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I look forward to the day that Synapse is deprecated in favor of Dendrite or Conduit.

I'm pretty sure both are possible in xkb. But you'll have to learn how to get a custom xkb_keymap into your DE of choice. I only learned enough to do one mapping:

    
xkb_keymap {
    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
    xkb_types     { include "complete" };
    xkb_compat    { include "complete" };
    xkb_symbols   {
        include "pc+us+inet(evdev)"
        key  {
            type= "TWO_LEVEL",
            symbols[Group1] = [  Multi_key,                Caps_Lock ],
            actions[Group1] = [ NoAction(), LockMods(modifiers=Lock) ]
        };
        key  {[ Escape ]};
    };
    xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)" };
};


  

This remaps Capslock to Escape, Escape to Compose, and Shift+Escape to Capslock. Not what you want, but hopefully this will give you a starting point to playing/breaking xkb.

Another benefit of doing this with xkb: it's now a separate codebase from X.org, and is used in every Wayland compositor I know of.

My Linux review: 10/10, would recommend, but would not install for someone and let them use it for the next 5 years.

I learned Fish by helping someone else in a chat. There's a lot of cool things, and I think it's an excellent shell. Fish is an excellent choice for a shell.

Zsh is a much more featureful language (with globbing/subscript/PE flags, native floating point arithmetic, the whole man zshmodules), which doesn't necessarily make it a better shell. But I like those features, and I find it to be a natural choice to write more complex programs which normally would be a code smell for Bash.

The plugin ecosystem for is much larger than Fish's as well.

Excuse me, OCI container, we're a runtime-agnostic family here.

With embedded terminal escapes? True evil indeed.

"Always configuring" isn't what Arch requires. It requires you to be tolerant of every so often dealing with a bug or two. Currently, the Arch-packaged version of Waybar has a regression which prints fractional seconds when using %T or %S specifiers. A tad annoying, and I could fix it by switching to waybar-git, where it's been patched. But that hasn't hit my threshold of annoyance, as I bounce between Sway and KDE.

The grub issue was a bigger deal, and while I knew how to resolve it (liveboot → lsblk and fdisk -l got me all the info I needed, then cryptsetup, mount -o subvol=@, arch-chroot, grub-install) the EOS blog had a nice guide.

But the reason why I chose it? Firewalld and Pipewire by default, customizable welcome app, and pretty simple otherwise.

NixOS will probably fully convert me in a year or two, but I've greatly enjoyed my time on Endeavour.

As long as they're using standard Wayland protocols like xdg_toplevel::set_max_size/::set_min_size, I'm sure the rest of the ecosystem will be on-board for this.

Bryan Lunduke on /c/programmerhumor? Not what I expected, but okay.

If this becomes a Wayland protocol, then I'd love to see other desktops adopt it as well.

I could see a few classic TWMs use those hints, or at least expose them for users to script functionality.

Middle is Matrix and ActivityPub, right is Session, SimpleX, and Nostr

I was going to say "At least I can click 'Continue reading' and it actually goes away immediately" but actually, no. This is still enshittification, I've just gotten used to shittier versions of it.

I keep my phone on vibrate, because that subtle noise and motion is just enough to tell me that the button was actually pressed.

But if the default sounds aren't at that level of subtly, I don't want them either.

If you're asking for CLI or shell help in particular, I'm a mod at !shell@programming.dev and !commandline@programming.dev and we'd welcome it there. But those aren't as big as this community.

That it does, thank you! The highlighted +X indicator is appreciated as well.

Not sure what 11 is in the OP screenshot, but it's now Slide on place.

Fwiw, gitea has compatible actions. Not sure how compatible, though.

I have 350 items in my BW vault. I am not memorizing that many passwords, I'd rather use my brain for something else.

I'm a fan of this; it's how Slide handled it.

I also prefer Slide's method of collapsing comments; it only collapses the child comments, not the one you pressed on. (although it also has an option to collapse it too)