juliank

juliank, 9 months ago to random

Battle for new BT ANC headphone continues.

Previously we had a refurbished Razer Opus which was making buzzing noises, but otherwise was ok.

A refurbished Anker Soundcore Q45 for less than 100€ was quickly slain by unnatural percussion.

The remaining contenders are the Bose 700 and the Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless.

1/2

juliank, 10 months ago to random

Frying potatoes in the cast iron at medium heat and they dance. Never seen anything like this in my life before.

video/mp4

juliank, 6 months ago to random

My goal for APT is feature parity with aptitude CLI, including interactive solving abilities.

Well the complex aptitude patterns '?for' we don't have and are unlikely to get I suppose because they're hard?

Aside from solver, which also yields the 'why' command, we also need to implement the new package tracking I suppose.

I'm not sure if we make 3.0 or if we end up with feature parity only in 3.2 and 3.4.

juliank, 9 months ago to random

Essentially I think I should rent a Fritz!Box from Vodafone Germany to get a halfway stable modem router, I might lose modem "bridge mode" support (which I haven't used yet but would like to), but it's not fragile af.

And rent instead of buy my own because otherwise I get even less sensible ISP support (and I think the rented ones may have modem mode).

juliank, 7 months ago to random

TFW your investments grow faster than you can invest fresh money. I'm getting glimpses of it and it's awesome.

juliank, 7 months ago to random

Bird is lost inside FRA gate A20 :(

juliank, 8 months ago to random

Dear hive mind:

I have a process getting killed but can't figure out who is killing it.

Can I track that at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_exit_kill/ somehow?

juliank, 8 months ago to random

US has like 10mg slow-release melatonin and here we have 1.8mg, 1mg instant release and 0.8mg slow release.

US has what, 240mg pseudoephedrin, here we have 30mg.

US is the 10x drug amount country?

juliank, 7 months ago to random

What do you get if you travel with an ebook reader?

A broken eink display.

juliank, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

#foldingbike On a stupid packed regional #train.

juliank, 8 months ago to random

I think a message like

W: Missing foobar

is inferior to a message that just tells you the action:

W: Add foobar

juliank, 1 year ago to random

I'm in a devious cycle where each time I traveI (2-4 times a year) I get infected, then need weeks to recover or don't recover at all (HRV baseline still below where it was pre November's COVID). And then I need to extreme mask the rest of the year to not get infected and try to somehow get back to sports before getting hit with the next travel infection again.

So effectively my immune system only has outside world contact during travel.

juliank, 6 months ago to random

My office room air quality right now

juliank, 9 months ago to random

Tidal MQA Scam
Spotify Rogan
YouTube Music Google ad monstrosity
Apple Music ???
Deezer ???

YouTube Music has a lot of issues, especially it doesn't have a lot of Best of playlists. Spotify has a "Spotify presents" playlist for almost anyone.

Spotify has Spotify Connect. No competition comes close. Seamless device handover.

Tidal claims lossless but MQA isn't lossless and the "lossless" FLAC are downconvered from MQA.

juliank, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Now discussing whether setting "2023-10-29 01:01" on a british system refers to BST or GMT.

For 00:59 it's clearly BST, but with time changing from 01:59 BST to 01:00 GMT what is 01:XX?

For systemd, it refers to GMT. People report bugs about that...

What do the standards say?

juliank, 9 months ago to random

Left for the cinema with 40% charged phone, came back 2 ¾ hours later with 10%. It ate 8.3%/hour with the screen off (and more in the 29 mins of screen on).

Pixel 6 stupid.

juliank, 10 months ago to random

What we need is a hash algorithm that allows partial compliance, so that while retrieving a file I can check that the parts received so far a reasonably correct.

juliank, 9 months ago to firefox

Maybe I should put all my Google stuff in a Google container. #firefox

juliank, 11 months ago to random

Let's replace the data.tar in the .deb packages with a data.squashfs and then we can compose a Debian system from a list of .deb files as a read-only filesystem.

Yes, I'm just shamelessly stealing ideas from SUSE.

juliank, 9 months ago to random

The portable AC is controlled by the remote which has a temperature sensor and sends it to the AC unit via infrared.

The remote is placed on an air purifier (which is also measuring room temperature, humidity, TVOC, and PM2.5) that is running at a slow speed so as to actually make it realize the current temperature quickly.

juliank, 11 months ago to random

Look, just because it's legal, doesn't mean you should be doing it.

This applies very much to writing alternative frontends to apt-pkg without consulting the apt developers.

It is virtually impossible for you to find out how to do things properly on your own. The library grew organically over 25 years and is not easy to use, neither are the Python bindings.

You should always consult and seek consent first.

juliank, 9 months ago to random

It just occured to me that if we have

Foo Depends bar|meow, Recommends baz
baz Depends meow

That solver3 ends up installing both bar and meow, because it resolves Recommends last, so it knows baz is likely to be installed but doesn't know that that means meow is likely to be installed too.

We can introduce a new rule however when we mark Recommends to also transitively mark it's dependencies as likely to be installed.

Somewhat annoying but likely produces more coherent solutions.

juliank, 11 months ago to random

Not sure why English needs the word truck, in Germany it's easier:

Rad is a bike
Lastenrad is a cargo bike
Wagen is the German word for car (the general concept)
Personenkraftwagen is a motorised car for peeps
Lastkraftwagen is a truck, motorised cargo car

Just call it a cargo car.

juliank, 1 year ago to random

Back in the day of TV, before streaming, primetime life was all about Law&Order, NCIS, Bones, CSI. These days not watching any procedurals really.

juliank, 9 months ago to random

How many unstable systems did I break boot of now? :D

After a quick accept of 2.12rc1-6 by an anonymous ftpteam member, I just uploaded grub 2.12rc1-7 to Debian unstable.

This has been in Ubuntu development series for a month already to squeeze out bugs, and now all known issues affecting Debian should be resolved, the last one was chainloading Windows.

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1460024/accepted-grub2-212rc1-7-source-into-unstable/