From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2024-04-13, Richmond wrote:
> I don't write things down despite thinking that I
> should. Occasionally I will put things into keep.google.com
> but then forget that I put them there. I can re-install
> linux from scratch in less than an hour, but all my tweaks
> are gone, and I have to rediscover them piecemeal. But
> many tweaks don't work anymore anyway because they have
> either become unnecessary or things have changed so much
> they don't work.
I got tired of worrying about remembering and installing
tweaks, and so came to embrace the relative simplicity
of defaults. Also, per "actual content creation" (above),
I'd come to a point where I couldn't discount the possibility
that tweaks might have become a procrasinatory distraction.
I also came to not mind rewriting utilities. Those I use
most are fairly simple, and thus easily recreated. And
doing so helps keep my Lua skills honed. For example,
I've already forgotten what the modulo operator is (it
might be a function, actually...? SEE?!??!! :-) ).
I rather like the idea of possessing within me the ability
to take a new system to, say, 95% of maximum productivity
for my needs without any external documentation.
I get a kick out of looking back at older scripts (in addition
to my "bin", I have a "bin.obsolete" directory so older crap
isn't constantly in the way), because it reveals past utility
obsessions. For example, I know I went through a huge "tee"
phase, but not can't even remember what it does.
Ah.... right.... :-)
I love "ls -lt", so somewhere along the line I created a
script called "lt" that does that. I'd not be lost without
it, just typing unnecessarily a lot more. :-)
> Here I have two linux systems (Debian, Opensuse) installed
> dual booting so if one goes toes up I can use the other. I
> also have several spare computers where I can backup files,
> and also google drive.
I'd probably turn on an older machine while pondering what
to get next, and then several months later find the old
one was all I really needed. :-)
> I considered buying a chromebook but I wasn't sure if I
> could use Seamonkey, and I didn't like having no capslock
> key which most of the ones I looked at didn't have.
And is that because you like being in capslock mode a lot,
or is it bound to something significant in your emacs
(or another app?) environment?
I ask, because in case you didn't know, "Search-Alt" ("Search"
is the key showing a magnifying glass icon) toggles caps on/off.
I accidentally get into "ALL CAPS" mode enough that I actually
have a thin strip of paper that says:
SEARCH-ALT CAPS LOCK
Scotch-taped to the surface Chromebook inner surface,
because if/when you can't remember that, trying to find
it can be quite challenging when uppercase keystrokes are
bound to seemingly life-altering functionality... so that,
for example, you're used to 'j' scrolling the browser
down, but 'J' is magically mapped to "switch focus
to the Terminal app, and recursively delete the $HOME
directory"... :-) (yes, an intentionally wild example..
I don't actually remember for "J" accomplishes in the
Chrome browsers, but I'm vaguely remembering it not being
pleasant... but maybe that's actually the Vimium extension
intercepting that keystroke....? Hmmm....)
(Which reminds me, I swear keyboard bindings tend to be
the most difficult Help topic to find... perhaps because
I'd so often sweated bullets while trying to find how to
disable CAPS ON on the Chromebook in the past....)
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