You might look at the title and be a bit confused. Doom Emacs? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Well, it’s a config for Emacs for martian “vimmers”, as the author claims. Yeah, I’ve got muscle memory for vi-type editors. Looking at Emacs’ default keybindings I suddenly get onset carpal tunnel. Doom Emacs is based on Emacs’ Evil-Mode, which replaces the crappy editor inside Emacs with something a lot more VIM-like.
I dislike spending lots of time setting up my desktop. I like to be up and running as fast as possible. I also like Arch linux, because it’s quite barebones and light and relatively cruft-free.
Because I like to get up and running fast, I’ve made some tools to speed up this process. Check out https://git.hackerheaven.org/ekollof/desktop-installer.
nerd-fonts-complete are really large and stress tmpfs. You don’t really want a desktop with less than that anyway.git sudo python wgetwifi-menu: dialog wireless_tools wget unzipI’m not going to go into installing Arch, that’s outside of the scope of this document, and it’s been documented to death already. So I’m not going to repeat that. I’m going to assume you’ve gone through this wonderful process, and have a working and booting system, with a root account, and a working internet connection.
As my previous post so joyously stated, my blog is now completely hosted over IPFS. This post will show you how I update my blog, and how I publish it over IPFS. Note that these are still manual steps, and I am looking into how to automate it all so I can just edit, commit and push and have all this done automatically without thinking.
Imagine that some hair-brained plan of mine fell through and I ended up with a metric assload of money. Most people wouldn’t have a clue what to do with it, but I would.
Since I dabble in audio engineering, I would love to make something like that my full time job or profession. And since I am naturally a generous person, I would like others to benefit as well.
So, what would I do? I would probably set up a Music Nexus. By the way, feel free to implement this yourself if you like, because the world could use lots of places like this. Hell, if anything, give me feedback. I would like to know if anything I mention here is in any way feasible.
Window manager and desktop environments. If you run a Unix-like desktop, you probably use them. Most people just use what comes with their distribution. They either run Cinnamon, GNOME or maybe even KDE/Plasma.
That’s fine. But I am a tinkerer, and I’ll be damned if I won’t tinker.
I do like KDE, but it is a big piece of bloat. So is GNOME. So is Cinnamon. Not that they are bad environments to work in, but they aren’t really efficient. They have swathes of code that isn’t even used a lot. I would be surprised if there wasn’t a whole damn heap of dead code in those projects.
I guess this comes up sometimes when I talk to people online. Especially religious people. But I think it merits a post on my blog, and my blog needs a new post. So this is me killing multiple birds with one stone.
So, when religion comes up, I do have to confess I am an Atheist. What makes me a bit different from your typical Atheist is that I am a natural one. What does that mean, really? Well, it means that I never actually grew up with a religion. The first time I encountered religion is when I was around 6 or 7 (not completely sure about that, it’s a long time ago), and that’s way too late for religious indoctrination. Which leaves my “religion”-module in my brain (of which the existance I am uncertain, but I heard there were studies confirming such a thing exists) pretty much unpopulated. I’ve filled in that void with LaVeyan-styled Satanism (I might devote a blog post about that) and a dash of occult esotericism and paganism, but it leaves me with one pretty significant downside: I really don’t understand religion.
I guess some of you noticed that I don’t post anything on Facebook any more. I guess you noticed right. I’ve deleted the facebook and messenger apps on my phone and removed it from my bookmarks. Note that I never said I deleted my facebook account. Because I didn’t.
So, how do I keep in touch? I’ve set up an XMPP server with some transports. I’ve set up transports for Facebook messenger and Google hangouts. Of course I also do raw Jabber (which I kinda prefer, because of OMEMO (encryption) for privacy). I can be reached at coolvibe (at) hackerheaven.org with any jabber client.
Yeah, those are a thing. At least they are to me. Ever since I’ve took an axe to most of the distractions on my phone (also known as notifications), I’ve been a lot more productive, and where I have not been productive, my slacking has become productive. While I’m not distracted by notifications from social media, I’ve been able to tend to projects that I had put off for half a year, if not more. Getting this done pretty much cut my hosting costs in half.
Hey folks,
As some of you undoubtedly have noticed, it’s been pretty quiet on my end. I haven’t been active a lot on social media. And I understand some of you might miss be a bit. So, to alleviate the confusion and to bring some peace of mind, I’ll update you about what’s going on with me lately.
I’m not dead. I’m also not depressed or in trouble. Far from it. I’ve been busy with life, work and music most of the time. Ever since I’ve stopped interacting with Facebook, I’ve regained some of my sanity. I’ve been missing interacting with some of you (which is an actual loss), and I hope some of you will venture to stay in touch with me outside of Facebook. I’m reachable via the ever-ancient e-mail (try ‘me’ at this domain), and I sometimes still shitpost on Twitter. I also have accounts on several alt-tech sites (Minds, Steemit, et al), and I sometimes post on there as well. Look for either Andrath or Coolvibe and you should find me. (there is also the possibility to comment below this post). Say hello!
