rl_dane

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

I really need to start writing more #Perl

Fun fixed-point hacks to get decimals* in bash/ksh are neat, but get annoying and strangely buggy quite fast.
I wish ksh2020/ksh93u+m were more popular, as it has floating point and a bunch of neat features that makes it very competitive to Perl.

I'd use it, but I'm afraid to start writing scripts that depend on a ksh dialect that may or may not be maintained in the future.

cc: @mirabilos for insights into ksh

• usually for dealing with temperatures, where a little decimal precision is preferable

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

As silly as it sounds,

SOMEDAY I will stop confusing the Calulator and Calendar on my phone.

But today is not that day. %)

rl_dane, 5 months ago to debian

Bummer that #debian doesn't have the #mupdf variant of #zathura :'(

rl_dane, 7 months ago to Blog

New #blog post, peeps!

https://rldane.space/unix-is-dead-long-live-unix.html

#rlDaneWriting #NaNoWriMo #UNIX

cc: @ivan @amin @joelchrono @sotolf

rl_dane, 5 months ago to ubuntu

#Ubuntu:

How it started:

• Here's a free CD-ROM that will reinvigorate your computer from its awful Windows malady
• ~/Videos included an interview with Nelson Mandela explaining the philosophy of Ubuntu - humanity to others

How it's going:

• Use snaps or go frick yourself
• B-b-but we couwuldn't posiwububly open source the snap server. So hardship. Such difficult.
• If you're not an Ubuntu employee, GTFO of our repos (as maintainer), even though we just took over the project in good faith (link)

rl_dane, 5 months ago to KDE

Gotta say, #KDE #Plasma on #Debian is the smoothest KDE experience I've ever had*, even though KDE isn't the default DE for Debian.

No annoying glitches, no bugs so far, and KDE Connect works the best I've ever seen it.

• Except for one little issue that I was able to troubleshoot where the stock .bash_profile was running startx for some reason

rl_dane, 5 months ago to debian

Hey #AskFedi,

I'm getting very strange files popping up in my home directory.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
They show up, I delete them, they show up again.

#Debian #Linux, latest updates. No other issues as far as I know.

SMART is happy, reports nothing wrong with the nvme.

If it was disc corruption, why would it be in my homedir?

-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 17:07 'P'$'205'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 17:20 'P'$'325361''#NV'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 17:57 'P%'$'276''s&V'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 18:19 'Pe'$'273206''TV'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 18:26 'P5'$'325''[;V'
-rw-------   1 me me          70 Jan  2 18:51 'P'$'265233''*'$'

rl_dane, 4 months ago to fediverse

When you open a link from your terminal #Fediverse client instead of copying it* and realize...

"Oh no... I just started firefox."

Oh, the modern web. Woe, woe.

• and viewing it in a terminal and/or lightweight browser

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

Dearest @libreoffice,

I see a lot of threads asking about this, but not a lot of good advice:
Is there (CAN there be) any way of enlarging the LO scrollbars?
I'm running LO 7.4.7.2 on Debian, "VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)"
LO doesn't respect the KDE theme's selected scrollbar width (Using the Oxygen theme which lets you select the scrollbar size).

This size is just not really usable with a mouse.

KTHXBAI ;)

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

I won't debate Wayland vs X11 at this moment, but i have to say that Sway is a far better tiling window manager plus compositor experience than i3wm plus picom

(Focusing on the compositing features for the most part)

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

~ $ pkgsizes |tail -1
linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64:Installed-Size 452.50 MiB
~ $ pkgsizes |grep linux-image
linux-image-amd64:Installed-Size 13 KiB
linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64:Installed-Size 389.11 MiB
linux-image-6.1.0-16-amd64:Installed-Size 389.12 MiB
linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64:Installed-Size 452.50 MiB
~ $ #Yowsa. Who knew the kernel was so PHAT?

pkgsizes script: https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/pkgsizes

rl_dane, 4 months ago to Blog

New #blog post: A Breath of Fresh Air (link in text)

This post introduces a new tag to my blog: "Informal post."

It's written in a more informal style than I usually use, and has minimal editing and proofreading. More like #100DaysToOffload style, although I'm not formally counting my 100 posts (yet?)

cc: my awesome chorus - @amin @ivan @sotolf @dm @orbitalmartian and others

#rlDaneWriting

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

When I was a teenager, "The Talking Moose" kept me company on the corner of the screen of my Macintosh SE while I did my homework. He'd look at me and occasionally crack a joke like "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very Fuzzy. Was he?" (Man, I loved #Macintalk)

Now, thanks to swayimg, I can have a little #uxn Potato keeping me company while I read the "Introduction to uxn programming" text (not animated or talking of course, but it's still cool+feels ;)

P.S. (Yes, I'm still write-only until next year. Toodles! ;)
P.P.S. (Yes, it still counts as a dopamine detox.)

#uxntal #varvara #potato #ClassicMacintosh

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

Dude, I don't even like coffee, but this is just so elegant.
I so love design

https://yewtu.be/shorts/XCXVcknbC4E

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

Unbidden opinion:

The whole "Wayland breaks everything" post is a huge distraction.
One of the best ways to aid your "enemies" is to attack them with hastily-drawn conclusions, untested assumptions, and sheer stubbornnes.

#Wayland has some real problems, and so does #X11.
There are undeniably many scenarios* where the Wayland devs never thought to do something differently, or just refused to do so for reasons they believe to be rational and for the greater good.

Making a list of very low-level features and APIs that Wayland doesn't support is a waste of time. The only response you will get will be "We never wanted to support that," and the rest of your argument will fall on deaf ears.

Sadly, the article does have some cogent points about how Wayland was designed, but they're lost in the volume of noise about features that most people (even most neckbeards) aren't nearly as concerned about.

Thankfully, Wayland is growing and slowly getting better, although there are MANY annoyances to this day.

cc: @thelinuxEXP

• Forgive me for not actually constructing a useful list here. The simple truth of it is that I'm not an expert, and I'm not trying to construct a detailed polemic, but just an overall statement regarding the right approach to disagreements such as these.

rl_dane, 5 months ago to Synthwave

Guys... help me...

the madness....... it's back.

#SYNTHWAVE #swaywm #uxn #potato

cc: @ivan @amin

Oh yeah, and #HappyNewYear and #LangMayYerLumReek

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

TIL you could scp from one remote to another, like

$ scp $site1:foo.tar.bz3 $site2:

rl_dane, 5 months ago to debian

Current #Distrowatch rankings:

1. DebianBased
2. DebianBased
3. ArchBased
4. Debian itself
5. ArchBased
6. DebianBased
7. RedHatBased (or: Fedora itself)
8. DebianBased
9. DebianBased
10. SuseBased
11. ArchBased
12. DebianBased
13. RedHatBased (or: FedoraBased)
14. DebianBased
15. DebianBased
16. DebianBased
17. MandrakeBased (or: Mageia itself)
18. DebianBased
19. BSD is BASED (or: FreeBSD itself)
20. DebianBased

Hmmmm... ;)

#debian #ArchLinux #BSD #FreeBSD

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

Ok #AskFedi,

I need a recommendation.
I am officially getting my grandma a Linux Laptop, as she inadvertently damaged her MacBook Air (those things just do NOT like tea!!)

My budget is just shy of 1,000 USD, and I'd ideally like to stay within half of that.

I'd also like to keep something about as light as the MBA, and not smaller than a 13.3" screen.

I was thinking of getting a used (probably five year old) Thinkpad X1 Carbon, but I'm not sure how rugged they are compared to the old fashioned Thinkpads.

My other thought was one of the more affordable #Slimbook options, but I'm worried about shipping time/cost and support all the way from Spain. (Although, of course, I don't expect any support for a 5-year-old used Lenovo. XD

I'm also considering #VanillaOS as the distro, because I want something as safe and basic as possible. My grandma is 103. Yeah. 103.

cc: @amin

rl_dane, 5 months ago to debian

Every now and then, I have to pop open a terminal and run neofetch to confirm that, yes indeed, "I got the swirl back in my life."

#DEBIAN
#ItsGoodToBeHome

rl_dane, 4 months ago to random

My phone has eight cores...
Since when does a phone do heavy multitasking?

Weird future, this.

~ $ neofetch
         -o          o-            u0_a201@localhost
          +hydNNNNdyh+             -----------------
        +mMMMMMMMMMMMMm+           OS: Android 14 aarch64
      `dMMm:NMMMMMMN:mMMd`         Host: google Pixel 7
      hMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMh         Kernel: 5.10.177-android13-4-00003-ga720
  ..  yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy  ..     Uptime: 5 days, 12 hours, 11 mins
.mMMm`MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM`mMMm.   Packages: 142 (dpkg), 1 (pkg)
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:   Shell: bash 5.2.15
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:   CPU: (8) @ 1.803GHz
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:   Memory: 4390MiB / 7479MiB
:MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM:
-MMMM-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM-
 +yy+ MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM +yy+
      mMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm
      `/++MMMMh++hMMMM++/`
          MMMMo  oMMMM
          MMMMo  oMMMM
          oNMm-  -mMNs

~ $ lscpu -e
CPU SOCKET CORE ONLINE    MAXMHZ   MINMHZ      MHZ
  0      0    0    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  1      0    1    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  2      0    2    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  3      0    3    yes 1803.0000 300.0000 574.0000
  4      0    0    yes 2348.0000 400.0000 799.0000
  5      0    1    yes 2348.0000 400.0000 799.0000
  6      0    0    yes 2850.0000 500.0000 500.0000
  7      0    1    yes 2850.0000 500.0000 500.0000
~ $

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

MERRY CHRISTMAS, YA FILTHY ANIMALS!!

#MerryChristmas #NameThatMovieReference

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

Half of my kingdom for a FOSS Android SMS client that can take all of those silly "Liked an image" messages from iPhones and just figure out where they go (instead of showing up as spurious messages) or just delete them.

rl_dane, 5 months ago to random

@amin

Just FYI, I think I'm going to turn my little bibleweb function into a full-blown script.

It's going to need a translation table (case statement) to make sure that any random reasonable book references (like 1cor, "1 cor," "I Corinth," etc.) turn into the one format the website will accept ("1_corinthians").

It'll be on my codeberg.

rl_dane, 5 months ago to github

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Dear #GitHub,

Dissolve yourself. And your parent company.

Sincerely,

R. L. Dane (Someone who DARES use a VPN in 2023)