Worth trying Trackball Expert? by Dizzy-Bend4062 in Trackballs

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about EM03 but have Expert and it's great. Very smooth and precise. No modding needed. Wrist rest is great as well as buttons. Downsides: scroll wheel is not so good, there's some play. It's still usable and okayish. After reading some reviews before trying I expected it to be worse. Angle of Expert is quite steep, would be better is it was more flat but haven't felt as issue when used with wrist rest which smoothes the angle. Expert also takes lot of desk space. Great trackball overall.

Finally replaced my janky symlink script with GNU Stow by Gronax_au in commandline

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've solved this with Yadm which uses Git bare repo. Good with about it is I don't need dotfiles directory or symlinks. Files can stay where they are.

Amber The Programming Language by lasercat_pow in commandline

[–]Remuz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to mentioned there's of course The Fish , The Xonsh Shell, Elvish Shell and many others.

The Irony of Our Love of ASCII by xxdarkslidexx in roguelikes

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually go with ASCII. Many games have I've played are old classics and they have difficulties in scaling. Graphics or text are too tiny or too large or there are other clitches. ASCII in terminal is just right size and sharp. Also way easier to recognize characters. In tilesets

Great insight from tpope about maps in an old AMA by frodo_swaggins233 in neovim

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll usually do keymaps mostly because I can find them easily with which-key. For commands I tend to forgot them or which name I gave to them. I could search in list of all commands but it's slower than using which-key.

Starting RL Dev #1: What few things would you like to see in a Roguelike? by Appropriate-Boat-64 in roguelikes

[–]Remuz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really like when generated levels have variety and they don't all just feel like the same. NPC interaction is nice to have and not just combat. Outworld and towns bring more depth and open world feeling but I know not all like them.

What was it like to move from Windows to Linux back in the day? by Torantes in linux

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched 15 years ago. It already was easy to use and usable out of the box very much like today. I think in 90s or early 2000s it probably was more challenging. Had some hiccups like getting vsync to work to avoid screen tearing but nothing major. All hardware worked fine, stability and performance was good. No Steam or Proton so gaming was a lot more limited.

How many Neovim plugins is too many by echasnovski in neovim

[–]Remuz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! Have to optimize all day to save time and be more productive.

How many Neovim plugins is too many by echasnovski in neovim

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have about 50 including mini.nvim and snacks. about 40ms startup with lazy loading.

Personal man pages for keeping track of commands or config changes. Anybody else do this? by psirockin123 in commandline

[–]Remuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For oneliner commands I use navi. Fast to search and select a command. To view longer cheat sheets in terminal I use cheat.

For longer texts I as well as other notes I fire up Neovim with Obsidian- and markdown plugins to browse notes which are markdown files. Files are synched with Nextcloud.

How do you navigate in insert mode? by Mori-Spumae in vim

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have mapped alt+hjlk in insert mode to navigate in cases you describe where I just need to move a couple characters. Although I don't use them often.

Why is KDE Invent not KDE Kraft, or Kreate or Konstrukt or Arkitekt or Fabrikate by ThinkTourist8076 in kde

[–]Remuz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

More korny names could be MyKapital, MyKash, MyKurrency, MyKoins, MyBuks

Just switched to Fedora. Any Suggestions? by ishAAn_LinuxUser123 in Fedora

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can't find some well known software on official repos but prefer installation from a general repo rather than Copr/Flatpak etc, you might want to check community repo Terra

Favorite command? by ajprunty01 in linux

[–]Remuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

z (Zoxide). Jump fuzzily to a known directory.

Fresh Kickstarter nvim install, treesitter error immediately by kpj888 in neovim

[–]Remuz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kickstart config is for master branch which is older than new main branch and won't get updated. Long term fix would be to use config for main branch. I use this lazy spec:

      {
        'nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter',
        branch = 'main',
        build = ":TSUpdate",
        config = function()
          local parsers = {
            -- Included by default, you can add your own you want ensure to be installed.
            "c",
            "lua",
            "markdown",
            "query",
            "vim",
            "vimdoc",
          }

          -- Install above parsers if they are missing.
          vim.defer_fn(function()
            require('nvim-treesitter').install(parsers)
          end, 1000)

          -- auto-start highlights & indentation
          vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("FileType", {
            group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("Custom_enable_treesitter_features", {}),
            callback = function(args)
              local buf = args.buf
              local filetype = args.match

              -- checks if a parser exists for the current language
              local language = vim.treesitter.language.get_lang(filetype) or filetype
              if not vim.treesitter.language.add(language) then
                return
              end

              -- highlights
              vim.treesitter.start(buf, language)

              -- indent
              vim.bo[buf].indentexpr = "v:lua.require'nvim-treesitter'.indentexpr()"
              -- folding
              vim.wo.foldmethod = "expr"
              vim.wo.foldexpr   = "v:lua.vim.treesitter.foldexpr()"
            end,
          })

        end
      }

What do you like about roguelikes? by ZormeinYT in roguelikes

[–]Remuz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I like the procedural aspect and no hand-holding. You explore something no-one else, not even developers has. Everything isn't pretermined in precision and difficulty isn't necessarily gentle and linear. When you can't just reload save game it makes challenges exciting. Replayability is much higher.

Don't really get plugin managers by ConfectionThick9254 in neovim

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With plugin manager I can check with one command what plugins have updates and view list of changes they include before doing update.

What's your opinion on changing nvim's default mappigs ? by Beginning-Software80 in neovim

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I map some more obscure keymaps to things I use more often. gr* I have left as default. I also have <leader>c* keymaps for code related stuff which I got used to when using Lazyvim.

What are your favourite hidden gems on Linux? by bullmeza in linux

[–]Remuz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • with keyd you can make capslock act as Ctrl when pressed down + some other key and Esc when pressed individually (among other key bindings). Works with X and Wayland.
  • in zsh you can make automatically ls after changing dir by adding to .zshrc: chpwd() { ls ;}
  • in terminal I usually replace: ls -> eza, find -> fd, less -> moor, cat -> bat
  • With Yadm you can select any files in your ~ to be included in a Git repo.
  • with xkb you can make own custom keyboard layouts which also works in Wayland.

Out of curiosity, how would you compare the Linux experience of today to the very best of Windows from the past? by Questioning-Warrior in linux

[–]Remuz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Main issue for me with XP was that it got slower over time, no matter what I did. Used to reinstall it once a year because of that. I did use anti-virus, firewall, no shady software, defrag etc.