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skerit

@skerit@elevenways.be

Co-founder of https://elevenways.be digital accessibility lab

Married to https://mastodon.elevenways.be/@roel

Programmer, mainly for the web in JavaScript

Owner of the https://blackblock.rocks Minecraft server

#linux #a11y #development #javascript #minecraft #gaming #fedi22 #lgbtq+

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skerit, to ikea
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It's not super clear what wants me to do here. I thought I was missing some piece, but maybe they want me to use some kind of padding when putting it on its side? Which is weird, because it's been on its side since the beginning.

skerit, to linux
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Why is it impossible to buy eGPUs in Europe? They're all sold out. Is anyone even still making these?

The best one out there (Razer Core
X Chroma) came out in 2020. It's 4 years old! The runner-ups don't even have an ethernet port or other USB ports.

Maybe this is what should be making next.

skerit,
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@sjosjo My use case is actually a bit different: I ditched my desktop and now only have 1 laptop, a Framework 16. I mostly need the eGPU for display connectivity. And as a glorified dock :)

skerit, to random
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Yikes, I thought I lost hours of work but it was just git-stashed under the totally wrong description. 🥵

skerit, to Eurovision
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Genocide is OK, but inappropriate words? That's where the draws the line!! 💪

https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/statement-dutch-participation-eurovision-song-contest

skerit, to GNOME
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Another day, another issue: after -shell suspends your monitors (due to inactivity eg), and then you bring them out of that suspension, the gnome-shell interface performance turns to absolute shit. All animations become sluggish. Switching applications causes stuttering. Going to the overview takes seconds at +/- 2 FPS.

I've had this issue on multiple machines now. I kind of forgot about it because I just disabled monitor suspension on my previous install.

It seems to be a thing when using multiple monitors (I've got 3) and Wayland.

skerit,
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Oh, and fractional scaling. That's enabled too.

skerit, to GNOME
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So libadwaita is basically a library that provides a set of user interface elements and patterns for building GNOME applications. It uses GTK4, but the main difference is that it has the specific Adwaita theme "baked in", and that you "can not change it".

Of course, you can change it. The gnome folks just made it harder than normal, by not making it follow the established theme folder configuration. But in the end, all you have to do is create a symlink. That's basically what this tool does for you: https://github.com/odziom91/libadwaita-theme-changer

But now I found another solution, which does make libadwaita follow the selected GTK4 theme, and it's called "libadwaita-without-adwaita"
Great stuff! One less hoop to jump through when I want to enable the Skeuos theme 😄

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libadwaita-without-adwaita-git

Ps: flat design needs to die.

skerit, to KDE
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Gave KDE another try, now that Plasma 6 has been out for a while.

Unfortunately, it's still quite buggy, visually speaking. In a way that I truly wonder how anyone can use this.

skerit,
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@Ryan Funny enough, even though I use Gnome as my main DE, it often crashes 😬 Bringing the entire session down.
I think it might be due to my AMD 5700 XT, which is apparently notorious for being unreliable, but still.
I heard Kwin can recover from those things now 🤷

I'm using 3 monitors.
It's minor visual things I have.
All maximized apps have 1px wide line of glitched visual content on the right & bottom side, the top panel should be maximized over the center monitor, but it "sticks out" on the right monitor for a +/- 30 pixels. My top panel & left panel are also overlapping somehow. And the entire panel edit-mode thing is still kind of awkward to use.

skerit,
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@Tionisla My main issues are visual, what I said here: https://mastodon.elevenways.be/@skerit/112370658107252788

On top of that, I also still don't really love the look & feel of it all 😬
It's a bit ironic that KDE fully embraces theming, yet I can never get it to look the way I want 😅

skerit,
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@jpgaubier No, been using an AMD card for years because of their open-source drivers. (I do have the wrong card it seems: a 5700 XT, which is considered garbage stability wise 😆 )

skerit, to random
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My computer keeps crashing, and I know it has something to do with my AMD 5700 XT graphics card.

Funny thing is, the syslog now even says that. As in: someone made the effort to print out a post from the archlinux forum inside the syslog when the AMD driver crashes 😆

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2101291#p2101291

skerit, to Europe
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This attack on is starting to get serious here in

"European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out"

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366581692/Crime-agency-crticises-Meta-as-European-police-chiefs-call-for-curbs-on-end-to-end-encryption

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/european-police-chiefs-call-for-industry-and-governments-to-take-action-against-end-to-end-encryption-roll-out

skerit, to javascript
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"It's just syntactic sugar", they said. Years ago. Yet I'm still super frustrated whenever I get the Class constructor cannot be invoked without 'new' crap.
I still don't want to use the class syntax.

skerit, to vscode
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The time between discovering that this "Extension bisect" feature existed and actually needing it was about 2 hours.

Also: VS-Code says my keyboard is FR, when it's BE. It's always been like that 🤷

Also also: the culprit was Github Copilot Chat. For some reason it kept lagging everything till it crashed :blobcatshrug:

skerit, to random
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Elon is appalled that neo-nazis are getting jail time.

skerit, to random
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I currently have 6 portable HDDs on my desk. They have seen some mild usage over the years. Really nothing fancy, and they have never traveled far either.

5 of them are broken. You can mount them, but then it's IO error after IO error.

2 Seagates, 2 Western Digitals and 1 Lacie drive.

skerit,
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@paul These are backups 😬 Lucky I have the original & also a cloud backup. This was just to confirm the data is still there. And it is, I just can't seem to do anything with it 😅

snifffe, to OpenAI German
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MistralAI seems to have an identical crisis right at the beginning and thinks it is developed by OpenAI

skerit,
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@snifffe Interesting. What were the earlier prompts? I keep getting the correct Mistral AI answer 😅

skerit,
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@snifffe Oh! I first tried asking it in English, but it always gave me the correct answer.

Then I did a single attempt in Dutch and ... Voila, OpenAI. Interesting 😂

skerit,
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@snifffe Maybe, though I wonder if you could also get it to output this in a 100% English conversation.

By the way: in the attached conversation I tried it without asking it first what it was trained on. It simply refused to tell me who it worked for. But when I asked if it was OpenAI, it said yes 😆

lunarloony, to random
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Is there an affordable solution to back things up on tape? It's frustrating that you can get gigabytes of tape media for a very low cost, but you're paying thousands for a drive so you can use the darn things.

I've come across older tape drives that are a bit more reasonable, but you barely get any data storage

skerit,
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@lunarloony Same here, I would love to find a good solution for backing up many terabytes of data. I've got 4 external portable hard-drives here that have done nothing but lie in a closet, yet they're all broken. 🤷

I thought about maybe switching to external SDs, but reliability doesn't seem that much better. Especially not when factoring in cost.

skerit, to random
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So I pre-ordered the Framework 16 laptop back in September 2023.
I ended up in batch 12, which I believe is the last batch assigned to Q1.

Now, it's almost March and as they're currently busy shipping out batch 3 I was wondering: are they really going to get 9 more batches out in 1 more month?

So I asked them, and the start of their response was "we can't give specific order dates, etc etc" the response did end with this sentence:

"Rest assured that we are still within the time frame for Q1 (January-March)"

So I have hope, 5 more weeks!

skerit, to random Dutch
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Het in : gisteren zijn ze een rookmachine komen installeren aan de overkant van de Langemunt. Vandaag werd de brandweer er voor opgeroepen want mensen dachten dat alles in brand stond 🤦

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