I love application launchers that sort apps based on use. If I want to forget about an app for a while, I just, reset its usage counter. Now it will be pushed down the list off screen until I explicitly search for it.
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just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
just because I spent time making it doesn't mean I should post it
In the den. Straight up "jammin to it". And by "it", haha, well. Let's just say, keygen music.
WARNING: You, a technically INEPT muggle, are hereby EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN from MESSING with your computer UNLESS you have a BLACK BELT in bug squatting, SPEAK AT LEAST THREE programming tongues AND can FLIP A BIT using a BUTTERFLY (WE WILL FRY YOUR BALLS IF YOU DON'T COMPLY)
98% isn't very much
I have this conversation often enough, whether it is about supporting use cases or people, success rate of a process, or etc.
It's one of the cases where people will lie to your face using ratios: If the glass is half full, they will say 98%, which sounds like almost everything; If the glass is half empty, they will say 1 out of 50, which suddently sounds like an alarming figure.
This is a good short blog post expressing this feeling.
TIL portage supports installing software from CDROMs, complete with an "Insert next CD and press ENTER" prompt
https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo/src/branch/master/games-rpg/comi/comi-1-r1.ebuild
https://codeberg.org/gentoo/gentoo/src/branch/master/eclass/cdrom.eclass#L237
Today I was thinking of how I lowkey miss the interactivity of the next->next->done installation of programs on windows, especially the part where you see the progress graphically, and wondered if it'd be fun to make something like this for Linux.
Then I remembered that this is one of the many ways #OpenSUSE was way ahead of its time: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:One_Click_Install
I'm pretty sure Q4OS also has a few wizards like this, but you can't download them from a site.
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@unsungnovelty@mastodon.social I really like that you explain your decision process rather than trying to categorize groups of users into distros, so people can make their informed decision.
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@unsungnovelty@mastodon.social
@unsungnovelty@mastodon.social Good overview though there's a few things I disagree with: independent distros don't last longer than derivatives, they require much more work and more people, while a derivative can last incredibly long with few maintainers. I also disagree with your take on rolling release, even if your arch "hasn't broken" in 5 years, it is a constant churn of programs changing behaviours and breaking existing configs. 6 months is a great release cadence and I wish linux mint wasn't on LTS now.
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@njsg@mementomori.social
@njsg@mementomori.social @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems USE flags are merely the supported set of alterations ;)
What nobody had told me before digging deeper is how much further than that it went.
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@ethorsoe@sauna.social
@ethorsoe@sauna.social @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems Gentoo has a seriously poisoned public image, that I'm not sure if it'd be possible to reconcile at this point. On the one hand it's easy publicity and it keeps the distro permanently in the public's view, on the other hand it brings in the kind of people who do it for the street cred.
Then again, the well of OS discussion has long been poisoned, I never see reasonable takes on the differences between distributions, and people still reglarly recommend popos to newbs..
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@kim@k.iim.gay
@kim@k.iim.gay @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems If you've packaged for any other distribution, I think you'll feel right at home. Make sure to read man 5 ebuild and mgorny's guides to EAPI7 and 8, and don't be afraid to dig into and read the eclass/ directory in the repository, as well as /usr/lib/portage//phase-.sh, as you'll find all the functions you'll be using in there.
(Though start with the devmanual.gentoo.org website if you haven't read it yet)
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems For me, it's the flexibility and extensibility. So many things I do on gentoo would require hard-forking another distribution, but here I just plop the modification into a file and can carry it with me across upgrades.
Besides that, I think paradoxically, gentoo is the simplest of the "advanced" distributions. Although not perfect, the majority of packages have very reasonable defaults, and the onboarding documentation is top of the line. Even if you customize nothing, it's worth it.
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@scribblemacher@mstdn.games In the canon it's not unseen that a pokemon just pops out of its ball and leaves its trainer, or they just live with humans without involving balls, but yeah... It's a world where a 10 year old is legally allowed to take a near governmental position by punching the elites with his rogue band of critters, a lot of this wouldn't work in reality :P
Sometimes it's best to not have a canon answer when they would come up with "pokemon go into the grass to willingly be captured".
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@scribblemacher@mstdn.games Tbh, battling is just one of the many things people do w/ them in this world, and it's portrayed as you playing the role of the strategist, kind of like a coach would with a sports team. Pokemon aren't forced to obey (there's mechanics to reflect this, although with a different goal), and the bad guys are usually people who steal or otherwise force pokemon to do their bidding.
The black/white games explore capturing as enslavement a bit in the story but it's shallow.
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@scribblemacher@mstdn.games
@scribblemacher@mstdn.games To me, this series combines a collectathon with a sense of exploring the world with your pals. The RPG battles are mostly a vehicle for the monsters to express themselves and feel a sense of progression/growth. Most of the individual elements don't hold up to scrutiny and deteriorated after a certain point in the series, but the combination of all of it is something few games replicate as nicely.
I don't think you'll change your mind but I'd still recommend finishing it :)
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@owiecc@en.osm.town
@owiecc@en.osm.town In that case you should either draw the copper connecting both pins in the footprint (only cut the solder mask where the pins actually connect with the part!), or do the 1,2,3,4 setup so both can be connected in the schematic.
Either way, in general the advice would be to follow whatever the datasheet does, and if it's a standard footprint shared by many parts, always separate pins.
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@owiecc@en.osm.town
@owiecc@en.osm.town I suppose the semantics would be important here: do both of them need to be connected (as to not derate the capacitor), or is one of them enough, and can the freed up pin ease routing?
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@xgqt eix will also list new SLOTs that nothing will depend on (i.e. inmediately depcleaned) and updates that conflict with some package. I'm honestly surprised eix --upgrade seemingly isn't giving you false positives?
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@thephd@pony.social
@thephd Your frustration is very valid, but in the future you may also want to try setting CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in the environment before invoking configure. C build systems widely support these, and I'm pretty sure gcc initializes *_C(XX)FLAGS from these during native builds as well.
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@thesamesam@social.treehouse.systems
@thesamesam@social.treehouse.systems @gentoo@fosstodon.org Whoof, a single CPU costing more than a graphics card. I guess this is too specialized for consumer level hardware 😅
Macs ran ppc64? I thought those were ppc only.
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@gentoo@fosstodon.org
@gentoo@fosstodon.org With architectures like this, I always wonder, what hardware can I get running this as a consumer? What about ppc64?
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social
@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @rastilin@aus.social @scherzog@mastodon.gamedev.place @lina@vt.social Benchmarks like that are ran against theoretically perfect implementations of various algorithms, not whatever a developer would realistically write unless given infinite time and knowledge. Having readily available and well-optimized algorithm and other utility libraries is very helpful, like you say.
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@TimWardCam@c.im @scy@chaos.social Android has a screensaver feature, and they can be set as live wallpapers as well.
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@maelstrom071@wetdry.world
@maelstrom071 @sjolsen to me boosting is simply "I would share this in a group chat with like-minded friends". The question is "would others be interested?".
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Sheen, this is the 7th week in a row you've reintroduced the desktop cube in class
#kde