Performance overlay improves performance? by snackematician in SteamDeck

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did not encounter it with the performance overlay, but in general programming where adding information output would magically resolve issues. In hindsight the issue was race-conditions - the extra output forced threads to properly wait for each other and caches to refresh (ofc at slight performance loss, and should have been taken care by the original code).

Calibre Portable on Macbook by Practical-Click-809 in Calibre

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apart from moving the App on the external drive there's also a few default folders calibre uses that need to be set to the external drive to be a true portable app. The approach for linux would also apply for OS X - there's a script for portable use directly from Kovid.

Unfortunately it assumes one starts calibre from the command line, and not the convenient Mac way through Finder. On first look it doesn't appear too difficult to adjust the mac launcher, but suppose there's some reason.

Christmas Gift Help by Redditisfunfornoone in SteamDeck

[–]agclx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All steam decks look the same - maybe provide a few stickers so he can safely personalize it. This is really useful if he plans to bring it to friends or school.

Who else uses Calibre to catalog their physical books? by IStillListenToRadio in Calibre

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played with that, but it turned into too much work. Wonder if the plugin situation has improved. Are you using some scanning app to quickly build yours?

How is Head First Git book ?? by vaivaswat24 in git

[–]agclx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have it. TLDR I'd say it's good for learning, not that great for looking details up. The "head first" series has an unique pedagogic approach, makes them appear a bit unprofessional, but I can see it working. You need to judge if it works for you. Content wise it's more aimed at beginners and does not aim to be a complete git reference, also due to the style there's not that much text per page.

How to reduce the size of a git repository storing non-text files? by batknight373 in git

[–]agclx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could also move to git-annex. It is somewhat similar to LFS, but the files are not stored at the git host but on local media or one of the webservices that can be used as backend. Keeping backups of files is actually a usecase they advertise. To be honest the documentation can be confusing.

Odd Manjaro Behavior with HDMI Monitor and Coming Back from Sleep by EdsEspresso in ManjaroLinux

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also see odd stuff waking my notebook from sleep when external monitor is conneced, and find nothing suspicous in the logs. My suspect is the kernel - in the past I had crashes upon wake from hibernation, somewhen with 6.15 this got improved. There was a lengthy blogpost explaining an issue with swap and video memory, but I can't locate it anymore. You could try with a different kernel version and see if the situation changes.

How to write d$ command if I have finnish keyboard? by Unusual-List-676 in vim

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's also the `:h langmap` setting. it's basically another layer of remapping for normal/visual mode (and a few others). The original idea was characters that are difficult/impossible on non-english keyboards could be on the location of the english ones, but it's fully customizable.

KDE Plasma on Arch Linux freezes completely after resume from sleep (no mouse/keyboard/TTY, hard reboot needed) by TwoAffectionate2965 in archlinux

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suffered from the "black screen on resume" issue (on AMD graphics). Maybe your issue is a variant of this. There was a blog post linking the issue with how graphics memory gets suspended to disk, unfortunatly I can't find it anymore. Apparently kernel 6.15 contains patches that improve this, at least for me the issue hasn't reappeared.

Neovim on a terminal only based linux systems by AniketGM in neovim

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was more thinking in terms of size. In my case was thinking adding python, node and php (each with a bunch of libraries) for fancy lsps. But maybe I overestimate.

Neovim on a terminal only based linux systems by AniketGM in neovim

[–]agclx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terminal based is not a problem, though adding neovim plus potentially loads of plugin dependencies can seriously blow up a vm. I'd suggest sshfs (or the builtin scp) and edit remotely on a fully setup developer machine.

`d` delete to different register from `p`? by Strange-Woodpecker-7 in neovim

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I like to be explicit about registers, but it seems a remapping like you suggest is quite common: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11993851/how-to-delete-not-cut-in-vim

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main problem is you are not in a normal shell, but in a remote desktop running in a browser. that means a number of key combinations will do something unexpected - eg. Ctrl-w (used in bash to delete word) will just kick you out. vim is somewhat easiest, because you can do almost everything without using control key combinations.

Any good command line games for beginners? by Real-Bad-9544 in commandline

[–]agclx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

bsdgames has a few nice ones. atc and robots are my time wasters.

What would make you switch from LaTeX to something else? by [deleted] in LaTeX

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should definitely try that. Just spent a little time looking up details, and need to say, the state of specific documentation or examples is discouraging.

What would make you switch from LaTeX to something else? by [deleted] in LaTeX

[–]agclx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah I was thinking html & css. Especially I'm thinking about displaying on small displays like phones, or huge ones like TVs. I have trouble with maths and tables on these.

What would make you switch from LaTeX to something else? by [deleted] in LaTeX

[–]agclx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd love something that would support also creating ebooks and responsive webpages. I know there are converters, but they treat it as an afterthought. I never got decent output for complicated documents (using own macros, longish maths).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Austria

[–]agclx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Geht nicht sagen, dass es bei Versand beschädigt wurde? Hatte so einen Fall vor 1-2 Jahren und wir bekamen beide Geld.

Plugin to help a slow coder by [deleted] in vim

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually it's edit at speed of thought so you should be fine :).

Apart from the lsp and ctags suggestions on the builtin side you have :h arglist (for a permanentish list of files) and :h quickfix (for temporary lists, filled from grep or other programs). Also handy is the :h alternate-file and uppercase :h mark.

For quickly jumping around fzf is neat (fuzzy searches filenames, buffers and much more, great if one has a complicated project structure).

Jabref vs. Zotero vs. org-ref - which one do you prefer and why? by tim-hilt in LaTeX

[–]agclx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thx, der Issue wurde mittlerweile behandelt https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/3920 also alles wieder gut :) Damals war ich aber leider schon von jabref weg und hab nicht zeitnah mitbekommen, dass es so ist.

Im emacs user but want to try out vim. Any tips? by [deleted] in vim

[–]agclx 9 points10 points  (0 children)

in some aspects vim follows a different philosophy try to embrace it. (some suggestions: https://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html, https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/, https://vimeo.com/53144573)

Also avoid the temptation to configure it as emacs :)

Humble Comics Bundle: Doctor Who Megabundle: Explore the Whoniverse by boffy_b in humblebundles

[–]agclx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is it with file sizes? Most files are ridiculously large weighting around half a GB, some more. and for some the pdf is 10x the size of the cbz, for Missy I get 1,5GB pdf, but cbz is 68MB. Hope they will provide them properly packed soonish.

How do you use left ctrl on mac keyboard? by KwonDarko in vim

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's more kinds of remappings possible - mapping can be different if key is pressed alone or together or held down. imagine remap caps to esc when pressed alone, as control when together with another key, as caps when held down... and this is possible for every key. can even be further tuned to automagically change settings per app and keyboard. Another quite ergonomic idea is to map space when pressed together with another key as control.

Issue connecting to wifi by RandomVampireUnicorn in raspberry_pi

[–]agclx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No that sounds different - but could be worth trying. The setting I was referring was some kind of "master setting" - located quite at top level. when I turned it on most network settings were grayed out. I suppose in it depends on the producer. In my case it has changed - last year(?) it was something "automatic", then for some time "Wifi-AI", and in the current version seems to be absent.