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emccue04:12:07

Disposable hobby project ideas?

andy.fingerhut05:12:26

Never heard of Vulfpeck before, but gave them a watch/listen on YouTube and they are definitely funky and fun to watch them play. I saw one video of them doing a cover of a Stevie Wonder song Reggae Woman, and they nailed it.

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todo10:12:54

Anyone using a Pi-hole (black listed domains -> 127.0.0.1) for ad blocking? I'm thinking of switching over from ublock origin (hard to use on ipad).

timods20:12:14

Fyi DNScloak for iOS supports blocklists. It’s local only, however

dangercoder13:12:34

What screen sizes do you guys have? I currently have a 24" monitor + macbook pro, and it feels really small. I need to fit more emacs windows on my screen. Was thinking of a 32".

vemv14:12:00

I've used a Dell U2415 (24") with Emacs for years. The key IME is not to accumulate more windows, but rather to multiplex them somehow. Here's how my setup looks like:

vemv14:12:04

there are three groups of tabs: per-file, per-project, per-workspace (grouping of projects). That way you can visualize/switch things easily

vemv14:12:27

...that said I'm about to get a TV for coding. Actually I wouldn't mind if the resolution was my usual one, I just want something physically larger (40"-50") so I can use it from a sofa

dangercoder14:12:36

That setup looks really sweet, nice to have the file tree to the left

Lennart Buit20:12:13

I dont know, coding from the sofa sounds like a terrible idea. TV screens never have a satisfying sharpness for me

Lennart Buit20:12:50

maybe because they are primarily TV or because their PPI is low

vemv20:12:12

Looked from far away enough, a 50" screen with a 'normal' resolution for a PC (like 1920x1200) should look sharp. I just got started with the sofa experiment this weekend btw 🙂 good experience so far

todo21:12:56

I'm using two Samsung 55" 4K (3840x2160) monitors for coding. Main problem: display port -> hdmi cables I have found can only do 30fps @ 3840x2160. I don't mind it for coding, but would not use it for anything else at 30fps.

todo21:12:36

Typo: they're not 55" monitors; they're 55" TVs that I'm using as monitors.

jaihindhreddy-duplicate14:12:09

Heh... a 13.3" macbook pro.

jaihindhreddy-duplicate14:12:18

A 34" 21:9 will be really good. It's about as tall as a 27" 16:9 but with more horizontal real-estate. And you can use your laptop with the screen closed. Multiple display setups never felt right to me.

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vemv20:12:43

has there been some sort of encoding screwup in macOS Mojave? Apparently some binaries (`ruby`) need LANG/LC_* variables to be set to en_US.UTF-8, while others (`tr`) need C. I just updated to Mojave and faced these issues for the first time. Never ever had to set these env vars at all before.

Lennart Buit20:12:40

it has been pretty standard on linux systems to set LANG, but my high sierra system doesn’t have it set indeed

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vemv20:12:16

for the record I got it fixed:

Lennart Buit20:12:44

Yeah I found a thread about it for Rlang

vemv20:12:32

^ the diff avove is my global exports, and below just a specific command. The specific command was reasonable to be buggy, but the global config (for ruby) shouldn't be needed, at least IME

vemv21:12:57

Seems spot on! 🍻