Pro tip: use Evil.

Another pro tip: if on Windows or Linux, remap alt to ctrl and win/menu to alt.

Org-mode, which is made for Emacs, has built-in spreadsheets.

Now every time I’m trying to do a ternary in Lua, I miss being able to just stick an if in there.

Look into Doom Emacs. It’s pretty cool in general, but especially if one is inclined towards Vim’s keybindings (which I recommend learning) and uses Org-mode.

tried jumping to the first line of my comment using C-a

That would work in MacOS (iirc), since most of app shortcuts there are on the cmd keys, and some Emacs/readline bindings work in text fields. Though C-a moves to the first character of the current line, not first line.

🫴 https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

The problem is that you’re screaming a lot but not offering actual solutions except a general idea of “Fight!”. That’s not helpful, and it sounds a lot like condescension.

None of this stopped USians from endlessly writing on Reddit for the past four years that Russians should’ve overthrown Putin, and I didn’t see them helping plan a revolution.

You presumably mean that Hugo Boss ‘designed the SS uniform’ — which he didn’t, as he wasn’t a designer and the company wasn’t in fashion design until after his death. The uniform was designed by two dudes in the SS, and Hugo Boss’ company was one of many manufacturers contracted for production.

Hugo Boss was a member of the Nazi party, though.

I’d say G.O.A.T. And Your M.O.M. is the most USian punk band. (Mildly nsfw.)

Well, that’s what I do. =)
I keep my music lists in notes.

At least on the desktop and in the Voyager app, you can get the Markdown text of my comment and save that if you have an app that understands Markdown. Or, the text can probably be copied from the browser together with links and pasted in an app that processes such links, in the manner of WordPad and some web and mobile apps.

This song sounds oddly alright with a nightcore treatment. Has kind of a j-core vibe to it.

This is the fastest full version I could find on YouTube.

The rest of the album is kinda more interesting as experimental music. But this is indeed the most energetic track.

Slowing down music works pretty well sometimes.

Prophetic: “God promised us the field 3000 years ago.”

don’t you have to get all your files in an external drive and delete a full computer before you can reinstall a different disto?

Note that you can have a separate partition for the /home directory, under which your user directory is located. Then you could wipe just the system partition and install a new distro there, keeping /home as it is. But this requires some basic knowledge of partitions and a little attention during setup. In any case, having a backup is always recommended, especially when dealing with operations that can delete all your data.

Linux doesn’t have drive letters

MacOS is largely compatible with FreeBSD under the hood, with some minor path differences and a different init system, so…

slower/less sensitive for a sliding bar in a specific gui menu

I’ve never heard of such a requirement for any reason, and I’ve been around for a while and tend to read more than a little. As I wrote in another comment, I’ve only heard of the originally mentioned scrolling speed being a nuisance when the app doesn’t follow the system-wide settings. So the tradeoff of the demand to cost of implementation and support isn’t in your favor.

Configuring this would be quite cumbersome — the user would need to specify the whole hierarchy of UI elements for the specific window, including intermediate invisible elements. Whereupon the app would just offload that to the GUI framework, which presumably would handle the functionality and add that to the myriad of aspects that it must handle already.

However, this is probably already possible to implement in MacOS without any need for ridiculous configs on the part of the app: via a separate app using accessibility APIs. Iirc those APIs can report the UI elements that the user is engaged with — and if it reports the cursor hovering too, then the app could change the cursor speed dynamically. It’s possible even that Hammerspoon, programmable in Lua, can do something like that. Of course, apps not made with the native Cocoa framework break this and other accessibility functionality.

As for the colors of the windows, there comes a time in the life of a man when they realize they’d like to get shit done instead of fiddling with customization, and for the UI to fade away and do its thing quietly. I’ve seen it happen.

Meanwhile: PSA reminder that Mr. James himself recommended to listen to ‘Richard D. James Album’ at 33 rpm instead of 45 at which it was released. Works with ‘Drukqs’ too. Basically more Aphex for free.

It’s a very well known problem in interface design. If you include every option that someone could possibly want, you’ll have three thousand options in the settings, and it will be impossible to find anything without getting severe fatigue from looking at all the toggles.

Consider Windows: with many advanced options, one has to click through a couple dozen dialogs in search of where that option is, getting RSI in the process. You can also take LibreOffice’s or old KDE’s settings as examples.

MacOS solves that pretty simply: settings that most people use are in the control panel under comparatively few categories and typically readily available in there. Settings that are unlikely to be changed by anyone outside power users are still modifiable through the command-line utility for that — which is actually responsible for all the settings, making MacOS very fit for automatic setup with Ansible or somesuch.

However, that’s just the design issue. There’s also the programming issue: every option increases pathways that the code may take, and thus the possibility of bugs and regressions, and the complexity of the code and tests.

A well-known approach that many companies take is to include only the functionality and settings that conform to the main vision, and focus on that working well instead of trying to serve everyone. This gets them a dedicated customer base to whom the product is tailored, instead of corporate sales made on the breadth of features, wherein the end users need only a tenth of the functions but have to wade through the whole interface. 37signals is one such example of a narrowly-focused company. Github’s issues system is likely used by way more people than Jira, Bugzilla and such, despite being quite poor in functionality in comparison — but it also doesn’t need a two-hundred-pages manual to use.

Interesting, but doesn’t quite inspire confidence in Plasma’s resource usage either. People here complain about Electron regularly, after all. Presumably KHTML must’ve grown in complexity together with other engines.

Meanwhile I’ve got hit with a reminiscence of Windows 98/ME having telltale underlining on folder and file names in Explorer and opening of them with one click.