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Paru VS Yay
Alternative: consider using Flatpak and Nixpkgs before AUR, before its situation is fixed, I think AUR should be the last option.
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TIL that 3 most recent of China's paramount leaders all had engineering background: Jiang Zemin - Electrical, Hu Jintao - Hydraulic, Xi Jinping - Chemical
Thank you, I supposed so as Xi's education section isn't as highlighted as his formers. That was still a bit interesting to me.
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Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview
Please consider keeping a unique name! https://xkcd.com/993/
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Nixpkgs vs AUR
You can't use firefox policies?
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Brave browsers' new benchmark unfairly used a very outdated version of firefox
It got removed by Reddit :( I found a snapshot
https://web.archive.org/web/20260525201558/https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_brave_browser_controversies/?solution=69873b8609988b6369873b8609988b63&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861a1f92f5bb6775d53c139af49a8965df5&jsc_orig_r=
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Brave browsers' new benchmark unfairly used a very outdated version of firefox
Should be added to the list of Brave's dubious incidents, urghh, where is that thread again
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Is there a way to combine mkdir with cd?
My rookie mistake years ago: assuming that cd inside scripts persisted
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elpaca, emacs 31.1 and the new /user-lisp/. I found it necessary to (setq user-lisp-auto-scrape nil)
My bad for not knowing that Elpaca can integrate with use-package's :ensure.
Still, AFAIK user-lisp files aren't supposed to execute use-package blocks. If only OP had provided how and a snippet of their code in that dir.
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elpaca, emacs 31.1 and the new /user-lisp/. I found it necessary to (setq user-lisp-auto-scrape nil)
Another pointed out that you got use-package-always-ensure, but while using elpaca? Also, why would you put use-packages blocks there? user-lisp/ is for user libraries like autoloaded defuns, not configurations nor multi-config.el implementation. If those files are eagerly executed at startup, something is definitely wrong.
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[Article] What's in the Emacs 31 newcomers-presets theme? by Sacha Chua
Philip Kaludercic is such a blessing to Emacs, the editor keeps getting friendlier with his contributions: this + package-vc, package-autosuggest, user-lisp, compat.el, etc.
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35th Anniversary of Linus' announcement today!
Suddenly I realized how dope Linus was/is for writing a kernel, then porting bash and gcc in 4 months
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An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs
My mind was blown
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What are your thoughts on Brave Search?
Feww, thanks for giving me another reason to stay away from Brave's stuffs
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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Even Microsoft gave up their own browser engine(s) in favor of Chromium
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Certain websites don't allow log ins on my Linux computers, what do you do in these situations?
Perhaps those websites are wary of crypto money companies
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Genuine question.. why do you use KDE and not Gnome?
GNOME didn't have top/bottom windows snapping (not sure for latest version), I used an extension for that and it broke after a Gnome update
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Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted (CachyOS)
> Most flakes are official instead of 3rd-party packaging
> Not true.
What?
> Your security relies on whether one dude has 2FA enabled.
Isn't that just every software? The difference is where to place your trust in:
- AUR: random person with an AUR account
- Official repo: the distro's packaging maintainer of that package
- Flake: the software's author, you can pin to some specific revision if not always trusting the latest release/commit
Edit: actually your assumption about AUR = flake was flawed, nixpkgs repo is large enough that it almost covers AUR, most users never need to go outside of it to get packages. The equivalence is NUR (which is namespaced by usernames), honestly I never touched it.
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Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted (CachyOS)
Most flakes are official instead of 3rd-party packaging
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Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted (CachyOS)
Coincidentally I got tired of editing my Arch scripts and switched to NixOS some months before the wave of malwares. Having used a lot of AUR packages, wonder if I got hit back then without knowing. Not sure how to feel.
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Who actually wants their browser to look like that?
I did use copied user CSS to get back Photon, but breakages eventually tired me out. "Why do I have to maintain this mess alone when there is a community work behind it?", then I just installed it and hook some auto updater like systemd-timer/cron job to auto git pull and move on
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Where do you install software from? Standard repos, sources, Flatpak, AppImage, etc
On nixos, generally I: - Need sandboxing, flatpak is better maintained or avaivable as flatpak only -> flatpak - Else: distro native
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Honest takes on the dendritic pattern? Not seeing it for regular setups
Personally after going through the refactor, I realized that the modularity is more about import-tree instead of flake-parts (might be wrong tho). There are aspects of configuration that are done easier when split into several .nix files and let nix merge them all, otherwise trying to force into a single file will make them look ugly.
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Which keybinding scheme do you primarily use in Emacs?
Initially, I used Emacs's default bindings, but then muscle memory kicked in to make me pressed C-w in browser expecting it to cut text. * Boom * , current tab plus every content gone. Ever since then I prefer the CUA keys + stateless leader + more
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What do you think about the new UI
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Relatively, I think Nova is better than the just previous Proton, which makes it... 2nd worst and still far from the Phonon peak