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snonux

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I solve problems with computers, which wouldn't exist without them!

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jhx, to linux
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A little rant about why I stopped distro hopping :linux:

https://jhx7.de/blog/why-i-stopped-distro-hopping/

snonux,
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@jhx now I have FOMO and think I have to try out Debian again after so long time! All because of you! :-)

snonux,
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@jhx Why Arch additionally to Debian? Arch because of more recent software? And Debian because of the reliability?

snonux, to Blog
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New fancy futuristic CSS style for my blog: https://foo.zone ... :D (if you still see the old plain black on white style, reload the css file, it may be cached still: https://foo.zone/style.css #blog #css #futuristic

snonux,
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@jhx thanks for the feedback!!

snonux, to photography
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Other than DarkTable and RawTherapee, which open-source apps use folks to edit RAW photos? Mainly for minor tweaking and enhancing...the two listed programs here are a bit overload for what I want to do. Shotwell seems to be able to work on RAW photos as well. #photography

snonux,
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I don't mind paying for good software. Maybe Lightroom or an alternative. But first, I always look for good available Open Source software and then look at how much effort it is to do with it what I want to do or to learn the software.

snonux,
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@jhx yes agreed. it is a bit of a legal grey area, but i have a music subscription and i am paying for it, but i also create backups of all my music as lossless flac files. Same applies to the eBooks I "rent" on various platforms (de-DRM and backup) and I also follow some online sport videos, where I do the same (local backups, youtube-dl supports multiple platforms to download videos from, not just youtube). I don't do that for Netfix, though. as I would run out of local storage space soon :D

snonux, to fedora
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I have tried on my laptop. Seems all great, but I reverted back to . I prefer the simplicity of GNOME. Yes, you can keep Plasma simple as well, but I am too tempted to tinker with all the possibilities there. Looking forward to try out deskop one day, though. But GNOME has been my daily driver (on my personal laptop) for more than ten years and I keep it pretty much in its vanilla config. Most of my work is done in the terminal anyway.

snonux,
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@ferki i used to use xmonad as well, as well as other tiling and non tilign WMs, but then i found myself in the rabbit hole to configure all of them all the time. i came to the conclusion that i only need to configure my tmux and optimize my tmux workflows (e.g. fzf integration, ...), because it is the common ground I have (personal Linux laptop, work macBook and also available on all the remote servers where i SSH), so the DE or WM is only secondary :-)

snonux,
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@ferki do you have a large monitor? i found that the tiling window managers don't work well with them. i end up with too much screen real estate and the windows placed at odd positions. (32" screen)

or maybe i should just use a smaller monitor.

maybe there is a reasonable config i could use.

kate, to random
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If you’re designing a programming language, please consider allowing hyphens in identifiers. Hyphen-separated text (kebab-case) is more readable than camelCase, and doesn’t require use of the shift key like camelCase and snake_case. There’s no ambiguity with subtraction if you require spaces around binary operators (which every style guide I’ve ever used requires anyway).

snonux,
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@kate supports it!

tripplehelix, to random
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How have TV UI's still not figured things out. Trying to navigate any current system is a bit of a nightmare, search is horrific. There are already great keyboards that work on TV's, like Samsung's, why do they all use a standard QWERTY that's a pain to click around? Voice is not an answer.

A rule of thumb for the web is everything should be accessible using 3 or fewer clicks. Seems to have been thrown out the window for TV's.

snonux,
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@tripplehelix in recently had to buy a new TV for my parents in law. They can't use it as its too difficult for them. Basically there's now a 2year TV subscription and the TV is only on when we are there for a visit.... And can't simply buy a dumb TV as the subscription works only via the internet and an app on the TV...

snonux,
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@tripplehelix subscription for an internet and TV and telephone bundle. At least the telephone and the internet are useful, as my father in law can actually use an android tablet for YouTube and news! But the TV app is pretty complicated to use

Yes, a monitor as a TV replacement is in some specs overkill and in others lacking

drewdevault, to random
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Why are there no good domain registrars

snonux,
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@drewdevault i like schlundtechnologies!

snonux, to random
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I wasn't aware until now, that jq is actually a full blown functional programming language. Originally it was inspired by Haskell and the very first version(s) of jq were actually implemented in Haskell. Only later jq got ported over to C. To have an idea how powerfull the jq language is, there is also a jq implementation purely written in jq: https://github.com/wader/jqjq #jq #json

jhx, to debian
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Made a decision.
For the longest time I've always had too many distros that I tried to run and support.
I need to fokus on something in the end... and not drift around all the time.
So, #Debian it is - only
I use #Debian all day / every day.
It does not make sense for me to run any other distro.

On the #BSD side I will focus on #FreeBSD - that's it.

The many distros / derivatives have learned me a lot over the years... and I'm very thankful for that. But, less is more.

snonux,
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@jhx I personally use what makes sense most for the project at hand. But it makes sense to fallback to your default distro if there's no clear "winner". At the end all (or most) of the tools run on any Linux or BSD distro :-)

snonux,
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@jhx There used to be a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD spin of Debian, BTW :-) https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

alexstandiford, to bass
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Current status

snonux,
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@alexstandiford I have a similar carpet!

snonux, to golang
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Go enums s***k, let's make better ones https://buff.ly/3PsEfbQ #golang

snonux,
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@orsinium looks neat. Thanks for sharing. Looks like a good use of generics, too

snonux, to golang
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Organizing a Go module, from the official Go docs https://go.dev/doc/modules/layout #golang ... Previously, there was no mention of that in the official docs and there were only de-facto recommendations!

snonux, to golang
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I created my first mobile app in using . It's a very simple app for logging small ideas and to do tasks on my Android phone into simple text files. These are synced w/ to my Laptop. From there, a glue script adds them to my DB. I know, weird workflow. But I wanted to highlight how easy it is to build cross-platform mobile apps in Go now. Dont have to use the Android SDK.

https://codeberg.org/snonux/quicklogger

snonux, to random
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The #unix v6 #shell and how control flow worked: https://www.osnews.com/story/137977/the-unix-v6-shell-and-how-control-flow-worked-in-it/

ovid, to iPhone
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I got tired of using my #iPhone Notes app for shopping. I wanted to be able to sort items by name, or purchase frequency, and not add duplicate items. That would make it much easier for me to do my shopping.

I created an iPhone app to do this in about two hours. Note that I said "Created" and not "Wrote." I used #ChatGPT. I don't know #iOS programming, nor do I know the #Swift programming language. I'll write more about this later.

You can judge the code for yourself: https://github.com/Ovid/chatgpt-shopping

snonux,
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@mjgardner @ovid 30s beats good old paper! But 2h... I would rather just use pen and paper :-)

jhx, to linux
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My stack:

side:

side:

...and a little :windows95:

How does yours look like? 😎

snonux,
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@jhx #Fedora Linux in my main personal Laptop, #OpenBSD on my personal mail, DNS, http servers, #FreeBSD on my personal home NAS, #grapheneos on my personal phone! And for work, using #macos on the Laptop, #ios on the phone and #rhel and #RockyLinux on the servers!

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