rescue_toaster

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[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is a normal, regular task in dwarf fortress.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

As others have stated, it's a tiling window manager. Many, including me, prefer it to the usual floating window managers that most desktops use.

But I've been using sway since switching to wayland after years with i3. I see lots of hyprland hype, but i'm happy with my sway workflow and don't see anything about hyprland that makes me want to switch or even try it out.

 

Am I an idiot or is theming completely broken? I cannot set or modify any themes besides enabling/disabling the Material You theme.

I had created a custom theme prior to the 0.2.1 version and had been using it since then. I just went in to try to modify the theme and cannot save any changes. I modify specific colors and click the checkmark in the upper right and the changes are not saved, as when going back in to edit the theme, the colors are back to what they were prior to me trying to do the edits.

Also, I cannot change to any other theme besides material you. Where are you supposed to be able to actually select the theme for light, dark, and amoled? The only way I can figure out how you might change the theme is clicking the + beside the theme in the manage theme menu and clicking on set to X theme. This then doesn't do anything.

I enabled the material you theme and then clicked apply, and then under customization there is listed light theme, dark theme, and amoled theme with material you listed below. But I can't modify these or change to different themes after disabling material you. I can go delete material you themes in the manage themes and these go away under the customization menu, and now the theme is back to the default indigo dark, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to change the theme except to the material you theme.

I also get occasional crashes when in "edit theme" and trying to flip the set as X theme.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I switched from ubuntu to debian when 12 was released and it's been fine. Only thing i was worried about was running WoW via lutris but had no issues.

So when my SO windows pc died we bought some newish parts and i installed debian on it as well. Also installed chrome since that's her browser of choice. She's still getting used to gnome, but all she needs is browser, WoW, and libreoffice, which is close enough that it hasnt been an issue. She doesn't even know how to update the system.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I teach my physics undergraduates the basics of latex for writing. They usually figure it out. It's basically like writing some code. The biggest pain are graphs. And like a lot of code these days, chatgpt can help a lot.

If you just need to write basic text formatted using apa, you could find or create a template and give it to your students. Then they won't even need to think about the formatting cause the template will deal with it all correctly.

Oh, i should add, in that screenshot, most of that code creates the fornatting. Once that is set, your actual content with words and paragraphs looks mostly like text.

Start with a minimal preamble and start testing it out.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I also switched to fossify's camera app at the same time since google's camera didn't respect fossify as my default gallery.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I recently switched to fossify's gallery app. So far, so good. Seems to do what i need.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Super old show called scrapheap challenge or junkyard wars, which depends on whether it's the british or american version. I loved this show as a kid.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 86 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Should we put bets on how long until chatgpt responds to anything with:

Great question, before i give you a response, let me show you this great video for a new product you'll definitely want to check out!

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I hate saying it but I don't think a woman can win. There's too many patriarchial fucks in this country that might vote democrat, but not for a woman.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't browsers allow you to do form fillable these days? I swear i just filled one with firefox the other day. Maybe that's too limited?

For combining pdfs, pdftk from the command line is my goto. The command line interface for it isn't too complicated.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Linux mint or fedora are great options. I'd probably recommend mint as usually geared more to those switching from windows and the forums and communities might be more helpful for beginners.

I'd avoid ubuntu these days. While not horrendous, i've run into enough annoyances with their snap package manager that there's just no reason to learn this additional thing for a beginner.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Ha. It's not much of a hill. Torx is so obviously superior.

If anyone spends a minute with a drill/impact driver and some phillips vs torx wood screws, that person will never buy phillips again.

I also have like 50 torx bits now since every box of word screws comes with one.

Robertson seems to be the only option for pocket hole joinery. i find that they do cam out. Wish they were just torx.

 

How does one change the terminal that Gnome Files uses when opening a directory in terminal using "Open in Terminal"? I'm trying to change the default to foot.

All my searching has led to

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

  Selection    Path                             Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        auto mode
* 1            /usr/bin/foot                     20        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/footclient               10        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/koi8rxterm               20        manual mode
  5            /usr/bin/lxterm                   30        manual mode
  6            /usr/bin/uxterm                   20        manual mode
  7            /usr/bin/xterm                    20        manual mode

which I can select foot. But Gnome Files does not seem to respect this.

I've also tried directly editing

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec foot

where the default exec option is x-terminal-emulator. This also does not work.

 

New debian user here. I'm using sway and have a script in my waybar config to look for upgrades and indicate if any are available. However, it typically doesn't find anything because I first need to run a sudo apt update first.

I don't really want to figure out someway to do a sudo through this script and was curious how gnome finds updates without me needing to enter a password.

It looks like I can use unattended upgrades to do the apt update.

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

though I don't want it to do upgrades until I do a sudo apt upgrade after being notified of upgrades. I created a 02periodic file in /etc/apt/apt.config.d as indicated, but I only included the lines

APT::Periodic::Enable "1";

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";

Will this run an apt update every day for me? Is there any issue I'm unaware of in doing this? Thanks for any help!

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