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Well I originally switched to LaTeX out of necessity, because Word/Libreoffice can't do the very particular formatting I need for some specific diagrams we use in my field (this was around this time two years ago). A couple months after, I started toying with vim, and started adding mappings to write all the syntax for free. The preview window, in case you don't know, is vim-live-latex-preview (which I didn't write myself, but is great).
I would say that I got more efficient than I was in Word in a matter of days (possibly hours) after I learned how to start mapping shortcuts to write LaTeX syntax in vim and really getting used to it. Of course, the change is gradual anyway, every step you take in vim/LaTeX gives great improvements in marginal productivity.
I would just recommend constant little tinkering experimentation with vim (or emacs or whatever) and making it a habit to constantly improve your text editor's config file until it has everything but the kitchen sink. Again, marginal improvements make the transformation easy and worth it.
By the way, I appreciate your Blender series; I watched it and it was extremely helpful when I was learning.
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I don't know what to tell you other than you can literally do all of that in groff/troff. People survived writing books, tables, papers, complex diagrams and everything else on troff for decades. You can just as easily set or create your own styles in troff. Things are poorly documented nowadays, but that doesn't mean it's not all there.
As I said in the video, `pic` is groff's version of Tikz, although `grap` is for groff's graphs and other diagrams. I mean they even have things like `chem` for chemistry diagrams!
Aside from that, the whole point of having tools abide by the UNIX philosophy is that you can extremely easily write a program that modifies an incoming stream add in whatever you want. As you might see in this video, refer and groff are highly modular, and there's nothing keeping you from making a very brief program, even sed command that replaces a sequence with a more complex diagram readable by groff.
That is, even if you don't like the syntax, fine! Make a sed command that rudementarily converts markdown to groff_ms and it will still compile way faster than compiling to pdf with pandoc.
The only thing I'd worry about groff not having is highly niche and modern diagrams. For example, for a linguistics paper, I might need to make a syntax tree or a 3 line gloss. There are packages for this already for TeX, but I'd probably have to make special macros for pic and tbl respectively if I wanted it in groff.
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Another victim of the freedumbs bug! Yeah I remember stressing about Librebooting et al., but once you get it all done, it's great to have a machine that's 100% yours.
Yeah, other than the libreboot site itself, I can't vouch for any other site. I had my x200 librebooted by a random guy on eBay, there are some people who do it relatively cheap, but I've never done it myself. So many people have asked me though, that if I get a little spare money, I might just buy another x200, figure it out myself and make a vid on it later.
And re the wifi: I think the wifi card warning is for if you simultaneously move to an FSF distro that can't handle it. I'm don't think libreboot will prevent non-free wifi devices from loading, but I'm not 100% sure. Either way, on my X200 I use a Atheros AR5BHB63 which is as cheap as a cup of coffee on eBay and I'd recommend just getting one of those to be super sure.
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Yeah, but like a lot of suckless utilites, I don't really see it as a complete product (it's not supposed to be). I mean, the objective is to be as decentralized and unix-philosophy-friendly as possible, but that means that the "programs" or in this case, the distro itself is supposed to come in a larger package with other utilities that make it a full user experience.
A lot of people have asked me to review or comment on suckless stuff, but commenting on, say, surf, is like commenting on mv or rm. It's supposed to be a utility in a larger environment of tools. Same principle applies to stali, albeit, it does have some unique logic behind it.
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Yup, you can view images. If you DL my configs in the description, there's a mailcap file that tells mutt to run the script muttimage.sh to render images (you need w3m installed for this). To view images, open the email, then press v to view attachments and you can select and view the images in line. There's probably also a way to get them to display automatically in-line, but I haven't done it yet.
You could also make an entry in mailcap for opening pdfs (either in another application or I suppose with pdftotext to view them in mutt), but I haven't done this myself. Might try to.
I don't think there's a terminal-only mode in Atom, so I don't think it would work??? Depending on how smart mutt is, if you set atom as your editor, it might try to open it up in a new window and take whatever you save, but I'm not sure.
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Definitely understandable. Logic Pro X is usually what people go to as an example of hard to replace Apple software. (I only need to do a little audio mixing, and Audacity and lmms are enough for me.) The thing about Logic Pro X, which I'm sure you understand, is that, as I mention in the video, Apple is always trying to lock you into their stuff. So they sell you libraries that work only on their software, as you mention, so you can't just easily port this stuff to another system. It's a business practice that keeps people using Mac and prevents software development outside of Apple because lots of people are in exactly the same position as you are.
I think everyone agrees that it would be better off if we all used a free operating system, but there are networking effects: if Mac can attract people who develop music software, or Windows can attract people who develop games, etc., there are less devs to make free software for both, so Linux ends up having less graphical abilities than Windows and maybe less extensive audio software. So you might have to use Mac to get the work flow you want for your specialization, but I'll be here advocating Linux for whoever doesn't have those specific needs. The way I see it, the more Linux users, the bigger the attraction of making free software.
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Well ncmpcpp is just a front-end for mpd, and mpd is common enough that a lot of people have written scripts that interface with it. For example, my status bar can display mpd info, etc., while if I wanted this with moc, I'd basically have to write it myself. The more and more little scripts I use, I invariably find that mpd is sort of the industry standard, that's the main reason.
ncmpcpp itself does have some advantages, a built-in visualizer and a very useful tag editor that has saved me hours. It's also a lot more customizable, although I haven't changed it that much. mocp is definitely great if you don't need that though; it does have some advantages itself, like it's easier to manage multiple directories for music, since mpd usually only allows one.
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Free software has nothing to do with being free of charge; it refers to the source code being public and subject to scrutiny and also distributable. Non-free software, like Windows and MacOS run non-visible binaries that are malicious and privacy-violating; they're not bad because they "cost money", but because they run information logging software and DRM without recourse. You shouldn't be opinionated about this without knowing what "free" means with respect to software.
You also don't seem to understand that what is colloquially called "Linux" is actually "GNU/Linux", a combination of a free Linux kernel and free GNU utilities that perfectly analog with UNIX utilities. GNU/Linux is the operating system, but people usually call it "Linux" for short.
This also might surprise you, but you might like the way MacOS "feels" or "looks" or you might find it "easy", but there are more people in the world who like Windows more and feel that it "just werks". That is a subjective opinion. I, for example, find doing even the most basic tasks on MacOS pretty frustrating. There are also some simple tasks things that Mac makes basically impossible. Try to put one new song on an your friend's iPod. You can't without extreme measures that involve "tricking" Apple software. And because MacOS is closed source, it's not possible to develop software to do this easily, like it is for Linux.
And finally, Apple's hardware is flatly not "the best" or even close to the best if you care about durability, functionality, repairability or anything that isn't just "looking like an Apple product", which is invariably what Apple fans think of as "the best".
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I do use the X60, it's still very consistent, although I'm not a huge fan of the screen, not so much for the aspect ratio, but the low resolution! It would definitely replace thermal paste (I only recently did this, but before it ran really hot), replacing the CMOS battery is probably a good idea, but I haven't ever done it.
Yeah the lack of 32-bit support is a pain, there are some package builds you can't get for 32-bit, but it's still doable! As for chromebooks, I've never used one, although I suppose they are a good way to have a free bios, etc.
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