Beej Jorgensen

I’ve had no joy getting my Brother printer to share over the network with our macs… It seems like the mac sees it for a moment and then it vanishes. The closest Ive come is having the printer wake up when the Mac sent a job, but it didn’t print anything. Prints fine from Linux USB.

Someday I’ll give it a third attempt.

The service can determine what they accept as a password.

And what password manager you use, I think was the poster’s point.

XFCE, mostly.

I’ll have to post it all somewhere sometime. None of my passwords are in there, but some of my account names are.

So close on mutt! :)

I have it set up so that it autoconverts all HTML messages to plain text as best as it can. If it’s not good enough, I have a macro set up to launch the HTML version in Firefox so it’s usable. (None of the images come through, which is potentially a feature.)

I did look into writing HTML mail with mutt, and it’s even uglier than reading. The gist of it is to basically have a wrapper script that launches some kind of HTML editor, then builds the multipart message (maybe autoconverting HTML to text so you can have both) and headers, then launches mutt -H email.txt to prepare to send it. If it looks good, send it from Mutt as normal. I don’t know how well this would work with attached inline images, but it sounds potentially quite painful.

But I don’t regularly send HTML messages, so I haven’t bothered with that route. I’d just bring up TB if I had to.

(I can say, for me, since I went back to mutt, I’m happier with email than I’ve been for decades. And my RAM is happier, too. But I probably spent 20 hours configuring it. And everyone probably hates my preformatted text. They get back at me by sending 30 MB HTML-only mails. 🤣)

The absolute best thing about it was that after suffering under Microsoft’s shitty operating systems for years, you were running a Unix-like on your own hardware. That part was amazing.

I built soooo many kernels. 😅

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you’re curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

I don’t know the details behind it, but it sure takes its sweet time figuring it out. I’ve let it sit 20 minutes before giving up.

Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.

I haven’t measured it, but I can tell I’m noticably slower on standard editors than Vim.

When I had to match against misspells I found Levenshtein distance to be most useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance?wprov=sfla1

Really? Mine launches in a few seconds. Maybe I haven’t explored enough. 😁

I started using one of the userspace oom killers a while ago and have been much happier. Instead of the system becoming unresponsive, suddenly Slack just dies. It’s great.

I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

It’s silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn’t bloated halfway to hell. 😁

Was that sadometer correctly calibrated to NIST specifications?

On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.

I’m a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁