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vuizvui
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8.7 | 9.1 | |
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Shell | Nix | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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config
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fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell
I went through the initial config wizard of zsh exactly once, almost a decade ago[1]. It took me maybe 5-10 minutes, and even though I don't fully understand what each command means, I haven't modified it in all this time, and it works well. I really don't think this was any significant waste of time or tedious task - I was just as free to simply ignore it.
Most of the remainder of my zsh config are prompt utilities and other things I've added over the years. I don't use or really need any plugins, though if I needed, last time I tried zplug it was really easy to set up and use.
[1]: https://github.com/mid-kid/config/blob/master/shell/.zshrc#L...
- $Home, Not So Sweet $Home
vuizvui
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$Home, Not So Sweet $Home
For games, I think it's even worse on GNU/Linux systems, since most game developers mainly target Windows and sometimes completely ignore conventions for other platforms (possibly since some game engines have that "Build for Linux" button).
This also applies to game engines and their own conventions. For example Unity has Application::persistentDataPath[1], which uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (still a bit meh, since I wouldn't treat savefiles as "config", but at least some convention). However, some games tend to write those into Application::dataPath[1] (or even other random directories they see fit), which is supposed to be read-only and could possibly be outside of $HOME.
Fortunately the single one advantage of antivirus software out there seems to be that the above seems to break with some AV, so developers either tell their players to disable AV or they simply fix the issue. I made countless bug reports on this issue and so far it exclusively got fixed because of AV, so I'm using that as an argument for future reports.
While at least most of the Unity games I've packaged seem to adhere to these conventions, other games and game engines are a mixed bag and I've seen games dumping their stuff into $PWD to games writing to Windows paths (eg. /home/foo/SomeVendor\Somegame).
Patching these games is also very tedious, since some of them tend to get updates, so patching needs to be done in a way to be forward-compatible.
For example here is a patcher I wrote to get Factorio to adhere to XDG:
https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/4690494feee20a62...
Here is an example for patching a Unity3d game that writes to Application::dataPath:
https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/4690494feee20a62...
[1]: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persist...
[2]: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-dataPat...
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
This is actually very easy to patch: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/61b943d89b08959e...
Essentially it's disabling gesture activation, so if you want to allow audio you need to do this explicitly. Note however, that whenever you directly visit a video file, audio will still play but this is very rarely the case.
What are some alternatives?
xdg-ninja - A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.
dotfiles - Exquisitely handcrafted dotfiles
xdg-go - Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories
oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
ld-preload-open - Library to map files or directories to another location, for use with LD_PRELOAD.
nix-doom-emacs - doom-emacs packaged for Nix