As the first-born son of a psychiatrist, I feel inclined to add the data point that I do not recognize this in myself. I have a fairly neurotic personality, though, maybe that's the word you are looking for? Then again I don't think my father's profession has had a significant impact on my personality.
Maybe it has more to do with a type of personality that professions like psychiatry attract? It's hardly disputed that your parents' personalities tend to rub off on you.
Well said. It's the reason I hate Microsoft's Team Explorer built into Visual Studio. Almost everyone on my team uses it, and as a result, nobody understands git. The number of merge commits that could have been avoided by a simple git pull --rebase...
I made the jump from vim to emacs without relying on evil or spacemacs, working my way through the built-in tutorial (C-h t) and doing my own customization from the bottom up. Surprisingly, you don't need that much customization to get productive in emacs, so it's better to find out for yourself what you need.
The mnemonics of the emacs keybindings are part of what makes it so special, so it didn't make much sense to me to use evil-mode. Spacemacs is another layer of abstraction which makes it easier to get started, but ultimately hinders your customizability and understanding of the text editor you are using.
I know you specifically asked for tips that apart from perseverance, but I believe this is the reason I stuck with it for the past 2 years. But beware: mastering emacs is a lifelong hobby, where you sometimes sacrifice short-term productivity for long-term happiness.
> but ultimately hinders your customizability and understanding of the text editor you are using.
[Citation Needed] Spacemacs is just elisp. It is documented and you can explore its source the same as anything else in emacs. `SPC h d` + `which-key` is a godsend for learning and understanding what emacs offers.
Adding ".rss" to a subreddit's URL turns it into an RSS feed. I use this to avoid the homepage and ranking by hot/popular, and consume reddit like a normal news feed.
I've been using a combination of rclone and borg backup to backup my Linux system to an S3 bucket on a daily cron schedule. I'm paying a little under $1/mo for storage, and it just works so I'm really happy with it so far. If you use a cheaper storage provider you could probably get it done for even less.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but for a remote Borgbackup you need to be able to create the full backup on your local drive, and only then you can upload it to your server (unless you are able to run something like an ssh-server on the server-side, which you can't with a lot of cloud storage services.)
With rclone, you can simply upload without having to create a full local 'snapshot' of the 'files-to-upload' first.
Ah sorry, I did not catch that you were talking about pure cloud storage solutions.
Yes, I have a remote VM where I can ssh and use it as a borg server.
The advantage I see in this vs a copy of the repo is that I have two independent backups. If one fails for some reason (defective disk for instance) then I do not copy a faulty backup further.
Borg does the backups. Rclone is for syncing data, which is not the same thing. For example, Borg does deduplication of the data. It also let’s you see different versions of a file. IMO, syncing can never replace backups.
Borg does but if you sync with rclone you might end up uploading full data for every upload depending on the change of your data. This might be very costly and that's why they suggest a active host for backup.
Borg's dedup is more than incremental backups. It dedups blocks/areas even within the first run. No significant run of data is repeated with a single repository.
https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli