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arp242 / dotfiles

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Observed mentions: 2019-12-31 04:43:28 UTC to 2024-01-06 02:42:40 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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arp242·Jan 6, 2024
If you're one of those "give me a terminal or give me death" master race kind of person, then I have a little shell script I use for this: % tz US West 18:39 -0800 PST US East 21:39 -0500 EST UTC 02:39 +0000 UTC Ireland/UK 02:39 +0000 GMT West Europe 03:39 +0100 CET New Zealand 15:39 +1300 NZDT Current 02:39 +0000 GMT % tz 18:00 US West 10:00 -0800 PST US East 13:00 -0500 EST UTC 18:00 +0000 UTC Ireland/UK 18:00 +0000 GMT West Europe 19:00 +0100 CET New Zealand 07:00 +1300 NZDT Current 18:00 +0000 GMT I find it's pretty convenient anyway. https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...
In Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
arp242·Nov 28, 2023
> X-Windows is only free if your time is worthless. % ls -lh =craicwm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Sep 17 2019 /usr/bin/craicwm* This is my window manager; it's kind of a hacked-up thing I did myself for the craic. It works a bit different than many other WMs, and I spent a weekend or two on it and it's worked very well for my since. I last compiled it in 2019 (it's fairly large on account of being statically linked) probably to change some simple configuration thing. It's worked very well for me since. "I use my home-grown WM" is an uncommon scenario, but "I have some specific thing written for X" isn't (this is just a bit of an extreme variant of that), and neither is "I'm rather used to my current setup, and I'd rather not change". I have a bunch of other programs that have no clear alternative; I've written some myself, some are
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by others. Perhaps my favourite is my wm-scratch[1] script to quickly show/hide a "scratch terminal" or other windows like Firefox devtools. I will need to re-create all of that. I don't even know if something like wm-scratch is possible under Wayland (maybe, maybe not?) I know very few people who like X11 as such. In fact, I know no one who does, and never have. I do know a lot of people for whom X11 works "good enough", and don't feel like spending time changing things. If this is a new argument for you then you really haven't been listening, because this is what many people have been saying for years. As for systemd, my argument has always been "SysV init sucks, but so does systemd, and we have much better systems like daemontools". "SysV init sucks, so therefore systemd is the only possible answer" has always been one of the great fallacies of that entire discussion. [1]: https://github.com/arp242/dotfiles/blob/master/local/script/...
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