nekohayo

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

wjt, 1 month ago to random

Food £200
Data £150
Transport £800
Fairy-related stuff on Etsy to leave out overnight for my kids to find in the morning £3,600
Utility £150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this.

swetland, 1 month ago to linux

Anyone have a recommendation for a scanner that works reliably with Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for preference), ideally using the scanimage commandline tool?

My goal is to scan some old photos at 1200 DPI. I picked up a CanoScan LIDE 400 and it is extremely fussy, stopping responding until I unplug/replug it every now and again (dunno if that's the scanner, the driver, or what, exactly).

Nothing's larger than 5"x7". Flatbed seems preferable.

#Linux #Photos #Scanning #Questions

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

I did some testing on a Windows machine and tried out #Bitlocker #encryption for the first time… I'm shocked. This thing is black magic.

How did they manage to do full disk encryption that can be toggled on/off instantly? I was expecting it to rewrite the whole drive, like what would happen with LUKS on Linux OSes/utils, but no: even a whole existing C:\ drive with Win installed, you just enable encryption, it reboots in seconds instead of minutes/hours, and it's done.

What sorcery is this?!

sandyarmstrong, 1 month ago to random

In Kindergarten, all of the dinosaurs I drew had lasers and armor. Does anybody else have images like this embedded in their hindbrain?

nekohayo, 1 month ago to python

Proposing some naïve pseudocode heuristic to protect #Meld against users who try to compare big binary blobs (and then complain that Meld/GTK's text views choke under it…), Zerg Rush edition: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/281#note_2079941

Feel free to propose a smarter heuristic than mine (or even better: a real fine-tuned patch… after all, it's #Python, how hard can it be™?)

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

"How many of the most popular image/audio/video file formats do you want to include in the #Meld file extensions filters?"

Me: "Yes."

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/merge_requests/119/diffs

stragu, 1 month ago to random

Optus is shutting down 3G and requiring devices supporting a specific 4G band, in September 2024. I bought this refurbished phone last year, it was initially released in 2019, it supports 4G, yet I won't be able to use it by the end of the year?
News outlets say more than 1 million devices might be affected in Australia. No one mentions the incredible waste of resources. Why bother trying to use the same phone for more than 5 years if software and networks don't let you.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to opensource

I don't typically file refactoring meta-tickets, but when I do, I summon chef Gordon Ramsay to express the #FLOSS / #opensource project maintainers' true feelings: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1217

nekohayo, 1 month ago to Montreal French

Ma première sortie printanière en vélo aujourd'hui fut un trajet d'une heure vers le Sud, pour gagner 30 secondes sur la durée de l'éclipse solaire totale. Si ça c'est pas du FOMO, je sais pas c'que c'est!

J'ai également pu constater d'énormes bouchons de circulation sur les autoroutes et ponts menant à la Rive Sud de #Montréal (et même sur les autoroutes de la Rive Sud); sur plusieurs kilomètres, j'ai doublé allègrement à 25-30 km/h en bicyclette tout ce traffic pratiquement à l'arrêt 😏

scottjenson, 1 month ago to opensource

There is far too much 'walking on eggshells" in #OpenSource, mostly because the power lies with the people that are the most easily offended. I've been clobbered for saying the "#UX of opensource isn't great". The advice is always the same:

• Go slow
• Don't rock the boat
• Make small changes

That is great advice, for a dysfunctional relationship. To be clear, I'm NOT saying be dictatorial! I'm saying we can't fix a system that doesn't want to be fixed.
1/2

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

Me: "Not feeling too good physically, I need an excuse to go take a walk… oh I know, I'll go to the bank and supermarket, and buy healthy ingredients to cook decent stuff in the coming days!"

Also me, 15 minutes later: "So here are some green beans, and—OMFG fancy frozen pizzas are 50% off this week, I'm buying 7 of those!"

nekohayo, 1 month ago to linux

Wow, drag & dropping files between Nautilus and #GNOMEBoxes just works?! This is so cool 🤯
Makes it quite convenient to use #virtualization on #Linux for the one or two times per year where you might need to test something on Windows with some esoteric file.

A short video showing a "TPS report.pdf" file being dragged from GNOME's "Nautilus" file manager into a Windows virtual machine running inside GNOME Boxes; the file appears directly onto the Windows desktop.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to linux

Not holding my breath there, but in case #sysprof performance profiling data can provide new insights to allow optimizing #GNOMEBoxes / #QEMU / Spice guest tools / #virtio graphics to provide faster Windows #virtualization on #Linux without VirtualBox, here is a fresh bug report on window dragging performance specifically: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues/1083

Also profiled the suspicious constant CPU usage while idle: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues/676#note_2074349
#GNOME

lordphoenix, 1 month ago to GNOME French

yop les utilisateurs de #gnome et #nextcloud un tuyaux pour dégager les bookmarks des dossiers synchronisé ajouté systématiquement dans Nautilus sans mon avis ?
Sérieux, ce genre de passage en force ça me fait l’impression d’être de retour sous #windows…

nekohayo, 1 month ago to firefox

Why does Mozilla #Firefox default to allowing websites to use persistent storage, and thus consume gigabytes of disk space when few websites actually have legitimate reasons to use the StorageManager? Isn't that both an invitation to fill my disk and a #tracking / #privacy pitfall?

Seems like there's no UI to facilitate selectively cleaning this stuff, i.e. nuking the local storage for all websites "except these few websites" (and without touching cookies), nor do I see a way to require opt-in.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to GNOME

Governmental XFA #PDF forms come from some special type of hell.

Surprisingly, some of them do work in #GNOME Papers / #Evince / #Okular. It seems like a few corner cases remain where only some forms refuse to load, so I filed a ticket in #Poppler with a neat reference table and sample files today. In case this is useful to anyone: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1481

nekohayo, 1 month ago to Transformers

Some #Audi drivers in Montréal have got their priorities sorted out. How else do you reconcile your bakemono #waifu with your passion for #Transformers ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ?

rmader, 1 month ago to GNOME

I'm slowly discovering all the nice stuff in #GNOME46 that other #gnome devs have been working on.

My personal favorite so far are the generic Cal/Card/WebDav accounts, for several reasons.

First of all, I use CalDav and CardDav extensively, both personally and at work. Especially my contacts are something that I on one side want to be available on all my devices - and on the other side really want to have control over. I.e. I only want that data on providers I trust.

🧵

me, 1 month ago to fedora

I have just submitted a change proposal to @fedora to change the default desktop environment for #Fedora Workstation to @kde #plasma

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation

I want to emphasize, this is NOT an April Fool's joke. It may come as a surprise, given I am the lead of @buddiesofbudgie, but I am just as interested in seeing adoption of Fedora and the greater Linux desktop increase. I firmly believe that Plasma as a default over GNOME Shell would be a net positive for the Linux ecosystem.