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My #guix gc freed about 14gb. How about that? #GarbageCollection

Today I learned about #gnuOctave, apparently as an OS alternative to #MatLab. Full disclosure: I've never actually used matlab. Does anyone have experience with Octave? Was it good?

https://wiki.octave.org/Differences_between_Octave_and_Matlab

ah, the pains of being a power user. "Is it stable? How often do you restart?"

Well, it's not usually the software's fault. At least, not under normal usage.

Firefox just worked up my browser and froze my machine. I switched to a terminal and ran `pkill firefox`. Now I am keeping a close eye on my `about:processes` tab.

@mrb fontlock is a built-in thing, right? Auto-enabled in recent versions of emacs?

@icedquinn wait... do they not do that anymore?

I've been getting increasingly cli-based, so I guess my tech path has taken me out of the loop ...

@hajovonta I haven't yet, but that is a good idea. I'll try to get that in today.

My life is so much better after I removed #emacs #UndoTree. Things that I just wrote off as failing before, and as freezing my process, just WORK now. For example, it turns out that "elfeed update" causes big buffer changes and that undotree was freezing the thread trying to track those changes. Same story with Telega startup. I had really suspected that my HD was failing; it didn't occur to me that I was getting sabotaged by a global buffer-monitoring plugin.

@mitchmarq42xyz https://github.com/casouri/vundo looks pretty good, and is maintained and up to date, it seems. :Thanks for the suggestion!

#emacs I was experiencing freezes of sometimes up to 30 seconds about 3/4 of the the time when I used my muscle memory to hit "undo", which I do as part of my regular "kill-line undo" combo. Something must have changed recently because I started to have show-stopping freezes of my emacs thread when I tried a routine "undo." I finally managed to squeeze a `toggle-debug-on-quit` and, with a bit of patience, got a C-g in during the freeze. The culprit in the resulting stack trace was my global undo-tree mode, which in combination with my other settings must have started failing. I turned it off by removing the line in my init.el and also running `global-undo-tree-mode` to toggle the mode and… far, no more funny freezes on undo. There are occasions when the undo tree is great and useful, but not at the cost of sometimes completely being a show stopper.

The fact that #emacs out-of-the-box includes "undo-in-region" is not only super cool, but also extremely useful. I just copied a bunch of stuff, changed it into org headings, updated the title, then realized that the stuff had multiple lines, so I undid just the heading part and removed the linebreaks before going back to headings -- without undoing the title change.

Will "Live Tweeting" a big event cause issues on a #mastodon instance? I know that cross-posting back in the day between Twitter and Mastodon seemed not good

Today I am reminded that the difference between lazy "a la" and correct "à la" is called a "grave accent," not the pinyin 4th tone. We are doing french-english, not chinese-latin characters! #unicode In #emacs that's "LATIN SMALL LETTER A GRAVE"

Upgraded to check; mute system on-off. Somehow my VLC had been set to mute (but nothing else in the system). Weird.