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Which web browser to use?
After I had updated Brave browser on my computer last week, the browser couldn’t start any more, freezing and consuming processor time on startup forever without displaying anything. A few days later, I’ve found the problem occurs when vertical tabs are enabled. Apparently, there is no real quality assurance at Brave and there was no…
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Turris Omnia 5G kit
My recommendation: Don’t buy it. Buy instead any 5G device that can be connected to Turris as (another) WLAN. It’s likely to be easier, cheaper, with better connectivity and, most importantly, working.
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Software problem: LSP not working with clangd on NixOS
It took me quite a while to find out how to make Language Server Protocol working with C/C++ on NixOS. clangd couldn’t find any standard header files and complained that “pp file not found”. The trick to make it working is adding clang-tools to nativeBuildInputs in shell.nix. To make clang compiling the programs on the…
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The most appreciated piece of code I’ve ever written
Some people like CamelCase. Some don’t but they still have to deal with it. So I once wrote and posted a utility that displays UnreadableIdentifiers properly, as Unreadable_Identifiers. The reactions were surprising. rms said the utility “is bizarrely creative”. Several people sent me thankful e-mails. And it is pleasing to see that even more than…
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File synchronization
I was looking for a way to synchronize files on my devices. My devices are of different kinds (GNU/Linux, OpenWRT, Android) and I have several folders to be shared with different sets of devices. I could find three basic tools that could be useful for the purpose. Available options One of the obvious choices is…
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Fixing, fixing
This blog has been silent for a year and even unreachable for some time. One of the primary reasons is that I spend a large portion of my life fixing things. Not because of my choice but because so many things I use don’t work as expected or at all. I have little remaining resources…
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Moving from KDE to Emacs
When I started using EXWM, I thought that using it together with KDE would be the best combination. But then my Plasma configuration self-destructed by chance, I had to recover it from backup and I started thinking what and how much I actually need from KDE exactly. The basic principle is simple: Things are easier…
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Emacs interface to PipeWire
I couldn’t find any Emacs interface to PipeWire. So I wrote one.
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More fun with EXWM
I have recently started using EXWM, an Emacs window manager. It’s very useful as a window manager itself but it also provides additional functionality and opens new possibilities. Starting EXWM automatically in KDE EXWM allows, similarly to other window managers, replacing an already running window manager. Now I’m confident about it enough and start it…
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Using EXWM
I sometimes miss useful things. For example, many years ago, I missed emerging Org Mode, not recognizing its potential, only to discover some years later how essential tool it is. And the same happened to me with EXWM, an Emacs window manager. I’ve always thought that making a window manager in Emacs is a crazy…