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mssdvdon Emacs 29.1

What kind of new packages would spawn from the introduction of PGTK?

mssdvdon Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

mssdvdon Marginalia Goes Open Source

I think things like the personalized timeline and comments reactions may be considered toxic by some people.

mssdvdon The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

What are the main reasons for not shipping to other EU / EEA countries?

mssdvdon Safer Enums in Go

How come the authors did not want to add proper sum-types?

mssdvdon The case for induction cooking

For me the main advantage of induction cooking is that it does not heat the surrounding environment.

mssdvdon Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

eww (built-in browser) works well.

mssdvdon Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories

magit has a mode, magit-wip-mode, that can do what dura does (but it only works if you make changes with Emacs).

https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Wip-Modes.html

mssdvdon Giving Haiku Beta 3 a try

Yes, I do. It was merged to master a month ago.

mssdvdon Giving Haiku Beta 3 a try

On a side note, Emacs has been recently ported to Haiku.

mssdvdon Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance

I live in Italy and I often receive packages shipped from different European countries.

mssdvdon Avy Can Do Anything

If you are on sway you can do the same: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Typematic_delay_and_ra...

To see the default value use xset -q

mssdvdon PeerTube 4 RC

You don't need to update the config if you have the latest version of mpv (0.34) released one month ago.

mssdvdon Emacs Docs The modern documentation website Emacs deserves

Have you tried Info-index? It's bound to i in info buffers.

mssdvdon The Linux Distributions of 1992

They work fine only for SD contents. There are hacks that enable FullHD streams but they work only for Netflix.

mssdvdon GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

Many of those problems could be solved with a smarter git clone just like they did in this case. Is there any work on something like that that could be upstreamed to git itself?

mssdvdon Elementary OS 6 Odin

Gnome 40 can do the same.

mssdvdon Pen, a GPL Copilot for Emacs

You can also setup undo-tree to show a diff for every change.

mssdvdon Qutebrowser 2.0

It works well with pass.

mssdvdon Java 1.0 Turns 25

And many people consider python as a novel language

mssdvdon Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

And at the same time modern ui have much bigger element to accommodate touchscreens.

mssdvdon GNU Units

Try: units 3km miles

mssdvdon Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25557874

mssdvdon Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

The search in most application is an anti-feature.

mssdvdon Switching from Vim to Intellij

Can you explain why do you think Evil is so good? I'm an Evil user too and I'm happy with it but I fail to see why it is better than many vi clones.

mssdvdon EWW: Emacs Web Wowser

Have you ever tried LSP?

mssdvdon Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers

I just use a plain black background.

mssdvdon Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux

Nowadays systemd distros like Fedora and Debian are quite similar.

mssdvdon uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview

https://github.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls