Horrifying.

This is exactly what my masters thesis feels like ATM, every attention is on all the AI crap also because the Uni gets grants ont the topic. Everything else just dies

Ah, I accidentally read over that you used free -m.

By top 3 services do you also include any programs ? For me htop itself already consumes 10 MB, what other processes are running ?

Are you certain its actual ram usage and not reserved ? Usually when a program requests huge amounts of ram it is not given it until it actually writes to it. Try running free and check what it says.

edit the www to old it should work again, I got the same thing I think its some user agent stuff but I am not 100% sure.

This advice will seem rather generic but this has worked for me. Background: I’ve been programming for a good 15 years in various languages and mainly in VSC and veeery long ago in the arduino IDE (I do not want to talk about those dark times).

1. Get a pet project to try this against. Learning controls for the sake of it, is … useless. If its just text, there is no intuition or goal. I chose to try and teach myself rust and go through the learnopengl tutorial again and change it to work with miniquad-rs. Maybe pick something you are familiar with! A new language is a rather tall order usually.

2. Get a functional config and edit it. Personally kickstart.nvim is really nice for generic settings, but their setup of plugins, and especially LSP (language server config) is really hard to read and difficult to parse. My recommendation for setup:

2a. Copy thePrimeagen’s config ( https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/init.lua/tree/master ) which he creates with this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7i4amO_zaE NOTE: The actual config is using lazy now instead of the plugin manager he has in the tutorial! the broad strokes are the same but e.g. there is no “after” for the plugins and some other details. What he says about general vim config is still correct tho. Also lazy is much simpler, no longer do you need like 20 different packages for each LSP. (edit: found what makes it work on my setup it https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim/blob/6ba2408cdf5eb7a0e4b62c7d6fab63b64dd720f6/init.lua#L487 its mason-tool-installer in kickstart)

2b. Make a subfolder like lua/theprimeagen e.g. lua/$USER.

2c. Comment out this line https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/init.lua/blob/158c9ccd652e5921cc6940205da6ed20776e7cc7/init.lua#L1 and instead require yours.

2d. open .config/nvim in VSCode (yes, it would recommend using something you know to edit)

2e. line by line, file by file, go through the config files and his video and add what you think is interesting. This took me a good 5h (a good days work) to get somewhat done.

2f. Also look at kickstart.nvim! Theprimeagen is a pro at this stuff so he has no descriptions for his keybindings! (Which you can add when you use e.g. vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>pv", vim.cmd.Ex, { desc = "[p]roject [v]iew"}). ( The [] are just for niceness, no syntactic value). Why does this matter? -> Because kickstart.nvim has a config for the mind-blowingly useful which-key plugin ( https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim/blob/6ba2408cdf5eb7a0e4b62c7d6fab63b64dd720f6/init.lua#L302 ). Which shows hotkeys and their description while you play with em! Really good for learning!

3. When making your config absolutely ignore anything that is not in the “top 10 things you do in any other editor”. E.g. I really only need “go to definition”, “go to file” (which is a telescope fuzzy find), “find references” or “rename”. ThePrimeagen has really words of wisdom here “If its something you do rarely, fuck automating it, only automate it when its actually worth remembering the hotkey”.

4. In general you want to reduce friction between thinking, clicking and on-screen action. So anything like “oh what if I want to have a hotkey to rename a C++ header file AND its source file in one go” is a good deal too complex. Keep it super simple.

5. learn how window jumping with stuff like :vsplit works in nvim, it works great!

6. For Tmux, you only really need whatever this legend says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtB1J_zCv8I Sidenote: I made my first project a simple Tmux script that is exactly what fireship describes and launches pre-defined sessions. Works great!

7. learn by doing :D

Struggles:

• Moving with hjkl is painful at first, but believe me it is goddamn worth it. I deactivated the arrow keys and mouse clicking altogether so I don’t accidentally do it. Also you will be using wb and tf mainly anyways! (word, back, to, find).
• Learning the nvim internal file browser (netrw) is worth it!
• Lua is nice but I have never used it before doing this a few days ago. After each plugin restart vim and check for any errors. If you copy something outdated or otherwise problematic you want to fail fast instead of end up with a tangled mess of configs that you need to throw out entirely.
• Editing nvim configs while in nvim is dumb and really annoying. Just do it in VSC or something you are familiar with.

Random misc:

• Insane plugins: UndoTree (which ThePrimeagen uses)

• Insane keycombos: e.g. you are somewhere inside of “Some Really long string that you might wanna change or copy”. normal mode. vi". -> v-> visual, i -> inside of, " -> whatever you wanna be inside of. It will select the entire string inside the ". Yes i know this is basic but this shit is SO useful. Works with ANY delimiter (afaik) like ([{

• DuckDuckGo actually is navigate-able with hjkl! Pressing j to go down the results list is really useful. I am using hyprland so ctrl+tab focuses a browser window. Ctrl+t new window. Type in search. Enter. Go up and down down with jk. really nice, no mouse needed.

Links: The entire primeagen playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm323Lc7iSW_wuxqmKx_xxNtJC_hJbQ7R

kickstart.nvim: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim/tree/master

Note: I would share my config but my dotfiles are on my own git server and have sensitive info inside I don’t feel like cleaning out

Tmux + neovim is really great once you get past the learning curve!

I really hope he picked up the avocade seed afterwards…

I agree. But if you’ve ever tried to calculate phase shift with imaginary numbers on something that also represents an electrical circuit. Mixing up j and i even if technically they should be easy to keep apart, gets annoying very fast xD

Online dating has worked well for me but it requires some really strong mental barriers so you dont get overwhelmed. Most apps have some sort of ‘you got liked by X’ counter which feels really degrading and destroyes your self esteemed as a guy if youre not confident. Inversely, as a woman you get so many likes you drown in a swamp with 0 ineresting things, like a never ending tide.

And bios are just … The worst. I Am really fucking tempted to write ‘if your primarily sexual characteristics are what you are most proud of of yourself, you need to think up a new personality’

I categorically dont like anyone who looks like my countries typical beauty standard and/or has no bio/is not interested in conveying their personality…

Any like I give a girl who is ‘standard beautiful’ just fades into the white noise and is a waste of time.

To be clear, I Am not saying everyone in the beauty standard has no personality; but its more likely that such a person does not need to use their brain to get what they want. All the Better if they do, but it sure Doesn’t look that way if you get showered with attention when you got an empty bio…

Subjective and for sure flawed rant is over

You may be describing something called ‘Workload paralysis’ which, in short, makes tasks daunting because they seem so hard to start. Usually it ‘leads to’ procrastination, doing tasks instead that are known and easier.

Doesn’t help that modern society tries to make you feel bad for having this parallesis, making it cause this whirlpool of self doubt.

Sadly there is AFAIK only one medicine: start. No matte rhow slowly, no matter how insignificant or pointless it may seem, start. As soon as you spend time doing anything, you will get better at doing it. This counts for all tasks.