Linux Saloon 216 | Open Mic Night

CubicleNate

2 months ago

What have you been doing in tech or Linux?

Mike Chilson released Marklite 1.1.0 and is using Claude Code to help optimize the code and using it to further optimize code for other projects too.

https://marklite.app/
https://mypassword.guru/

Can you type without looking at the keyboard?

Comments

Salooner 1
- yes i can once i get the right offset— wheeee
Salooner 2
- Yes but switching keyboard often complicates it.
Salooner 3
- I am chronically online and a keyboard is very important to me
Salooner 4
- No I cannot, and I am not fussed, I type well enough for my needs. What I can’t do is to get my fingers to trype the correct words. Even when looking at what I am doing lol
Salooner 5
- I’ve been typing since I was 10. My teacher couldn’t read my handwriting. She found out that my mother was a secretary. So she asked her to teach me to type. I learned on a IBM Selectric I and a II. Watching that little globe spin around was so cool.
- I took typing in college for an easy credit. I had been typing for 8 years.
- Mine wanted to fail me because I didn’t use the correct finger for each key.
- My mother went to the Dean to complain. Long story short, he watched me type and said he passed.
Salooner 6
- My penmanship was so bad I took typing in 9th grade. Best educational thing I ever did in HS.
Salooner 7
- Typing classes started in 2nd grade with my daughters’ school. Part of their homework was Monkeytype. The 13yo is now faster than me, and the 10yo is close.
Salooner 8
- I was kicked out of a keyboarding class in 8th grade because zi could already type much faster than the teacher. She thought i was trying to get an “easy A”. In fact, i wanted to learn to touch type. I actually do fine if i don’t look at the keyboard but, for whatever reason, I still don’t have the confidence to consistently not look.
Salooner 9
- I do touch typing always and I also have keyboards with no labels that I use as well… not sure how but I never look at the keys there either
MoeMoep on Mastadon
- @CubicleNate Ich benutze blank keycaps. Aug die Tastatur schauen wurde gar nichts bringen.
- @CubicleNate I use blank keycaps. Looking at the keyboard wouldn’t help at all.

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https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/f2fs.html

Feature	FAT32	exFAT
Max single file size	4 GB	Practically unlimited (16 EB)
Max volume size	~2 TB (practical limit often lower)	Extremely large
Cross-platform support	Excellent (even very old devices)	Excellent on modern systems
Performance	Good	Generally better, especially with large files
Designed for	Older devices & small drives	Modern flash storage
Journaling / crash recovery	No	No
Permissions / security	None	None