Another recent post about an emacs version of vim golf brought to mind a related question: has anyone tried this extended vim tutorial via evil-mode?
For that matter, is there anything equivalent or even similar for 'vanilla' emacs mode?
So... been typing a looong while. Like 40+ years. I'm reasonably proficient @ touch typing, have been for some time. Not super fast, but proficient. But...
I know I have a few bad habits - primarily under utilizing the pinkies, and instead using the ring fingers for pretty much everything the pinkies should be doing, other than the home row. Pretty sure the index finger is covering a few keys it probably shouldn't as well. I only use the left thumb for space; the right thumb basically just sits there.
Like I said, I can generally get by well enough on typing tests and such that it's hard to really focus on fixing the above. Sites like keybr, monkeytype, etc. don't really focus on technique, as long as you hit the right key at the right time, they don't care.
The only one I've ran into so far that does 'force' the issue seems to be typingclub.com... but only on a few lessons. The ones where they make you hold one key down, usually with the offending finger that you would otherwise 'cheat' with, and then hit the other keys with the correct finger (pinkie, the other index finger, etc.).
Short of running through that specific block of exercises until my eyes and fingers bleed, are there any other sites/exercises that focus on fixing 'bad habit' techniques? Preferably ones that are a little less.... middle-school-ish in their presentation?
So... I'm working on migrating taking notes for a hobby of my mine to Emacs. Previously I used Google Docs, with a fairly simple (by emacs/org standards, anyways) structure - a TOC, and individual entries for various activities on different days. Different size / weight fonts for the headings. Main heading for date + item + primary activity. Sub heading for secondary activity(s). Text blocks (paragraphs), bulleted lists, tables, etc. for detailed information. Images. I've been keeping a separate file per year, for the sake of keeping them reasonable sized.
By and large, it's more of mashup between a "dear diary" and "notes to future self" - what I was doing, what I expected to see as a result, what actually happened, what I learned... basically a way to look back and analyze what was going through my head, back when. Very little to no retroactive editing unless I find a literal typo.
Not a lot of TODOs, no time tracking, none of the finer detail stuff I see people doing with org-mode. I wouldn't mind exploring tags and such.
I know a lot of people do way, way more with their setups. I'm not entirely convinced I need custom key binds and capture templates, but... who knows? Maybe I'll change my mind?
All of this is a long-ways-round to saying... I'm trying to figure out what to start with... just a plain org file, emacs diary, denote, org-journal, org...something else?
Then there's the question of... for people that use one package/tool, then change to another... how do you manage that transition? Are you able to convert somewhat easily from one to the next, or are you stuck with a hodge-podge of fragments from different setups? Does the pain of moving from one system to another keep you with an existing setup rather than moving to another?
Got my first Keychron (Q8 Pro) yesterday and I gotta say... wow. Just... wow.
Not technically my first mechanical keyboard - I have a Logitech Mx Mech & a Mx Mech Mini that work pretty well for what they are. Tried a Mistel Barocco MD 770, used off ebay... let's just say there's a reason it was for sale - little bit glitchy :/
None of that prepared me for how solid this thing feels. So far I'm getting used to the different layout - time will tell if I end up liking this particular Alice layout or not - but so far, so good.
Never had a keyboard that could double as a melee weapon before - always wondered why people ooh'd and aah'd over custom weights on some of the more custom boards. Nof sure if it's that big of a deal for me - I've survived 53 years without it so far - but it is nice in use.
I'm brandy-new to the whole HRM thing, giving them a very basic test run on my laptop (just the GACS modifiers on the home row) . So far, so good.
One question that came up is this: when using HRM with a 'standard' QWERTY keyboard like this... what do you do with the 'old' modifier keys? Ignore them? Map them to something else? Is there one approach that is more common than others?
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So... recently acquired a 750, and so far have it set up and working for .223 Rem, for 'blaster' ammo. Next up, what I really got it for, speeding up brass prep a bit.
On my 550B, pretty much anything in the same family as a .308 takes the same shell plate - #1 (13692). 6.5 CM, .260 Rem, 6.5x55, etc. I assumed that was the same thing for the 750... but that doesn't seem to be the case, according to Dillon's manual. The .308 takes shell plate #1 (13204), but the 6/6.5CM, .260 Rem & 6.5x55 calls for shell plate '6.5' (16545).
What's the difference?
I realize the way the case rim sits 'in' the shell plate on the 650/750 is different from the way it sits 'on' the sub plate on a 550... but with the exception of maybe the 6.5x55 Swede, they all have the same case head diameter, and nominally, the same rim thickness. So what gives?
Thanks!
Trying to get spacemacs up and running today, but I keep bumping into issues where it says Error (use-package): Cannot load evil-collection
...which makes spacemacs decidedly less useful!
Elsewhere in the errors buffer I see this message:
An error occurred while installing evil-collection (error: (file-error https://melpa.org/packages/evil-collection-20260605.255.tar Not found))
Haven't found much specifically on this particular problem on the wider internet, though I saw some related items that seemed to imply it was an intermittent issue with MELPA, and to just "try again later".
I'm pretty sure the time/date on my laptop is current/correct, I've tried updating the packages manually, deleting the .cache directory and letting it repopulate, deleting the entire install and starting over... always running into the same issue.
Ideas? How would one tell if it is an upstream problem, or not?
ip address + port
172.104.26.4:4003
I've got a mini-PC (Beelink S12) hooked up to a smart TV (Amazon Fire) in the camper. Everything seems to work fine... until it's time the next day to fire things up again. At that point, the TV shows "no input" on the hdmi port. But if I ssh into the box, it seems to be running normally.
Previously the box was running LibreElec + Kodi (with the same problem) but the underlying Linux system was a bit too bare bones for my tastes as far as troubleshooting. So now it's got a minimal install of Debian Trixie + XFCE, and Kodi.
Some of what I've seen online suggested using `xrandr` from the command line to switcb the resolution, and then back to spur the display back to life. But when I run any version of the xrandr command, I get 'display not found'. And when I do reboot the system via ssh, the display suddenly comes to life... but showing the kind of info scrolling by that you'd normally see when shutting down from a command line only system. Then when it boots up, it comes right up into the expected X11 / lightdm login manager.
Almost seems like the Xserver is crashing out, or is otherwise unresponsive. Seems a little weird that I got the same problem with both LibreElec *and* Debian+XFCE.
Any thoughts on how best to proceed with further troubleshooting this?
Any thoughts on how
I'm planning on getting a 750 in the next few weeks... and I have a particular question about the primer slide system. I've seen a fair bit of discussion about how it's completely different from the rotary dial system on the 650, and more akin to the setup used by the 550 (which I do have, a 550 'B').
The single biggest PITA I had with the 550 has been with that priming system, and the tendency for the slide to hang up ever so slightly then snap forward, resulting in the primer flipping either fully or partially in the cup.
There's a number of different extended primer slide plates out there to remedy the problem on a 550 - but I'm not seeing any for the 750.
Did Dillon change the way the slide is supported just enough to where it's no longer an issue on the 750, or am I missing something else here?
Recently backed up my laptop (Fedora) by both a full clone (rescuezilla) of the nvme drive, and using vorta to backup my user files to a local NAS. Then I did a full install of CachyOS, and so far everything seems to be working as expected (mostly). One of the exceptions is that when I fire up Thunderbird, it refuses to see any of the existing files in ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird, and wants to set up a whole new hierarchy in ~/.thunderbird and/or ~/thunderbird (it created both directories, for some reason).
Is there a way to force the new install of Thunderbird to look at the existing data where it sits, under ~/.var/apps/, or do I just need to copy/move the existing data to the new folder(s)?