UdeRecife

joined 1 year ago
[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 6 months ago

I love copyq so much. It's definitely one of the apps I first install in a new deployment. When I hear of the troubles some people go through for not having a clipboard manager, I just smh and think, 'copyq'.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Several options:

  • Master PDF Editor, version 4 is free (and in AUR);
  • PDF Arranger, good for bulk edits;
  • jPdfTweak, a veritable swiss knife of PDF editing;
  • jPDFBookmarks, the best for editing bookmarks;
  • Briss, for bulk cutting PDFs;
  • Krop, also for cutting, but less flexible.
[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I had many issues since the upgrade. After getting tired of hunting them down individually, my one-time solution was to nuke my old configs and simply start anew. Fresh home, .config, .local.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 6 months ago

I use both htop and btop—depending on the mood. htop is less prettier, but more reliable. But sometimes I want pretty and I go with btop. top is where I draw the line. It's too nerdy for me.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago

Not really that fancy. It's just a marketing euphemism. The giving of a cool name to something very mundane.

You're right, it's just a clouded way of saying 'someone else's computer '.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 5 points 8 months ago

Hello! Nice to meet you. I know and love your kind. One monitor is pretty standard, so I have a lot of friends just like you.

Yup, 3 monitors user here. I guarantee it's not that uncommon.

(And yes, I'm still running X11)

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago

Not being open source is the great... sin for me. Note taking is an investment in the future, and betting on a closed source platform is a big no no—for me, that is.

I know the content is safe in Obsidian, since it's just Markdown files. But the workflow? Not so much.

And I know the developers behind Obsidian have their reasons to close source it. Nothing against that. But since that's their way, it's not my way.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please, I don't want to be rude, so don't take me wrong.

I think that's not accurate. Trillium is not even an outliner, let alone a block note taking app. I think you're mixing trillium with Logseq.

My memory may be failing me, but I think trillium has been around longer than Roam Research.

And yes, it's a great open source note taking app!

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 8 months ago

Logseq user here too.

However, for a quick, transitory note, I use Kate or, more recently, Xpad. Only then I transcribe the content to Logseq. Why?

Because while Logseq is great as an outliner and for network thinking, it's as graceful and agile as an elephant.

The gist of what I'm saying is: for now, and for me (hardware might be playing a role here, but I don't think so) Logseq is a good note database. For quick typing, I have to use something else.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 2 points 9 months ago

Espanso. A text expander that also runs commands.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 5 points 10 months ago

Not OP, but here's how. You live-distro yourself to a running command prompt. You then connect to the internet, mount the partitions, finally chrooting to your computer's storage install. Once there, you clear pacman's lock from var and run a full update: pacman -Syyu. Wait until it finishes, exit chroot, reboot. 9 out 10 times works as expected.

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 3 points 10 months ago

Early 2002. I read about Linux somewhere, and I was trying a Mandrake install. I also read about control+alt+Backpage, which eagerly proceed to try.

Now I'm on tty, cursor blinking, thinking: I broke Linux.

Scared, I cleverly undid that mistake by simply... reinstalling the distro. Ignorance is NOT bliss.

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