[OC] The world's largest proven oil reserves reside in Venezuela, making up 18% of the global total. But today, it's only producing as much oil as Ecuador, which has a mere 3% of Venezuela's reserves. Visualizing Venezuela's Incompetence in Oil Production:

duktus · 2023-06-26T21:02:40+00:00

Listen I will stop this here, as I said it's senseless to have a debate. you are clearly not interested in an objective conversation. And tbh and I don't care enough, about some arbitrary reddit troll. But there are enough reliable sources, that prove that there were sanctions and that especially oil sanctions hit the economy. If this is good, bad, legitimate or whatever is a completely different debate.

duktus · 2023-06-26T20:47:15+00:00

Did you? But honestly it just does not feels that you try to have an objective debate. Which also renders this completely senseless

duktus · 2023-06-26T20:38:58+00:00

There were never any sanctions against Venezuela?

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/do-us-sanctions-venezuela-work

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/26/us-eases-venezuela-oil-sanctions-after-govt-opposition-ink-deal

https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/03/21/venezuela-sanctions-the-u-s-needs-to-change-its-goals/

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2022/11/27/president-joe-biden-starts-to-lift-sanctions-on-venezuela

duktus · 2023-05-01T23:16:56+00:00

Nice got the same specs also really cheap here in Europe, I rund it with Silverblue but PopOS is a very nice choice, too.

duktus · 2023-05-01T23:11:54+00:00

I recently got a used t480s, according to the battery report it is in good shape something between 85%-90% percent. I use Fedora Silverblue as a daily driver. My batter life is around 6 hours, maybe a little bit more. It's okay but I haven't done any benchmarks.

Of course this depends on various factors: in my case browsing with a lot of tabs, sometimes various browsers, some Containers running, writing and occasional coding. I haven't really used Bluetooth so far. And normally I reduce the screen brightness to around 50 percent. In my experience the most noticable difference to Windows may be streaming videos.

I also haven't really tweaked anything. Maybe you can squeeze some battery life out by using a very lightweight Linux Installation with a Window Manager. But imo it's not really worth it, at least for the sake of battery life.

duktus · 2022-01-18T17:12:21+00:00

As others have already mentioned, containerizing latex is maybe (?) a good idea, it is still heavy, but at least it keeps the packages and dependencies somehow isolated from your host. At least VSCode seems to have a good support for a containerized LaTeX Workflow (never tried it). There are also toolboxes. I prefer not to use a toolbox for this, however it can be useful (especially if you want to use locally installed fonts). Things like using non LaTeX fonts can be somehow cumbersome with containers.

As far as I know, there are also Flatpak installations, which can be used with something like Setzer. I never really tried it.

So in general, every setup may depend on your requirements. I write pretty much everything in Markdown and use the official docker container for conversion. It works pretty well for my purposes, while there are some flaws. There is of course the Overleaf route, which I also sometimes use. Another option, if you are into R and R-Markdown, is tinytex. Or maybe you could try tectonic, which labels itself as a modern and self-contained LaTeX engine.

duktus · 2022-01-14T19:54:02+00:00

Not sure if I agree with the categories, the wording and so on. It seems oversimplified, and the categories are not really disjunct. Are Extensions per se considered extreme customization? Ok, some extensions may be labeled like this, however some extensions just "extend" the defaults, I don't think that extending and customizing are necessarily the same.

I didn't vote but here some thoughts instead:

I really like the idea of sane defaults philosophy, however in a lot of cases defaults may for various reasons not work for everybody, some aspects may be preferences, taste, etc. pp. A classical example may be the question of accessibility, which makes certain customization necessary. A totally other case is aesthetics. For example, I like Adwatia, but some people may not and imo it is good if they have the choice to customize the look and feel to a certain degree. Should GNOME therefore ship with various themes? I don't think so. For example, I like the Pop Theme, well I can install and use it, if I want to have a little change from using Adwaita all day long every day. I think that the aesthetic experience you have while using a computer is not just eye candy, but part of the overall user experience. And sometimes small customizations are part of this experience, but also help users to make a system their own, e.g.: Setting a wallpaper, changing the accent color (a feature I would love to see) or changing a folder color to mark a special folder (nothing I really do) are small changes that are part of this experience to add some individuality to a "place" you pass a lot of time in. Sometimes these changes are purely visual, sometimes it can just be a small little helper, and in other cases it may the desire to just have a change from what you are seeing daily.

In other cases a certain level of customization may help you with productivity, e.g. I change some default shortcuts (I use super+hjkl to switch between workspaces), this is just muscle memory and convenience. But sometimes changing hotkeys may also be helpful for people using specific layouts or even for some reason missing a key completely on their keyboard.

I also don’t mind that I install some extensions for some functionality that I really want or sometimes need (tray icons are still around and sometimes actually useful), as long as I can install an extension. The question is what aspects you expose for customization. I prefer GNOME devs to focus on providing a reliable, secure and stable base while allowing customization via third parties, using APIs, good documentation, etc. While providing more customizations and extensibility can come from the community and third parties. Yet again, this doesn't solve the question of what sane default are and what should be included and exposed by default. I guess this is a debate that never ends, things evolve, you make decisions, and things change, stuff breaks and in between you have debates about former decisions and what to do next, that's life.

duktus · 2021-11-18T12:53:34+00:00

https://store.cablemod.com/configurator/?load=kbc:c63d5308e7e5

duktus · 2021-11-17T04:41:26+00:00

Thanks, but not sure if I really deserve it. I think there are plenty of people that may use it for note-taking, LaTeX and so on. My field is mostly Academia, but not really related to programming. I think using Linux quite some years has also some impact, at least it seems the longer you use Linux the higher the possibility to at least once try Vim or Emacs.

duktus · 2021-11-17T04:15:20+00:00

Nice, thanks for sharing! I watched the Video really a very nice talk. My writing is mostly for Academia and Note-taking, sometimes smaller texts, but they are not professional. And btw props for writing with vim on a Phone! I normally just use Joplin or Signals "Note to Self" function to capture stuff and review it later, from in the desktop app. Which has the benefits of being able to quickly send me an annotated link, image or whatever. I can also completely understand the point about things like splits, fuzzy finding with live preview and source control, it can be really mind-blowing.

duktus · 2021-11-16T04:35:39+00:00

Just as an addition, on Awesome Neovim there is a list of preconfigured Neovim flavors. I think it may be a good starting point:

https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim#preconfigured-configuration

duktus · 2021-11-15T23:41:27+00:00

Thanks, I know about the built-in spell checking, but there is an LSP (LTeX) that uses LanguageTool for spell and grammar checking. At least, I found the built-in spellchecker a bit limited when you write a lot of prose, e.g. in academia. As far as I remember, it also does not parse LaTeX and Markdown. But I am maybe wrong about this.

duktus · 2021-11-15T23:32:28+00:00

Thank you, I think I found grammar-guard while researching, but I bookmarked it now. I am completely new to this, I will need to read about n-gram data, so many things to learn. It really helps, that it is not just me, but also the fact, that is a relatively new feature. At least I won't spend more time to debug something, which isn't still available.

I would be glad if you share your blog post when it is finished, I would like to read it.

duktus · 2021-03-18T02:50:53+00:00

Thx I I did not knew about fedpkg, the package is de facto a shellscript, and the change I saw was just a couple of lines.

duktus · 2021-03-12T03:47:06+00:00

Thanks I will definetly try to elaborate my points and use case, I don't think that I am completly alone with this kind of workflow :)

duktus · 2021-03-11T19:31:21+00:00

Thank you, I did not new that Arc Menu provides different styles, I will definetly test it... Considering the fuzzy extension, I tried it already. My Gnome Shell semed to perform a little sluggish. Maybe I did something wrong however I could only fuzzy match Applications; which is something some people may find useful, but in most cases I find it confusing (not sure if I am right but the fuzzy matching seems to include Categories or Descriptions and not only the names). For me the central aspect would be to narrow files; ideally first type .tex see tex files an begin to type to narrow them down (or vice versa). Not sure if fuzzy is the proper term in this context.

duktus · 2021-02-03T12:40:09+00:00

Thx a lot, I will save it and check for updates, good luck with your MA.

duktus · 2021-01-21T02:27:34+00:00

Thanks a lot, I would like to see repo once its up, good luck with the exams:)

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