isti115

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It seems that they have accidentally posted the announcement earlier than intended, but it will probably show up later during the day.

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your input! To me it seems like Nemo only counts the direct descendants and doesn't recurse, which makes it less useful for this purpose, but still nice to know!

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for the idea! I didn't know about the --inodes flag before, this seems like a viable solution for systems where I can't / don't want to install additional software!

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh, wow, thank you! I had ncdu installed, but it was an older version, which didn't yet have this feature. Now that I updated to the newest (Zig based 🎉) release this looks perfect for my needs!

 

There are plenty of utilities (GUI, such as filelight and TUI, such as dua as well) for analyzing disk usage by space, but I would like to view my folders based on the count of files, as I'm making backups, and folders with lots of small files (e.g. node_modules) take very long to move around, so I guess that I'd be better of compressing those into a single file before archiving, as it's already highly unlikely that I'll need to access them anyway. Thanks for any pointers in advance!

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! 😀 I've been meaning to post about that as well in order to keep feeding Lemmy with content, but couldn't find either an active alternative to ErgoMechKeyboards or Battlestations. 🤔

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, I'd suggest asking around your nearest toddler, that's how I managed to borrow this one. 😀 Probably it has been inherited through several generations, that might explain it's wisdom!

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for the advice, but lo and behold, the issue was actually caused by a newly introduced generic parameter not being defined after a dependency update. 🙃 Oh, the wonders of the JS/TS ecosystem...

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Whoa, I just checked out some images, that one is on another level as well for sure. 😀 If he's as good at fighting bugs as criminals, you're in good ~~hands~~ wings!

 

If the rolling wooden variant still turns out not to be enough, I might need to source a real live duck. 🦆 Not sure how patient that would be at listening to me explaining code though. 🤔

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let me preface this by clarifying that I don't claim to have the one and only right explanation that everyone should accept, I'd just like to point out that this theory also exists: https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/43799

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yepp, "Lateral with Tom Scott, Episode 58: Straight-line sports" in case anyone's looking for it. https://lateralcast.com/

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

River is actually really nice! I have been a Sway user for multiple years before, but as it reached parity with i3, it was deemed "feature complete" (which is reasonable, as it was made to be a drop-in replacement), so I switched to Hyprland, but after making a small contribution I found the development too chaotic, so I started looking for something else.

I have been really happy with River. It still has some small shortcomings (e.g. minor visual glitches with fullscreening, and some less used options still missing), but the developers are very responsive on IRC (which I'm actually not a huge fan of, this was the first time I had to use it, but it's OK for what it is) and it being written in Zig is a huge selling point for me, as I don't have to write any C or C++ to extend it (my first PR is already on the way) when something I'd like to do is not yet possible.

If you're willing to spend a while getting to know it and setting up the environment (it relies on external programs for some functionality that is built-in in other compositors, such as monitor management), then I'd definitely say that it's worth a shot!

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because ortholinear split keyboards aren't that easy to come by (I got tired of confusing my fingers when reaching for letters between them, now there is no "between", just straight columns. Also, I can hold my hands at shoulder width!), on the other hand this was an option I had all the necessary hardware for, and with some software configuration it is actually really usable!

(The question could potentially also be "Why aren't more people using two numpads as a keyboard?", but I guess that the answer would be somewhere between they don't care about and they don't know about the advantages it would provide. 🙃)

[–] isti115@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, sorry, I must've been replying to a keyboard related comment earlier and got the context mixed up in my head! 🤦‍♂️

 

After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I'd also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I'd appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it's a weird feeling to know that some stuff might have been messed up under the hood.

 
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