cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/19495015
Cross-posting to see more India-related points/advice/suggestions.
- I have recently started using RSS feeds to get news and other information. It is quite time-saving.
- Recently found out that word could open pdfs for edits. Used to upload pdfs to websites to get it converted into some editable format. I think Libreoffice can do the same.
- Got that spinning type of mop and mopping has become a bit easier.
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I use Guix to make my Linux setup reproducible, really nice because I’ve basically automated the process of installation an entire OS on a new machine.
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you don’t have to use online tools to convert files, ImageMagick and Pandoc are two really good CLI tools.
Thank you.
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Have heard about NixOs and Guix. Are they easy and popular? Asking about the popularity part since, I’m currently on OpenSuse Leap and sometimes I have to find specific repos to install applications and most online tutorials are for debian systems. It’s not an big issue, as opensuse is better for me in the case of secure boot n nvidia support.
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Cool. I use pdf arranger and ghostscript for pdf page arrangement and size adjustment. Are they more easier/advanced than these?
Been thinking about installing Calibre
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Guix isn’t as popular as NixOS, but that’s probably because some of the packages are outdated. At least for Guix, I’d say that the packages are quite lacking, but as a contributor, I do what I can to help. NixOS has a variety of packages, which is probably the ideal distro to pick, but personally, I don’t like the weird Haskell/YAML hybrid DSL with poor debugging. Scheme, on the other hand, is a full-fledged language, and not just that, certain apps can be debugged via Shepherd, using the Guile REPL. The learning curve is quite, I’d say, but you don’t really have to worry about that as you can use them as a third-party package manager, just like Flatpak.
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They’re quite easy in the sense that they have good defaults, but you can use them for advanced stuff using flags.
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If you are in academia and have a lot of pdf of papers, a good way to organize them is just renaming it in the following format
[AUTHORS LIST]_[DATE]_[TITLE OF THE PAPER].pdfThis will help you group papers by same team and sort by as they were published.
Wouldn’t it be better to have folders instead? With
tree,findandgrep, searching gets a lot easier.The difference between a flat and a hierarchical namespace.
Google apps are indeed convenient.
I do have GPay, GMail n all on my phone. I use Gtranslate too.
When it comes to browsers, I prefer Firefox, but I do have chrome installed
