neil in gemini space

i know what i like - 2023-05-01

i like:

• dvorak keymap - everywhere, so from login, in terminals, and gui
• iso dates - everywhere
• utc
• vim
• bash - and an uptodate version, ta
• rakudo-star bundle - my current playground
• auto-completion
• debian
• xfce

not much to ask really ..... but not easily achieved on macos, and sadly even on linux/gnu/linux not out of the box (depends on box for some likes).

i am on apple silicon for most things atm and using utm to run debian 11 instances. utm gallery debian 11 inital installs; lazy i am.

so.... so that i don't forget:

getting to what i like on apple silicon

• utm debian 11 gallery install

add a new user and reconfigure keyboard

sudo adduser [my new user] # replace [my new user] with a new user name
sudo usermod -a -G cdrom,floppy,sudo,audio,dip,video,plugdev,netdev,lpadmin,scanner
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration # use this to select dvorak

sort out the time and date format

sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC
cd /usr/share/i18n/locales/
sudo cp en_US custom
sudo vim custom

following this:

=> 2023-05-01 How to change date formats on Ubuntu

i edited the date fmt:

% Appropriate date and time representation (%c)
d_t_fmt "%Y %m %d %a %R %Z"
%
% Appropriate date representation (%x)
d_fmt   "%Y//%m//%S"
%
% Appropriate time representation (%X)
t_fmt   "%R"
%
% Appropriate AM/PM time representation (%r)
t_fmt_ampm "%I:%M:%S %p"
%
% Appropriate date and time representation for date(1)
date_fmt "%Y %m %d %a %R %Z"

i did not edit the file in unicode but instead just followed the existing format. this seems to work ok with debian 11 xfce:-)

sudo localedef -f UTF-8 -i custom custom.UTF-8

add or modify /etc/environment

LC_TIME="custom.UTF-8"

logout, login.

install stuff i want

sudo apt install vim curl bash-completion firefox-esr install build-essential git libssl-dev terminator

=> 2023-04-30 - Install the Rakudo Star Bundle from Source

follow the instructions on the page to install the rakudo star bundle.

a good start:-)

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