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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • astroturds@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.ml•What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?English
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    1 year ago

    It’s just a general system setup and config tool. I’m assuming that, like me, you already know how to do all that stuff without yast but it’s good for newbies and people that aren’t super nerds. With all of the anti terminal stuff I always read about on the internet you’d think at least ubuntu would have their own version of it or something similar.

    “YaST is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server tool that provides a graphical interface for all essential installation and system configuration tasks. Whether you need to update packages, configure a printer, modify firewall settings, set up an FTP server, or partition a hard disk—you can do it using YaST.”

    But yeah, I actually hardly ever use it myself.

  • astroturds@startrek.websitetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are your favourite 80s fantasy movies?English
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    1 year ago

    The dark crystal is the greatest fantasy movie of all time.

    One of the reasons I think they hit different is because of the technology used to film them and the practical effects.

    To me horror films from the 70s and before seem more real and scary than modern ones that are full of CGI and weird pallete swaps like when they film night scenes during the day and then darken them after. It just gives off this whole ‘this is a fake movie’ thing to me.

  • astroturds@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Just tried Org-mode todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep I read about that when I first looked into exwm and it is a problem. I’m lucky though, I only really use emacs and firefox so it’s not a big deal for me. I wouldn’t want to be using exwm if I was doing some serious multitasking and using video editing software or something. I don’t know if there are plans for a multithread rewrite of emacs but I hope it happens.

    I’m going to set up lem.el at some point! I currently use elfeed to see lemmy posts from the communities I’m most interested in and firefox to comment or just browse about. I actually saw this post from inside elfeed originally.

  • astroturds@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Just tried Org-mode todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For the tables you can do ‘M-x org-table-create’ which then asks you for dimensions and makes it for you.

    I think org-capture might help you with the other stuff, you can set up templates and access them by pressing ‘C-c c’ and get it all inserted in whatever org file and under whatever heading you want.

  • astroturds@startrek.websitetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Just tried Org-mode todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Org mode changed my fucking life! I looked into using emacs as a simple markdown editor when I was doing a creative writing course and discovered org mode. 4 years later and I never leave emacs, everything is done through emacs and org mode. I even use it as my window manager (exwm). I bought an old chromebook to turn into an emacs machine and it’s so good. It’s an operating system and I don’t like using a computer without it.

    Some things for you to look into that I now can’t live without:

    Elfeed

    Org-capture and capture templates

    Dired

    EXWM

    Syncthing (not a part of emacs but means I don’t have to use closed source cloud backups)

    I passionately love emacs. At first I thought all they shortcuts and keybindings were a bit insane but they are second nature to me at this point. Emacs has also saved me lots of money that I would have spent on silly writing apps and aids.