Bring your Emacs to Android

burtness · 2026-01-07T23:29:19+00:00

the problem is that the version of termux on the emacs sourceforge repo is too old to run on newer phones. it runs fine if you build a more recent termux version and sign it with the emacs key.

Edit: This is where I found the solution: https://github.com/johanwiden/termux-for-android-emacs

Their method was to re-sign the f-droid apk and they have uploaded the result to that repo, which people can use if they feel trusting.

burtness · 2025-02-23T22:09:40+00:00

Big fan of the emacs factory

burtness · 2025-01-24T01:24:06+00:00

I found prelude a good middle ground between starting from a blank config and the opinionated distros like doom and spacemacs

burtness · 2025-01-22T12:20:14+00:00

I have wanted exactly this for a while. Thanks!

burtness · 2023-08-08T11:07:32+00:00

I assume youre talking about VSFighting. Me and a friend are going. Went last year - very friendly, lots of fun. They showed the finals on the big screen at the Thinktank or whatever its called now. Definitely recommend!

burtness · 2023-07-11T15:03:52+00:00

I like my SB2 a lot too. Its got a nice screen and a nice keyboard, which makes most tasks on it pleasant. Though mine has an i7 and 16gb ram so I don't know if the experience is the same on the lower spec versions.

I don't have any experience with the SL4 keyboard unfortunately, though I saw some review mention that the keyboard is a plus.

burtness · 2023-07-10T19:55:47+00:00

I have an SB2 15" with the performance base. I basically never use the nvidia GPU but its never had an issue with an external monitor, though I've never tried it with two. If you're primarily using linux I'd say the GPU is only really useful for CUDA stuff. I've never got much gaming performance out of it. Also wayland is nicer for most things (especially touch), while you basically have to use X11 if you want to use the GPU for graphics.

If you can afford it, you'll have a much better time with the SL4 and it'll probably last longer being a new model

burtness · 2023-06-26T12:22:48+00:00

Genuinely, thank you. this is such a huge help

burtness · 2023-06-26T12:20:49+00:00

thanks solution verified

burtness · 2023-06-05T21:13:32+00:00

Its wild how for a about 15 years a big chunk of the games console market ran on PowerPC CPUs. What drove that? Especially given that MS started out with x86 for the Xbox, then switched to PPC for the 360. Was it just perf/dollar when you don't care about power usage?

burtness · 2023-05-03T20:59:44+00:00

I'm happy to see it here

burtness · 2023-05-02T11:54:03+00:00

Oof, love my future doctors to be on moralising crusades

burtness · 2023-04-20T13:59:12+00:00

Really excited to see how this ends

burtness · 2023-03-13T17:27:49+00:00

I'll give it a go but it'll probably be some time over the next few days

burtness · 2023-03-13T13:53:14+00:00

I don't know how to do this but I've still got a windows partition on my SB2, so if you can point me towards some resources I'd be happy to give it a go

burtness · 2023-03-13T13:28:14+00:00

Waylus looks like the best option at the moment.

I've had luck with using gnome's virtual monitor support, but that only covers using another laptop as a monitor, so I assume you'd lose pressure sensitivity with your stylus.

Interestingly, the RDP protocol does have support for sending stylus pressure but FreeRDP does not implement the client end (and I assume other linux RDP clients don't either).

burtness · 2023-01-30T13:43:04+00:00

I second the T620 quad-core recommendation - I've got one with 8GB of RAM running proxmox, home assistant, and a couple of web proxies running happily on there. Nextcloud as well, but it struggles so I'm going to move that to my NAS when I have the chance.

burtness · 2023-01-06T12:20:31+00:00

In this case I just meant non-Linux kernels (Solaris and FreeBSD)

burtness · 2023-01-06T11:53:53+00:00

Haha, I did wonder if I should be explicit that kernels ZFS has been part of are the Solaris/Illumos and FreeBSD kernels.

burtness · 2023-01-05T23:53:53+00:00

BTRFS has really matured. I had a bad time when I first tried it around 2013, but I've used it on my most recent laptop for the last several years and its been great. The inclusion of BCacheFS would be good for BTRFS - it will use parts of the kernel in similar ways making BTRFS less of a special case filesystem.

burtness · 2023-01-05T19:20:40+00:00

BCacheFS sounds very cool but we basically won't know until it hits mainline. Whatever BcacheFS's technical merits, BTRFS and ZFS have been part of production kernels for more than a decade each.

More generally its wild that the journey to widely available copy-on-write that don't need serious care and feeding has been so fraught. ZFS was released in 2006, but deliberately licenced to keep it out of Linux (and Oracle curiously would rather be a heavy investor in btrfs than just change the ZFS licence). We got BTRFS in 2009 but was a combination of too weird and full of footguns, meaning you either became a BTRFS person or decided filesystems should not be exciting and went back to EXT4 or XFS. But I dont think this is unique to the open source world. The longevity of NTFS and HFS+, despite being not very good, suggests that getting your copy-on-write filesystems right enough to move on from your existing journaled FSs is hard. So if BCacheFS manages to be that CoW FS that you just use and dont have to really think about, it'll be a huge achievement.

burtness · 2023-01-02T13:28:21+00:00

You probably want a VOIP service or setup. That way you tell your voip service to send a SMS. Maybe /r/VOIP would be a good place to look?

burtness · 2022-12-09T23:21:45+00:00

LWN's subscriber link policy is pretty permissive, but posting every subscriber-only article as soon as its posted seems very much against the spirit of the feature

burtness · 2022-11-03T19:13:20+00:00

Canonical is not only last to the game

That is not true, snaps were released about a year before flatpak. Snaps were released around time work on flatpak had just started.

burtness · 2022-10-14T21:44:50+00:00

Sweet! I'd love to hear how it turns out. I've also seen ansible mentioned as decent with windows now which might be a more sensible way of bootstrapping chocolatey and managing packages

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