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joooscha··on A key remapping daemon for Linux
I used this to remap the space key to be a modifier key and thought it might be useful for some.
joooscha··on Never disable Google Play protect
I was wondering what you think about this. I have it disabled because it always flags the f-droid store. It's also very annoying when disabled, because it keeps asking to enable it, which is often a good sign that you actually don't want it.
joooscha··on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
At least for a tikz equivalent, I found cetz [1] to be very useful. I am not sure how it compares feature-wise. But I could easily build some graphs with it.

The one thing that really makes me excited when using Typst is that I find it very intuitive, meaning the time between not knowing how to do a certain thing and me being pleased with the result is much shorter with Typst compared to latex.

[1]: https://typst.app/universe/package/cetz/

joooscha··on NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki
The next big problem with NixOS documentation is that there are a lot of smaller tutorials scattered around the web. Every page with a different style, focus, and depth.

What we need is one central wiki, where any problem search can begin. This is what makes the Arch wiki so great.

joooscha··on NixOS Wiki – the unofficial user wiki
One big issue with the NixOS wiki is that the maintainer of the web server is unresponsive for a long time [0]. Therefore, the wiki software is really out of date and using the page editor is a real pain in the butt [1].

I tried to write more for the wiki while learning things about NixOS. But it's so annoying to make changes that I eventually gave up.

I really like NixOS and Nix in general, it just lacks a central and organized, community maintained documentation like the Arch wiki. So, I hope either the maintainer will eventually become available again (unlikely IMO) and update the server, or we could mirror the current wiki on a new server.

[0] - https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/46

[1] - https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/40