whynothugo

whynothugo, 2 days ago to android

I can connect this #android phone to my living room display and VLC plays videos on the external display just fine.

But how the hell do I even mount a remote filesystem to actually access video files?

ssh-keygen and sshfs might not be super newbie friendly, but at least they work. I can't find anything remotely equivalent on Android.

whynothugo, 6 days ago to random

What the Linux ecosystem needs right now is a solid community-maintained distribution for non-technical people.

Like, if someone who's using Windows asks me right now "which Linux can I use on my laptop", I have no answer.

My partner tried Fedora, but it was so unstable and broken all over the place that she asked me to get rid of it, even if it mean starting from scratch again.

She now uses PopOS and I've had to configure dozens of things for her that would have been trivial on Windows 7.

whynothugo, 6 days ago to random

Sure, having to open a terminal to fix a problem is not newbies friendly. And having to open a car's front cover to fix an engine problem isn't friendly at all either.

Yet somehow I only hear people complaining about one of the two. And it's not the one which can lead to injury.

whynothugo, 9 days ago to random

In an alternative reality, people prefer comfort to status symbols, so they ride public transit instead of each one buying and piloting their own cars.

whynothugo, 9 days ago to random

@pine64eu Any idea when the Pinephone Pro Keyboard (SKU: PPHONE-KEYBRD) will be in stock again?

whynothugo, 24 days ago to random

@drewdevault epoll(7) and poll(2) don't allow implementing non-blocking I/O on a filesystem. Is implementing such a thing under the radar for Bunnix or Helios?

whynothugo, 26 days ago to random

"Considered harmful" considered harmful.

Using "X considered harmful" in a title is considered harmful and should not be done.

whynothugo, 28 days ago to random

Tagged unions have changed error handling forever. There's no going back to exceptions with try/catch.

whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

@davx5app My calendar events don't show attachments. I read the manual1, but I'm not entirely sure I understand correctly. Is it impossible to view attachments to events?

whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

Disappointed that my #wayland compositor has layer-shell but no layer-white or layer-yolk. How am I supposed to implement an omelette app?

whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

I just watched this interesting video on the Engieering of the gameboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm45Az02YE

It's amazing to see that the criticism that it received is the same criticism that the Switch received decades later. Mainly, complaints about it not being "the highest end hardware available". This supposed limitation actually made both devices cheaper, more energy efficient (so lower cost of ownership), and lighter than the competition.

whynothugo, 1 month ago to android

On #android (specifically #Murena), can I not disable network permissions for an application?

whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

I need a notmuch for pdf files. Something that uses xapian (or alike) to index pdf files and run searches on them.

whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

Use case for a #wayland nested compositor: render an arbitrary client into a #quake-like #dropdown #terminal.

whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

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whynothugo, 1 month ago to random

If xz had been proprietary, would the bug have caught any attention?

600ms (the runtime overhead in this case) is a fraction of what it takes to log into some systems.

whynothugo, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Some general notes on #s6, the service supervisor y manager suite: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/03/25/notes-on-s6/

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

@modos content-type-v1 is a wayland protocol where clients can specify the content type for a given surface. Currently clients can specify photo, video or game (text seems to be a missing content type).

This might be useful for you to optimise how portions of the screen render.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/blob/main/staging/content-type/content-type-v1.xml?ref_type=heads#L81-111

whynothugo, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

How do you ensure that you keep a copy of all sent emails? (please boost for reach).

I'd love to hear comments on how this works for you.

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

Need to set up a Gentoo chroot to run Steam in a sandbox.

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

I need a custom search engine that searches alpine wiki, arch wiki, gentoo wiki and man pages.

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

@martijnbraam While discussing the slowness of pkgs.alpinelinux.org today, I remembered pkgs.postmarketos.org (which is actually a lot faster). Did you write apkbrowser just to deal with performance? I'm trying to get a clearer picture of where each one stands.

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

I was having trouble mounting my external drive. My external drive wasn't showing up in /dev/sda. I checked dmesg and nothing. It just wouldn't show up. I thought for a minute or two, then looked at the disk by my side.

I had not taken it out of the box yet.

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

Terminal applications with tabs are amongst the most confusing user interfaces that I've discovered.

whynothugo, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The DMA has some pretty interesting in multiple fields, but is extremely underwhelming on its impact on messaging.

Gatekeepers won't be federating messaging or anything alike. Instead, to interact with people who use Meta's messaging services, one would need to sign up as a partner and fulfil a variety of additional requirements.

As an individual, this makes little to no difference. I still can't set up a server that federates; people are still in a silo unless a sign a contract with Meta.