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$)
Whoa, the Government of Canada has an incredibly detailed page on the dark art of scanning photographs with a flatbed scanner. It is full of practical & theoretical info, incl. color theory (color space, models, gamuts, accuracy, distance, illuminance, bit depth, dynamic range, etc.), common scanning issues… and you can even the #Coloraid (Wolf Faust) "IT 8.7/2" color calibration target referenced, plus #GIMP screenshots 🤯
There's something incredibly enjoyable about my neighbourhood in the summer on a sunny "long week-end" when construction stops; you can hear the wind, birds chirping, playful children in the area…
I've been subconsciously traumatized by the last 10 years of uninterrupted roadworks & building construction noises; it's why in the past 2 years I often escaped the city during weekdays and come back to it on week-ends.
I hope to spend time there more often in 2025; #Montreal is lovely when quiet.
Welcome @lwindolf who has just joined the fediverse now!
While they appear to be a regular red squirrel, they actually are a nice human who has been benevolently maintaining the #Liferea feed reader for the last 20+ years (among other things), for y'all who are still reading #RSS / Atom feeds with a desktop #Linux application.
You should follow them if you're interested in Liferea, devops or sysadmin topics 🐿️
For the past 10+ years, I was unable to daily-drive the #Wayland version of #GNOME …
…until version 45.2+, where performance improvements landed for my specific usecases.
Since then, for the past 6 months, I've been running 45.x on Wayland.
This week, when I went back to the Xorg/X11 version for 1-2 days, I was surprised to see it now feels unbearable to me from a performance standpoint! Even with animations disabled.
I guess I can't go back after having used a no-delays no-jank version 🤷
@nekohayo thanks for helping the team optimizing it. I've started to follow since 40, couldn't work in x11 because of not optimal animation, glitches here and there. In Wayland it was eye candy buttery smooth. But I remember it tended to accumulate lagging for a long session, because of that I was forced to periodically restart the session to "refresh" animation. And I would not convince myself to use the x11 even those days. Now since as you say 45.2 it is stable and nice, and I'm happy ))
@nekohayo Faut que je jette un oeil en effet. Après c'est bien beau de faire des plans sur la comète et d'ériger des standards mais il faut des solutions concrètes à l'accessibilité malheureusement :/
With #GitLab 17.0 (stated to be released on May 16th), the operating system theme preference is now respected, as there is now an opt-in setting to enable "Auto (Experiment)" support in your user preferences panel.
It can finally switch between light & #darkmode when your OS or desktop environment requests it at various times of the day! I tried it; it works.
You can find it under "User Settings > Preferences > Appearance" when running that GitLab version (it is already the case on gitlab.com)
A quickie ten minutes #biking ride around Montréal to get some air and reset the mind, after spending two whole days trying to do color calibration for 4 scanners on Linux, a maddeningly tedious and confusing #colormanagement process 😌
OK lads, I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm thinking of bringing this HP ScanJet 3300 on a bike ride uphill in Montréal tomorrow, possibly my first entry into #CarryShitOlympics. It's padded by some small towels, "secured" by 2x3 bungee stretch cords. Doesn't seem to move when I shake the bike.
Do you think it might hold, or am I better off just putting the scanner in a blue IKEA bag (or sturdy grocery bag) hanging on one of the sides of the handlebar, or in a backpack (it does fit)? 🤔
This "packagers thinking they know better than the developers, and unilaterally patching things" mentality, along with distros often shipping outdated versions, is why many upstream software developers dislike dealing with Debian (& any LTS distro), and now ask users to test/run #Flatpak versions of their applications first and foremost.
@nekohayo@keepassxc Honestly, that sounds like a reasonable take, especially considering the reply of the former maintainer below.
Still, a compromise in providing both the full and a hardened minimal version could surely be done to make everyone happy with it, that's what is done with Nginx and many other packages as well.
Flatpak is indeed a platform for third-party apps while distros never were, they are called "distributions" for a reason. Distros' packages serve a different purpose that is: reconfiguring an OS (sometimes to include more apps) so of course a distro modifies upstream projects to integrate them.
That said, does Flatpak platform already provide the API needed by those KeepassXC features? When the needed API are (yet) not available the distro's manual integration is needed
As GitLab 17.0 is coming next week, it looks like my very polite reminder nudge might have encouraged the #GitLab maintainers to request reviews from specific people for the automatic ("system") light/dark theme mode implementation, hopefully this lands in time for 17.0 🤞 so that we don't have to wait another full year to enjoy this #accessibility and #UX improvement, even if somehow considered experimental: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/150254#note_1895251010
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.
@a_lex_ander Ah no, today I mostly used the filtering search and its realtime updating results when you move or rename items, along with batch renaming, previewing & comparing with Sushi, and batch deleting redundant contents I flicked through with that tool; pattern selection is useful in other situations, on occasion…
A dupe detector or integration with @YaLTeR's "Identity" app would be rad, but most files were PDFs…
Filed this little #UX issue in the #Remmina VNC/RDP/SSH application, but it can apply to other software applications in general:
If your app depends on strict input of hostnames/usernames/passwords and does not check for invisible whitespaces prefixing/trailing the value in a field, eventually an idiot like me will spend weeks troubleshooting an issue resulting from having pasted something from a spreadsheet/website and being unable to see the invisible character: https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/3106
It turns out that GitLab's homebrew PDF files previewer is so wildly inefficient that it is an excellent performance torture test for any browser engine, not just WebKitGTK but also #Firefox.