2020-12-30
Switching keyboard from French to US was easy (one just need to change the layout in Settings->Keyboard) save for one tiny, tiny little issue — frankly, an absolutely insignificant detail: LightDM, Manjaro’s logon screen mind you, persisted in forcing me to use a French keyboard to login. The bastard.
Solution? Open /etc/X11/xorg.
2020-12-30
I received it yesterday from banggood.com — ordered on Dec 19th, on sale at ~90€ — but I only unboxed and started playing with it this morning. And does this keyboard feels great to type on.
It uses USB-C (comes with both USB-C/USB-C and USB-C/USB-A cables). It uses Cherry MX brown switches (other options available).
2020-12-29
Here is the first post of what could easily become a series around Emacs, as I’ve recently began using it.
What is Org-Mode? At its core, Org-Mode is an extension that adds todo capabilities to Emacs, but it is much more than that: an agenda, a tool to create slides for presentations, an outliner, a tool to take and organize notes.
2020-12-27
Baloo — no, not this Baloo — is an indexing service that seems to come with some KDE apps on your system, whether you use KDE desktop environment or not. As far as I can tell, it was installed when I decided to try Dolphin, KDE’s file explorer.
The problem I have with Baloo is not that it’s a KDE service.
2020-12-22
London (William Blake)
I wander thro' each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
2020-12-21
Today was a long day.
2020-12-12
Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card-based method for promoting creativity jointly created by musician/artist Brian Eno and multimedia artist Peter Schmidt, first published in 1975 (…) Each card offers a challenging constraint intended to help artists (particularly musicians) break creative blocks by encouraging lateral thinking.