite's networking gear and use that to respond to comments. Don't tell elon.
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- HKH2 3y agoSomehow vertical mice are also good for keeping people away.
- helf 3y agoThat sounds lovely. I use a trackball and no one wants to ever use my system, either, heh.
- seventhson 3y agoSwitch to a Dvorak layout (with blank keycaps!) and you will have all the bases covered.
- sterlind 3y agoMy old team used to buy donuts on computers that were left unattended and logged in, as a game to get people to lock their screens. Dvorak alone saved me a couple of times!
- mock-possum 3y agoSpot on. “My life is a constant barrage of belligerently fielding foolish questions and foolish answers from comically ignorant children.” I wish I didn’t know quite so many guys for whom this is their main shtick.
- stuaxo 3y agoA few things before using my Linux laptop with amdgraphics... If you want to shut the lid, or otherwise use sleep make sure it is powered off USB, if it is powered by the battery or the barrel jack it will wake up, but the screen won't - be prepared to his Alt-PrintScreen REISUB. Get used to doing that multiple times a day, or it may be time to setup USB debugging and try and add some info to the bug report at...
- tnecniv 3y agoI haven’t used Linux on an AMD laptop in like 10 years. Is that still a bug? That used to drive me crazy.
- post-it 3y agoIt was on my 2015 Intel MacBook Pro when I last used it with Linux a couple years ago. I ended up disabling all lid triggers and just manually hibernating it when needed.
- quijoteuniv 3y agoI believe linux 5.x kernel fixed a lot of these, or maybe it was something else, definetely something when i moved the mac air to ubuntu 20. Sleeps works like a charm.
- nobleach 3y agoI'm on the latest kernel (Arch btw) and I still have to manually "sleep" my Dell XPS 9500. To add insult to injury, it's not even "real" S3 sleep. It's Microsoft, "we want access to your machine 24/7" S1 sleep. To be fair, I haven't spent much time in the last year messing with any of that. I do miss the days when I could shut the lid on my old Thinkpad, it'd sleep, and I'd open it a day later to an i3lock screen, and it would have only drained a percentage point.
- imgabe 3y agoI swap Ctrl and Caps Lock on every computer I use and it never fails to vex IT when I return it at work.
- pantulis 3y agoOr the casual colleague asking to take control of my computer to quickly help me finish a slide deck. "What is happening to this keyboard?"
- marssaxman 3y agoMy keyboard layout is Dvorak; it's always funny when a coworker thinks they're going to use my computer for a minute.
- worksonmine 3y agoI was this colleague to my first CTO, was amusing back then and I didn't get it. Today I do the same and my pinky loves me. I also use a US layout on Scandinavian keyboard, it's fun watching people scratch their heads.
- pantulis 3y agoLet me guess: your first CTO was a Emacs power user.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoA few things to know before stealing the laptop my work gave me that I still keep around on the off chance I need to check something on an old, near unusable machine - if there is something preventing it from working there is a little hole on the bottom of the laptop that you can cause a hard reset and restart by sticking a safety pin or toothpick inside. Good luck with this thing.
- hutzlibu 3y agoAh ... and I was thinking about giving linux on my laptop a try again. Thanks for a update on current reality.
- dfox 3y agoThis has nothing to do with Linux, but with quality of firmware in embedded controllers combined with laptops with internal non-removeable battery.
- hutzlibu 3y agoSo ... would I have the same problem with windows then? (also the parent post was edited by now and the linux references I was refering to removed)
- globular-toast 3y agoMy whole computer is like this. I use sway/i3. On my home computer I don't use a login manager so you have to type "sway" to get something graphical. At that point you probably don't know the key combos to open a shell, much less a web browser. And, yes, I do use emacs... My girlfriend simply calls my computer "broken". One time my brother was in my study and I needed to shut down my computer. After bashing on the keyboard for ten seconds or so he commented "THAT is how you shut down your computer?!" It honestly hadn't even occurred to me it might seem weird from the outside. I wouldn't have it any other way, though. Sure it's nice if a machine "just works", but machines don't just work. They are layers upon layers of complexity and if I have to understand them then I might as well interact with those layers directly.
- bee_rider 3y agoMod1+enter poweroff does not seem particularly arcane.
- cpfohl 3y agoStrongly disagree here on the "machines don't just work." 99% of the machines in my life just work for 99% of the tasks I throw at them. I spend an inordinate amount of time fixing/working-around the 1%, but directly interacting with the lowest layers is a massive waste of my very limited time. My primary reason for not using Linux for my desktop is that when I connect a bluetooth device, headphones, a monitor, a keyboard or a mouse, when I want to run a GPU intensive application, or when I need to connect to a VPN and have my DNS requests correctly routed through the VPN it just works on Windows or MacOS. I don't have the time or energy to work out those issues in a community supported environment where half the time the community support treats you like a half-witted imbecile for needing support and where the environment itself uses a CLI tool that my wife or kids can't use to manage the settings. Ease of Use, Dev Tooling, or Cheap. Pick two. Linux is consistently harder to use. With WSL-2 I've found windows eases the dev tooling pain that existed a few years ago. A Mac is not cheap.
- globular-toast 3y agoI'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. I work with Linux which, you admit, does not "just work". Your Windows/Mac systems just work because you pay someone to make it work for you (you don't skip the latest bug/security fixes do you?) That's the same as taking your car to the garage. I take my car to the garage too. But with Linux, I am the garage.
- shiomiru 3y agoYou might want to double check whether the second drive is properly connected, or the display manager will refuse to start. In this case typing `exit' in the console should still let you log in, unless it locks up for some reason. (Then you will have to reboot.) Now that you are logged in, a few things to note: * The mouse buttons do not work. Pinch the touchpad to click. * The keyboard layout is a mixture of the US English, Japanese, and Teletype 33 keyboards. By the way, its key labels are German. * If you need a modifier key, try sequentially going through tab, caps, control, alt, super. Maybe you will find it. * The only text editor on the computer is nvi. No, that's not `nvim'. * Firefox works, but has scripting disabled, routes everything through Tor and clears cookies on exit. Also, each new tab is opened in a separate temporary container that routes through a different Tor circuit. As an alternative, we have w3m too. * There is no file browser, just bash in xterm. Enjoy your new computer!
- eschneider 3y agoAdd ed editor and I think I'd be happy with this config.
- kurtoid 3y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1806/ https://xkcd.com/1806/