• herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I wheeze-laughed at “Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts.”

    Now I kinda want to do that.

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      5 months ago

      Weaksauce. Everyone knows you configure at least one Vulcan-nerve-pinch dead-key chord that primes the following key chord to switch the layout.

      Only half joking. I’m the guy with Ctrl-Super-Alt-Shift-Pause set to put the PC into Suspend mode.

      Unrelatedly, I hope the meme name isn’t a dog-whistle of some sort, because that really would be weaksauce.

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        5 months ago

        My favorite part of your suspend shortcut is that you can call it “hyper pause” and that describes both the shortcut and the action lol

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        5 months ago

        I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I’ve begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I’ve stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless…

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          5 months ago

          I went the opposite way, got sick of all the wireless stuff disconnecting, battery dying, or not working before the os boots so I switched to wired everything, I went as far as running a usb over ethernet extender to my couch area so I can have a wire keeb and mouse while gaming on the tv

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    4 months ago

    can write 260 w/p on his own machine, will not find the escape key on any other

    I swear, when I need to touch other people’s computers, I can’t get them to believe me that I program for a living.

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    4 months ago

    Once worked for a software company where we could run Linux on our machines if we maintained them ourselves and wouldn’t ask admins for support since they were only supporting the default windows installations. Right before Christmas new coworker joined, early twenties, got into a project that was apparently hard to get it set up locally, we told him get the project running and then spend time to configure your laptop the way you like it to be. Low and behold, he spends Christmas setting up and configuring some fancy desktop environment on Kubuntu, returns to work, shows off the fancy looks and within a week fails to get the project set up and everyone else in the project was using windows. So one week later he was back using windows and super pissed that he wasted like 5 days configuring his desktop. My heart is still bleeding for that poor guy :(

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      4 months ago

      That’s why I’m sticking to Windows at work even though I hate it. I couldn’t stand the glares of the others when I fail to fix even a noob distro.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t use arch, but this applies to my android habits.

      Nova has way too many settings now, though.

      I use gestures and look&feel and that’s about it. Custom icons here and there. Maybe my app drawer has custom folders, colors, tabs. And maybe my folders use custom gestures, transparency, and colors, and icons.

      But that’s it.

      On Linux I use the fuck out of custom aliases for basic commands like ls or grep or less - mainly for appearance.

      This is the most useful alias to me personally: ls=‘ls -aph --color=always --group-directories-first’

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    5 months ago

    Honestly still using the half finished hyprland build for games, studying, and work. If somethings missing then I fix it or simplify stuff I do all the time otherwise it’s largely stock and janky. I’d say it’s better than my taskbar freezing in kde or gnome. We don’t have to talk about how annoying gnome is to use daily.

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      5 months ago

      never had kde or gnome freezing, what are you doing, running testing repositories?

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      5 months ago

      Ours carry a small contactless POS so you can pay for the order on arrival. Maybe that’s what they meant?