Moondog wrote to Nightfox <=-
I remember back in the days when Windows needed a "swap file" on the hard drive to act as additional memory. Some performance problesm were solved by d isbaling that feature, deleting the swap file, then re-enabling it. I recall a company sold a ram disk card that could be configured to act as storage of the swap file.
Oh, the things we did when memory was measured in megabytes. ISA
memory cards barely faster than disk, RAM disks in EMS memory...
atroxi wrote to calcmandan <=-mpl
Re: Re: This strange world
By: calcmandan to paulie420 on Mon Jul 13 2020 06:40 am
These days I run Arch, usually with a flavor of KDE - but don't even boot into x. I find myself running startx less and less and less. :P
Me too. What are your daily tools?
For me it's tmux, emacs, fpc, emacs gnus, alpine, wordgrinder, fbi, fbgs,
ayer, lynx, links2, youtube-dl
Wow, I've also been leaning lately towards the same way. I find myself
in the terminal most of the time. Which is why I've been using a tiling window manager as it keeps everything as simple as possible.
Since my work usually involve text-editing, I just mostly use vim and latex. I tried emacs before but I feel like I'm being sucked into the emacs black hole, where my current tools gets slowly replaced by emacs alternatives, but I do find emacs so easy to port especially when you configure your config in org mode as compared to vim.
calcmandan wrote to atroxi <=-
atroxi wrote to calcmandan <=-
Re: Re: This strange world
By: calcmandan to paulie420 on Mon Jul 13 2020 06:40 am
These days I run Arch, usually with a flavor of KDE - but don't even boot into x. I find myself running startx less and less and less. :P
Me too. What are your daily tools?
For me it's tmux, emacs, fpc, emacs gnus, alpine, wordgrinder, fbi, fbgs,
mpl
ayer, lynx, links2, youtube-dl
Wow, I've also been leaning lately towards the same way. I find myself
in the terminal most of the time. Which is why I've been using a tiling window manager as it keeps everything as simple as possible.
Since my work usually involve text-editing, I just mostly use vim and latex. I tried emacs before but I feel like I'm being sucked into the emacs black hole, where my current tools gets slowly replaced by emacs alternatives, but I do find emacs so easy to port especially when you configure your config in org mode as compared to vim.
Yeah I made my bed long ago with emacs. Decided not to engage in the religious debate of emacs vs vim.
Daniel Traechin
... Visit me at gopher://gcpp.world
Atroxi wrote to calcmandan <=-
Yeah, that... religious war can be pretty rough sometimes. I also
prefer not to get myself involved in any zealotry when it comes to text editors. I always take the stance that: "I use what works for me!" and leave it at that.
Moondog wrote to Andeddu <=-
Desktops nowadays tend to be used for specific purposes. Unless you have a docking station for a laptop (which for most intents turns the mobile laptop into a non-mobile desktop device) a desktop allows for usage of multiple dispays and other devices that are better off being stationary.
A cheap docking solution is to simply plug in a keyboard, mouse, and the external monitor. They also sell docking adapters where you only plug in one or two wires and you get a complete set of docked ports (video, audio, network, keyboard, mouse, etc).
You no longer need a proprietary docking solution.
Especially now with USB-C: you can get power, video, USB, memory card I/O, all in one little dongle.
At home, I have the charger directly a usb + hdmi through my kvm at my desk, which does good enough. I'm using a single large monitor so it works well enough for my use lately.
calcmandan wrote to Atroxi <=-
Atroxi wrote to calcmandan <=-
Yeah, that... religious war can be pretty rough sometimes. I also
prefer not to get myself involved in any zealotry when it comes to text editors. I always take the stance that: "I use what works for me!" and leave it at that.
Yeah. Surprisingly, there was never a similar debate on wysiwyg editors
in the html web days. I suppose those days didn't last long enough.
Daniel Traechin
Atroxi wrote to calcmandan <=-
calcmandan wrote to Atroxi <=-
Atroxi wrote to calcmandan <=-
Yeah, that... religious war can be pretty rough sometimes. I also
prefer not to get myself involved in any zealotry when it comes to text editors. I always take the stance that: "I use what works for me!" and leave it at that.
Yeah. Surprisingly, there was never a similar debate on wysiwyg editors
in the html web days. I suppose those days didn't last long enough.
Daniel Traechin
Yup, probably. Imagine some emacs and vim guys have been duking it out since the 80s, that's intergenerational warfare I tell you. Haha!
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