Well that’s easy to remember!

I can imagine that getting confused with Guix (pronounced geeks)

I’m sorry, my goal wasn’t to be a bother. My initial comment was intended to be friendly and funny - I’m not trying to patronize or be antagonistic. I learned a couple of years ago that I have autism, so I should have learned my lesson by now and stopped trying to be funny; It never pans out the way I mean for it to.

Hope I wasn’t too much of a drag on your day, and I hope it gets better for you.

With that said, a genuine question with no jokes: Can you help me understand how 2016 counts as recent, given the context? It was almost a decade ago, and I’m having trouble comprehending how it counts at all as recent since in tech “recent” usually means “in the last 2-3 years” unless you’re comparing to something from a much longer time ago like the 90s.

It was a lighthearted jab at calling 8 years ago recent; Not a political statement about Apple or operating systems.

8 years is a ton of time in tech, CPUs from 2016 are ancient. Single-core CPU performance has doubled in Intel’s laptop chips since then, and modern laptop CPUs from Intel are often 12-core, versus the top end 2016 MacBook Pro having 4 cores.

Not trying to start any fights, was just poking fun at the choice to call 2016 recent

I can read, and a 2016 MacBook pro is not even a bit recent; It’s from 8 years ago :-)

Just a bit of light-hearted leg pulling, nothing to get worked up over

I hate to break it to you friendo, but 8 year old hardware isn’t recent. It may still be usable, but that doesn’t make it recent. It’s ok though grandpa, let’s get you back to bed

The dual GPU problem has actually for the most part also been solved; Optimus rarely poses a problem these days

Always fail soft in underlying code and hard in user space IMHO

A single git command can get everything for split repos if you use submodules

I just use discord in a browser on my machine. Cant stand the desktop client.

F-keys!

That’s pretty much what I do as well. It was an absolute game-changer for me when I discovered tiling WMs some ~7 years ago, because it meant super consistent keyboard shortcuts for getting to exactly what I wanted to interact with. I know where individual apps/tasks go, so I put them there. And then when I need to switch to them, it’s as straightforward as Super+[workspace].

Also helps a ton that i3wm’s workspaces only take up a single monitor at a time, which makes it excellent for jumping between monitors.

None of this is set in stone, but I usually follow a relatively consistent pattern:

Center Monitor

• 1: Primary/“serious tasks” web browser
• 4: Any remote or virtualized desktop I might have open at the time
• 6: Image/video editors. Also sometimes just misc usage.
• 8: Development web browser next to neovim
• 9: Steam/games
• 10: Misc. Often a DBMS or file manager
• 11: Misc. Often where I put any secondary tasks or second projects I need to reference
• 12: Misc. Often where I’ll stick any long-running tasks that I just need to check on every now and again.

Left monitor

• 2: Music/comms/task list

Right monitor

• 3: Always only a terminal.
• 5: Text editor to use as a
• 7: Secondary/“wasting time” web browser

before the what, op?

BEFORE THE WHAT??

sweats, knowing a time-traveler in our midst refused to tell us about the coming copilocalypse

The context menu or right-ctrl key, probably

yeah it’s almost certainly gonna be bound to Super+C, the existing keybind for copilot

screen doesn’t scroll

Screen (and any other muxer) can scroll just fine. You just have to learn how to do it in each one. Tmux, for example, is ctrl+b [ to enter scroll mode.

mistyped file operations

Get a good TUI file manager. I use and recommend ranger.

Seems like this is a bug: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1427695/how-to-make-snap-firefox-use-locally-installed-fonts

Ok legit I’ve been writing terminal applications for years and seen this everywhere without being able to find it. Thanks!

disapprobation

TIL a new word. Thanks, stranger! 🙂

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