nekohayo

nekohayo, 2 months ago to GPS

After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.

It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.

The "Tenacious D" protagonists singing a long "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck~" reaction upon realizing they're in big trouble

nekohayo, 3 months ago to random

Seeing #FOSDEM photos streaming across my Mastodon feed does not spark joy in me this year. Not that I have FOMO (you can't convince me to cross the oceans for "spend 2 days unsuccessfully looking for each other in jampacked hallways & rooms while jetlagged"), but rather because nobody is wearing masks in the pictures I've seen so far, and I worry about this laissez-faire 12,000-attendees indoors event potentially leading to more of my fellow FLOSS community members riddled with long CoViD.

nekohayo, 6 months ago to GNOME

The patched version of #Mutter + #GNOME Shell I've been running for the last few days, while profiling with @YaLTeR, is crazy fast.
This is the first time in 13 years that my GNOME Shell isn't slowing down after a few hours/days. Even without triple-buffering.

It is so smooth, I can't stop moving windows around just to savor how unreal it feels. Turns out I never experienced 60 fps (with & without #Wayland) in GNOME in my life, until this week.

I ought to blog about this.

nekohayo, 5 months ago to linux

OK #Linux, how does one reset terminal / prompt / shell settings to a clean default? Apparently my prompt has been broken for years & I had no idea.

I am told that I have "overridden the system prompt integration", yet I haven't done anything special other than installing Powerline as per https://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/ ; I've now undone that.

I deleted ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, and anything I could find mentioning bash, no dice.

What other config files exist?

nekohayo, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to web

Restarting your apps while the network is offline makes you realize some things are silly… like needing to click the Reload button in #web #browsers' error pages, when they very well know when the operating system is fully back online anyway.
Therefore, I filed a request for #GNOMEWeb / #Epiphany to do that for me when #GNOME / #NetworkManager signals that online connectivity has been restored: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2230

nekohayo, 6 months ago to fedora

I really hope the future #Fedora web installer will be much more reliable & performant than what we've had for the past 10+ years, because I suffer everytime I need to use the current version of #Anaconda. It's just super fragile.

It randomly hangs, crashes or slugs around, whether you're trying to pick the language, set up network (for the netinstaller), and to use the partitioning tool (any of the three variants). Everytime I have to touch this Ming vase, I ponder my #Linux distro choices.

nekohayo, 9 months ago to GNOME

Incredibly excited for the upcoming #Nautilus #GNOME Files manager v45 release.

Assuming the handful of remaining #performance related merge requests land in time, including thumbnails multithreading, this will be the fastest, smoothest Nautilus you've ever seen on #Linux with #Tracker 3.5+

Check out these improvements aimed at v45:

• Nautilus v45-targetted performance issues
• Nautilus v45-targetted performance merge requests

#opensource

nekohayo, 9 months ago to Electronics

A friend handed me an #Acer D16H1 2-in-1 convertible tablet PC, "Try to make it boot?"

Does not power on, no reaction to buttons pressed or held, no lights. Doesn't respond to plugging a micro-B USB cable for charging, & USB chargers see no draw. Doesn't work without battery.
Suspecting a broken connector or charging circuit.

Anything else to try before sending it to "recycling"?
Friggin' #PlannedObsolescence disposable SOCs #electronics industry with no practical #RightToRepair 🙄️

nekohayo, 8 months ago to fedora

Would've wanted to upgrade my workstation to #Fedora 39 beta today, but encountering dependency conflicts blocking the upgrade, the only unsolvable one being libhef / libheif-freeworld, as gthumb and GIMP depend on it 🤷️

Is that kind of stuff worth reporting to #RPMfusion, or should we assume they already know and it's mostly a matter of waiting a couple of days for the problem to be resolved?

nekohayo, 10 months ago to fedora

I'm not really looking forward to encountering this extra set of issues again when #Fedora pretty much inevitably switches #LibreOffice over to flatpaks-only as part of its strategic direction 😐️ https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/issues/

nekohayo, 9 months ago to transit

Everytime I deal with #bicycle tires sizes other than ISO *-622 (aka "700c") I get confused & have to relearn everything about #standards 😤️

Mom's #bike has 40-559 aka MTB aka 26x1.5" tires that need replacement, but #Decathlon only has:

• 35-590 ("650x35 A")
• 35-584 ("650x35 B")
• 25-571 ("650x25")
  I'm now wondering, "Can I put 584 tires on a rim that currently has 559 tires? Is a 2.5cm difference in wheel diameter insignificant?" 🤔️ (my Internet searches led me nowhere on that question)

nekohayo, 1 month ago to GNOME

Alright people, time to seize the opportunity in #GNOMEPapers to fix one of my long-time performance annoyances with Evince: a potential 2x speedup by… avoiding rendering everything twice (due to the sidebar's thumbnails).

Barring #Poppler backend renderer performance issues, this should help #GNOME have a noticeably faster and power-efficient #PDF reader app 🤞 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/119

nekohayo, 10 months ago to Montreal

Attending the #Montreal #Linux Meetup tonight, at #RedHat's offices. I trust that the mood will be friendly and jovial, and that there will be no trolling at all.

nekohayo, 4 months ago to Bread

I finally found how to properly revive old freezer-burnt #bread that has been frozen for multiple months:

1. sprinkle a bit of water (for extreme cases);
2. wrap frozen buns in tinfoil (aluminium) paper;
3. heat in a mini toaster oven at 200-375°F for 15-10 minutes.

This way, they steam up & come out fluffy instead of hard as rocks. Much better than my previous "microwave em" or "put them in the pan" attempts!
Found through this #cooking article: https://tastecooking.com/bring-bread-back-dead/

nekohayo, 7 months ago to sustainability

When I think about the fact that some grocery stores (in some countries) shrinkwrap individual fruits, I remind myself of how much sense single-use #plastic makes conceptually.

Let's use heat to wrap pressure-squashed liquefied #dinosaurs around a plant… then, after eating the plant, the humans will rip the transparent solidified dinosaurs apart, load them onto a truck and have them buried in the ground again in a way that they stick a round longer than their previous form! #sustainability 👌️

nekohayo, 3 months ago to GNOME

Ahem, #GNOMEMaps Nightly (with its dark vector maps!) says that walking from the airport's nearest lane to the #GUADEC 2024 venue is a terrible idea 🤔️

I'll just leave this link here in case someone in the #GNOME #Colorado community wants to implement public transit routing using the #Denver RTD's open data / APIs and #OpenStreetMap #GraphHopper : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/639

nekohayo, 6 months ago to RSS

Filed a tracking ticket for whoever may be interested in helping port the #Liferea #RSS / #Atom feed reader for #Linux to #GTK4.
This would be an interesting #programming challenge for someone who knows C. https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/issues/1325

nekohayo, 3 months ago to random

As an observer, the amount of very vocal "It's a cross-platform implementation & support nightmare!" (roughly paraphrasing/summarizing) pushback you hear from some particular LibreOffice members regarding the idea of having client-side window decorations (a.k.a. headerbars) like every other modern space-efficient app, while they still implicitly consider 7 toolbar UI layout variants to be maintainable, never ceases to amaze me 🙄️ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113388#c18

nekohayo, 3 months ago to firefox

It would be fantastic if someone created a #Firefox WebExtension add-on to specifically block news sites' super annoying "load the next article and change the URL & title when reaching the end of the current article while scrolling" addictology-based #webdesign #darkpattern 🤞️
This crappy scrolling behavior is widespread, and I bet they're all using the same scripts to implement it.

nekohayo, 2 months ago to fedora

Let's see how this plays out, but I'm a bit worried that the kind of bugs and performance issues we've seen in #Fedora Rawhide with the GTK NGL backend may still be around by the time Fedora 40 rolls out; I think it might be wise for me to wait some more months for the dust to settle, or maybe skip F40 altogether (which would be unfortunate, because I really want to be able to use Nautilus 46 ASAP): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6411#note_2036209

nekohayo, 1 month ago to MountainBiking

Me, 5 days ago, while cleaning:
"Ah, my bike keys. Let's put them in a place that is really obvious and #biking related so I can easily find them in a pinch when I need to hurry out to a local event"

Me, today, just before an event:
"…where are these GODDAMNED KEYS?!"

45 minutes later
They were hanging in plain view, on the bike handlebar's brake lever. FML.

When it's not keys, it's the f'ing smartphone. Notebook. Pen.
This shit happens to me when I need to go out. Every. Single. Time.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to linux

Dear #photographers & visual #artists running #Linux, what are your tricks for #colour -accurate #scanning photo prints on consumer-grade gear (not a film/drum scanner)?

I have 3+ #scanners, all with wildly different #color results, as you can see below. At least 2 of them can scan directly over LAN (in Simple Scan).

Ideally I'd want #colormanagement / calibration of scans, ideally with "Simple Scan" (otherwise, how do you do it with XSane?). I have a ColorMunki spectrophotometer, if it helps.

nekohayo, 3 months ago to web

#JPEGXL / #JXL, the most requested and upvoted focus area proposal for #web #Interop, has again been rejected as a discussion topic for 2024's web platform Interop industry event, because "We did not have consensus to include this proposal."

Given the industry's broad support, lack of "consensus" sounds an awful lot like "the Google Chrome team lead who authored the AVIF format arranged for it to be vetoed."
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430

nekohayo, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to GNOME

I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

#GNOME #productivity #gratitude

nekohayo, 10 hours ago (edited 9 hours ago) to random

Found yet another aluminium road #mastobike abandoned by some uncaring person: all rusted, busted grip shifters, no tape, brake levers in bottom position, flat tyre, some broken spokes, bent rear dérailleur, etc. Dual-pivot caliper brakes though! 👌

Shop owner has no idea whose it was, so we claimed it. I cleaned it up, removed most of the rust. Could look decent. Weighs ~16kg. Wondering if I could easily convert it into a light single-speed for cheap? (new ones are 400$)

#bicyclemaintenance