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Joshua Blais
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2011
Joshua is a walking paraplegic hailing from Edmonton, Canada. His personal journey has led him to becoming an Orthodox Christian Inquirer, a Father, and business owner, focusing on projects to set people free from the world.
He spends his time building, writing, reading, thinking, and with his family.
Join him on the path.
Get Joshua's debut book, Mountain: mountainthebook.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/joshuablais
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Join the movement for Freedom: labrynth.org
Read more on my website: joshblais.com
He spends his time building, writing, reading, thinking, and with his family.
Join him on the path.
Get Joshua's debut book, Mountain: mountainthebook.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/joshuablais
Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/joshuablais
Join the movement for Freedom: labrynth.org
Read more on my website: joshblais.com
Why I am NOT a Stoic
You can find the written version of this video here: joshblais.com/posts/why-i-am-not-a-stoic/
I reflect on why I am not a stoic, why modern stoicism is not real Stoicism, and why Christian understanding is the revelation of what the Stoics spoke about.
Want to support the channel? Buymeacoffee here: buymeacoffee.com/joshuablais
My website: joshblais.comGithub: github.com/jblais493/Twitter: realjoshuablais
Subscribe on my site to get my book, Mountain sent for FREE to your inbox: joshblais.com
These links help to support the channel so I can make more content that resonates with you!
I reflect on why I am not a stoic, why modern stoicism is not real Stoicism, and why Christian understanding is the revelation of what the Stoics spoke about.
Want to support the channel? Buymeacoffee here: buymeacoffee.com/joshuablais
My website: joshblais.comGithub: github.com/jblais493/Twitter: realjoshuablais
Subscribe on my site to get my book, Mountain sent for FREE to your inbox: joshblais.com
These links help to support the channel so I can make more content that resonates with you!
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Why I left Emacs
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As a daily user of emacs since 2018, switching over was less painful than I thought it would be. In this video I share my thoughts about why I made the switch and why it was the right thing for my workflow. My Emacs config: github.com/jblais493/EmacsConfig Dotfiles: github.com/jblais493/Logos My Setup: Thinkpad t14s Gen 3 - amzn.to/3WxfOwi Majexstand - amzn.to/3ydquZd Chocofi Keyboard - shop.be...
The ULTIMATE keyboard tenting solution
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There is only ONE tenting solution to rule them all, and in this video I show you it. Ulanzi Superclamp: amzn.to/47THIZ3 Gorilla Tape: amzn.to/3zCV8eX 1/4" - 20 nut from this: amzn.to/3zyqvHF Ben Vallack's channel: www.youtube.com/@UC4NNPgQ9sOkBjw6GlkgCylg Wolfgang's keyboard video: th-cam.com/video/rvM2BthjEI4/w-d-xo.html As always, you can support me by subscribing at my blog: joshblais.com A...
my zen unix environment (1k sub special)
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A H U G E thank you to every single one of you that has joined me on this journey! I never thought that I would even hit 100 subscribers let alone 1,000 and I am humbled. I will be doing an AMA in the next video if it gets enough interest, so post your comments and questions below! Dotfiles: github.com/jblais493/Logos Kmonad config: github.com/jblais493/Kmonad-thinkpad My Setup: Thinkpad t14s G...
On Telegram, Durov, and banning encryption
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I talk about the current situation with Telegram, Durov, and the talk of banning encryption. The solutions do exist, get off of platforms toward protocols and use open source. My Setup: Thinkpad t14s Gen 3 - amzn.to/3WxfOwi Majexstand - amzn.to/3ydquZd Chocofi Keyboard - shop.beekeeb.com/product/presoldered-chocofi-split-keyboard/ Ulanzi Superclamp - amzn.to/3SwVv12 Logitech MX Ergo - amzn.to/4...
Fight for your internet FREEDOM!
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The internet was supposed to set us free to create whatever our hearts and minds wanted. Instead it enslaved us. I talk about 5 ways you can set yourself free once more. Go visit my blog: joshblais.com/ How I use a smartphone: th-cam.com/video/7jDYBBOj66I/w-d-xo.html My Setup: Thinkpad t14s Gen 3 - amzn.to/3WxfOwi Majexstand - amzn.to/3ydquZd Chocofi Keyboard - shop.beekeeb.com/product/presolde...
Why programmers are turning to Christ
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A phenomena I see regularly is programmers either taking off into the forest or turning to Christianity. In this video I explore why I think that is. DenshiVideo: th-cam.com/video/aBsF24MPGSI/w-d-xo.html Luke Smith: www.youtube.com/@UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA
how I use a smartphone
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It is no secret that I detest the smartphone culture in which we live, and I look forward to the day that I can ditch mine in the river. However, that might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I think that if we keep ourselves disciplined, we can use the glass slab for good, but it means being militant about what we will NOT use it for. What I don’t do on my phone: Scroll social media ...
My Portable Office Setup (2024)
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I have created a completely modular and portable office setup that fits in a little briefcase. In this video, I talk about the why's and how's of the setup and show what I'm using to get more movement and better posture in my life. Written version: joshblais.com/posts/my-portable-office-2024/ My Video on the Chocofi: th-cam.com/video/Ong_-2G9RDM/w-d-xo.html My Moondrop Kato Unboxing: th-cam.com...
On God, Quantum Mechanics, and The Hard Problem of Consciousness
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This if my reply to the Article "What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common" by John Horgan in 2021. Original Article: www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-god-quantum-mechanics-and-consciousness-have-in-common/ Get my book, Mountain by subscribing here: joshblais.com
A life update and what's next for the channel
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We decided a few months ago to let go of our rental in Edmonton and drive out to Vancouver island for the summer/perhaps forever. A quick little update on where we are now and what's next for work, life, and the channel!
getting rid of EVERYTHING
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You can read this post in blog format here: joshblais.com/posts/RationalistMinimalism For some time, I have been getting rid of the things that I own so that we can pursue that which matters to us most - family, purpose, and God. I discuss this change in my life, where I've been, and my intention going forward as we start an exciting new chapter in our lives. My website: joshblais.com Medium: j...
my server rack before I nuke everything
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A review of my 18U Server rack for 2024 before I downsize to a travel friendly setup. Links to everything mentioned in the video (affiliate links that support the channnel): Sysracks 18U Cabinet - amzn.to/4bglwcf Patch panel - amzn.to/3wvIInM Cable Organizer - amzn.to/4btqrX2 Cisco CBS250-24T Switch - amzn.to/3JXVTRz Lenovo Thinkcentre M910q - amzn.to/3wAoGbC AC Infinity Rack Shelf - amzn.to/4a...
what I learned in my 20s
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This is an expansion on my article here: joshblais.com/posts/20 thoughts for your 20s Our 20s can be a decade of massive growth, positive change, and finding that which we actually are. You can get my book on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/Mountain-Field-Guide-Summiting-Life/dp/B0CWB7KYXN/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1 Follow me at my blog: joshblais.com
The Matrix renders that which you perceive
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The Matrix renders that which you perceive
I WILL NEVER AFFORD A HOME - Canada adds regulation to Real Estate Market
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I WILL NEVER AFFORD A HOME - Canada adds regulation to Real Estate Market
Podcast 001 - My COVID Experience, Politics, What I Do All Day, And More
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Podcast 001 - My COVID Experience, Politics, What I Do All Day, And More
Why I Use a 10yr Old Thinkpad - Focus in a Distracted World
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Why I Use a 10yr Old Thinkpad - Focus in a Distracted World
Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge Pt. 4 - Linux Vet REACTS
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Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge Pt. 4 - Linux Vet REACTS
I did the deep dive a long time ago in vim (before neovim). I've tried to embrace it and made an entire 6 months c++ software project in vim. I hated my life so much. Setting up C++ is already a pain in the ass, but on top of that the choice of 20 different package managers just for vimL, a language that managed to interpret my comments somehow as sourcecode and caused very weird error messages. I aparently never understood the syntax of vimL. Modal editing was okay-ish. I managed to get around and do stuff with it. But what was really weird to me were the fanboys who thought modal editing was solving the world formula or something. Eventually I came to emacs. Elisp is a big upgrade from vimL. It's not perfect, it took me a while to learn as well, but I can see the elegance in it. The lisp vim of emacs is really something to admire. The non modal editing of emacs isn't special though. A bit hard to get into, because it is so different than most popular editors again. It has flaws, but on the other hand it kind of has something for everything. What I like about the emacs community is, that they knows it sucks, it is inconsistent, slow at times, and sometimes almost incomprehensible. But there is some honesty to it. I think the times of the holy editor war of `vim` vs `emacs` are over. It is much more a `neovim` vs `vs-code` these days. Emacs is more the corner of old stubborn people who refuse change these days (not entirely true though, but I feel the trend). And I am rather with old stubborn people that with young cultists.
Looking forward to the tmux video
Ah, because you are energetic.
We all are, but the source of that energy is in God. God bless!
The taskwarrior extension project looks cool, And the name given to the project is cool too. Waiting for it's release, whenever it is.
Lovely, went from an interesting philosophical thing to a proselytizing thing. Enjoy the cult.
The trajectory of the Western world was defined by philosophy becoming theology. Please do read the early writings to see what I am discussing, but this is not a video to attempt to convert anyone - it is an apologetic for why I saw Stoic philosophy as a stepping stone into theology. God bless brother.
@@JoshuaBlais I would agree with you on those points, but your first point is entirely backwards in that it was theology that was turned into philosophy as science illuminated the world where before the light of a god or gods had shone before only just bright enough to ward off the "demons" of hopelessness, and all emotions that could be associated with it... As your argument applies to Western culture specifically. As it applies to the area where Christianity began, then yes I would agree that philosophy was converted to theology. As for stoicism leading to religion, there are no religious books that don't promote arguably stoic virtues because they are a means to the same end. Religion and philosophy, to be clear. I read it for typos and it felt a little vague.
I believe science is an uncovering of reality - a study of God if you will. For example, at my church there is a guy who is in a graduate program in physics and I asked him "I thought that science was removed from God?" (in a joking way of course) and he replied that his study has only helped to confirm and strengthen his faith. Our modern Western culture, after the period of Enlightenment, has been in continual decline away from Christ - you are correct about that. But the trajectory that built Europe (think the great cities and architecture, the cultures) was entirely driven by a cohesive effort to praise the Creator. I agree that philosophy and theology are seeking one and the same - the purpose of "all of this", the "why" that cannot go any further. I would argue that that answer requires the leap of faith. Thank you for your thoughtful reply!
@@JoshuaBlais Brother those were not done to praise the creator. In that culture, the church held such power over everything that nobody was safe from it. At what point did Christ start dictating who should be put to death, tortured or enslaved? If he did, I haven't read of it. Church centric culture and architecture was a canvas. A medium for great minds to do great things, and thanks to the old systems of patronage, the rich sought tax breaks and a way to pay for tickets out of purgatory. It was architecture and donations made in what amounts to bad faith. Everybody but the top class feared ostracization, death and torture if their faith was found lacking. Obviously, people learned either to fake it or face the consequences. You say we have fallen out of Christ's way, but at what point in history has mercy been more abundant? At what point has charity been given in such volume with a genuine love for one's neighbors and fellow humans? I'll tell you as an amateur historian, never. Not once in all of human history have the poor, down trodden, infirm and disabled had so much assistance as they do now. To make Christianity any more believable than a Dr.Seuss book, nearly every page has to be interpreted on a case by case basis to determine what is literal and what is metaphorical. You picked a religion that you can use to point and internally say "I am better than those people because I know the truth" seemingly right after a brutal lesson in how cruel life can be. That's a major feeling of powerlessness and I understand. I sympathize and understand in my own way. But humans usually find religion in those circumstances, and when the dopamine runs out, you just hope you embedded yourself in the culture deeply enough that you don't lose faith. And if you do, you'll probably fake it because of the social connections you made along the way. There is nothing new about that.
Whatever did happen to Luke Smith? I haven't seen one of his videos in a long time.
I think he's living his life, still makes contributions to his repositories fairly regularly.
I like Helix Editor. So easy and so powerful.
I have heard of it, never tried it! Where would you say it improves on Neovim?
@@JoshuaBlais It does all of the Vim like stuff, but with a simpler interface. I was able to learn it in three days. The UI focuses on selection, it has the Vim cursor movement stuff, but then selecting text is much easier. If you press v to enter select mode, instead of search/replace, you can just duplicate the cursor to search matches and edit it all at once, you can search within your searches. It's really convenient. When you press space you get a menu, when you go into match mode, you get a menu, when you go to window split mode you get a menu, when you type colon you get an autocomplete menu with the typical Vim commands and Helix stuff. You don't need to memory much because there's usually a menu to help you learn it. Once you know the menu, you can just type the keys at full speed and treat it like another shortcut. Helix Editor is really fast. Also to get to the tutorial, just type ":tutor" and it will teach you right there.
I consider myself a stoic (currently in my early 20's) and have also suffered bodily trauma but not to such a great extent. I've read the writings of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus but haven't read much beyond Genesis. I guess I'll give an update once I get to know the literature
Absolutely do so! If nothing else, the Bible is one of the greatest (many would say the greatest) achievements of human literature. The Bible in a Year podcast is a great resource if you want to get in-depth notes. God bless
Great testimony, Brother. Your struggles and suffering alone is inspirational. I think we came to many of the same conclusions, I always looked at Stoicism as a great mode of being or philosophy, I never made a religious dogma out of it. Just secular wisdom, which I think it does possess. I think that was the greatest comfort of Christianity, that my suffering serves a greater purpose.
I entirely agree - whereas stoicism tries to quell the suffering, Christ shows us there is an ultimate end, a higher Good in it. Philosophical understanding truly gives way to the theological if we are seeking that Highest Good. God bless!
Curious. My path sounds very similar to yours, but it took me in the direction of atheism. I'm happier now than I was ever during my time as a believer.
Very interesting, why would you say you are happier now than before?
@@JoshuaBlais Because I value truth, and I realized that I didn't like following "commandments" from fictional characters, regardless of how compelling their narratives are, or how strongly other people believe in those stories. Leaving behind the Abrahamic myths along with all other myths (bronze age or older) became a matter of spiritual maturity to me.
I think that as a human being, we all have a master. In making that the Creator of All, we forgo the worldly masters that many succumb to (money, pleasure, power, status, etc.) and look to the Highest Good. Not an attempt to make you change your mind, just how I look at it. I ran the gambit from atheist to pantheist, to "maybe I am it", to ultimately divine revelation. It's been a journey to say the least! God bless.
@@JoshuaBlais I get the idea, but I don't accept the presupposition that there HAS to be something above all, like what a believer would call "God", for instance. The idea of all humans having a "master" is pretty Hegelian, and I also don't like Hegel either, but that's a topic for another time.
lol. I named my machines logos, metanoia, and theanthropos
haha! you are my guy!
I appreciate what you’ve shared and how thoughtful you are, but you should acknowledge that it is arrogant to claim that all those who argue against Christianity have not studied it. You are sharing your experiences and world view while summarily dismissing those of others.
Totally! I am speaking anecdotally - from my personal experiences when there have been arguments made against Christianity the party doing so has not put the time in to study the topic, it is generally from a point of view of "I had one bad experience in Church one time, therefore Christianity is false". Most often the other party hasn't even read the Bible and the things they say are sound bites from atheist youtube channels etc. Whereas the conversation I would want to be having is where the other party has studied the apologists of the last two millennia and we can have a debate on that merit. God bless homie!
@@JoshuaBlais Thank you for the thoughtful reply - I understand what you’re saying. I found you via your tech videos. I’m usually not compelled to listen to religious topics on TH-cam, but your tech videos have been insightful and this video piqued my interest. It’s just that, as someone who grew up and spent a lot of time in the church, that particular part of the video stuck out to me which is why I left a comment (another rarity for me). Keep up the good videos!
I really appreciate you commenting, it helps me get better too! I will definitely make mistakes on the path, and it helps me to get better for you guys that at the end of the day are the people that matter. Thank you so much!
Keep giving us your reflections.
You bet I will, glad you enjoyed it! God bless!
How is the back panel? I have the Navepoint rack and the back panel cover is a pain to install. You have to hold it while putting the screws. I am hoping that this Sysracks back panel cover is not like Navepoint's.
back panel is just like the sides with how it clips in, tooless!
@@JoshuaBlais Thanks
Exactly this but for me its Islam.
God bless brother
In terms of laptops, I've found the battery life on the new AMD FrameWork laptop pretty good. I tend to have the brightness pretty high on my laptop (probably higher than I ought to) and I can usually get 6-8 hours of battery life if I don't have too many browser tabs open and avoid electron apps, or 4-ish hours if I have four or five TH-cam videos open alongside discord and spotify. That said, if you don't have any software that requires x86, the recent ARM laptops with Qualcomm snapdragon CPUs can get upwards of 12 hours of battery life. I've only heard of people using windows on them thus far, and I understand that proprietary software for x86 computers can be pretty slow due to emulation issues, but FOSS software should have no such issues.
Thank you for this, Framework has been on my radar for some time! I think I may wait to go ARM when Linux has better support in the coming year or so - although intel has been doing some interesting stuff recently with their optimizations that take battery life into massive consideration.
"Our lives can be a prayer". That's really beautiful man. I am not a Christian, i don't prescribe to any single religion, but I am a person of faith. I have studied Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and native American spirituality. Every one of these theologies has minor differences, but the same core principals of service, compassion, gratitude, courage, faith, and Love. I heard a man once describe a story about the pirate Captain Cook, who had a special brew made of a bunch of different ingredients, one of them being lemon juice which has high vitamin C. Nobody knew why, but when the men drank the brew they did not get scurvy. There were a hundred ingredients but in the end only one of them mattered. In the same way, religions all have many different details and nuances, but only one aspect of the stories really matters: love. Thanks for sharing.
I agree that the ultimate Truth is Love. God bless!
The "Stoicism" of TH-cam is not stoicism. Stoicism has the same problem that Christianity has in South America: people do not read the main source (The Bible) but rather read other books - written by 21st-century authors - about what the bible says. In South America, most Christians' beliefs are false, because they get their ideas through a filter and interpretation of random people, and never read the original texts. The same goes with Stoicism. I had the same experience as you. I went through a hard time and found stoicism as a way to come out of it. Now I'm reading Seneca's writings and realizing how much of a lie TH-cam "stoicism" is. Do not read Marcus Aurelius Meditations, it's a journal of a stoic, trying to apply stoicism to his life, but not an argument or explanation of stoicism. Read ancient stoic philosopher. Read the bible, not the interpretation of a 21th century author.
Agreed. However my argument is that the actual Stoicism we are talking about is a progression in the revelation of Christian understanding. The stoics made statements about "the Logos" and Christ was the Logos incarnate.
I love using neovim for code editing but org mode is just so usefull to me I can't swap away,,, things like inline latex rendering or beinbg able to export to an html file with custom css or to a latex pdf is just something I can't leave behind but for code editing I always use neovim it just feels,,, correct to my brain I gues?
Vi motions are so ingrained in my that I even use a browser extension that adds them to firefox lol everytime I tried emacs I just ended up recreating vim. Imo if your gonna use emacs use emacs for what it is. so i just gave up on it. nvim does what i want it to do and I don't have to mess with it so much. As for orgmode and task and all that you emacs users do, what's wrong with a nice pen and some paper? 😂
Beekeeb does beautiful work.
Agreed, Leo is super responsive and generous, highly recommend to anyone!
Elisp was my first religion. No switching now. I'm no fanaticist though, use what feels right. For me there's an additional romance in using something that's been around for so long and was so incredibly influential. It's like driving a classic car (that runs single-threaded on a multi-core highway, ho hum, loving the seating).
I think there is a nostalgia about emacs. That is not to say I won't go back to it at some point, it is becoming apparent that I didn't use emacs to the fullest potential as a LISP machine
welcome. welcome.
God bless!
@@JoshuaBlais I've used emacs somewhat extensively, too. I started in vim a decade ago, thought "am I missing something?" and thus tried emacs for a while, and then finally switched back to vim and then neovim. Neovim is the way. Periodt.
I been given vim a serious try, and I do go back to Emacs any time I need. And no, vi keybindings is bad, I hate the modes. Emacs with emacsclien are as fast as vim. Who need to shut down the Emacs. And you can even start Emacs when you log in, so you have the fast emacsclien from the beginner. Just because you can use it for all, you can pick and choose what part of Emacs you want to use.
I may give a vanilla emacs config a try, people are saying my issues stem from doom and the plethora of packages it introduces!
The two worst engineers I've ever had to work with were very religious. Religion is the opposite of science, won't be hiring anyone that even remotely seems religious ever again. Stay away from the choir boys.
Science and Christianity are not opposed - the Church has a massive history in science (the creators of the scientific method were Catholic scholars) and the first universities were founded by the Catholic Church.
I use both.:) Emacs is for research paper with bibliography since org mode is great. Neovim is faster for smaller development projects. It's okay to live both worlds and cherry-pick the best part of them.:)
Just a tip thay you can use fzf with zoxide to jump directories, thats what i am doing. loved the video man
I've used Emacs since 2019 as well. I mainly use it for org-mode. I use it mainly for writing. I've learned a bit of emacs-lisp to edit others code to get what I want. I started with spacemacs. Went to Doom. Then back and forth to Vanilla Emacs and Doom till I was able to get Vanilla where I wanted it. I looked into neovim a few times, because yes, the zeitgeist for neovim is strong. But I use org-publish, org-re-reveal, and I am comfortable editing emacs-lisp, I haven't found a solid benefit to switching to neovim. But I may. Emacs' quirks haven't bothered me enough to make any drastic changes. I'll be watching how you live without org-mode, but I know there are plenty of org-mode like packages for neovim.
I will be watching how I get on without org mode too, so far it has been a little less organized, so we will have to see if I can get the system to a place that replicates the functionality! Cheers
Around the 5 minute mark, you briefly show how you handle notes. Would be nice to zoom in on that if pissible. Like many (vim 😉) users, I’m also a WoT adept and it’s always good to see how people deal with all the information coming at us every day.
I will make a video about my note taking in the future! Thanks for the idea, God bless!
Cool. Looking forward to that.
Slow if you dont run server...
About that directory thoing. Dired exists + you can run it on terminal.
Issues with v-term whatever it is. There is default "term" that works well for me.
Ssh problem: tramp
I feel like you didn't learn emacs, you use some weird plugins instead of using emacs itself.
Why would you write org and convert it into markdown if you can use markdown-mode?
A text editor that (along with its users) mistakes itself for an OS and as such ends up being a terrible text editor and a mediocre OS. Never got it, to each their own.
1) Remind me again why one “has” to choose what is “best”? Don’t compare apples to bananas. Especially when you can choose both. 2) Emacs is not a text editor. It’s a lisp interpreter. And a very good one at that. Everything else spawns from that. Don’t see the contradiction in the Unix philosophy.
cbum como programador
Haha, if only!
If you only use thunar for copy paste to gui apps i.e. dragon drop, you should try the cli program dragon
I've never heard of it, I'll look into it!
3:36 how do you hide the command area like that? i want my lualine to be on the bottom but i cant get it that way
I use NVChad as a base config for Neovim and I believe that is a default
Not sure about nvchad, but a popular way to do it is using folke's noice plugin
I also left Emacs, switching from Vim to Emacs and then to Acme. No need to configure, just go editing. Acme is a good integrating development environment
I have put too much time into configuring my editors, that is the truth! Never heard of Acme, I'll check it out
@@JoshuaBlais You could also look at wily editor.
I stopped playing once I heard about Evil mode. You just got back home and you were just visiting Emacs.
Totally fair opinion and something I knew I would hear from the emacs diehards! What would you say are the benefits of using the emacs keybinds over the vim editing style?
@@JoshuaBlais Oh.. No benefit at all. It's just Apple and Orange - Also nothing wrong with you get back to Vim. Probably the problem you had is also problem I am having now. Recently I use Zed a lot with my Emacs. Occasionally I use Vim binding in Zed (but mostly Emacs binding).
I once thought UNIX (and therefore, Linux) and the UNIX philosophy were great. But then I learned Emacs (primarily for the productivity), and discovered the LISP machine at its heart. Now I wish Linux were more like Emacs and less like UNIX. Quitting Emacs? Only for another LISP machine (preferably written in Common Lisp)...
I probably never got there with the LISP machine. Do you have any resources I could study about the philosophy? The meme of emacs being a machine ontop of the underlying machine seems to be true
God bless, good video. subbed now
Cheers bro, God bless!
I enjoy how decently produced, but still personal chat-like your videos are. I appreciate how easy you make it look and how simple the videos are
Cheers man, means a lot! God bless!
Slow living , fast app load times 😅
Counter-intuitive, hey? Perhaps I want the apps to load faster so I have more time to live slowly 😉
Emacs does not really violate UNIX philosophy. "Make one thing and make it good" is not the core principle, AFAIK this one wasn't even included. The core of UNIX philosophy is programs communicating with each other with human readable text and emacs does exactly that. And even with "do one thing" emacs is there: it only executes Lisp code.
Fair statement, and in another comment the LISP machine was mentioned - I probably never got far enough down the rabbit hole to "get it" - if you have resources I could study about how to truly use emacs, I would love them!
@@JoshuaBlais I don't think there is such a thing like "how to truly use emacs". And for you I think it made total sense to switch to neovim. If you didn't use TRAMP, org-mode usage was limited enough so you could easily switch to markdown, etc, you probably were not get enough benefits from emacs to still deal with some annoyances it has. I recently ditched my terminal emulator for eshell+eat-eshell-mode and just cannot be happier. Just cd-ing to any environment and having everything with my config feels like magic and I much prefer navigation/search/etc that emacs buffers provide to terminal emulators. Delay on command execution over network is noticable though.
I'd be super interested in a video of that workflow! I agree - I think the fact I never was a "purist" in emacs is why it was easy for me to consider the jump back to vim (always an evil user etc). Vterm for me wasn't capable of replacing a terminal emulator, never tried eshell!
Yeah i also switched, emacs became too heavy both in resource usage and configuration length, so I switched to helix and I'm perfectly happy. My config is like 40 lloc, no plugins needed, etc. I like vim, but my nvim config when i tried it for a few weeks started pushing 1000lloc and had pike 20 to 30 plugins etc. I can't be bothered anymore
Try using different configs for different use cases
I have the (unhealthy) mind that if I put the time in once to configure something, it will always be there for posterity's sake, haha
tmux so last year zellij is the way to go!! JK both are great
I do keep hearing about zellij, but I have a sunk cost fallacy with tmux - I also don't know if you can start up pre-defined sessions for a project in zellij, if you can let me know!
@@JoshuaBlais yes zellij attach session name-of-session
what do you think about zellij?
I have only used it in the curl trial command, so I don't have enough use to really comment - tmux does everything I need it to do, and I am not sure if I could quickly start up pre-defined sessions for projects and save them in a project specific config al la tmuxp in zellij. If this functionality exists please let me know!
You scare me!! you litterally had my setup 6 months ago, fedora wayland tmux nvim, even the same wallpaper!!! funniest thing is I literally started f-ing around with doom emacs yesterday 😂 Also If you like tmux, you should maybe try out “i3” for your window manager.
i3 was my first window manager, then moved to BSPWM, and now on hyprland really enjoying it! That is hilarious, doom is a pretty sane default, I like it!
I too was facing different types of slowness specially when using multiple extensions. So, I had to nuke my config almost 3 or more times and started from scratch. And the last time I started super slow by disabling most things. Now my Emacs is very responsive with the drawback being that its not as shiny as before.
I am a shiny guy! Kidding - I have some other comments about how I didn't really get the core emacs experience because I used evil from day one, and I think that the first point I make about being a vim user is probably where I fell off the train the most.
I recommend C-s and C-q for leader keys in nested tmux sessions, using C-s locally, and disabling flow control locally by putting stty -ixon in a shell startup file. Then you won’t have any conflicting keybindings with readline or really any application software (especially since you aren’t using terminal Emacs). Been doing that for 12+ years now myself. Also, I use Emacs and Vim… can’t get into NeoVim because it doesn’t provide as much fundamental control or discoverability as Emacs. I use Vim for quick edits, Emacs for long coding sessions with a million buffers open.
That is a solid workflow, respect!
I'm not using tmux because I use zellij.
I haven't used zellij enough to have an opinion, it appears to solve the same problems as tmux, no?
@@JoshuaBlais Correct.
I have a similar keys layout and also have a macro for my email! But I have an additional layer for function keys so that they are the same as the numbers.
I tried to keep it to as few layers as possible, but totally valid! The email macro is a Godsend haha