The only issue I had with this setup was that if a download got cancelled, it would start failing throwing package integrity errors because aria downloads directly to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/package_name.tar.xz rather than a .part file which is copied upon completion. The built-in downloader of pacman ensures this is done right.
My layout of choice is colemak. I used to have quite a bit of pain in my wrist and between my left ring and middle finger when using QWERTY. I gave up and switched cold-turkey to colemak ~7 years ago and haven't looked back since. Also, it is available almost on every system I use - PKL for windows, `setxkbmap us -variant colemak` on GNU/Linux. It is an excellent layout and if you have a slow month or two (like I did in my final year of college), try an alt layout. It is definitely worth it - speed is the last thing a programmer needs to worry about while typing if one can go > 50wpm.
I had switched from QWERTY to Dvorak but it never felt quite "right" and my WPM had decreased from 130wpm~ to 110wpm~. After about 6 months of being comfortable with Dvorak I made the switch to Colemak - much better. After becoming accustomed, I type at 150wpm~ comfortably and also keep that speed on QWERTY layouts which I still use at work.
The largest benefit of re-learning how to type on a new keyboard is it can make you aware of bad habits you had before and you can unlearn them.
Increasing WPM wasn't necessarily my goal - as I was focused more on the comfort of typing. I don't necessarily attribute the comfort to Colemak, I think it is closer to "learning how to type properly leads to comfort".
I highly recommend learning Colemak or even Dvorak - then switching back to QWERTY before making a final judgement. I don't think Dvorak is in any way superior to QWERTY, in fact, I think it is worse. Few people know how to type properly [0] and I think they find Dvorak to be better only because learning a new keyboard allows them to relearn how to type, break existing bad habits, and focus more on their ability to type leading to improvements in their typing. They then attribute their improvements to Dvorak rather than them learning how to type.
Dvorak "for programmers" being an exception as it was designed around programming and makes sense for such purposes.
[0] I consider "typing properly" to be 120+wpm with errors being uncommon. The average being 40-60wpm tells me that most people simply never learned how to type. (Should go without saying, but my "120+wpm is proper" doesn't include those with disabilities that affect their ability to type.)
I, too, switched to colemak in my final year of graduate school, because I had bad form in Qwerty and a worrying amount of pain in my wrist. I've been very glad that I switched.
I loved running OpenBSD on my laptop. The man-pages were insanely good and the *ctl commands to configure stuff were refreshingly well organized - no more mucking around with a 100 different config files. My major gripe last time was that Firefox was unusably slow. I was told that this was because multi-threading support in OpenBSD was poor. Also, while chromium was tolerable, playing something on youtube would make it feel like the system was under a lot of load. I finally had to move away from it because of this. That said, I plan to move to Vultr and run an OpenBSD box when my current Digital Ocean account runs out of balance.
Can you check if the content served is uncensored or if scenes with any kind of nudity are blurred or cut outright? Check a few episodes of Orange Is The New Black or Dexter or Marco Polo, maybe? I also wonder if the movies are cuts or the originals as available in the U.S. Sometimes the shows become unwatchable when cuts are done wholesale.
If this was possible, I would get a friend of mine in USA to pay for my account. People complain about piracy in India and do not understand that torrents and streaming sites are currently my only source for good TV series. I am readily willing to pay even $40 a month for such a service.
Or even better, sign up using a Canadian IP. The their dollar is lower than the American, so it is cheaper (might be cheaper elsewhere). It doesn't limit you in any way to sign up and use in another country as far as I can tell.
I actually feel a bit guilty now. I am a long time Firefox user. I got a new phone and wanted to use Keep. Installed Chrome and its Keep extension without realizing that I could actually visit keep.google.com. I clicked a popup that made Chrome the default and have been using it for some time now.
Back to firefox then! If not for anything else then at least to keep the competition up.
