“cal” command.

TIL about cal. It’s a standard util-linux command! And it follow my locale automatically :0

I always think of segunda-feira as the first day of the week, despite the name; though it appears that calendars here start on Sunday (something I’ve never noticed).

While it is the first day of the work week, it makes more sense to think of it as the second day in Portuguese so the naming stays consistent.

i use mpv btw

i run sudo xbps-install -Su whenever i remember to, and flatpak update whenever there’s a new Krita version

Honestly I didn’t use it for very long, and while I liked the customization, I didn’t like the Plasma apps as much as Linux Mint’s apps.

It would have been nice to know about that, I already heard about it before but only after I’d switched to Void anyway. Maybe one day if I try NixOS again I will use it.

I mean like apt search or pacman -Ss

NixOS also doesn’t show what packages were updated after an update, and doesn’t show which version they changed to, which is slightly annoying.

To be cringe is to be free

The answer is simple: when I used Debian, I was just starting out with Linux and didn’t mess with systemctl at all. It was an ok beginner experience (I’d already used Mint before trying Debian, so I was at more of an intermediate level) but I probably wouldn’t like it as much nowadays.

I like the idea of using different software for different things, why do systemd timers exist when there’s already crontab, for example?

Meanwhile, I mostly used Arch on my server where I had to deal with all the systemd stuff, which was rarely useful for my purposes.

I can handle it but I wanted a more traditional package manager so I could search the repos from the command line without relying on external tools, so I went back to Void Linux after a year and a half of using NixOS. Also, I tried a lot of those before even knowing about NixOS.

I “tried” installing gentoo once but i didn’t know what a tarball was at the time so i can’t really rate it. the documentation did help me a lot with OpenRC on artix though.

i did hear nixOS is also source-based in a way, but i’m not sure on the details.

I was curious

I used to use Neovim until I got tired of it and switched to Helix. I tried Emacs for a bit but turns out that Helix does everything I need it to do without any extra configuration.

And of course I use caps:swapescape because I am not reaching all the way to the Escape key all the time.

perhaps i too will post code on the internet

here is a shell script i wrote for automating filenames for markdown files (blog posts):

#!/bin/sh
set -e

datecmd="date +%Y-%m-%d"

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  printf "Post title: " >&2
  read -r title
else
  title="$1"
fi

file="$($datecmd)_$title.md"

if [ -f "$file" ]; then
  printf "Error: post '$file' already exists.\n" >&2
  exit 1
fi

${EDITOR:-nano} "$file"

Yes, I replicated some features of fish in zsh because I liked some parts of fish but I didn’t like the different syntax (not that I’m too familiar with the shell, just familiar enough to get annoyed sometimes when using fish).

I use zsh and it’s fine, I use it with starship, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions

You can link to a reputable dictionary instead.

It’s SDL 2.6.5.79.79, which uses the a.b.c.x.x version numbering scheme where you increment the numbers whenever you feel like it. The x is repeated for security and redundancy.

I had already converted my home manager configuration into normal config files and was using Home Manager just to manage symlinks.

I was using Nix for system configuration but that doesn’t mean that I forgot how to set up a Linux system by more conventional methods (it’s like learning how to ride a bike). While I do like the declarative aspect, doing everything in one language didn’t appeal anymore after over a year of using NixOS…

Also, I wanted a package manager that told me what packages would be updated, and which let me search packages from the command line easily… Nix didn’t provide that and it was annoying me.

I do miss flake.nix or shell.nix files and Nix shells though. But XBPS (Void’s package manager) has its fair share of cool things as well and seems easier to understand, which is a bonus.

Here is my distrohopping journey: Mint -> Arco -> Debian -> KDE Neon -> Artix -> Void -> NixOS -> Fedora -> Void