Mastodawn

One pro tip to remember, if your #Mac is running low on space: if you've ever used #MacTeX, check that old versions have been deleted. They take up huge amounts of space and don't get removed when installing new versions.

kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮ 🖖Dec 11

Performing some quick statistical analyses in classic #RStats and neatly “knitting” them into a PDF using #RMarkdown, #knitr, and #MacTeX #texLaTeX.

Call me old-fashioned, but I really enjoy this workflow.

#OpenSource #FOSS #statistics

Volker Stolz Mar 20, 2025

What doesn't work so well. Trying to:
- install a 6.5Gb package (#MacTeX #MacOS)
- from an SMB-mount
- over a Wireguard VPN connection.

Currently looking at something like 30 mins and counting, and an unreasonable amount of data SENT BACK to the fileserver. Weird.

The connection to the server is reasonably fast, ca. 25 MB/s, so there's some churn somewhere.

Bummer that there seems to be no way to install the 9.5GB out of this 6.6GB package without ALSO having it stored on the machine? HTTPFS?

Volker Stolz Feb 20, 2025

🙄 #MacOS `installer -verbose -pkg ...` produces umpteen thousand lines of:

installer: Writing files….....

Let's see if this helps me debugging why it's somehow sooo difficult to install the 6 Gb #MacTeX package from a network drive without copying it to the local disk first. About one line per second, running for a fair few minutes now.

Fifo™Mar 12, 2024

yoo #TeXLive and #MacTeX 2024 are coming out tomorrow!

Kristoffer Lawson Jul 27, 2023

"All right, let's write this out with #LyX."
(Typing. Done.)
"A but I need this specific format for this one thing... how the hell..."
(Many hours later)
"OK, that hack seems to kind of work. Let's render it now to RTF. Crap, that doesn't work. Ah my MacTeX is from 2017, maybe that's why..."
(Now downloading new 5.51GB #MacTeX)

Let's see how this ends. Original text was in #IAWriter but that had even less layouting features and I wasn't in the mood to learn how to do a custom template.