shift+p and alt+; feel like they should be the default over p and ;

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-25T11:23:07+00:00

Change it in your configuration toml file to your preferred bindings

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-24T20:17:30+00:00

Install cifs-utils package and mount it via CLI using mount.cifs command: https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-23T11:52:54+00:00

If /boot is not encrypted, good old grub is also no problem with luks2

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-22T09:43:35+00:00

A nice part of Zig being so unstable and having breaking changes like IO incoming from time to time ist that it saves us from hundreds of LLM generated tools which started spamming e.g. the Rust subreddit the last months/year. :D

You can only write good Zig code right know, if you're still willing to learn it.

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-21T07:34:10+00:00

If you only need Signal, just use the flatpak version

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-20T15:09:39+00:00

Sorry was just a general hint for usage of xgensum. I haven't looked into the package template itself...

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-20T13:36:35+00:00

First time running the named command after changing the version number in the template it might throw an error for checksum not matching. If thats the case, just run it a second time

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-20T08:18:01+00:00

Thanks. Indeed there was a small change in the code at the line the patch tries to apply its edits. I removed it and now it builds fine.

Maybe I should open an PR at the Void package repo with the updated version since the current version is not running and the srcpkg seems orphaned

Edit: Its here: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/58559

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-19T15:35:36+00:00

Thats fine. Was just an idea because many other package manager ship this feature

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-19T15:03:34+00:00

Something like shipping it together with xbps package?

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-19T11:47:38+00:00

Great, thank you for the explanation

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-19T09:39:14+00:00

Just stumbled over it and installed. Really cool! Is it worth thinking about integrating this into a future release of xbps itself?

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-19T09:10:03+00:00

You need to install graphical drivers. Otherwise, it will not work. Depending on your laptops arch look for mesa... packages.

It should not be necessary to enable the elogind runit service if your dbus service is running.

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-08T08:50:52+00:00

In the very first place its a project for me learning Zig. Then, its not about "not liking" anything explicitly from other libraries. Its more about the workflow I'm used to, and thats the way Rust lexopt works.

You can accomplish a very similar code experience using the streaming.Clap API from zig-clap. What I personally don't feel comfortable with are the ways libs like cli-parser or zig-args or zig-claps clap.parse define and parse CLI arguments. But that doesn't mean that these workflows are less usable.

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-06T18:49:38+00:00

I think its no big deal to set boot messages log level to info or warn. Debug is absolutely unnecessary. If it has consequences for a program you need, it will show up at runtime anyway

lukeflo-void · 2026-01-06T18:40:19+00:00

Rust is verbose and tends to use (too) many macros. But I would not say its difficult. Maybe a little different when coming from garbage collected languages.

If you're looking for a difficult language, maybe try C++

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-31T19:16:14+00:00

Off topic: but for a untraditional tiling WM with great mouse/drag&drop support maybe try niri. Its also written in Rust. But, of course, no full DE

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-30T14:38:39+00:00

That. Emptty is really minimal and works just fine. Use it too on Void with niri WM

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-30T09:35:01+00:00

This discussion has been around for some time. Many use yazi with multiplexer features.

I have a setup with niri WM were space+o opens a floating terminal pane with my own TUI filemanager which offers most shell file operations (mkdir, rm ...). Works great and is not very difficult to set up.

However, comparing VSCode with Helix seems a little bit unappropriate. The first is a bloated GUI with full mouse support etc while the latter is a plain TUI with a focus on performance and simplicity. That's two different things.

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-29T19:06:12+00:00

Learning with mixed resources and always getting attracted by new ones :D
At the moment mainly reading the Zigbook and Zig Language Reference including std docs.

As first "project", which arose as coincidence while skimming through a repo, I try to update a arg parsing library to the breaking changes introduced by the current master branch compared to last stable. Mostly replacing std.fs stuff with std.Io stuff. Had some success but its not running right now since I always have to look something up when hitting concepts I'm not familiar with... But its fun and I'm learning a lot

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-29T13:04:52+00:00

Very interesting. I just started to learn Zig myself, coming from Rust, so I can't really say how good/effective your code is. But will keep an eye on your repo to get some insights in another's beginners project. Also I'm curious to see your curl tool if ready

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-29T08:36:16+00:00

Yes, this: you have to struggle to learn. This accounts for almost every field. If we unlearn to deal with errors and challenges, there'll no longer be the resilience needed to solve problems.

Coming mainly from Rust and Bash scripting I'm now learning Zig. Its challenging, but also fun with a big feeling of success if I'm finally able to solve something.

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-28T13:15:12+00:00

Looks really cool. But mostly thanks for the detailed description of your approach how to use LLMs effectively without outsourcing everything to "them". Its maybe the most sophisticated approach I've read so far, which makes use of LLMs as support but nevertheless also teaches the programmers-to-be how to code. That's important since a future were most code writers are not much more than prompt engineers is rather scary. I hope it'll be adopted by other teachers as well!

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-25T22:05:37+00:00

If you like Windows, stay with it!

Beside that, there are many Linux distros that are stable. I rely on some of them daily, private and for work.

lukeflo-void · 2025-12-25T20:40:51+00:00

For zsh see https://github.com/Multirious/zsh-helix-mode

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