pspinler

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[–] pspinler@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you switch the order of the toolbars, by any chance? Put the menu bar on the top again, followed by the tab bar, then the message toolbar ?

 

Hey,

My thunderbird client(s) just got updated to version 115, with the new UI. Personally, I dislike it, and find it disruptive to have all my toolbars moved.

Does anyone know if there's a way to revert to the old, pre ver 115 appearance?

Thanks, -- Pat

[–] pspinler@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to this. There's several talks I'd like to see.

[–] pspinler@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Ditto -- I've been keeping a central to me git repo for my settings for years. Any new machine I'm on 'git clone ; ./settings/setup.sh', then my pull'd .profile does a git pull on login.

 

For any other Terry Pratchet fans, you may enjoy this video of short book summaries:

[–] pspinler@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

As a Minnesotan, I, at least, welcome you. :)

I've had occasional SAD struggles, also. While there are purpose marketed lighting for this, FWIW, I found an off the shelf plant grow light from amazon for a couple hours in the evening while I was otherwise doing computer work helped me.

Good luck!

 

Can I please just get a car, instead of a rolling computer / infotainment / privacy nightmare?

[–] pspinler@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use org mode extensively, and yeah, gotta admit it's nice.

My biggest gripe is the amount of typing it still takes to annotate stuff. I often find it hard to keep up e.g. taking live notes in a class settings.

For instance, starting a new document and typing:

  #+BEGIN_TITLE
  Class XYZ Notes
  #+END_TITLE

Then later on I wanna insert a code segment, and, gotta:

  #+BEGIN_SRC javascript
  $var = "ooh, cool code, bro.";
  #+END_SRC

(yeah, C-c C-, s works, but I gotta remember that exists, and then also ewww generates in lowercase -- uppercase that shortcut output!)

And then I find I want a table, so lots of "|"s

There's probably better faster shortcuts for lots of this, but like everything in emacs, it's finding and learning them. Typically I need some downtime to do that, which doesn't happen if I'm e.g. trying to take notes quickly.

Anyway, despite this, I gotta agree org mode is really helpful. Happying org'ing to you!

-- Pat

[–] pspinler@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I use "terminator" -- it has a different visual appearance, but does a lot of the same features, and some I think better. For instance split screen in various ways, and input multiplexed and sent to multiple tabs / screens.

 

Mainstream news coverage of the fediverse, mostly mention Mastodon, but seems reasonably balanced.