SexualPolytope

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

LaTeX. As someone in academia, I absolutely love it. It has some issues like package incompatibility, but it’s far far better than anything else I’ve used. It’s basically ubiquitous in academia, and I wish it were the case everywhere else as well.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

IDK dude. My sister is doing master’s in Philosophy. She uses LaTeX, and so do most others in her batch.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

One small comment. You can put the global configs inside $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, and it’s loaded before ~/.gitconfig.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

The monkeys be like.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

It’s not Bollywood, actually. It’s from the Tamil movie industry aka Tollywood. I must admit, I don’t have much knowledge about the industry, or about action movies in general. But if you liked this, check out SS Rajamouli’s (the director of this) works. Lokesh Kanagaraj also makes pretty good action flicks.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

Your opinion about Arch is outdated at best. I run Arch, and I don’t think I needed to do any tinkering in the last few months. For first time Arch users, I’ll recommend them to just use EndeavourOS. I have it on my laptop, and it’s basically Arch, but with a hassle free installation process.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

There Will Be Blood

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

I’m fortunate to have a great family, but I do see the point. My ex’s family was a piece of work.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

I’m fine with using pacman in general, but always forget how to uninstall an app completely. So I set the alias yeet for that. Since then, I’ve also set it on different systems like dnf.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

Telemetry.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

Thank you for your service.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

Only in US. In many (most?) countries, credit cards do have PINs.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

What credit card company? That seems like such blatant fraud.

Once my friend put total in place of tips. He was very drunk that day. He went over next day to talk to them and they obviously fixed it. That seems like common sense to me.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

Totally valid reason lol

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

I sometimes am. I just don’t feel like talking about it.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Different distros are better at different things. Need a stable distro for your grandma? Use Debian or Mint. Need latest software? Use Arch or Gentoo. (And people do need latest software sometimes. For playing games, or in my case, for doing research. The F is FOSS stands for Free after all.) Similarly, there are server distros like AlmaLinux tuned for high reliability. I think it’s counterproductive to argue about the “best” distro.

I guess the meme technically doesn’t say that Mint is the best, but it kinda gives off that feeling by ridiculing Arch users.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

Username checks out.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Brother printers are great. Probably the only decent printer brand for home usage. My university has free printing, and those are Canon printers. They seem to work fine, so I guess the commercial market is a little different.

Weirdly, my parents have this Samsung M2020W printer, and I gotta say, it’s pretty neat. Takes any off-brand toner cartridge. They only need a cartridge every year or so. It’s been 3+ years, but no problem so far. That might be an exceptional case, though.

SexualPolytope, 1 month ago

youtu.be/zHPp1Uxa41U

SexualPolytope, 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Use suda.vim for automatically dealing with such cases. Works with neovim as well.

I’ll also recommend adding the following to your init.lua or some config file because suda doesn’t play nicely with nvim -d or vimdiff.

<span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;">-- Disable Suda in diff views
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">if not</span><span style="color:#323232;"> vim.api.nvim_win_get_option(</span><span style="color:#0086b3;">0</span><span style="color:#323232;">, </span><span style="color:#183691;">'diff'</span><span style="color:#323232;">) </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    vim.g.suda_smart_edit </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">= </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">1
</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">end
</span>

The vimscript version of the same would be:

<span style="color:#323232;">" Disable Suda in diff views
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if ! &diff
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    let g:suda_smart_edit = 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">endif
</span>

SexualPolytope, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

My first distro was Xubuntu. It was 2014-15. I was still in high school. My pc was getting old, and I read online that Linux can make your pc run faster. Since it wasn’t my gaming machine, I decided to give it a try. I also read online that Xubuntu is among the lightest of distros, so decided to install that. It really was a night and day difference in performance.

I’ve switched distros a few times (Xubuntu -> Ubuntu Gnome -> Manjaro KDE -> EndeavourOS KDE, also run AlmaLinux on a few headless server machines) since then, but never went back to Windows ever again.

SexualPolytope, 2 months ago

I currently use Wiki.js but it’s a bit too much. The image size is around 500MB. I don’t see why I need such a huge program for hosting essentially text files and some images.

From the comments, DokuWiki with a modern theme, Fossil-SCM, and MkDocs seem nice. I’ll probably try some of these during the weekend.

SexualPolytope, 2 months ago

Also, you don’t actually need to share your own data to be vulnerable. Some stupid relative sharing their genetic information is enough to have some ideas about you. I’m fortunate that it’s hasn’t caught on in my home country.

SexualPolytope, 2 months ago

I ended up setting up UltiSnips and using the snippet given in the issue.