What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

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Unread post by simgin » Tue Nov 10, 2015 1:17 am

^ How old is the Chromebook? First time that I have heard that Crouton breaks at every update.
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Unread post by maso » Tue Nov 10, 2015 4:16 pm

^^
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Unread post by noo_b_nomnoms » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:14 am

I am running Cream. FVWM-Crystal is my goto out of the wm's, but I play around with all of them.
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Unread post by vic » Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:38 pm

Too goddam much to choose from!!! Much easier with the just one choice OSes. :D
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Unread post by franksinistra » Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:36 pm

Lately I've been having some issues with my pinky, my sweaty palms, and my wrist hence i am willing to invest a lot of time trying anything that might help.

Long story short, i bought used Microsoft natural keyboard, rubbing hand sanitizer whenever my palms starting to sweat (you might noticed it in my EDC post), and learning alternative keyboard layouts. Hoping it'll alleviate some of the issues.

I decided to pick Colemak as my daily driver. Went cold turkey since 4 days ago. It's been excruciatingly painful, especially in adapting my dotfiles. Typing speed is pretty embarrassing too. I only got 22 wpm on average in gtypist.

For some reason i can't explain, the damn palms don't sweat as much as when i use QWERTY. I think I'll keep this...
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:28 pm

*Cough* EMACS *Cough*
oh you're nearly as good as me on normal keys :p
need a vented keyboard or something. get a USB aircon for your hands?
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Unread post by franksinistra » Tue Jul 11, 2017 3:26 am

^ I'm at 47-50 now... so slightly better than you, right? ;P

that's a great idea, i should get one of those usb aircon. Emacs might've been a significant factor too.... I've been using evil-mode (*gasp*), a vi like emulation mode for emacs about a month (since before moving to colemak), now i adapted its config to colemak as well. It's pretty good, and definitely helps. :)
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:33 am

That's good, i dont think i'll ever be able to remap my brain to use another keymap, let alone using vi commands in emacs.
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Unread post by GekkoP » Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:30 pm

This topic tracks all my history from CrunchBang till today. Wow, amarcord moment.

Anyways, only using 2 PC at the moment:

- the already praised HP media server with Debian Jessie and all I need to get/stream films over my network
- the Dell XPS 13 wit Ubuntu 16.04 with all I need to work everyday (usual suspects: Emacs+CIDER, Opera+devtools, ...)

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Fri Jul 14, 2017 12:13 pm

^ did you get it as a work laptop?
still on my mess of jessie gnome and i3
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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jul 14, 2017 4:14 pm

^ Yes, both work and main machine actually.

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:44 am

I meant more - did your current employers buy it for you?
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:44 am

^ that's a bit nosy, you don't have to answer that :D
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Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:47 pm

^ No worries. I bought it myself, to be honest. :)

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:13 am

I'm just jealous :)
although I frikkin' love my X1 to bits. has not had anything (other than my fuckups) go wrong with it, kids walk on it (with i3lock on) and gets crap spilt on it, works out on the patio, on the bed. runs at a tranquil 0.06 load most of the day.
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Unread post by franksinistra » Mon Sep 04, 2017 5:25 pm

Last week, i ran the ME_cleaner ( https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner) on the Gigabyte Z87 and the H97N, truncated the OEM bios size as well. No more /dev/mei!

Using both internal and external (pomona + rpi) method, all works well.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:20 am

^ sounds fun...
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Unread post by noo_b_nomnoms » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:08 pm

I'm still running this old Lenovo T500 with two external drives velcro'd to the lid, lols,
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Lunchtime is perfect- I feel no need to do any more tinkering with it. I can do just about anything I want to do with it. So if I need something absolutely done, Lunchtime is where I go.
I have got to get the money to upgrade RAM, though. 4GB just works it way too hard.
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:30 am

Haha. 4 GB RAM is what I use and it was a nice upgrade from 2 I had previously. :)

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Unread post by franksinistra » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:30 am

^ This. On my x230 i rarely go anywhere above 1.5GiB of RAM usage, save when running Chrome on multiple tabs or uhh Expo/Genymotion. 8 is the right number these days, but i can do with 4 or even slightly less.

^^ I would get an extra large SSDx, rather than RAM on your case. :)
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