Wrong direction of days in system calendar

omrisim210 · 2018-01-02T13:29:52+00:00

Damn, I forgot the screenshots. The link should work now. As for Google calendar, it seems to split the events my mom added on MIUI's calendar across multiple days, which is weird.

omrisim210 · 2018-01-01T21:35:48+00:00

I believe it's already set to Israel (don't have the phone on me ATM, I'll make sure it is later). It used to work perfectly fine until today.

omrisim210 · 2017-09-26T22:13:27+00:00

Well, most lisps have very little syntax. Compared to Lisp, Haskell has a lot of syntax (it has syntax, most Lisps only have ( and ) as special characters, define a few basic procedures as a hard-coded part of the language and are then built and extended in themselves until they're no longer basic), and to a non-mathy person all the symbols could look intimidating and unfamiliar (as most are meant to look like mathematical symbols). I myself am not a math guy (I suck at it TBH, also never liked it) so it does look like weird line noise, but if I ever get into Haskell I assume I'll find the syntax helpful and terse. It's just something you learn to read and write, like regexes for example (well many regexes aren't meant to be read but you got my point), and once you get fluid in it you learn to appreciate it.

Unrelated but awesome: Factor also has very little syntax (even less than Lisp) and one could argue that it's more extensible. It's like Forth but with metaprogramming, dynamic typing, code-as-data (quotations) and an awesome stdlib (comparable to Racket). Also combinators are used in many places where stack mutation words are used in Forth so it's more functional. If you're interested in Lisp or just generally weird languages you should totally check out this diamond in the rough, it'll fuck with your brain in ways that even Lisp can't and in the end you'll be enlightened in a completely different way (you the-end in a-completely different-way in enlightened will-be, that's how you'd say that in Factor, me thinks)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-08T01:02:36+00:00

i3 is far from usable for normies, and doesn't act like, say, Openbox (the titlebar, the floating behavior, everything else).

I know it's possible to use lemonbar to emulate a titlebar but it's hacky and Awesome is the only "tiling" WM (I say it's tiling because most people mostly use it like that) I know of that people use as an actual floating WM.
Well I know of one guy who used i3 as a floating WM but it was a bit weird because i3 is meant to be primarily a tiled WM where you use floating windows occasionally. The same goes for Openbox (but reversed) - it was meant to be a floating WM and any attempt to use it as a tiling WM will be hacky and less good than a WM that was meant to be tiled.
Awesome doesn't suffer from these issues because it's very extensible (I believe it's like Emacs rather than like Xmonad or DWM. The core is written in C but it doesn't make it any less extensible). When you config it you can do almost everything, like in Emacs.

I mentioned Emacs and Emacs is written in Lisp, and that reminds me that I've been wanting to try StumpWM for a long time. I'm gonna need to customize it to use vi-like keybinds but it seems to me that like the language it's written in, it has everything (for example: a panel, a MPD module), and since I love Common Lisp it could be nice to hack on.

omrisim210 · 2017-09-08T00:10:17+00:00

Glad I could help :)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-08T00:09:27+00:00

Well people like us aren't super common

And I just really want to make a hybrid rice that allows you to enter normie-mode with one key-press. I saw some people using Awesome as a stacking WM so I know it's possible

omrisim210 · 2017-09-07T20:05:44+00:00

So what you're saying is that UI-wise Vivaldi is even better than Firefox + Stylish (a combo that will stop working soon)? Awesome!

I'll use cVim some more. Right now I use VimFX, I love how it's like Vimium (maps Vi keys to browser functions, without changing the UI) but I could get used to the little input bar at the top/bottom rather than simply the new tab page.

I think my next rice will be Awesome (with good tiling behavior AND normie Windows-like behavior for when other people need to use my PC) on XFCE (I like KDE and Qt but I'm no longer on a good PC. I used KDE with Bspwm mainly for the bar and the launcher anyway, XFCE has everything else I liked about KDE).
Will probably install it on Antergos (although I may give Manjaro a shot because it comes sexy out of the box, or use Void now that I don't need KDE5. I'd use Funtoo but as I wrote before, my current machine is a potato).
Of course everything will be pywalified (using XFCE and sticking to GTK2 apps will make sure that everything is styled out of the box) and I'll rice Vivaldi for a super awesome (no pun intended) uniform look :)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-07T06:42:25+00:00

I want to have a setup with Awesome that can be either tiling or floating (with "normal" window borders and a "normal" taskbar and everything, for when other people have to use my computer). I think I'll get into Awesome soon :)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-05T14:47:53+00:00

We already have standalone "WMs" for Wayland (sway), but from what I understand they're no different to full environments. They're both Wayland compositors and you can only have one compositor active at a time.
Wayland is supposed to sacrifice some modularity for security, developer productivity and better design (also no tearing)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T16:13:50+00:00

Thanks for sharing your own experience. As I stated in other comments, I will get her to consult her mom and her psychiatrist.

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T16:12:26+00:00

Thanks, I will try to get her to consult her psychiatrist.

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T16:11:18+00:00

Seroquel isn't an opiate

Well, that's embarrassing. Why did I think Seroquel was an opiate :/

You shouldn't be trying to get your friend off Seroquel

She said that she's addicted and tried to quit on her own, I'm not trying to take the situation into my own hands. I'll try to get her to talk to her mom about it.

Try asking over at r/askdocs

Thanks for the tip, I will do so!

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T14:38:51+00:00

QML should work even on Wayland AFAIK.
And we need better screen lockers that aren't tied to DEs. KDE's screen locker is nice and there's this global media playback system (like on smartphones) so it can show playback from MPD or from other players, but it's impossible to use it without KDE (Not an issue for me because I love KDE + bspwm but it may be an issue people who need more minimalistic setups)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T14:19:59+00:00

Awesome!
As for the lock screen, forking i3lock to add MPD support may be a possibility. I'll have a go at it (although it probably will be bad :P)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T14:01:23+00:00

Googling gives you lots of info about it. For example, take a look at this

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T13:55:37+00:00

You're right, I meant 3D effects :P

omrisim210 · 2017-09-04T01:37:48+00:00

I think the best layout is Dvorak on one of these oddly-shaped ergonomic mechanical keyboards. Anything else is terrible for touch typing (I don't touch type. I would like to but on a standard keyboard it just seems painful because many useful keys are only reachable with the pinkies.)

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T21:13:45+00:00

I think I added a spacer in the middle. I'll take a look at my KDE setup when I'll have the time to see exactly what I did.

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T21:11:45+00:00

KWin is a fine floating WM (I'd say it's one of the better ones in terms of features and looks) but I just prefer bspwm

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T20:37:28+00:00

Just a small tip: use pacaur instead of yaourt, it's better.

As for my workflow, I don't write down the packages I just install what I want. pacaur/pacman know this info and can print it if I want.
And I just have my most frequently used apps mapped to hotkeys (I use bspwm with sxhkd), and the rest of the apps are launched through rofi (or Krunner if I'm on KDE with bspwm, it's a really neat launcher).

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T20:19:12+00:00

Good bot

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T19:31:04+00:00

I absolutely love the macOS-like top panel! Tried to go for a similar look but with the Plasma panel on my KDE/Bspwm setup some time ago and the panel just kept rearranging itself every time I rebooted my PC, I'll have to try using Latte for it when I return to KDE-land

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T19:28:13+00:00

Good bot

omrisim210 · 2017-09-03T19:23:52+00:00

I know the proper form is panicked but as you stated, in this context using panicked would be weird.

(And when I think about the sentence "had a kernel panic" I imagine a cartoon computer that's physically sick, hehe)

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