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https://github.com/philipl/pifs my favorite file system is based on this!

I help maintain the phones/computers for several non-technical and/or elderly family members. Their computers are a mess. No matter what pro-active measures I take, every time I ge…

Am I alone in disliking ligatures? I want a font that displays the characters I type in exactly the form I type them. I really don't see the appeal.

I'm not big into IoT yet - what sort of devices would it be necessary for the network to remain functional if there was no internet connection?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but what would most users need to be able to use the network for if the internet is down? The only use case I can think of is transferring file…

These are just issues that someone unfamiliar with a field would face. None of them are problems for those of us in the field. First, the expectation thing. He's using a special ca…

I completely agree with 1 and 2 - my question was related to a local machine with a tiling WM. For 3, can you elaborate? How is it less context switching? You're doing the same set…

Can someone explain the benefits of using tmux or screen or something similar over opening multiple terminals in a tiling WM? The two arguments I could see are resource usage (not …

I've got a Macbook 7,1 with Ubuntu 12.04 running Xmonad, and its by far the smoothest linux experience I've ever had. I ran it under Gnome Unity for a bit and that was fine too. I'…

I currently do this with my entire .emacs.d directory, but it sounds like Derbasti only pulls his .emacs, and then has code to check for installed packages and get any that are mis…

Would you mind sharing your .emacs so we can see how you have that set up?