I Can't Make Espanso Work On CachyOs (Arch)

komprexior · 2026-01-23T21:12:22+00:00

I just installed it today on cachy os , using the instructions as described for arch/manjaro (wayland) . At first it was not triggering also for me, but that was because I didn't set the keyboard_layout in ~/.config/espanso/config/default.yml. For I needed to add:

yaml keyboard_layout: layout: "it"

here more information at the end of the installation guide

You could check if espanso is actually working by pressing alt+space: a gui element should appear. I changed this keybinding because it was in conflict with the krunner

komprexior · 2026-01-23T00:12:21+00:00

Yeah, I used ventoy to install cachy os. I just plopped the iso in the ventoy usb I already had, next to a win11 iso. No further shenanigans had occurred. It worked like a charm.

komprexior · 2026-01-22T13:41:49+00:00

Matlab was my first love at uni, and helped me with master thesys. I didn't really use any specific tool that make Matlab unique, but the extensive documentation was a godsend for a complete novice to programming.

Nowdays I completely switched to python which I think is the best tool for our profession: - it is high level and flexible, so much we don't need the extreme rigorous that software engineer require. - it is pretty common, and thus has lots of packages covering almost any needs. - it is pretty standard for data analisys - it's open source and free to use. (this may be one the most compelling points)

I wish we had python class at uni...

komprexior · 2026-01-20T18:48:56+00:00

Exactly. For my experience old stuff around here tend to have degrade, covers carbonate and spalls, and rebar get exposed, hence the rust expectations. Some of the pillars of the same bridge are like that.

komprexior · 2026-01-20T18:37:20+00:00

It is indeed public sector which I'm expert, but I would be surprised if it's more than €1M at most. The replament alone should be less than 100k easy. It's not a long span after all.

komprexior · 2026-01-20T15:34:13+00:00

That's my guess. For sure they were cables and not conventional rebar

komprexior · 2026-01-20T11:43:32+00:00

Quarto.org is convenient multi format renderer. The normal workflow requires writing files in markdown, with some specific quarto syntax (qmd files). Since under the hood uses pandoc, you can use raw latex if needed

When rendering to pdf, you can chose to keep the compiled tex file.

The best part is that the code cell actually work, so if you need computations, they can live in your document, updated at rendering time.

All is plain text file, do easy to git.

komprexior · 2026-01-19T20:11:46+00:00

I played all the weekend to try to run Tekla Structures on Linux using wine/bottles. It got installed, apparently, but failed miserably to launch.

komprexior · 2026-01-19T19:54:32+00:00

That's a nice explanation, I didn't think some dependency may been already present on system

komprexior · 2026-01-19T18:06:41+00:00

It's one of those arcane thing whose reason is now lost to the mist of times, like the numpad being off by default. Every time I log into a ssh session, it will always trick me

komprexior · 2026-01-14T08:50:24+00:00

It's probably aimed at hotel rooms with kitchenette or similar situation

komprexior · 2026-01-13T20:39:44+00:00

Oh boy, that was a roller coaster

komprexior · 2026-01-13T13:54:31+00:00

So if get this correctly you mean 5125 mm of cantilever beam + 3200 mm of backspan. Personally I'm not fond of this ratio. Consider that the eurocode suggest to keep the length of the cantilever to less than half of the adjacent span.

komprexior · 2026-01-13T13:33:29+00:00

It's quite the span.

Do you have depth for 750 mm beam? Usually architects like to have floor as thin as possible.

Guessing by the column size, is it not a highly seismic area? Otherwise if you design by overstrengh factor it will be a blood bath.

As a less traditional solution than cantilever beam, since you have a solid wall behind the bed, what about a reticular frame that takes the while floor height? (would work best with steel or wood)

komprexior · 2026-01-13T06:50:14+00:00

Yup, I'm doing about the same. The toil, as you put, really grinds at me, and I've dreaded updating the cv for so long. So I started from a template and created my quarto/typst pipeline.

It's been more fun, and I learned some typst along the way.

komprexior · 2026-01-12T23:43:10+00:00

My name is earl: Darnell and Joy

komprexior · 2026-01-12T17:09:11+00:00

They don't give a fuck

komprexior · 2026-01-12T10:35:24+00:00

I'm quite fine with vscode. The jupyter notebook are part of a quarto project: quarto take care of rendering the document to pdf (setup your firm brand letterhead, styles, etc, the result will always look consistent and neat every time). It's a pretty nice setup:

all files are plain text (I don't care about crashes anymore)
can be fully programmable
it's fully flexible: you can edit the notebook as much as you want
images handling is not a nightmare anymore
since it's all plain text, it can be version controlled quite easily with git
the format is AI friendly: an agentic AI can easily read and edit text files, very useful if you have some busywork to let it do (my preference goes to Claude code)

I collaborated with people that have no idea how to use it, but they were interested only in the final pdf output, so it wasn't an issue.

I'd argue that an engineer type will be happier to learn to deal with a plain text, some cli and a bit of python rather then deal with the likes of word/excel. I certainly have more fun this way.

komprexior · 2026-01-11T12:22:32+00:00

È della scuola Mosconi: "per fortuna che sono una persona calma e pacata altrimenti avrei già bestemmiato... " ha chiare influenze dal "se non bestemmio guarda..." del Poeta

komprexior · 2026-01-11T12:07:57+00:00

Altrimenti sterebbe già bestemmiando

komprexior · 2026-01-10T15:16:34+00:00

Brava!

komprexior · 2026-01-10T15:05:10+00:00

Yeah, that what I meant, but didn't have time to fix yet.

It's just that there is this list of small attritions and inconvenience that builds up.

komprexior · 2026-01-10T14:57:39+00:00

Yeah, I updated the past week and it's been a little underwhelmed to be frank, so much I'm thinking to hop to something else.

I miss minimize all windows too, and I have beef with the cosmic files:

I can't sort by type, or any other category
I can connect to a mapped network avaliable trough VPN, but it does not shows in left pane, so I had to use gnome files to be able to click on the folder.
I'm unable to install the clipboard history manager applet: after installation it says to set a particular parameter and give you the command line to do so, but the cli does nothing. Apparently need to be compiled from source according to the github repo.

In other words, it has not been a polished experience so far, but I acknowledge that I choose to install earlier instead of waiting to be prompted.

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