> Command-line option --modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute.

> Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano's executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter "e".

So if you symlink nano to /usr/bin/editor and make it the default $EDITOR, then you now do get CUA-like bindings by default.

There’s still a lot of more things they perhaps should enable by default. I don’t know whether you’ve looked into .nanorc, but you can turn on stuff like syntax highlighting and line numbers, it’s just all off by default.

I don’t actually use nano myself, but I was really taken aback by how featureful it is when you look closely. Not st the level of Vim or Emacs, but more than expected. I basically stumbled upon someone on Reddit /r/unixporn that "riced" their nanorc and it piqued my curiosity.

For most people though, I think micro is a better fit than nano if you want a terminal CUA-style editor.

How far can you scale wireless mesh nets?

I think this is specifically for the TPM2 integration, which isn’t required for FDE. But I assume it makes it smoother. System updates that requires multiple reboots for example are more annoying on Fedora, since every reboot requires re-entering the password, while on Mac I just login after the final reboot.

I work at a university and occasionally make video lectures for my classes. I used to do it in Zoom, but it sometimes had weird glitches where it just… deletes the videos I recorded. It’s happened several times that I lost an hour or more of recordings and had to redo it, once it deleted all the recordings that I did that week. Also, it was a bit of work to position screen sharing vs my webcam feed in a way that looked decent. I then tried a bunch of other apps, most of them had issues with latency, laggy video, or stuttering, despite playing around with the settings a lot.

Finally tried OBS again, I bounced off it in the past because it seemed overcomplicated at first glance. But it’s FOSS, makes excellent video quality, and after some initial setup of my scenes it is very easy to make new videos. And most importantly, it has so far never lost any of my data.

That sounds like textbook "synesthesia" to me? I don’t associate numbers with any taste, smell, or color, and would wager that this is more common than the opposite.

I believe I’ve heard many users requesting a plug-in system (there were some plans for Scheme?), and that the devs themselves considered many features as more appropriate for plugins than first-party support (code folding and non-LSP snippets, if I recall correctly?). I don’t know how Helix developed the last couple of years, but if features like that didn’t materialize yet, that sounds like sufficient impetus for a fork to me.

There’s a lot of modern design in not happy with, but this is not personally one of them. If I can’t autohide scrollbars I try to turn them permanently off instead of permanently on. For some reason I find them very distracting, and since I anyway use a scroll wheel or trackpad or keybindings, I don’t need it to scroll. (If it’s on autohide, I use it as a progress bar when actually scrolling.).

But there’s a lot of these weird things that seemingly everyone else accepts that just really throws off my focus. Blinking text cursor is another one, I just can’t get any work done until the blinking is off. If an app or OS can’t do that, I won’t use it.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/push-email-now-available-in-io...

If you’re already using one of the major providers (GMail, Outlook365, etc.), there isn’t much to configure; you go to Mail Accounts, click your provider like Google or Microsoft, and login on their website to authenticate.

One good alternative is AppImage. Works on every distro out of the box, but doesn’t have the permission system of Flatpak.

Yeah, my understanding is also that working with sparse matrices inherently requires heavy branching, which translates badly to GPU. I usually do everything I can via dense matrices via CUDA, but switch to sparse matrices on CPU if I run out of VRAM…

I’ve done pretty low-level C++ and Fortran in the past, but these days I’m honestly mostly used Python with either NumPy or CuPy for calculations, so not very low-level at all. My code is pretty performance-sensitive though, so unless the main operations can be framed neatly in terms of NumPy or CuPy primitives, one had to drop down to low level.

Do you know how the Go library support is for typical scientific computing stuff, e.g. matrix diagonalization, sparse matrices, or handing off such calculations to CUDA (or other GPU frameworks)? Is there a strong numerics community in Go these days, or would you have to implement most of what you need yourself?