I wheeze-laughed at “Ran out of keys to bind years ago, has to use pedals under desk to switch between layouts.”
Now I kinda want to do that.
Here you go. Grab your soldering iron.
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/16/foot-pedal-ups-vim-productivity-brings-ergonomic-benefits/
In Vim’s predecessor, vi, switching modes was easy, with the ESC key located neatly by the Q on the keyboard of the ADM-3A terminal. On modern keyboards, though, it’s a pain …
A simple trick in vim to alleviate the pain of reaching for the ESC key is using alt + l.
However, this may or may not work depending on the install. I don’t remember what exactly this keybind is for but on some systems I’ve seen it insert a special character. I’ve found it typically works with vim-enhanced and neovim.
I have switched ESC and Caps Lock for years now. It really makes things so much easier, but now I am the guy in that meme. At least partly: I struggle to find the ESC key on other people’s computers, but sadly I’m not 23 anymore.
It’s “setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape” btw.
I think the thing that saves me from doing stuff like this is that as I get older I’ve begun to hate extraneous cables on and around my desk. For the longest time I’ve stuck with cabled peripherals, but I think my next buy will be wireless in that department. Now if we could make this foot pedal wireless…
I went the opposite way, got sick of all the wireless stuff disconnecting, battery dying, or not working before the os boots so I switched to wired everything, I went as far as running a usb over ethernet extender to my couch area so I can have a wire keeb and mouse while gaming on the tv
I’d imagine setting this up should not be impossible: https://www.amazon.com.au/LEKATO-Bluetooth-Rechargeable-Wireless-Tablets/dp/B09CP8HLG4
Weaksauce. Everyone knows you configure at least one Vulcan-nerve-pinch dead-key chord that primes the following key chord to switch the layout.
Only half joking. I’m the guy with Ctrl-Super-Alt-Shift-Pause set to put the PC into Suspend mode.
Unrelatedly, I hope the meme name isn’t a dog-whistle of some sort, because that really would be weaksauce.
My favorite part of your suspend shortcut is that you can call it “hyper pause” and that describes both the shortcut and the action lol
The config file thing works better for NixOS, but the même is still very funny !
NixOS shills be like “your entire system is set up in one single file”.
They don’t tell you that the documentation looks like this:
NGL I was THIS close to actually looking into trying nixos out, I mean the concept is intriguing.
But after seeing that…
Honestly you should ! Unless you want to do crazy stuff you actually don’t need to learn the entire documentation.
I was able to setup full disk encryption with encrypted boot loader pretty easily, there are great tutorials out there. I’m going to figure out Secure Boot next.
The nice thing is that once you’ve managed to do something, it’s in your config forever. My main problem with Arch was the absence of rollbacks, and having to remember all the stuff you do when installing it that you inevitably forget before the next time your system breaks and needs a reinstall. There’s none of that with Nix, and it’s awesome.
I’d say it’s definitely worth it. I don’t actually use nixos itself, but I do use nix a lot. I have everything I need for work in a home manager configuration, so I can literally just install nix and load up my config and have all programs and configuration of said programs installed and ready to go (on any UNIX system). I started doing this since changing jobs means a new machine, and I got really tired of all of the inconsistencies between machines when bringing over my dotfiles, and having to install a bunch of packages I use every time I changed jobs.
I do want to make the switch from Arch to nixos on my personal machine eventually too, but I hardly spend any time on computers outside of work these days, unfortunately. But the great thing is that my home manager configuration can pretty easily slide right into a nixos configuration, which is what many people do.
This may be the longest single page I’ve ever seen. The scrollbar moves almost imperceptibly.
That’s the raw documentation. There’s plenty of other articles that are actually useful.
Isn’t it kinda sad that one has to rely on third-party articles to even understand the package manager/OS one wants to use?
This just makes me want to get into nix even more. Put configs in a git repo and build vms until you have the config you want, then update only when you’re doing something new. I use Arch btw. For desktop. Otherwise it’s a mix fedora, red hat, debian, Ubuntu, cent, bsd, armbien, openWRT, and a few others.
little off-topic but
postman hands him card reader
why does the postman have a card reader?
Oh lord that escape key bit is me
Sideline him by giving him a android phone with the paid nova launcher.
I don’t use arch, but this applies to my android habits.
Nova has way too many settings now, though.
I use gestures and look&feel and that’s about it. Custom icons here and there. Maybe my app drawer has custom folders, colors, tabs. And maybe my folders use custom gestures, transparency, and colors, and icons.
But that’s it.
On Linux I use the fuck out of custom aliases for basic commands like ls or grep or less - mainly for appearance.
This is the most useful alias to me personally: ls=‘ls -aph --color=always --group-directories-first’
