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minimilian··on Don't ignore the janitor
You're welcome.
minimilian··on Emacs: Mastering Eshell
What version? On 29.0.50 I get

    $ type type
    type: command not found
minimilian··on Emacs: Mastering Eshell
The type command seems to be missing.
minimilian··on Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
With the Arch Wiki and a little determination you don't need any prior knowledge of Linux.
minimilian··on No-one knows what they are doing
> Most of us who are running businesses had no real idea what they were doing when they started

Who are they?

minimilian··on GNU Guix System
When I tried this about a year ago, it wasn't possible to set up full-disk encryption with hibernation.
minimilian··on Short URLs: Why and How
It's also nice to stick to the original 14-character limit on Unix file names.
minimilian··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
Is there a way to check whether the jailbreak was successful? I followed all the steps, I think, but see no indication of success.
minimilian··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
OK, that gesture was really hard to do.
minimilian··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
I'm stuck at step 8. I can't seem to get the ``secret gesture'' to work, and it says `This demonstration device is either missing content or is disconnected from the network | CONFIGURE DEVIE'' and responds to nothing.
minimilian··on Making open source hardware design a reality
> there's some things we have to keep closed

Can you elaborate on the have-to part?

minimilian··on Framework Laptop Mainboard
When do you expect these computers will become coreboot compatible?
minimilian··on Using foot pedals for modifier keys in Linux (2014)
I've been using the Olympus RS31H for control (left), shift (right), meta (middle), and super (top), which is all right, but reaching the top pedal is a bit cumbersome, because one has to raise one's whole foot. (Beware that, although it works on Linux, MS Windows + further proprietary software is needed to configure this.) I imagine organ pedals would be better, but I haven't found anything promising.
minimilian··on Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK
Is my downvoted & dead sister so because she is false or because she spoke an unspeakable truth? Surely this cannot be one of those places where mentioning an offensive word (as distinct from using it) is considered offensive? @dang
minimilian··on Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK
What was the actual content of the tweet?
minimilian··on An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)
No, on a regular keyboard I regard 4 as corresponding to 7, since they are both pressed by the index finger directly above the home position. I see the numbers as split in odd and even between the left and the right hand.

75319 80246

minimilian··on An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)
Not sure what you mean, but don't you agree that, if we take 0 to come before 1 and not after 9, there's an asymmetry between the left and the right hand?
minimilian··on Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole
There is a significant difference in quality and feel between the models M and F: M is very stiff.
minimilian··on An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)
> 7531902468

I've been using this (almost) and had forgotten it was from the programmer's Dvorak, but surely it must be:

7531980246

Surely programmers start counting from 0 and use 0 more often than 8.

minimilian··on An AI designed keyboard layout (2021)
Wonder how this compares to QGMLWB, which is also designed by a program.

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization

minimilian··on The Art of Plain Text (2015)
> The two most important ways to make your text easy to read are a short line-length and the copious use of paragraphs.

Where does this so broadly embraced idea, that two sentences qualify as a ``paragraph'', come from; and is there any evidence that writing in this way achieves anything beyond suggesting that the reader (as well as the writer) is illiterate?

minimilian··on Brand New Model F Keyboards
Model M is very stiff in comparison. I hated it and I rather like model F.
minimilian··on RISC-V is succeeding
Does this mean that we can have completely free computers soon?
minimilian··on Ask HN: Moscow Exchange
how illegal is this? how does one do it without X11?
minimilian··on Atomic Habits of Desire
``In the case of James Clear and I'' -- the implication being that it were grammatical to say ``in the case of I''.
minimilian··on Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
i used to have javascript turned off for a long time, but i've given up. you can't even search hacker news without javascript (for some reason).
minimilian··on Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
Do all new cars have software?
minimilian··on EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation
If that's the only reason for accepting ads, then they could be consigned to particular websites and stop polluting the world for the rest of us. Then, if you need something, you can go watch all the stupid ads.
minimilian··on EU Parliament pushes to ban ads targeting health, religion, sexual orientation
Because they pollute the world?
minimilian··on GNU Radio
You're probably talking about something else, but it took me a while to realize that many features are hidden behind a right (or is it middle) click.
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