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   Benjamin Hollon (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 15:22:32 JST Benjamin Hollon

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   @fu @sotolf @RL_Dane Nope, and I’m proud of it ?

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     Sotolf (sotolf@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 19:00:26 JST Sotolf

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     @RL_Dane @benjaminhollon I just use vifm for these kinds of things, it's way more similar to vim, and I don't have to have that weird ribbon view of my files, but have two panes, bookmarks, lots of shortcuts from vim, it does everything the others do and more, and it does great with folder names, has a configuration file and everything, and it's written in c as well ;) see it can do configuration files :p

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     I know I was hating on it a little before, but nnn makes renaming a lot of files super easy, because it basically just opens vi with a list of files in the current directory, and whatever you edit in that file gets changes in the actual directory when you exit.

     Also, a file manager is mostly useful for my work. I don't use it for personal stuff, as there's no real need for it.

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     @benjaminhollon @RL_Dane I only use it if I have a lot of ma managing and renaming to do :)

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     @RL_Dane @sotolf vifm looks nice, but you could use trash/rm/cp/mv/ls/cd like me. :)

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     @sotolf
     If file manangers are bloat, and vifm is a file manager, does that mean you are a featherless biped?

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     @RL_Dane file managers are bloat :p I just use vifm, works well, and isn't as confusing as ranger.

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     #ranger spawned a shell script that took up 2GB of RAM in the background, even when it (ranger) wasn't running.

     NOT WANT.

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     TIL rofi has a file browser!!

     Pretty slick, but 1) no way to make it a normal window, and 2) No indication of what is a file or directory.

     But still... slick.

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     @RL_Dane @sotolf Fair. When I'm opening a bunch of files I use rofi's filebrowser mode.

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     Oh, I do.

     But when you're navigating through a ton of PDFs, a file manager is nice.

     Tab completion is fantastic, but it's still tedious when there are tons of files and directories with similar names.

     Maybe if I had created all of the files and directories in question, I could name them in a way to make life easier for the command line, but this is a shared folder with someone who uses windows.

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     @RL_Dane @sotolf @tulpa @ctietze

     It was when I used the camera module to make a camera that streamed footage through my telescope to my phone through an ad-hoc wifi network.

     As for the "chicken"; I'll have to show you this picture of my custom-built mounting solution (the mounting hardware fits perfectly over the telescope lens)

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     @benjaminhollon @sotolf @tulpa @ctietze

     That's an awesome name, although I suddenly want to know what that was relevant to ^__^

     When I was a kid, I used a person's name. As a youngish adult, they were usually various pop culture/sci-fi references.

     Now, every laptop is named after a #StarWars ship (or class), and every desktop/non-portable after a #StarWars planet.

     My Raspberry Pi 4 4GB is Bespin. :)

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     @RL_Dane @sotolf @tulpa @ctietze It's a 3B+, I believe.

     I've nuked and paved it so many times and usually changed the hostname each time to something relevant to my current project...

     My favorite was astrochicken, which was surprisingly relevant.

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     @benjaminhollon @sotolf @tulpa @ctietze

     NOICE. Which model? What nickname/hostname did you give it? :D

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     @sotolf @RL_Dane @tulpa @ctietze

     I feel like I have to get into this one-upping of hardware now.

     Not quite the same, but my raspberry pi was the first computer I owned that was undisputably mine and not a shared family device. ;)

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     @RL_Dane @tulpa @benjaminhollon @ctietze

     Went from a monochrome 286 with DOS and two (real) floppy disks, to a 486 with 512 MB memory, a cdrom drive and a hardie diskette reader, it was great, back in the good days where getting new hardware was a real upgrade ;)

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     @tulpa @benjaminhollon @ctietze @sotolf

     Yeah, I went from an 8Mhz 68000 (~12 Mhz 286 equivalent) with 512x342 mono video to a 33Mhz 486 with up to 1024x768 8-bit or 800x600 (iirc) 24-bit color.

     :D~ ~~ ~

     THAAAT was PROGRESS! haha

     Still love the classic macs, though. Don't so much pine for OS/2 2.1, although it was honestly pretty dadgum neat for the time

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     @RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @ctietze @sotolf I remember going directly from a hand-me-down 8088 with dual 5¼" floppy drives, to a 486DX with a 540MB hard drive. Big jump, that's for sure.
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     @tulpa @benjaminhollon @ctietze @sotolf

     Reminds me of when nearly 1GB hard disks came out in the mid-nineties.

     People would copy an entire CD game onto the HDD for crazy fast performance, then delete it after a while to free up more space.

     Haha... the nineties. :D

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     @benjaminhollon @sotolf @RL_Dane @ctietze If you're not actually using it, at some point you might as well cut your losses and delete it.
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     @sotolf @RL_Dane @ctietze Heh, it's 960 GB, so yeah wouldn't work on that drive.

     I'm considering moving it to an external hard drive I have, but it took three days to download and iirc the estimated transfer time to move it to the hard drive was eight hours.

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     @benjaminhollon

     *looking at his 166Gb harddrive* :p

     @RL_Dane @ctietze

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     @RL_Dane @sotolf @ctietze I'd just gotten a new Framework Laptop with 2 TB of storage space, what else was I supposed to do with it? ?

     I don't use it very often, but I love the bragging rights of having every Project Gutenberg book, audiobook, musical performance, etc. on my computer. ;)

     Man those audio files really take up the vast majority of the storage space, though.

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     @benjaminhollon @sotolf @ctietze

     vader_impressive_most_impressive.mp4 ;)

     #ThisIsHowYouSaveBandwidthOnYourInstance

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     @sotolf @RL_Dane @ctietze I will say, I believe this is just home directory, correct? I have a private mirror of the entirety of Project Gutenberg in /srv/ ?

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     I guess the full offline copies I have of documentation for 18 programming languages, the full romsets for the gameboy, gameboy colour, nes and snes does help a bit in pushing things up as well :p

     @benjaminhollon @ctietze

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     @benjaminhollon @sotolf @ctietze

     Here's mine. Don't @ me! lol

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     Rather cryptic; what's it mean?

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     @benjaminhollon @sotolf @ctietze

     Ok, I gotta know:

     find ~ -xdev -exec \ls -lad {} + |cut -c1 |sort |uniq -c |sort -n

     Paste the output in your reply ;)

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     @sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane There's a reason I know where every file on my system is by memory; I remove or archive the ones I'm not using anymore! ?

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     @benjaminhollon @ctietze @RL_Dane Well if you don't want to delete them there is a simple solution, don't delete the files ;)

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     @sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane Wimps who don't want to accidentally delete a file they'll need. ;)

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     @benjaminhollon @ctietze @RL_Dane trash is for whimps :p

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     @sotolf @ctietze @RL_Dane That plus trash-cli and rofi's filebrowser mode. ?

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     @benjaminhollon @ctietze @RL_Dane @fu@libranet.de coreutils is the best filemanager ;)

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     @ctietze @RL_Dane @fu @sotolf I don't use a file manager; I'm just that hardcore. :)

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     @RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @fu @sotolf Speaking of Emacs, ☝️

     nobody yet mentioned how its file browser "dired" allows to mass rename files, too, via "wdired-mode"; which also works for recursing directory trees, matching file names by pattern, making nnn+vim obsolete

     *ducks*

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     Crank hypothesis: #GNU #Hurd never got finished because it was merely a front project to disguise the fact that
     EMACS *IS* THE OS. It doesn't matter if it's running atop #Linux, #MacOS, #Windows, #Haiku, or #ContikiOS

     #Emacs is all, and all is Emacs.

     #humor #editors #RSI #CarpalTunnel #WristBraces

     GNU Too repeated this.
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     @sotolf @tulpa @benjaminhollon @ctietze

     I remember my first CD-ROM drive in 1995. THAT was so freaking wizard. Myst, the complete works of Shakespeare (20 MB, lol), and other groovy things.

     It was one of the first 4X drives, which was made by TEAC (of audio equipment fame).

     Unfortunately, I fell for inflated specs: the CD spin rate was 4X, but the read buffer was abysmal, so it was a lot slower than even 2X drives. Bleh ;)

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     I assume you are familar with the Church of eMacs, and our patron Saint iGNUcius.
     
     Remember vi, vi, vi is the editor of the devil https://gnusocial.jp/url/299777
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     I *am* familiar with the Church of Emacs. ;)