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  • Luna@lemdro.idtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    I kinda just accepted that it exists. Governments literally have hardware-level backdoors in most consumer computers (Intel ME, AMD PSP, etc). There isn’t really anything you can do about that if you don’t want to cut off yourself from society. I will still pick low-hanging fruit of course, but most of my “opsec” effort is focused on not giving corporations any data




  • Luna@lemdro.idtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat desktop enviroment do you use and why?
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    2 months ago

    Gnome. I actually started with KDE. It’s a good DE, but it’s got so many options that I had choice fatigue. I constantly tweaked my taskbar instead of focusing on what I wanted to do. And it was easy to get it to a “looks broken” state

    When I tried Gnome, I fell in love with it. I love the unique workflow, lack of distractions, the modern adwaita design, etc. Everything felt so polished

    That being said, I don’t like how Gnome devs seemingly can’t agree on anything with other desktop environments. And I don’t like how they refuse to support server-side window decorations. Like, I agree with them that CSD are better than SSD, but it would be reasonable to support SSD for toolkits that haven’t/don’t want to implement CSD themselves, right?

    I’m excited for Cosmic. It looks like it combines the best of Gnome and KDE, and the devs don’t have the “my way or the highway” mindset











  • Luna@lemdro.idtoLinux@lemmy.mlTerminal Utility Mega list!
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    1 year ago

    I would add:

    cheat - a tool that lets you make and use your own cheatsheets

    gomi - replacement for the rm command that has a trashcan, so if you accidentally delete something important you can just restore it

    bat - modern cat, with features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc

    eza - modern ls, with cool features like file icons

    broot - a different than ranger/lf approach to navigating folders

    mdr - a markdown viewer

    Also, I think you should add a note that ranger should be installed from git because most distros package version 1.9.3 and that is 4 year out of date and has lots of bugs that have been fixed in the git master branch



  • Helix

    I’d describe it as “NeoVim for people who don’t want to spend time configuring it”. It has syntax highlighting (for pretty much any language you can think of) and LSP support out of the box. And the config file is just a TOML file. Here’s my current config for example:

    theme = "monokai_pro_spectrum"
    
    [editor]
    line-number = "relative"
    middle-click-paste = false
    
    [editor.statusline]
    mode.normal = "NORMAL"
    mode.insert = "INSERT"
    mode.select = "SELECT"
    

    That’s it. No need to deal with Lua or VimScript

    Also using commands after typing the : is easier than in NeoVim since Helix will show you a list of available commands and a description of the closest match (or the one you choose from the list with the tab key). It looks like this: Screenshot of Helix

    I use Helix for quickly editing files and coding