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jtr

@jtr@fosstodon.org

A guy and his thoughts, these days mostly at jtr@taonaw.com. Privacy, Emacs, Linux, macOS, photos and technical writing, and sometimes human OS-related stuff as well.

My blog is The Art Of Not Asking Why

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jtr, to photoshop
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Photoshop has excellent selection tools that leave Gimp in the dust for me. I wonder what other free photoshop-replacements are out there (foss even better)?

Specifically needed for selecting objects, like trees and pets and people, and put into other photos.

jtr, to emacs
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Scratching my head at an Emacs issue: Elfeed-org doesn’t seem to load my feeds. I’m not sure why, everything looks OK. I have my feeds.org and I have the path defined in rmh-elfeed-org-files and it does show the value it’s supposed to have.

Does anyone have a working config I can look at?

jtr, to random
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Love me some hot sauce 🔥

jtr, to random
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You know what. This is not a bad way to ask for tips. I’m enjoying this.

jtr,
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@joel gives me a reason to keep being grumpy :D

jtr, to random
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Commander Keen is on Steam, and I didn’t know?! Hold my beer! Backlog shmaglog, this is one classic sonofamitch that needs replaying.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/9180/Commander_Keen/

jbaty, to random
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Rewatched "Police Story" (1985) and was reminded that Jackie Chan could do things with his body that are physically impossible. Also, ouch.

jtr,
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@adamsdesk @jbaty likewise

birv2, to linuxmint
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Today's head-scratcher in and . Hope someone can help me understand this. I've got both W10 and LM installed on my machine. While in LM, using dired in emacs, I can navigate through all of my linux directories. However, the file manager in LM shows a Windows directory, and I can see and access a lot of my W10 files (though not my Documents folder). Why is that? And how can I access all my Windows documents in LM? TIA!

jtr,
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@birv2 I'm not sure I'm following all of that - you're saying you see your Windows files in LM with the file browser, but not in Dired?

Also, I assume you have a dual-boot setup?

If the above two are true, keep in mind that the structure of the folders in Linux is different than what the LM file manager shows you (for example, you can see another hard drive, but it's actually under /media/user/...).

jtr,
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@birv2 poor example on my part, that path example is too specific.

Can you see the folders in dired after you use LM file manager? The windows partition may not be mounted automatically and if you navigate there with file manager, it will mount it for you.

Copy the path from LM file manager and try to open it with find-file in dired: see if it works. Save the path as a bookmark in emacs, assuming it does; log out or reboot, try to go there without visiting with LM file manager first.

jtr,
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@birv2 my hunch is that you will need to play with your fstab a bit

jtr,
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@birv2 depending on your setup in Windows, your document might not be a "real" folder maybe. I vaguely recall some OneDrive shenanigans

jtr,
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@EdHamilton @birv2 Yes, once you disconnect OneDrive from the computer (under options, "unlink this PC"), the folders should become "normal" and physical folders again.

But in any case, let's not make this about OneDrive... I will not stop complaining 😅

joel, (edited ) to random
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Here is what's on my , a inspired by @brendon.

Featuring and @novalauncher

This is day 29 of

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/my-home-screen-2024

jtr,
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@joel nice looking home screen. That. pack of icons is also nicely done, though I prefer something that is a bit more distinguishable (but I see how it fits).

jtr,
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@joel I saw… installed it. Curious how hard it is to add an icon and how

jtr,
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@joel yep i use Nova

jtr,
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@joel lol no i mean i need to create a new icon the app doesn’t have one in this set.

jtr, to edge
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Getting used to Edge again means trying to duplicate some of the productivity tricks Arc gave me.
Having a collection of work-related tabs in one accent color is nice, and being able to customize their icons and rename them is also important. Here’s what I have so far. https://gitlab.com/taonaw/taonah/-/blob/master/public/20240416T085958--customizing-edge__microsoft.org?ref_type=heads&blame=1

jtr,
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@mykhaylo I get this tickle that they're not going to be around for much longer.

Because it's hard to export bookmarks out (because of the unique way arc deals with those) I need to kind of start fresh, so I need more time.

Also, arc is the "official" one for work, and since I do a lot of writing for work, might as well see it there.

jtr, to random
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Apple Watch newbie question: Do I have to press the side button twice before I pay to go into transit, or is there an option without it? On the iPhone, you can

jtr,
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@martinpeck @farcaller well well, look at that.

Mastodon support is better than Apple support 👍🏻

jtr, to random
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Just discovered my old college stopped offering the technical writing program. I understand where they’re coming from (it was always a hard program to market), but at the same time, it sucks. There’s too little understanding of technical writing, especially during the age of AI.

jtr, to random
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I might have a flashy MacBook Pro for work and a Desktop with Windows installed to play the latest and greatest. But Linux feels like home. It’s the one place where I feel I can really do whatever I want, however I want. Everything else is an extended loan.

Morning thoughts over coffee

jtr, to random
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An older photo from the archive of a… Hyacinth? Did I get that right? Right here at a nearby park

April Photo 📷 Challenge 2: Flowers

jtr, to emacs
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As this is yet another Emacs org-mode update, and several people comments on those, I created Emacs org-mode category on my blog with its own dedicated RSS feed:
https://taonaw.com/categories/emacs-org-mode/feed.xml

This post should be on it as a test.
Emacs org-mode category: https://taonaw.com/2024/03/29/ive-been-following.html

#emacs #orgmode

jtr, to emacs
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I've just updated my emacs configuration to include an important fix for org-refile.

In case you've adopted Vertico and Orderless (like I did) and org-refile stopped working for you, and you don't know why... this is for you.

This is also in Vertico's documentation. https://github.com/minad/vertico?tab=readme-ov-file#org-refile

(credit in finding this issue goes to Prot)

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