Ooh, custom shaders will let me properly dim inactive splits/windows - much better than my current solution which changes the alpha channel in a not-wholly-intended fashion.

Personally, I landed on using Kitty after…

• being a long time <whatever-terminal>+tmux user and getting sick of problems Ctrl+<char> or delete keys etc.
  • I addressed most of these but there was always gremlins and the whole stack felt hacky with tmux emulating essentially an entire terminal, inside another terminal
• I tried looking at tmux alternatives, but none seemed to entirely support fancier terminal features like graphics and have vim/tmux-like keybinds - looking at you ZelliJ
• I then started looking for a replacement terminal which would give me the necessary bits of tmux - splits, tabs, scrollback search & copy, vim keys. I don’t need shells to persist between logins/SSH sessions
• I landed on wezterm, easily configured in Lua like my Neovim, but it seems its not really got the attention of the original developer and gave the impression of falling behind on features, raising questions of security issues
• kitty was the only other terminal I could see largely offering the tmux-like layer out of the box, needing just a bit of config for vim/tmux-like keybindings and using Neovim for fancy scrollback features.

I’d love to know of alternatives to Kitty - the main dev’s attitude does leave me with some concerns, but he is a long time open-source developer with multiple successful and maintained projects, for now that keeps me onboard. It seems like he’s pushing forwards with new terminal features like multi-font and image support, which is interesting if nothing else.

Perhaps I should go look at herdr as a tmux replacement and use ghostty or Alarcitty, but I’m not so interested in the AI features.

Ace to see the confined development, I’ve used KeepasXC previously and will be happy to migrate back soon after a spell with Bitwarden - I don’t see enough value over Keepassxc & Syncthing

Does anyone here use Homebrew on Linux, if so what’s the motivation? I can see that you might what an LTS base and a separate package manager for userspace, but why not go the distrobox route - CLI apps?

Ace, its great to see so many significant performance improvements in the kernel lately

Colour me intrigued!

I’m not certain, but that looks like Stardew Valley to me.

This is looking like a really fantastic feature. Even with a remappable keyboard, there’s some limit to the number of layers and modifiers you can juggle without a GUI and this will be available across any/all keyboards used on the Plasma device.

The trailing slash is just following cp’s own special treatment

# before
dir/
    file1
target/
    orig.txt



# no trailing slash - copy *dir* to target
cp -r /path/to/some/dir /my/target

# after
target/
    orig.txt
    dir/            # dir copied to target
        file1



# with trailing slash - copy *contents* of dir to target
cp -r /path/to/some/dir/ /my/target

# after
target/
    orig.txt
    file1            # contents of dir

This is great news, I’ve never sat down and benchmarked the importing times (I believe theres a python -X switch or similar) but the more options the merrier!

You’ve opened a rabbit hole I know I’m just going to fall down… thanks netizen!

Setup Fedora woth Btrfs, Snapper and grub-btrfs

I followed this guide to setup snapper on fedora, not too much work involved.

I did initially try their guide on the above plus LUKS encryption but something was amiss in the boot process and I gave up on that rodeo for now.

Sounds like the book would be a great resource.

I’ve hopped out of electronics and now make a living coding in an adjacent area, but find myself working with colleagues that are happy approaching all tasks like a script.

Code reviews, coupling etc arent part of their vocab so in lieu of peer role models im on the look out for good resources thst aren’t just chasing the next buzzword.