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I have too many toothbrushes

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What impressed me at the time was that it worked ; you’d pull huge amount of stuff and then waited in front of a real-life Reversed Matrix full of mysterious hieroglyphs. But Slackware would compile Ardour, Jack, Jamin and whatever else. Yeah it took a while to fetch all the libraries, but then it just did it.

Last week localsend wouldn’t compile on Arch, and took hours to fail it.

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Works on mine

Édit: (10)… Ah, I see the point, indeed.

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Commodore 64, with the tape reader, hooked to a black&white CRT

Seems I’m the eldest one here for now

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What you are losing is what you are gaining ; I for one embrace the minimalism of Gnome (even macos feels, looks bloated next to Gnome). There’s only 2 extensions that I add, and they are the vainest ones: the Spinning Cube and the Wobbly Windows.

No, there’s one more: the gnome implementation of kdeconnect, so useful to link your phone to your PC.

Of course KDE has great, great software out there, you shouldn’t be loosing anything by switching, so that’s where I use flatpaks, to not have to pull all of KDE libs on my system over the gtk ones: kdenlive comes to mind.

Embrace the zen. Drop the very idea of spending a week to fine-tune your Desktop to your liking - a gnome install is finished in about 5 minutes, including setting up the best wallpaper ever, the competition-winning KDE 6 Peaceful Tree default background.

Or just install the Fedora KDE spin, really.

Notes from a year of reading science fiction and fantasy [potentially minor spoilers]

Below are books I’ve read over the last year, with notes about on what I thought of them. I started this list just to remind me what the books were about and if I thought they were worth reading. As the year went on, my notes became a little more substantial. The list was for me, but I thought I’d share in case it’s useful...

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There’s a lot more to Peter Watts, with the Rifters trilogy in particular.

Thanks for sharing this list ; about everything I enjoyed recently is there, so I’m saving this as “I should probably like most of them”. Martha Wells, Becky Chambers, and Ann Leckie - Leckie is fab. I get your point about Connie Willis, but her portrayal of London’s wartime is poignant.

One author that didn’t do for me is Sergei David Brin. I like the themes, I can’t go though the books (uplift).

And anyone feeling overwhelmed by your olympic-grade S-F nerdery should just pick any John Scalzi book and stop worrying.

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Don’t miss “The freeze-frame revolution” then!

(+ it is available drm-free from its publisher, Tachyon)

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Thank you for taking your time about this. I will make sure to give Startide a go, since as I said, I like the themes but couldn’t go through Sundiver actually.

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No, that’s PR. Marketing is buying ads, buying reviews, buying people.

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Good, good. The flight was a bit bumpy today, but by 11am I was having breakfast at my favorite little place down in front of the mosque. I love the quiet Sunday mornings here.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFIr8BZCaLk

…owned 2 of those, indeed lot of fun!

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Let me inflict upon you a sobering (pun intended) thought: Good! If you suffer from day- or week-long hangovers, it means you are not an alcoholic! I never, ever suffered hangovers after being drunk. All the time. For years.

That stopped 247 days ago tho.

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I remember the first time I thought we were getting old: A friend suggested we meet for coffee at around 4pm. Fml.

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We used to meet for beers at any time of the day. Or night.

Having tea or coffee anytime past 10am is a sure sign of deliquescence of both body and mind I believe - and I should know since I totally reached that stage.

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Are we all just going to ignore that this song only lasts 2:52 or charitably assume it was on repeat?

I don’t know what’s worse tho.

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There’s now a privacy-respecting offer on DDG, use the !ai bang to get to it.

To answer your question, any “natural language” query of modest importance, where asking a question like “will there be any more movies in that series by this director?” is easier than checking the usual movies websites.

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Or Claude ; the choice is yours.

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Yup, there’s many of them. I use DDG all the time, but this feature probably works in other search engines too - I just don’t know

From any search bar configured to use DDG, just type !ai followed by your query

You can do this from the DDG website too of course. Other useful “bangs” include !w for Wikipedia, or !aw for the Arch Linux wiki, or even just !img for image search.

duckduckgo.com/bangs

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It’s a blog post on how to get Netflix and Spotify to work on Asahi Linux, the project to run Linux on new “M” chipsets 64bits Arm apple computers. Their solution (and widevine hack) is now integrated in the Fedora Linux Asahi Remix project’ default distro. You still have to do the user agent mod tho.

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It all works quite smoothly ; the install process is a breeze of a single .sh script to run directly from macos. The amount of software available for Arm64 is surprising, tho gamers will be disappointed there’s no Vulkan / Steam available yet.

That “Default” install is really just Fedora, shipped with KDE for it’s superior handling of fractional scaling. There’s the dnf package manager, flatpaks, the works.

I’m 80~90% of the time on the Asahi side of things on my device. Showstoppers today are sleep battery drain (50% a day) and pure “ooomph” - performance of an M2Pro chip is more akin to a 12th gen i7 than the same chip under macos. Rendering in kdenlive or blender is noticeably slower on Asahi. But it’s a huge reverse-engineering undertaking, and it will be getting better.

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Ça doit être la 0.0% d’alcool - sans, ça risque de geler et, malheureusement, avec c’est pas très bon.

Pour les fans de NA, je recommande :

  • Brooklyn Brewery "Special Effect"
  • Brewdog "Punk AF"
  • La Trappe "Nillis"
  • Brussels Beer Project "Force Majeure"
  • Troubadour "Zestra"
  • Belgian Balance “IPA”

A la vôtre !

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.conf

Thaaat… took me a stupid amount of time to fix.

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Me too, including when ferociously trying to debug why grub wouldn’t find a freaking bootable anything. The error message isn’t “uh, no config bro” but “hey, nothing to boot here, see ya in The Shell”. Argh.

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Oui bien sûr. C’est un peu calme là-bas malheureusement.

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Astonishingly, the trailer for Triangle Of Sadness reveals a lot, even the whole timeline of the plot, while the movie achieve to surprise and astonish with how much more there is to it.

I was afraid I wouldn’t enjoy it because I somehow “knew” how it was going to end, but oh, my, that was only the surface and the craziness ran m7ch, much deeper.

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