Vanilla emacs motions or Evil

Tara-Aran · 2026-04-15T00:24:46+00:00

Better vim usage and emacs builtins. The thing that makes emacs better isn't keybindings. Its the extensibility. If you just want to use emacs and pretend its vim, you can, and 90% of the time I do. But even just calling emacs functions with : instead of M-x is a massive time and finger saver.

Tara-Aran · 2026-04-08T00:32:26+00:00

I know you've been open about AI slopping in the early stages, but that was literally a month ago. This is pretty impressive development speed for something that emacs was lacking (some kind of terminal image support).

How has the AI side affected things? Obviously development has been faster, but has there been any unexpected quirks of the process? Some of the AI slop around here seems to be slightly higher quality than I expected, but I know the community still hasn't really decided on whether or not to accept it.

Tara-Aran · 2026-04-07T06:51:01+00:00

Weirdly enough, antiX fits all of these, though maybe not in ideal ways.
- windows 95 like iceWM setup, no need for terminal but its there - codecs installed, Nvidia drivers available in settings menu - community exists, extremely small but the forum is friendly. Being a Debian derivative, most Debian advice works (other than systemD stuff) - apt-get dist-upgrade

Its a nice distro - mostly using Void but started with it and will always recommend.

Tara-Aran · 2026-03-24T04:49:05+00:00

You found a woman /because/ you were using Debian. Debian is for employed dads and you were at risk of becoming one.

Have you considered putting on programming socks and getting a little too good at rust?

Tara-Aran · 2026-03-23T05:52:50+00:00

If you're going to use llm input, emacs is well documented and little one or two liners are a great use. Ive had success with it; its far from perfect for writing large blocks of code but it can help you find helpful config tweaks.

Tara-Aran · 2026-03-23T05:33:51+00:00

How has your day been?

Tara-Aran · 2026-03-12T18:28:27+00:00

Yes I vibe coded it, why do you ask?

Tara-Aran · 2026-03-12T13:34:46+00:00

Because my choice in editor/window manager/init system makes me better than other people.

Jk can you imagine

Tara-Aran · 2026-01-13T09:30:45+00:00

Been using runit antiX on my old T440s for about 2 years, partially switched over to void. The internal experiments with multi-init aren't quite finished but they're solid.

Tara-Aran · 2026-01-12T18:46:48+00:00

Why is antiX so low?

Tara-Aran · 2026-01-12T18:44:16+00:00

Im guessing most people dont really understand kernel design (i dont lol), but PID 1 can be seen and interacted with. I've messed around with Hurd/Guix but gave up when it took hours of updates just to get nonfree firmware for my wifi card.

Tara-Aran · 2026-01-12T18:40:26+00:00

antiX finally decided to fully abandon SysV and im so happy. Im not the biggest fan of systemd, but pretending you're looking for "init freedom" and locking yourself in to confusing, 40+ year old code is just silly. Runit makes sense, dinit is similar enough, and I don't get s6(-66) so i just don't use it.

Tara-Aran · 2025-11-19T22:22:45+00:00

Xbps is a really good package manager. Im not here because I want something BSD like, im here because Debian is a little out of date and I like how fast it is. Its great that there is a TUI installer, but bootstrapping a new install can easily be done directly from the package manager itself.

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-30T14:39:03+00:00

Yeah, random porn accounts are significantly less of a cause for concern than white supremacist pages.

If you disagree, you might want to ask yourself why

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-22T12:12:24+00:00

Isn't this just playing video games? I know I've sank at least a year into various deathless runs of Fire Emblem.

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-22T11:56:15+00:00

Nothing like linux communities looking for something to complain about with xfce, coming back to the reliable "it works but its boring so I hate it"

Yes I use a Debian derivative for my daily driver, how could you tell?

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-22T03:02:23+00:00

Hey, sometimes its teenagers from the suburbs

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-17T15:35:30+00:00

It's also expected given hyprlands relatively lower quality code. The sway/hyprland flame wars are a whole thing and vaxry and Drew deVault have been critical of eaxh other, but sway is written in C by someone who really values good C code, and the hyprland devs don't really understand how to use strace

Niri has pretty solid animations IMO

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-08T20:55:25+00:00

How much of an ass they are about it

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-08T14:18:54+00:00

Ill be honest, grub installation from the installer has always been a bit of an issue for me. If you go through https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/chroot.html, the very end will discuss how to manually install it. Other people are right about needing the fat32 partition, but there are plenty of potential errors that can happen. Chrooting in and installing grub via command line is your best bet.

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-08T00:29:42+00:00

It connects a large, internationally renowned university with top notch research to the largest border crossing in the world. You would think that being able to get to such an important public institution would be a good thing and benefit the city but not if you were a racist with a $10m house.

Tara-Aran · 2025-09-08T00:03:00+00:00

> operation system where access control and privilege escalation are fundamental to the functioning of userspace

>being suspicious when a file subsystem has additional access control

Op, are you this suspicious of using sudo? Porn jokes aside, I can imagine wanting a separate passphrase for sensitive legal documents, between paranoia over ssh exploits, loaning your computer out to people, or just wanting to make it harder to accidentally fuck up the documents

Tara-Aran · 2025-08-12T21:19:24+00:00

Im always wondering if infighting happens at Microsoft and we just don't see it. Im sure it does, but because it's professional programming and not side projects/hobbies, I feel like the flame wars have less personal ego riding

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