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JerwuQuon Ask HN: Always on low power home server

I run Alpine Linux in Diskless Mode on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Diskless means it loads the OS from SD-card into RAM on boot and then runs from there, preventing wear. I use USB for writable storage only for the (few) applications I run that require it. It suffices as a basic NAS and consumes very little power.

JerwuQuon Tmux Tutorial

I think another reason is because some people use Ctrl+a in bash for jumping to the start of the line.

JerwuQuon Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

Just downloaded it and I have some pretty specific/opinionated requests already :P

I like it when the config file is explicit - as in that there are no defaults outside of what is specified in the config file. This way it's very easy for a new user (like me) to edit things like keybinds, colors, etc. without having to basically recreate the default config to then edit it.

Also, since I'm an i3 user, I'd like if there was the possibility of navigating windows using directions instead of in a sequence, and to create layouts on the fly by doing splits and resizing. Maybe this is already possible by writing some code in the code though?

Nothing too important, but thought I'd voice my initial thoughts. Thanks for your work!

I'll go ahead and plug my dmenu equivalent[0], since that's also something I use when on Windows and which someone might find useful.

[0]: https://github.com/jerwuqu/wlines

JerwuQuon Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

Oh! This is the closest I've seen to what I want when on Windows. I run linux at home but Windows at work, so I miss i3 a lot. I've tried some other tiling WM attempts for Windows before but none of them have worked very well...

I'll definitely give this a try!

JerwuQuon Psytrance Guide

I love the fact that there are a couple of inline music samples for each so you don't have to go look them up yourself or follow a link for each.

I'd very much like to see something similar for all the hardcore techno sub-genres as well.

JerwuQuon Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron

Most solutions I've seen to this require some kind of external daemon to be running that takes care of launching ytdl for you (since most web browsers don't allow extensions to run arbitrary commands.)

Firefox _does_ have support for running this daemon-like-thing for you using Native messaging[0] though.

youtube-dl-firefox-addon[1] seems to employ this, so perhaps give that one a try?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

[1] https://github.com/akhilkedia/youtube-dl-firefox-addon