QuazarOmega

QuazarOmega, 2 days ago

Both features are important IMO, reproducibility is for being able to define certain aspects of your machine in a way that you can nuke it and, as long as you have its configuration (declarative for Nix, other implementations might have it as imperative), bring it back just how it was set up, without differences or breakages; while immutability is for being always confident that whatever* you do to your machine, you won’t be able to break it because the root, which holds the functioning core of your system, can’t be messed around with, NixOS has both I believe.

*not really “whatever”, because there are still some ways to break, but you have to be very deliberate in doing it (think rm -rf /*), but in normal operation you won’t just somehow install something or upgrade your packages and be left with an unusable system

QuazarOmega, 3 days ago

I think ublue is the best incarnation of this style of “tweak forks”, it meaningfully expands on the base, but still remains compatible with the original since you can just do a rebase from one of the original Fedora Atomic spins… which wouldn’t have been possible without OSTree, so thanks, Fedora devs :)

QuazarOmega, 3 days ago

Just don’t live in an English speaking country, easy!

QuazarOmega, 13 days ago

How about you let me save the application data for myself and keep it secure on my equipment first, Google? Uff, going through the salvaging process of the data on my near-broken phone is being the most excruciating thing I’ve done recently because they just won’t let you access and save it unless you rely on their cloud… which I might eventually just do, just wished it’d at least be a 100% safe way to get everything, but no, they had to put the decision to be backed up into the applications’ hands ;-;

QuazarOmega, 15 days ago

<span style="color:#323232;">L arge  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">L regex  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">M odel
</span>

QuazarOmega, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

For a GUI thing like that, KDE has had it since 5.27: announcment called Window Tiling, with its graphical Tile Editor that by default is opened with Meta+T
Some discussion on Reddit prior inclusion

QuazarOmega, 16 days ago

The product of a chat with @QuazarOmega

Can confirm, very productive indeed ;)

There is only a way forward, and once you start, you cannot stop

QuazarOmega, 15 days ago

I lowkey want this, it’s like the system equivalent of the screen cat (btw does that exist but with Wayland support?)

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago

I want all that so bad

Gitlab is also thinking of going to federation.

I hope Gitlab has helped the contributor out in their work, last I heard it was just one person on it

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Yea lol
Actually, what did you mean to say @mesamunefire ? nvm

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago

Is this official? It’d be strange if it were only hosted on a random cloud storage provider

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago

Green Forgejo is typing…

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago

Aww, this is a terrible day for rain…

QuazarOmega, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

ngl I thought it was pronounced for-geh-joe until I had gone on their website, I was stunned for a few minutes when I found out

But whatever, who speaks Esperanto anyway? 😛

QuazarOmega, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

uninformed commentThat’s fine in and of itself, but, personally, I could never bring myself to use a forge which isn’t fully featured and easy to use. ::: spoiler (rant)Sourcehut is just so counterintuitive to me and I shrug every time I see a project actually using it, I feel like many wouldn’t even consider making contributions unless they were very motivated. To the average person, it just looks like an unwelcoming experience, especially for the email centric focus, like, why should I switch to another application just to open an issue? At least integrate it with the the web UI, like idk, make it a specialized email client for the platform, so I don’t have to juggle multiple things. — Don’t get me wrong tho, it’s the closest we have to the bare git workflow of the “before times” with a bit more accessibility on top, it’s not bad, but in a way these new web forges have spoiled us devs into relying on cohesive web services which happen to have vendor lock-in, but that can change and it is slowly doing so

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edit: deleted for inaccurate info, don’t consider my dumb rant O.o

I found it unfamiliar in the few times I saw it, but maybe it’s worth giving a try

QuazarOmega, 17 days ago

Any more git bundles you should care about?

That’s a pretty decent list, I actually can’t remember many more, maybe I’d add Onedev, but I’ve been skeptical about it since it’s gone more corporate, so idk.

Actually, are these 2 forks of another, when?

To be fair, the meme isn’t exactly accurate, because the forking relationship is this:

<span style="color:#323232;">Gogs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">└ Gitea
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    └ Forgejo
</span>

But the colors just fit too good not to use this meme, so there you go lol

QuazarOmega, 14 days ago

That’s pretty sad

QuazarOmega, 17 days ago

Seems it’s been reported github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/issues/96a, and the PR to fix it looks like it was merged, so you should be able to run it soon

QuazarOmega, 24 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

They said you can merge without conflicts:

Making a backup every 60 days seems to be sufficient to keep all history. sqlite doesn’t reuse old ids (I think?) so merging the backups shouldn’t be too hard.

But they haven’t tested it, also I wonder if once you do that successfully, Firefox will just delete all the extra records at the next startup, so idk

QuazarOmega, 24 days ago

Hah, I knew it would come to that

but I think that’s the point of diminishing returns in terms of effort

Not if you make another application to automatically split commits in that way… application which will need its own commits, it’s never-ending

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

I’m honestly not sure how useful that flakehub

Me neither, I completely skipped over it, but it sounds interesting, maybe it wouldn’t be as wonky as the AUR since it’s Nix at least, idk

with barely no nix language knowledge I was able to roughly understand what’s going on

That’s actually great! Maybe I’ll try those as well, since sooner or later I’ll have to learn the Nix language anyways and keeping a purer system is always a good thing if possible.

Good luck with devbox btw

edited: how tf did I end up ordering the text like that?

QuazarOmega, 18 days ago

It sounds like it makes sense, but I’m not knowledgeable enough yet, I just found this as a maybe explanation flakehub.com/docs/faq#flake-versions I’d have to dig more in the rest of the ecosystem

I think a sensible progression is: nix + home-manager -> flakes -> develop -> nixOS

I can already see a good meme shaping up here, and I’m all for it XD
I really agree it might be the easiest way in, I’m already standing on the shoulders of giants having waited so long to start, so I guess I was lucky enough to skip the official docs

QuazarOmega, 17 days ago

lmaoo, please post that on !linuxmemes too!

QuazarOmega, 12 days ago

Update: this was kinda driving me insane again and I was about to write a bug report, but thankfully I didn’t have to, because I found out while I was writing and doing some digging, that an option for this exists already! (oopsie)

Go to:

Settings > Configure Kate > Projects > Session Behavior

And check the box for “Restore Open Projects” to enable it, now when you reopen a session that had a folder opened in it, the folder will show up once again in the Projects view.