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somegeek

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  • Is it me, or does Linux Mint have terrible file search?

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  • If you're a GUI guy, catfish is good. If you're a term guy, fzf, rg, fd are very fast and powerful. I search for files in / (meaning EVERYTHING) and tge results are there in less than 10 seconds.

    This blog post has some example usages, read the entries for fzf, rg and fd.

    https://alavi.me/blog/cool-cli-tui/#fd

  • Styling outbound links, yea or nay?

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  • I always do it. Getting thrown into another website forces you to switch context entirely, and also is a privacy and security right of the user to know they are going to be moved somewhere else.

  • Ubuntu spotted in the wild

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  • I dont know how these work, but why do they never use kiosk for these? They boot up a whole operating system with everything just to loop a video?

  • Open-source Discord alternatives

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  • Movim is also an option. Based on XAMPP.

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • Well... I am a very hairy nerdy guy. What does the collaboration workflow look like? The end result should be simple because my teammates aren't hairy nerdy guys :))

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Thank you! Sorry for the cloud error, the server's origin website is hosted in my country Iran, which is currently in a semi-blackout and very bad internet distruptions. Very sad.

    You might see the blog if you try a couple times more, I can see it with most VPNs.

    I completely agree with your points. I'm stating the same sentiment in the blog.

    I prefer GUIs for two things:

    1. Things that are inherently graphical (gimp, blender, etc)
    2. Things that I don't use very often, and the GUI is too simple to be bothered with a cli.

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • More power to you, share your experience

  • Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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  • Can silverbullet be used as a team knowledge base? Online collaboration and such?

  • Fedora now available in Syria

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  • Nobody likes to talk about how almost everything is blocked from Iran. Not just as of late, but for years.

    sanctioning intellectual resources and knowledge really must be illegal. I can understand it for proprietary things. But FOSS stuff being unavailable? That is pure hypocrisie.

    "No you're from a bad country you're not allowed to learn"

  • OpenCal – The Open Source Appointment Scheduling Platform

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  • This is quite vague to be honest. What does it do?

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Ooh thanks! I was really looking to forward to such additions!

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Totally agreed!

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Exactly. I'm on the exact same boat, the blog post is the proof! :D

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Yeah browsers are the main GUI I use. w3m is great for reading blogs and those types of things but like you say, not the best experience for most things. And we can't really blame it on them, the modern web is horribly written most of the time.

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Oh yeah that is a VERY BIG rabbit hole :))

    One hour only scratches the surface though. But I really like the git email workflow. It's so simple (not easy) and pure. If my colleagues could get on board with me I would definitely be using it at work.

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Great point. But to be honest I already have an emulator open 99% of the time. So there's no particular overhead for me. But I will include your point in the update. Thank you for your time!

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • And most of writing of gnu and fsf are a lot of words to say "free software good proprietary software bad" for example?

    That's why we write! :) When I say "I prefer CLI and TUI over GUI" I might need to explain why. And explain when a GUI might be a better option. I write these for myself and my friends and colleagues mostly. I just happen to share them on the internet :)

  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Well, I didn't exist in 1980s. So this is how I feel as a 2000s kid and current software engineer.

    I think good ideas are worth updating for new generations.

  • Are there any examples of 'perfect' software?

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  • I would say git, tex, sqlite, Clojure, Steel banks common lisp are some of the candidates.

    Perfect doesn't meen "not any bugs fixes or features needed" to me. I can't really define what it means to me...