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My fellow nerds: a question about your personal machines:What is your favourite…
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@mhoye Consistent keyboard shortcuts across all machines for things like moving…
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@mhoye One was taking more control over versions with Guix (https://guix.gnu.or…
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@mhoye Zoxide, fzf, and fd have revolutionized my day-to-day cli file handling,…
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@mhoye Another improvement has been adopting Nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/) …
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@mhoye I have an away script that unmounts the disk array and drops CPU frequen…
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@mhoye Colemak keymap
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@mhoye From a good friend of mine:alias please=sudo
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@jesterchen @mhoye this is great. It will help me stop wondering, every time I …
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@mhoye #Windowmaker. Whenever I reinstall I try something else but I always end…
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@mhoye oh and ln -s /use/local/bin/nano /usr/local/bin/pico
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@mhoye For macOS:https://zomglol.wtf/@jamie/113579127408564761
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@mhoye Timeshift with BTRFS snapshots, when possible. The "tweak" her…
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@mhoye I set my default text editor to helix and made it so that I can open wha…
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@mhoye silly little thing I never regretted - using a small script to generate …
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@mhoye @nuintari Virtualization. I try to run each task or workflow in its own…
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@mhoye I have a set of scripts that mirror the source code for the uncommon too…
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@mhoye i have `h` aliased[0] to a history of directories, navigable with fzf[1]…
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@brennen @mhoye i just started using fzf and it really is great! perfect little…
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@mhoye I switched my fixed-width fonts — terminal, IDEs, etc. — to Comic Mo…
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@dcoderlt @mhoye Comic fonts are literally designed for legibitility and are aw…
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@mhoye As an experience designer that works with several & various developm…
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@mhoye about a decade ago I made a conscious effort to unwind as much customiza…
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@dch @mhoye I'm not sure you need the second one anymore. The freebsd-updat…
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@aparrish @mhoye yeah, i have probably been sort of tiresome to my nerd friends…
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@mhoye this one alias:alias l='ls -Nlrt'then: install micro, the text e…
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@mhoye Rebinding caps lock to control. For some reason it’s one of the bigges…
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@pwbrooks @mhoye me too, always rebind caps lock. there were old keyboards wher…
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@dlakelan @pwbrooks Sun keyboards, IBMs and the earliest Apples had control in …
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@mhoye @dlakelan @pwbrooks I know some people who just hoarded Sun Type 6 keybo…
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@dianaprobst @dcoderlt @mhoye People don't understand the constraints of th…
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@mhoyeheh. Using a super simple window manager like LXQt. No fancy animations, …
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@jrconlinCame to say the same about i3wm. I initially gave it a go just out of …
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@mhoye the prompt starts with a # and ends with a newline, so I can more easily…
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@arrjay @mhoye oh, I like that. My prompt has very bright colours in it so I ca…
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@arrjay @mhoye at work I set mine to start with `:` and end with `;`, so one ca…
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@mdione @arrjay @mhoye I do that! But I tend to edit down copied-out history an…
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@jmtd @mhoye @arrjay right. This is mostly for keeping record of manual procedu…
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@dahukanna can you tell us more about this? I’ve seen something like this a…
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@mhoye I work with multiple dev teams that require arduous & OS specific in…
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@dahukanna @mhoye distrobox is amazing for this kind of workflow. It bindmounts…
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@matmaul @dahukanna @mhoye oh, I'll need to have a look at distrobox.Otherw…
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@mhoye rebinding caps-lock to escape (seriously: saves a lot of strain on my le…
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@gvwilson @mhoye On my homebrew keyboard, I've set up the qmk firmware so t…
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@dlakelanyes, my Apple //e had the Ctrl key where the Caps Lock is now. I didn&…
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@dlakelane.g., Ctrl-S, the combination I used and still use most, was easier wi…
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@mhoye BlueTooth audio receiving in from my phone, where I listen to pod-casts.…
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@RyeNCode @mhoye indeed, very useful
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@mhoye 1. Running Linux2. Cinnamon DE (although Plasma 6/Wayland is okay too)3.…
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@mhoye i recently tried out paperwm on linux. Really nice with touch pad on a l…
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@pwbrooks @mhoye I use emacs, so first thing on new computer - caps lock become…
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@mhoye I defined the right ALT key as the Compose Key.
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@molenaar I remap Caps as my Compose key$ setxkbmap -option compose:capsand use…
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@djm62 @mhoye Do you regularly only type with one hand? I would think somethin…
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@gvwilson @mhoye when I used emacs, I similarly swapped caps lock to control. N…
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@mhoye Non-nerdy: Adblocking since forever; Nerdy: Using QWERTY instead of QWER…
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@mhoye Definitely my aliases. When I discovered those it changed the command li…
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@pwbrooks @mhoye this combined with the fact that Ctrl-[ generates ESC means yo…
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@bval @mhoye Me to, I also switch platforms every 5y or so, Linux, Mac, Linux, …
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@mhoyeVT52 had Control and Caps Lock, in that order, to the left of A. That ta…
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@bval @mhoye Me three. And I'm frugal as to where i do customize; .vimrc et…
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@stib @jrconlin @mhoye ... and keyboard-driven for the most part, which reduces…
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@nxskokI have Ctrl on Capslock and Esc on Tab, because Tab is a thumb key on my…
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@molenaar @mhoye I install WinCompose.exe on my Windows computers to allow me t…
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@stevenixon @mhoye oh that one about typing a machine name to ssh into it is fa…
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@mhoye I deal with a lot of virtual environments for Python projects (every rep…
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@mhoye I pull my shell configuration into a separate folder, so that I can orga…
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@baishen @mhoye not habitually, but frequently while sitting down, holding coff…
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@mhoye @pwbrooks If you're an emacs user or use emacs style key bindings in…
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@ballpointcarrot @mhoye +1 I'm doing the same but in $XDG_CONFIG_DIR ($HOME…
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@jbqueru @mhoye ooh me too! Only a small number of tools, all of which I'v…
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@bval I also let go of my heavy customization. Defaults with a few tweaks are f…
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@jrconlin @mhoye I run everything fullscreen anyway, regardless of OS. I used t…
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@baishen I found it very helpful with Windows at $DAYJOB where my right hand wa…
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@tim_lavoie @jrconlin @mhoye I swap from my home workstation with Arch/i3 to an…
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@stib @tim_lavoie @mhoyeNot fully related, but I will say that the fn key is re…
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As a side note, after messing with the ~/.XCompose file, you may need to restar…
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@dlakelan @pwbrooks @mhoye most PC keyboards had the same layout until the mid-…
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@datarama I've been messing with a corne keyboard, and the idea of using ta…
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@stevenixon While I use a few aliases, I find that shell-functions are more pre…
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@datarama @gvwilson @mhoye i remap capslock to ctrl and esc as well but later r…
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@stevenixon @mhoye yeah mine is `rbash` (remote bash) and it takes the name of …
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@jrconlin @mhoye definitely window manager. I use Rectangle.
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@mhoye my favorite quality of life tweaks are less about specific tools and mor…
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@mhoye on MacOS with LogiTech MX Keys I've remapped the eject key to an emo…
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@mhoye On all Linux boxes, in .bashrc "unalias ls 2> /dev/null"fuc…
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@MichaelTBacon I can hear a 16 year old in the late 90s choosing the colors now…
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@xinit @MichaelTBacon So, I feel exactly the opposite way about this. Color in …
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@mhoye @xinit @MichaelTBacon for readable terminal colors, I highly recommend D…
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@mhoye @xinit The fundamental thing about a terminal is that it should be usabl…
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@MichaelTBacon @xinit Well, I was asking about personal machines here, not work…
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@mhoye @xinit I am weird, I get joy out of a 300 character perl one-liner that …
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@MichaelTBacon @mhoye @xinit checkout Dracula Pro for bright colors on dark bac…
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As a proud owner of a self-hosted server that needs to SSH often, three things:…
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@mhoye It's minor, but I've had a Quake/visor-style terminal window on …
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@stevegrunwell tell me more about how you set this up.
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@mhoye It used to be through some Cocoa script, but iTerm 2 has "visor&quo…
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@mhoye I basically never want to use a Linux distribution that isn't NixOS …
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@mhoye As far as tweaks, switching to zsh and tricking it out with fzf-tab, aut…
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@mhoye I do a lot of #academic writing in #markdown that needs to be converted …
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@wjd @mhoye #orgmode
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@mhoye perhaps a slightly boring one, but: installing the Vimium Firefox extens…
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@raboof @mhoye Vimium is one, PaperWM (tiling/scrolling window management exten…
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@jzb @mhoye oh yeah tiling is great! I combine it with 'tabbing' rather…
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@raboof It's darn nice to see folks sharing their projects hosted on Codebe…
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@mhoye So many good tips in this thread.For me, one of the biggest has been pus…
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@mhoye mbsync everything to every device with a keyboard and then mairix. I can…
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@Susan_calvin Mairix is new to me, thank you. Very cool.
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@mhoye Looks like it fills roughly the same space as notmuch (which I've us…
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@mhoye I cannot function without disabling MacOS (sorry) "natural scrollin…
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@michaelaubert hah, drives me bonkers when I use my sweetheart's Chromebook…
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@mhoye remap the keyboard, swapping positions of CAPSLOCK and ESC
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@twobraids @mhoye I put this in my .xmodmap:############clear lockkeycode 66 = …
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@joelvanderwerf @twobraids @mhoye That is genius.Slight suggested mod:clear loc…
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@pengfold Narrator: you almost never need it 😉(I remap my Caps key to Compos…
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@gumnos @joelvanderwerf @twobraids @mhoye Same here - I don't need it, but …
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@pengfold For peace of mind:1) I have left-shift+right-shift mapped to actual c…
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@mhoye I disable the system bell in every way I know of.
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@nuintari Hah, years ago I found that the X bell somehow kept getting re-enable…
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@mhoye I use #KdePlasma and configure as many keyboard shortcuts as will fit in…
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@CppGuy I happen to use fluxbox or cwm instead of KDE, but regardless of your W…
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@mhoye Comic Code or similar font for terminals and editors. Switching to zsh f…
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@emma @mhoye I will never skip past an opportunity to plug Comic Shanns, a deli…
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@todb @emma @mhoye ooooh pretty!
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@todb @emma @mhoye I'm in the process to move from #UbuntuMono to #B612mono…
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@mhoye fzf for everythingfzf for history search (ctrl-r)fzf for file search (ct…
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@untitaker @mhoye how
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@EMR @mhoye https://github.com/untitaker/dotfiles/blob/afd32c0b97a30ff5be360a76…
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