Something has changed

All of the sudden I'm having the status bar of i3 show me stuff. I don't know what I did. But ... oh my. My head.


I mean - "bricked" is a good word for how it feels, though the term already means something that ... isn't really what I feel like. But yea. There's possibly only so much information one can handle. The thing is ... yea. Say ... curiosity, experience and ability ... are three that are having an effect on "the whole" - and so, the end-feeling is a relative byproduct and not really an absolute measure.

So, I installed some new stuff - uninstalled some old stuff - and am along the lines assembling a document to summ up all the important stuff with cheat sheets and such. qmmp ... is nice. I thought of using vlc for audio ... but well.


The main part is that I've been settling in. Right now I also only have the meta account - and I'm mostly just trying to set things up but yea, the noggin. And, it's weird just how much time passes while doing so. But yea. I'm also browsing around, writing things - so, also generally just using the system and ironing out some kinks I guess.


And yea. I like it. I mean ... just now. So, instinctively I opened sublime because that's what I was using all the time on Windows. It's pretty neat there - while Windows' own tabbing system allowed me to have lots and lots of windows open at the same time without cluttering the status bar. Then I was using two screens - while generally having certain windows contain certain things - and then eventually I ended up minimizing them ... I mean, normal window mode and then shrinking them until only the title bar remains. This is also a system I want to adapt for Lumberjack.

In Lumberjack, programs would be abstracted to a degree, the distinction being: Data Space and Application Space. So, a text-editor isn't the focus when text-editing, for instance. It's the text, where the text itself can be part of its own structure that text-editors have always struggled to keep up with. And operating systems just in general I assume. The thing is that when things like filesystem management and stuff are "offloaded" to their own thing, the programs that utilize them don't need to realize them themselves.

Anyway. So, in i3 I can't do that as easily. I haven't tried floating windows or anything yet. I have merely scratched the surface of it all. I assume in cinnamon it'd be easier, since cinnamon somehow also has a higher resolution. I mean, somehow i3 must have some hidpi shenanigans on or xorg has something to prove or whatever. But I've heard that i3 has some abilities and something about tabbed applications, to setup static workspaces. That'll be interesting, I suppose. But first I have to ... get other things sorted out.

However - now I'm using kate for my daeryabaar stuff. Well. I did also have Kate on windows, but I sort of forgot that I had it. I never needed it. I had all of my daeryabaar stuff in one single sublime window. And yea. When not coding for a while - windows has this thing where the windows slightly move every time. So, they'd clutter up in the corner - and maybe that too could actually be a feature. In a more controlled way however. On and off I'd close some windows, sometimes one didn't mean to close - then start from scratch, one window, two, three, four and so on.
And now I have to get used to the fact that I shouldn't use win+q when using sublime, or I should see to it that I ... well ... in this instance it should be sublime and other programs that follow the main interface, but I also start having ideas of how to optimize that. But - ... one step at a time.

Anyway - applied on the introduced concepts, the thing is that kate and sublime work slightly different from one another. So, at the heart they're a text-editor and if that could be sublime that would be fine. (WHoah! Those DMX remixes ... they're dope! (Greatest Hits With a Twist)). What's different is their framing. When it comes to the "frame" of sublime ... yea. The shift+p to change syntax is a quick learn and it works. But the whole project management side ... yea, that's where my Qt brain goes urgh. But then when it comes to Konqueror - I mean, there it's a bit much. I mean ... that alone makes me dislike it as a (web) browser.
And it's a reason to maybe pick evince instead of okular. I mean - I don't know what to expect out of a PDF viewer - but I'm not as deep in the matter as that I'm feeling like dealing with eye-jank here. I mean, I love me some linux eye-jank here and there ... but yea. So, other than being somewhat pleasing to the eye ... I don't know what I'd want. So ... anyway.
I suppose I'll use vivaldi. 400 megabytes tho. Well, it can view pdfs itself. Nice! I mean ... it's one of those things. Like, the guy-looking-after-the-other-woman meme. But then it's like ... too good to be true? And then it's like James Bond in the brain although ... at that point I might as well put on the tinfoil hat and live in the forst. Or not. I mean, it's a bit extreme - but ... it's ... how it is. On the one hand we have no issues trusting those who are "very concerned about our privacy" with all of our shit, but when people actually give you something we're "very concerned about our privacy" - like now it's a bad thing. It's ... weird? I mean, for some reason we believe that big tech "would never" - do the things we then somehow worry those "too good to be true" freebies to be doing. I mean, someone has to do it! I mean, not that someone has to do it, but ... as it is being done there has to be someone who done did it. So or so. Or is that too just ... fairy tale?
Download size is like 30MB. What? Je ne understand pa.

Fiery is weird. I mean ... what's up with that? I mean, maui is really not coming around with the great impressions. I mean, I like it - but it's like ... it kind of doesn't work? And yea, I previously downloaded a few things and they're not in my downloads folder. Some files I downloaded are there. So it just ... pseudo downloaded them? That's ... bad! I mean ... I hated it when android did that with my photos. They fixed it, but for a while I had to double check whether it actually copied them or just "pretend finished" copying them.

And yea. The thing with those AUR packages is - they're ... not built for Arch. Or with Arch. And nobody bothered to somehow adequately import them. I mean, it's like way back ... when I used borland c tools and wrote some shit. Getting that into linux would be possible, but ... problematic still. The issue is that we want source code. And we want it to compile on our systems. And so, when installing librewolf for instance ... I was a bit shocked to see that it'd require like 500 megabytes in framework downloads, essentially. And that's where I'm like ... ouch.

But yea, meanwhile the whole nerd-fonts package is 10 gigabytes.

So yea, I'm potato computing. But it's a 64 bit multiprocessor potato.
But yea, 400 gigs on board, and like 5 terabyte external. And I kind of need more.
But not much. I mean - the point is somewhat mute. I mean, I'm prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse - to say, I could provide entertainment for as long as the machine works and electricity is there. Then we'd pool together maybe somehow - but ... that's an American fantasy I suppose.


We're doing civilization over here. I hope.

Yea, what's there to say? Aleja Jacta Est.


But yea. I'm loving it. Is what I meant to say. Ah, yea. Kate. So ... what we have here is more so a project manager than a text editor. Technically a front-end of sorts, which then falls short in as much as I fall deeper. So ... I'm pleased.

I mean, it works right now. I have one interface ("sublime") for coding and another one ("kate") for other text. Which is clumsy - but there's only so much I could be working on anyway. At long last I could always create new users for a customized environment.

And yea. The longer I look at them, the less I care about the folders being blue.


Dabadee dabadai.