indigomirage

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[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks - I will do so! That would not have occurred to me.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm on Fedora. Gradually trying to get switched over from windows (though too many showstoppers currently to switch to Linux for my main workstation). Using it on an old laptop, and quite like it even though integration with many of the accounts/services I need has been rough. Gnome has come a VERY long way here, though it's easiest if you accept the gnome 'way'.

Is there a list of 'KO workers'? I didn't see what I needed mentioned on the KDE site, but I'm sure I probably missed something.

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by indigomirage@lemmy.ca to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
 

Hi there - I'm currently using Gnome and wanted to try out plasma (been many years since using kde). Gnome has a certain 'way' you must go along with, and I wanted flexibility.

I was struck by the limited number of supported online account types (especially Microsoft 365) that are supported by gnome but not kde. Is this something that is likely to improve going forward?

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I'm about to try Ubuntu again.

I switched to Fedora for a few months, and really prefer it over Ubuntu . Clean Gnome. dnf is great. Useful COPRs. It just makes sense. But in my Sisyphian attempts to switch to Linux as my platform for music production (with my existing paid vsts and sound libraries), I hit one brick wall too many. Things that worked no longer work. Things that I could never get to work remain unworking.

So, going to try Ubuntu. I dislike snaps. I dislike the twisted Gnome UI. I will say the Ubuntu fonts are nice though (I actually imported them into Fedora..)

The further I stray from a default install, the harder it is to maintain going forward. Fingers crossed for Ubuntu.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

No. Not at all. That's honestly not helpful or acceptable talk.

When. I mentioned violence, I was highlighting the extent to which I fear it's a powder keg. An observation, not an imperative. I hope it's not. I sincerely hope it's not.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 163 points 4 months ago (14 children)

This is a 5 alarm fire. It's very concerning. This is precariously close to the end to the quarter millennium of the American Experiment. Seriously.

The likely scenarios, as far as I can guess are that...

a) if Biden wins with anything less than a substantial majority, there will be violence. b) if Biden just scrapes a win, violence seems likely. c) if Biden loses, the violence will be long lasting and possibly irreparable in the next generation or two.

They took a torch to your constitution. All for the sake of a very, very evil man.

I am quite afraid, to be honest. The people who are not concerned do not appear to have familiarity with some very significant and recent (ie - less than a century ago) world history.

This is not just a conventional political pendulum shift where every so often you find yourself in vociferous disagreement with where things are going. This is a fundamental shredding of societal fabric.

I would very, very much like to be wrong.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

The only success I've had to connect to my wayland desktop was with Gnome, (at the time, it only worked if I was already logged in, though there was an extension that let you overcome a locked desktop). Once in, it worked well. Sort of. Had no luck with KDE, though that may have changed. VNC gave me no end of difficulty so I gave up.

All in all, a bit of a fiasco. YMMV - I'm sure my own incompetence was to blame (but should it not be... easier?)

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

Honestly, I really liked Zork. (I was the right age when it came out.). Never been as captivated by a game. More in the imagination than in the graphics.

I'll put Civilization V (and sometimes IV) in second place. Homeworld was great too.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Hi there - I'm fairly certain I've tried this but it doesn't give the desired visual feedback you get with multi-cursors or in the example I'm showing.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah. So no option with visual feedback..? Wonder if a plugin exists that can help there.

 

Hi There - I wanted to ask a question that I've asked previously, but adding a gif to illustrate what I'm trying to say.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d50caca3-d2c3-4d9e-b8f4-3e30ce828017.webm

Is there a plugin that could accomplish this?

Cheers!   (Previous post) https://lemmy.ca/post/15305808

Hi there - I’m trying to dive into neovim and I can’t figure out how to do a certain thing in visual block mode…

Is there a way to extend a cursor/block column down from a long line through a series of shorter lines such that the short lines extend to meet the cursor (thus letting you enter text all in a column)? All I can seem to get it to do is have the cursor go to the end of each line, leaving a set of entry points staggered over a different column positions.

I think the feature I want is called Virtual Space, but I’m not sure. I am sure, however, that I use this feature extensively in Ultra Edit and Notepad++ (and mssql mgmt studio and visual studio but not vscode!)

Is there an add on? A plugin? (bonus points if the entry points remain highlighted once going into insert mode after the block is selected?) I’ve seen suggestions to try using the ‘virtualedit’ setting, but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to solve the issue. It only adds text to lines that are already of length greater or equal to the column position of the block selection. Unless I’m missing something.

(Adding a link to a vscode issue begging for the same feature. It might help illustrate the concept. - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 )

Would be grateful for help here. (bonus points is there’s a way to keep the cursor highlighted after the shift to insert mode…)

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago
[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You may be onto something.... /s

(I almost went with British Broadcorping Castration...)

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 80 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

So I looked them up with my Mastodon account to try to follow but quickly discovered that not all searches for 'BBC' lead to accounts related to the BBC...l.

 

Hi there - I'm trying to dive into neovim and I can't figure out how to do a certain thing in visual block mode...

Is there a way to extend a cursor/block column down from a long line through a series of shorter lines such that the short lines extend to meet the cursor (thus letting you enter text all in a column)? All I can seem to get it to do is have the cursor go to the end of each line, leaving a set of entry points staggered over a different column positions.

I think the feature I want is called Virtual Space, but I'm not sure. I am sure, however, that I use this feature extensively in Ultra Edit and Notepad++ (and mssql mgmt studio and visual studio but not vscode!)

Is there an add on? A plugin? (bonus points if the entry points remain highlighted once going into insert mode after the block is selected?) I've seen suggestions to try using the 'virtualedit' setting, but unfortunately, this doesn't seem to solve the issue. It only adds text to lines that are already of length greater or equal to the column position of the block selection. Unless I'm missing something.

(Adding a link to a vscode issue begging for the same feature. It might help illustrate the concept. - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 )

Would be grateful for help here. (bonus points is there's a way to keep the cursor highlighted after the shift to insert mode...)

 

Hi There - I'm starting to make use of distrobox, but I have a question about creating custom home directories.

In my ~/.config/distrobox/distrobox.conf file, I've added a line ->

container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx"

This ensures that all new containers, by default, have their homes set to ~/dbx .

This is good, however, I'm looking for a way to default new container homes to ~/dbx/<>. Is there a way to do this? I've tried setting the line in distrobox.conf to

container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx/$DBX_CONTAINER_NAME" but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

(Basically, I want to err on the side of a bit of isolation between containers by default so that I can more easily track what each is doing separately.

Thanks!

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by indigomirage@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hi there - I'm trying to make use of flatpaks, but keeping them isolated from my host (as I need to experiment with a bunch of settings and I don't want to bork my host environment. Again.)

Has anyone had actual success making this work? I've only been able to get anything to install by sudo-ing, but even then, I cannot get things to run. It'll fail with file not found (but which file? verbose mode doesn't help) or fail to connect to the system bus.

I've seen some posts about unmounting /var/lib/flatpak on initialization but I've had no luck there. (I'm on Fedora 39, which, to be honest, I'm rather enjoying.)

Is this a technique that anyone has had luck with? Worth pursuing?

FWIW, my big goal is to run bottles and I've had far more luck with bottles (which strongly recommends flatpak) than with winehq.

 

...terrible ceremony. But great reception!

 

Is there a way to create a post in sync for lemmy? I see a 'submit' button, but it just says 'coming soon'.

Im sure I'm missing something obvious.

(posting this from Liftoff...)

 

Is there a way to 'unhide' a post that was hidden by mistake?

I accidentally swiped a post too far in the new Sync app and there it was - gone.

Just not sure if there's an obvious way to unhide.

 

Hi there - large numbers are fun and I was learning about the Busy Beaver function which (theoretically) produces unfathomably large numbers by finding the maximum number of 1s written on a blank Turing machine tape out of the set of all n-state Turing machines that halt.

I was wondering if a conceptually more obvious, but larger variation could count the maximum number of steps taken before halting out of all n-state Turing machines that halt?

Would these numbesr not grow faster than the traditional Busy Beaver, since the number of steps will always be greater (or equal?) to the number of 1s written?

Obviously, the halting problem shows that we can't know beforehand if the machines will actually halt, but that issue is common to both versions.

Just curious if there is a reason the problem is not considered this way?

Any googologists out there with insights?

 

Quick question - In Mastodon, there is an option to set a "Timed Mute" on a user. Is there an equivalent in Lemmy?

If, for example, I am amused by a community generally but would like to suppress it for a while (maybe I've seen enough old memes or something?) to let a current fad pass but I don't want to block forever (and then forget about it), a timed mute could be just the ticket.

Thoughts. It'd be a definite nice-to-have feature.

(note - in error, I asked this question in "asklemmy" which was not the place to ask lemmy)

 

Please ignore - in error, I have asked lemmy where I should not have. (can't figure out how to delete the post)

Quick question - In Mastodon, there is an option to set a "Timed Mute" on a user. Is there an equivalent in Lemmy?

If, for example, I am amused by a community generally but would like to suppress it for a while (maybe I've seen enough old memes or something?) to let a current fad pass but I don't want to block forever (and then forget about it), a timed mute could be just the ticket.

Thoughts. It'd be a definite nice-to-have feature.

 

Pour one out for BaconReader. Gonna miss it. I find the official app pretty much unusable in comparison. I expect my redditing will drop to near zero in future. Sigh. Sure hope lemmy takes off...

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