voidlinux: gave me much better battery life - I assume because it starts as a minimal system and one adds only the essentials to do the job - compared to the soup-to-nuts distros that pile everything in so that newbies are acccomodated. Of course, the voidlinux approach needs more linux skills - but it’s not that hard and the doco is great.

Also, I love the back to basics runit init system and runsv service runner (I’m old so I like that stuff) and the ultra fast xbps packaging system.

Thanks (to all the authors) for your hard work and contributions.

BTW - thanks for Mistral. Another tool in the box!

Quite right!

You need to take it all (AI or internet searches) with a huge pinch of salt. Even ye olde text books were not infallible and often out of date, so sodium chloride was also required even then.

The code either works or it doesn’t - it’s all in the testing. If you deploy AI suggestions without thought you deserve the consequences.

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB

I followed up on github as you suggested and a very nice young man took a look at it and said that the code already does work the right way (at least the way I and their little poll think it should work). But, it turns out that the fix (from 2021) has not been deployed - it’s to be in the next release.

So I don’t know what will happen now - I’ll continue to use my workaround, so I’m happy enough.

So he’s a journalist </s> Thanks for the warning, saved me a read.

thanks!

It might be more expected for you but I’m going to differ.

for an article (or a link to a image), it takes you there instead.

… and then you can’t get to the discussion.

The RSS-2.0 definition of <link> is

The URL to the HTML website corresponding to the channel.

so clearly, it should point to the lemmy post. No other RSS feed that I know of has this problem.

Fortunately, emacs can flex around this, but duh! Where can I raise a bug report?

OK, more than wow! Probably the most helpful, in-depth and up to date coverage of this topic I’ve seen in 40 years of barely scratching the surface of emacs. Thank you!

Wow! Just wow!

Nice, sensible article.

You might also be interested in i3-menu for i3 and sway which presents a menu of i3/sway commands - very useful for those commands which one rarely uses or for which there is no key binding. It uses ‘smart’ comments in the config file.

Another approach entirely is to use pam_mount(8) which can automatically mount a disc on login. I use it to mount /home/$USER (obviously this couldn’t be used to mount the root fs !!)

I find the various linters and checkers a bit too intrusive while I’m trying to code - I prefer to just have a check when I stop fiddling with the code and save it. So I have these checks run in after-save-hook - if there are errors, I get a popup otherwise nothing and all is good:

;; ** syntax checking on file save:
(defun bh/check-syntax ()
  "Check syntax for various languages."
  (when (eq major-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode)
    (ignore-errors (kill-buffer byte-compile-log-buffer))
    (let ((byte-compile-warnings '(not free-vars obsolete unresolved)))
      (unless (byte-compile-file buffer-file-name)
        (pop-to-buffer byte-compile-log-buffer))))
  (when (eq major-mode 'sh-mode)
    (compile (format "bash -n %s && shellcheck -f gcc %s" buffer-file-name buffer-file-name) t))
  (when (eq major-mode 'ruby-mode)
    (compile (format "ruby -c %s" buffer-file-name) t))
  (when (eq major-mode 'python-mode)
    (compile (format "python -B -m py_compile %s" buffer-file-name) t))
  (when (eq major-mode 'awk-mode)
    (compile (format "AWKPATH=$PATH gawk --lint --source 'BEGIN { exit(0) } END { exit(0) }' --file %s" buffer-file-name) t)))

(add-hook 'after-save-hook #'bh/check-syntax)

I don’t work much with json files but I daresay the idea could be extended to them. Sorry about the crappy elisp.

virt-manager for the win!

“64-128mb ram” is hardly “low memory”!

I’ll join in too - here’s mine

You can’t avoid IBM/RedHat - they contribute to the kernel and many, many other parts of Linux eg systemd. I have no idea what you mean by DIY distros, what a peculiar adjective in this context. Linux itself is DIY. Life is DIY.

That said, voidlinux is an independent distro without systemd or snaps based on runit for init and xbps for package management. It’s also a STABLE rolling release.

waybar is good

scrcpy for android connectivity; syncthing to get files to and fro android (and any other linux system)

clipman for clipboard manager

wallpaper - whatever for? with a TWM you rarely see the background

emacs - because it’s life (I jest)

Can’t believe no-one mentioned voidlinux yet. It’s very tasty.