sombragris

5 ms·

31.
by sombragris 5mo ago
That's if you need to customize headings. I usually can keep using the standard ones, so that's not my case, and I suspect this also applies to a lot of people.
32.
by sombragris 5mo ago
Not necessarily my experience. I wrote (and I am writing) several academic documents with it. There are its quirks, of course, but with good classes such as memoir, I don't feel the need to do a lot more than basic customization in the
33.
by sombragris 5mo ago
RIP. He was (perhaps unknowingly) a great friend of my country. The Missouri Botanical Garden (under his leadership) helped a lot to help and increase the Paraguayan Herbarium collection at the Chair of Botany of the Faculty of Chemical Sci
34.
by sombragris 5mo ago
> "Restricted" is much more honest regarding what Denovo does. I'd suggest "encumbered" or even "infected".
35.
by sombragris 5mo ago
I fully agree about the overall downward trend in quality and efficiency of GUI apps, but I also think there's an important factor in the rise of TUI apps: People now have access to good terminal emulators. Back in the day, you had cmd
36.
by sombragris 5mo ago
I'm not a ghostty user (and neither a MacOS user). I use Plasma 6 and yakuake (which uses konsolepart; that is, it's based on Konsole, Plasma's default terminal emulator) is fairly economical in its battery usage. So, my te
37.
by sombragris 6mo ago
Wife just upgraded her laptop, and the newer one has Win11. Of course yours truly was tasked with setting it up, etc. Oh my, now I get why people complain about advertising in Windows. The relentless noise of the OneDrive and Edge advertise
38.
by sombragris 6mo ago
The whole use of AI agents in this context reminds me of the movie "War Games" > A strange game. > The only winning move is > not to play.
39.
by sombragris 6mo ago
I wish I could have 1K upvotes for this.
40.
by sombragris 6mo ago
The ability to pause is extremely important in games (at least single player ones). I hate when games are into multiplayer modes even when played in single-player campaign (e.g.: Generation Zero) and thus cannot be paused. Another thing tha
41.
by sombragris 6mo ago
I studied graduate school in a building designed by William B. Fyfe, one of Wright's Praire School first apprentices. It was beautiful and serene. The same city where my school is located has a house designed by Wright himself in a spe
42.
by sombragris 6mo ago
Are you sure? You used the the Fancy HTML Viewer plugin, which uses WebkitGTK2? I never had any problems with HTML Mail rendering in Claws. Your experience must be clearly peculiar to yourself.
43.
by sombragris 6mo ago
> However, on more practical level, what are other options? Outlook, the desktop application works really well with local copies, is pretty low bandwidth and very familiar to end users. Claws-mail ( https://claws-mail.org ) has
44.
by sombragris 6mo ago
When I saw the Monaspace family linked in a HN frontpage some time ago, I installed the whole family, and now my terminal font is Monaspace Neon. I also type my LaTeX code in Monaspace Argon. They won me over Iosevka.
45.
by sombragris 7mo ago
Easy solution: Ditch WSL, ditch Windows altogether, and use a good Linux distro with Plasma 6.6. Problem solved.
46.
by sombragris 7mo ago
Regardless of license status, I'd be very hesitant to trust a vibe-coded filesystem implementation with my data.
47.
by sombragris 7mo ago
Well, a lot of people here would have loved to have 10-year old Xeons in their motherboards; while power hungry, I guess they would make good CPUs since they have good cache sizes. But no, there's no Xeons in our offers here. What peop
48.
by sombragris 7mo ago
I remember fondly the AMD K6/2 architecture. It was the CPU of a ultra-budget priced Compaq Presario laptop that got me through graduate school back in the day. Some years later, back in my home country (Paraguay) I met a lady who had
49.
by sombragris 7mo ago
Yeah... yes. There are systems which are continuously maintained but don't break all the time. Yes, stuff will break but this is way less common in Linux. Claws-mail has all my email for over 15 years. My inbox is several gigabytes in
50.
by sombragris 7mo ago
> the issue is not that you can't do it, the issue is that you have to spend extra work at every corner to get things running, because unlike Windows Linux doesn't take your hand and hide all the nasty bits from you, while it t
51.
by sombragris 7mo ago
For a terminal music player I like termusic, which is somewhat similar to mp3blaster, which I sorely miss. https://github.com/tramhao/termusic The not so good parts are 1) it is written in Rust and therefore packaging
52.
by sombragris 7mo ago
I read the title and thought it was odd that the MAUI project "is coming to Linux", because I had it in mind the KDE project with that name, https://mauikit.org/ . Looks like what is announced in the article is som
53.
by sombragris 7mo ago
The Bruderhof movement also comes from a Hutterist heritage and has several communities in the US and the world, including a historically significant community in Asunción, Paraguay (Villa Primavera) Their website: https://www.br
54.
by sombragris 7mo ago
I think a factor in Optane's demise was dishonesty on the part of low-end laptop manufacturers. You were a poor student looking for an entry-level cheap laptop and saw a lot of models with 4GB [RAM] "memory" and suddenly ther
55.
by sombragris 7mo ago
RIP. He was a giant among philosophers.
56.
by sombragris 7mo ago
I'm firmly in favor of copyleft. But I get what chardet's maintainer has done: reimplement a piece of software. This has been done a lot of times. Musl reimplementing glibc, llvm reimplementing gcc, etc., all of them with non-copy
57.
by sombragris 7mo ago
Not GP, but for me two of the most exciting things are the UTF-8 ready engines such as LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX, on one hand; and on the other, the fontspec package and similar ones, allowing LaTeX to seamlessly use system fonts. On the scholar
58.
by sombragris 7mo ago
Congrats to all the TeXLive team on a new release. If you're stuck on something LaTeX related, remember there's the latest edition to The LaTex Companion . It even has an appendix explaining the (in)famously cryptic LaTeX/Te
59.
by sombragris 7mo ago
I was able to access it from here (South America). Nice project btw.
60.
by sombragris 7mo ago
No headphone jack?

More ›