I actually do this somewhat frequently at my local game shop. Thousands of dollars' worth of Magic: The Gathering cards (because I bring multiple decks instead of just the one I'm playing) in my backpack left behind as I go to get some water or something.

> high trust societies only work when the price of ongoing admission is not violating that trust

Indeed, the reason I feel comfortable doing that is I know that nobody wants to be banned from going to that store (and they would be). In this context, the community is small enough that rumors would likely circulate at other local shops and they might also become a bit of a pariah at those other places they could play.

Now my personal computer does have much nicer color schemes and a few plugins for code dev that I don’t carry around. But even then I try to use the defaults in my IDEs and browsers, because at this point I’m on work computer number.. 11? Configuring it is starting to get old

  # Roaming bashrc profile
  function sshrc() {
      BASHRC=$(cat ${HOME}/.bashrc_roaming | base64 -w 0)
      ssh -t $@ "echo \"${BASHRC}\" | base64 --decode >   ~/.bashrc_roaming; \
      bash --rcfile ~/.bashrc_roaming; \
      rm ~/.bashrc_roaming";
  }

If the claim these folks make is "time spent struggling through a default config on an unfamiliar machine" > "time saved by crafting an workshop to fit your mind", then we are not the same.

(Probably, the dividing line here is time spent coding vs time spent managing infra.)

Like sure, if you need to quibble about red or yellow prompts, eh. But if there is a good log colorizer or analyzer that makes an expert better at handling the system, or some aliases that make a system easier to manage - I want this deployed for _all_ admins on _all_ relevant systems.

And sure, all code running on a server is a security topic. But then let's figure out a way to run your favorite tools through the software security pipeline and then deploy it to systems. Sure, I dislike installing the latest js-based npm fad on a database for a minor advantage, but if there is some well-aged tool from the postgres space... I'd probably rather work to have it.

That's my style

Howdy-do me?

Watch me smile

But fare-the-well me

After a while

'Cause I gotta roam

And any place I hang my hat is home"

Anybody who would like a decent text editor around vim key-bindings uses Emacs in evil-mode already.

I personally use zsh and do not want to miss it on my own machines. I however do log in onto machines that sometimes do not even have bash (yeah it’s rare nowadays, but it exists), and I adapt just fine. It’s not super pleasant, but not using zsh on my machines would be less pleasant.

These days, things are a bit different. Vim and Neovim are more easily customized, and have gained a following because it is more finger friendly (even if it is harder to learn).

does the same .bash_profile/.bashrc work on different linux versions? what about macos? and now macos no longer uses bash. And what about saving .bash_history? and on and on.

there is a whole industry of shell scripts that try to help with this.

Also, is there a way to automatically edit a chezmoi managed file in the chezmoi directory? I accidentally type stuff like "nvim .bashrc" way too often and then forget I never added the changes to chezmoi. It would be neat if there was a vim plugin or something that just opened the chezmoi file instead if it's managed.

  $ context set universe://work/customer-a/devops --update-dotfiles

  $ context set unvierse://work/customer-b --update-dotfiles

  $ canvas dot apply user.name@remote.id:workspace-foo

  $ canvas dot apply user.name@remote.id:workspace-bar/shell/bashrc

yes, complicated, probably hard to comprehend/reason about, work in progress

    l() { if [ -d "$1" ] ; then ls -alFh -- "$1" ; else "${PAGER:-pager}" -- "$1" ; fi }