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@DJ5CW
The configuration can be complicated compared to others like mc or ranger, but it is very powerful.
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mastodon 4.7.3I like linux, radio (ham and broadcasting), and all kinds of science and technology.
Linux: using Hyprland / Arch on my "daily driver" computer. I also maintain a Nextcloud server (Debian) and fool around with Raspberry Pi's.
Ham radio: 100% CW (I hold CWops member no. 5).
I'm a retired software developer, factory worker, broadcast engineer, tractor mechanic, and other things.
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@amoroso Just a tty. We had terminals with a built-in 300-baud acoustic coupler. I would just dial the computer and stick the phone into the coupler.
I don't recall any video terminals on the PDP10; we had a few connected to an IBM model 50 that ran a locally written timesharing system.
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@amoroso I enjoyed using TECO on the PDP10 at the U. of Pittsburgh in the late 1960s. As a young person, I had no trouble remembering the
commands. Not something I could do today!
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@DJ5CW@social.darc.de
It looks great! Can you compare it to the 9A5N?
I am happy with my 9A5N and doubt that I will ever buy another key. But I can dream about it.
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@davidaugust
To be perfectly fair, they've been doing some bombing (well, launching) themselves.
Not to mention whacking some tens of thousands of dissidents.
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@thelinuxcast
Wrong. There is such a thing as objective reality, and the reality is that today's music objectively sucks compared to the 1960s.
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@thelinuxcast
There's taste in music but there are also things like originality and skills that are objective.
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@thelinuxcast Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, NRPS, etc. So many breakthrough groups. Yes, there are always imitators, but the 60s were a period of innovation that hasn't been seen since.
I discovered a neat thing for #linux window manager users:
rofi-polkit-agent-git. If you don't know, a polkit agent is the thing that pops up to ask for your password when running graphical applications that require administrative privileges.
This one uses the rofi Swiss-army menu function and so doesn't drag in a bunch of KDE or Gnome dependencies -- and looks right alongside your other rofi menus.
It's in the AUR.
I converted my Hyprland config to Lua! I wouldn't call it easy, mostly because I'm so old that I make a lot of dumb mistakes. Also I had a number of scripts that use Hyprctl, and I had to change the syntax there as well.
Now the only thing that doesn't work is clicking the workspace buttons in my Waybar. The Waybar workspace function doesn't work properly in the Lua environment. If anyone knows how to fix this, I'm all ears.
#linux #hyprland