wether

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Recent convert from Windows here, and for the most part everything has been smooth, but I've run into a brick wall with this one.

I write a lot and often like to use non-standard characters. On Windows I was using AutoHotKey to convert e.g. a ctrl-shift-hyphen into an em dash (—) or ctrl-e to type an é.

I haven't been able to find any good way to do this on Mint thus far. AutoHotKey doesn't seem to work, and the built-in Keyboard Shortcuts interface is incredibly clunky and slow (i.e. pasting the character maybe 2/3rds of the time, with noticeable delay).

I'd really like to be able to just seamlessly hit a hotkey and type a character like —/é. Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Thanks.

[–] wether@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

I get the impression that there's huge appetite in India for solar and other renewables, but as with many things, a lot of issues with implementation. A few weeks ago I was traveling in some fairly remote regions of the Northwest and even these tiny little villages in the back-country had a few solar panels scattered around— but it was only one or two. I wonder whether trust issues like a lack of on-the-ground familiarity with how to independently install and repair solar is a contributing factor, since there's definitely no shortage of enthusiasm on the government/NGO level.

[–] wether@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The Fediverse is great, but perhaps just because of the lack of algorithms and other content-promotion methods I have found it a bit harder to break out of my 'silos' in some places. Lemmy isn't too bad for this, but I've really struggled to find other people to follow and engage with on Mastodon as somebody on a small local instance. Little things like the Mastodon phone app not listing followers from other instances contributes to this.

[–] wether@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty much no serious authority on climate predicts that global warming will lead to human extinction. The collapse of what we know as civilisation, perhaps, and even some kind of mass death event, but our species outright ending? Zero chance. Not to say that those who endure as a relict population upon an overheated, polluted, and scarred Earth will be having a great time or anything