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It wasn't anything big that caused me to switch. It was just a general feeling of "oh, maybe I'll switch" and annoyance at Windows, and then I got a new SSD.

What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Here's a few of the micro-hacks that I've hacked up in the past.

A 2-line script to chroot into Debian when logging in as a certain user on FreeBSD.

#!/bin/sh  

clear  
doas chroot /linux /bin/login

I didn't have an IDE, so I just made a script called ide which runs Vim, and then compiles the code and makes it executable.

#!/bin/sh
#Works only for C
vim $1.c && cc -O3 -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused-result $1.c -o $1
#MODE=`stat -f "%OLp" $1`
if ("stat -f "%OLp" $1 | grep -e 6 -e 4 -e 2") then
	chmod +x $1
fi

This thing, called demoronize, which does what it says in the comments

#!/bin/sh

#dos2unix -O -e -s $1 | sed 's/    /	/g' | sed 's/“/"/g' | sed 's/”/"/g'
cat $1 | sed 's/    /	/g' | sed 's/“/"/g' | sed 's/”/"/g'
#Convert DOS line endings to Unix ones and add a final newline if there isn't one,
#replace sequence of 4 spaces with tab,
#and replace "smart" quotes with normal ones

I just keep those ones for historical value, but there's one hack I use every day. My keyboard doesn't have a function key (Fn), so I use the Super/Windows key instead.
I have xdotool keyup Super_L keyup Super_R keyup F4 key XF86Sleep bound to a custom keyboard shortcut. It unpresses the keys used for the shortcut (Super + F4), then presses the sleep key.

What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Damn Taskbar is gold

What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is unclutter?

what should we call cake day? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And your first pet's name, and your social security number

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Is it good practice to run a system without a syslog daemon? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I'm using Arch or another minimal distro, is it a good idea to install a syslog daemon? Or can I go without?

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Do all DEs store the trash in the same place? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Cinnamon and LxQt, the trash is in ~/.local/share/Trash. Is it the same for all desktop environments?

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Dark Reader extension doesn't work (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that the dark mode setting is disabled by Resist Fingerprinting. I am not using that, I am using the Dark Reader extension. The extension still doesn't work, but it works on Firefox.

Other extensions I have installed: Ublock Origin, Decentraleyes, Skip Redirect, Onetab, Old Reddit Redirect

Librewolf version: 124.0.1-1

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Looking for a simple, time-based night color control (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to be on KDE. It had night color control integrated. Then I switched to XFCE, and it did not. So I installed Redshift.

Oops! Redshift requires location access so it can automatically set the color temperature based on the sun's position in the sky. Now it doesn't work when the network is deactivated. And on my system, I can't set it to redden/bluen based on the time only.

I go to AlternativeTo, to find an alternative. It looks like all of them do the same thing, or are discontinued.

Is that what everyone wants? Is that all that's out there? Just ""smart"" programs that access your location to automagically change the colors based on astronomical events?

Even on Windows you could set the night color control based on the time. Am I living in a backwards world where Linux uses the invasive complicated way and Windows uses the private simple way?

Is there a simple program out there that can set night color control with only the time, none of that other crap?

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Evil Flag/Flag of the Enemy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made these to be a flag of evil or a flag of the enemy. Can be used for fictional Obviously Evil countries or for aggressor aircraft. Which one do you like better?

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KMail reading pane [SOLVED] (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How do I get the preview pane in KMail to stay the same size? I can resize it, but whenever I restart the app, the preview pane is back to the default size.