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New comment by Lownin in "LLM Networking with MikroTik"

Lownin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:32:19 +0000

Thanks! I'll look into this.

New comment by Lownin in "LLM Networking with MikroTik"

Lownin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:28:07 +0000

Wish I could configure pfSense via API or config files.

New comment by Lownin in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

Lownin — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:00:50 +0000

I've had a pretty good experience setting up a launcher of some kind that can fuzzy find from my open programs/windows. super+space "fi" to pull up my open Firefox. On MacOS I have super+tab bring up Alfred with a fuzzy find through my open tabs. I need to get around to figuring out something similar for my Linux DE.

New comment by Lownin in "How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one"

Lownin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:40:34 +0000

I'm reminded of this proposal project done with Portal 2 that Valve actually assisted with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04

New comment by Lownin in "Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs"

Lownin — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:08:58 +0000

It looks like Hugo also has native .org file support. Does ox-hugo provide functionality over Hugo’s native org file parsing?

New comment by Lownin in "AI is just someone else's intelligence"

Lownin — Thu, 04 May 2023 17:40:46 +0000

I think it might go beyond two intelligences. For instance, there are 500 million neurons that independently govern the gut - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

For reference, a cat has ~200 million neurons in its brain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_intelligence

Perhaps we have dozens of intelligences, with varying degrees of cognition? What is actually happening when the amygdala takes over the nervous system to avoid a car accident before you are aware what is happening? What is really going on with Tourette syndrome?

Might the human gut have its own hopes and dreams?

New comment by Lownin in "Tabby is a customizable cross-platform terminal app"

Lownin — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:00:52 +0000

iTerm has this feature https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...

New comment by Lownin in "Unix as a tool forge and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy"

Lownin — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 21:36:00 +0000

The way I did it was by not using it for my entire workflow right away. The trojan horse for me was org-mode. Doom Emacs got me started in what felt to be a more modern UX, and I used org-mode not for coding outright, but for note taking and personal project management. After a while, I started to use org-mode's built in ability to run code via org-babel to experiment with ideas in code. Eventually I was comfortable enough that I just started using it to code some times instead of VS Code, because I was already there. I still dual-use VS Code and Emacs because VS Code is still better at some things (working with files on remote server is still kinda slow via TRAMP some times) but I'm about 85% in Emacs now, since I like it better for text traversal, org-mode has become more integrated into my workflow with things like tangle, and I like magit better than VS Code's built-in git interface.

New comment by Lownin in "The death of the PCIe expansion card"

Lownin — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:59:12 +0000

In case helpful, select the app on the task bar and use Shift+Win+Left/Right arrow key to move it between monitors without needing to do the IKVM dance

New comment by Lownin in "Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out"

Lownin — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:28:34 +0000

Misophonia is a real thing that is genuinely difficult to deal with for those of us who have it.

New comment by Lownin in "Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out"

Lownin — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:26:56 +0000

Fellow ADHDer here. That issue with eating noises is called misophonia. Check out the subreddit.

New comment by Lownin in "Raspberry Pi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS"

Lownin — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:32:37 +0000

What happens when the Sinology dies? Do I have to buy another Synology to mount my array again? Does it have to be the same model, or family of models?

New comment by Lownin in "Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac"

Lownin — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:27:37 +0000

I use yabai without disabling sip. You get most of the features. It's the first tiling WM I've used, so it's possible I'm missing something critical without disabling sip, but so far I'm quite happy with it despite whatever features are missing. ymmv, of course.

New comment by Lownin in "Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux"

Lownin — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:09:51 +0000

I suspect it'd be easier to set up a more robust DOOM Emacs inside WSL than native Windows (which the DOOM docs advise is somewhat unadvised), and the GUI version fo Emacs provides some features the CLI version doesn't have.

New comment by Lownin in "World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon"

Lownin — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:41:43 +0000

Except for Overwatch.

New comment by Lownin in "Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad"

Lownin — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:22:45 +0000

If you're an average user and your phone is spontaneously rebooting, you probably think to replace it even more.

New comment by Lownin in "July was world's hottest month on record, WMO says"

Lownin — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:55:43 +0000

Earth Temperature Timeline - https://xkcd.com/1732/

New comment by Lownin in "Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims"

Lownin — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:22:50 +0000

We're told from an early age that we need to be college educated to be economically viable in the world of today and tomorrow. This may or may not be true, but public schools put a non-trivial amount of effort into convincing us it is. Most of us need loans to go to college. To me, this feels like a form of coercion to enter the credit system, either by way of economic realities, or heavy marketing to young people who are not equipped to defend against it.

New comment by Lownin in "New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data"

Lownin — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:26:07 +0000

You sure about that? - "EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations" - https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-att-data-aggrega...

New comment by Lownin in "Switch from Chrome to Firefox"

Lownin — Thu, 30 May 2019 18:45:22 +0000

I use a lot of different platforms, and Safari only runs on a couple of them. Firefox lets me sync bookmarks, settings and extensions across all of them.