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A última vez que atualizei este blog foi há pouco mais de 2 meses. Como não quero que ele fiquei muito tempo sem conteúdo novo, decidi escrever este post, uma dica útil para quem usa o Plasma Desktop e headphones Bluetooth, e quer ver a percentagem de bateria na applet. Esta dica aplica-se a EndeavourOS, Arch Linux e outras distribuições baseadas em Arch. Noutras, o path do ficheiro pode ser diferente, por isso terás de ter isso em consideração se pretenderes replicá-a no teu sistema. Para além disso, se usares uma distribuição com outro init system, como o runit, também terás de ter isso em consideração. ...

Durante a tarde de ontem, foi votado em Comissão do Parlamento o projeto de lei que prevê o bloqueio de sites por IP, para além do que já acontece com o bloqueio por DNS. Ainda não sei o resultado da votação, mas tudo indica que há uma maioria parlamentar - composta por PS, PSD e CDS - que pretende a extensão do bloqueio por DNS aos IPs, de acordo com o Marcos Marado. ...

For a few months, I considered using the mirror service from Fosshost in userrepository.eu. The service results from a partnership between Fosshost and Fastly, giving projects access to several PoP’s around the globe. Finally, a few days ago, I enabled the service. I also created a package with the mirror’s list, userrepository-mirrors, available in my repository and AUR. The package has all the instructions for enabling the mirrors and what to do if you already have userrepository in your /etc/pacman.conf configuration. ...

I love AUR. Being able to use a simple PKGBUILD to install a software not available in the official Arch repositories is a blessing. Sadly, its user experience and looks need improvements to bring it to the 21st century. One of the things that bug me the most is the microscopic font size. I almost need a telescope to read the text. To fix it, and make it smoother on the eyes, I created a dark theme for AUR. You’ll need to install the Stylus browser addon in order to use it. The CSS code is available as a Github Gist. Just click here to access the code. ...

In some situations, you might want to disable a D-Bus service. One of those is, for example, when you use Dunst (a notification daemon) with a window manager. Still, you don’t want it to replace the notification daemon from your desktop environment. To disable it, you just need to add .disabled to the end of the target file name. Example: sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service.disabled In the above example, Dunst will no longer replace Plasma Desktop notification daemon when using that amazing desktop environment, and all will be good with the world again. Victory! :)

A ideia partiu deste tweet. No Reddit.

Since the 24th of January, the date of the last blog post, I’ve added a shitload of new packages to userrepository.eu. Some highlights are sonobus, media-downloader-git, baru, dotgit, timeshift, filmulator and tramp. Expect more packages, as I’m adding new ones frequently. The focus on new packages will probably be scientific tools and maybe a kernel. With that, I’ll probably have to increase the full build frequency from 8h to at least 9 hours. ...

Hello, folks. It has been a while since I last wrote about my AUR-based Arch Linux repository. To be precise, four months and twelve days. A lot has happened since then. One of the main changes was the removal of several packages no longer present in AUR or really outdated. Some examples are peafox, marp and gimp-dbp. Another important change was the addition of several new packages, as usual. If I find it may be useful for someone, I add it. ...

Since my last blog post about Emacs (and the last post I published here), I’ve tested some Starter Kits. All of them were genuinely nice and came with a lot of tools included, but most of these tools were things I didn’t need. Not a long time after that, I found a Reddit post about nano-emacs. Unlike the other Starter Kits, this one is plain and incredibly beautiful. It even got better recently with the addition of the writer-mode minor mode for org-mode, as you can see in the featured image on this post. ...

A few days ago, I decided to give Emacs another try. I’ve previously attempted to use this text-editor / operating system — probably about 10 years ago or maybe a bit more — but never got the hang of it. A few years after my first try at Emacs, I discovered Markdown. Since then, I’ve used text editors with a GUI to write in this markup language. That was until two years ago when I encountered a Vim mode for Markdown and adapted it to my specific needs. It has been one of my main tools to write, but I don’t really like the Vim keybindings. ...