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grumpygamer, 4 days ago to random

Real or The Onion headline: "Red Lobster files for bankruptcy after missteps including all-you-can-eat shrimp."

sergi, 2 days ago to ubuntu

My experience with #elementaryOS so far has not been great. After installing I had to do a bit of tinkering to install the right Nvidia drivers and be able to boot to GUI, many times the system hangs after coming back from suspend, the default terminal has some issue that makes it laggy, etc.

Considering deleting it and switching to #Ubuntu.

Any thoughts/recommendations?

I love #ArchLinux but I'm not feeling like spending hours tweaking my system, I prefer a "just works" solution right now.

sergi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to writing

What do you prefer?

#punctuation #writing #writingCommunity

sergi, 6 months ago to Blog

I'm just having a look at #Zola's getting started and I am loving its simplicity.

https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/

#blog #blogging #rust

sergi, 7 months ago to Podcast

Looking for a #FLOSS #podcast player for #Android. Any recommendations?

I see that #FDroid has a good bunch, but would like some opinions before trying every single one, lol.

The only requirements are that supports local storage and remembers the last playing position.

#FOSS #OpenSource

sergi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I would like to hear from people using screen readers. Do you prefer the hashtags to be intermingled in the body of the message, or separately at the end?

Example of the former:

"I did a #thing and after doing #AnotherThing I was happy"

Example of the latter: this post 😉

Please boost.

#screenReader #voiceOver #hashtag

sergi, 6 months ago to linux

How are you folks dealing nowadays with #dual_boot systems with #Linux and #Windows if you want some data to be shared between the two OSs?

sergi, 5 days ago to random

hi @elementary. Is the Slack Community restricted to Gmail, Apple and Elementary emails? I can't figure out a way to join.

#elementaryOS #Slack

sergi, 5 months ago to python

Uh, I'm quite disappointed about this future #Python deprecation: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated

It will break some stuff in a few years when it becomes effective.

#deprecation #python312

sergi, 5 months ago to random

Well, this fella just lost a reader.

#Medium #PayWall

sergi, 7 months ago to gamedev

These were 12 minutes well spent. Video: How we fit an #NES game into 40 Kilobytes.

https://youtu.be/ZWQ0591PAxM?feature=shared

#gameDev #retroGaming

sergi, 2 months ago to random

Well, the #SpiderOak client got confused with syncing a directory with caps with another with no caps, and I lost all the PDFs I had been saving for filing my taxes.

I've heard others complain how the software has not been updated in years, and it's obvious checking their website that they don't care for non-business users anymore.

Time to look for a better #backup alternative. Any recommendations?

sergi, 1 month ago to random

I have a NAS that I use to backup my devices. Now I want to periodically backup that NAS to some cloud storage.

There would be many uploads and very rarely (hopefully never) downloads. So uploads and storage should be cheap, but it's OK if downloads are expensive.

What software and host/cloud providers do you folks recommend? I want to encrypt the data before uploading.

#backup #NAS #CloudStorage #Storage #DataHoard

sergi, 9 months ago to gamedev

Does anybody know how good is this #HumbleBundle about #indieGame #gameDev for somebody with 0 experience?

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/solo-indie-game-dev-essentials-bundle-software

What attracts me more are the ones about #GodotEngine, #2D design, #PixelArt and #Unity 2D.

#Godot

glyph, 2 hours ago to random

Whenever I post a bunch of stuff on here I get superstitious. Has the site actually managed to process my toots yet? Sometimes I get bursts of notifications that cluster together in odd ways. Sometimes things are so close to real time this feels like a chat app, sometimes it feels like a fidonet email system with even initial reactions delayed for hours. I cannot help but wonder if this is the architecture of Mastodon or some property of my audience or just Internet weather.

alcinnz, 2 days ago to random

Workshop in Barcelona: How to Build a Low-tech Website - Low Tech Magazine:
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/05/workshop-in-barcelona-how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

sergi, 4 months ago to blogging

I want to hear what you folks use to sync blogs/webpages over SFTP.

So, the setup is that you have a bunch of files (HTML, CSS, etc) on your local computer, and you want to update your hosting with the latest version, having only SFTP access.

I am mounting it locally with sshfs and then using "rsync -vuz --delete --recursive <source> <destination>", but I feel like there is a better way (or better rsync options).

#blogging #SFTP #FTP #sync #rsync

sergi, 5 months ago to random

I was reading about processors and just had a flashback about being a teenager and going to the computer store of my town and but a cache on a stick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_on_a_stick

sergi, 6 months ago to poetry

Every once in a while a new article pops up recommending not to use #pip and instead using something like #poetry. A common argument, like in https://quanttype.net/posts/2023-10-31-do-not-use-requirements.txt.html, is "pip won’t pin the versions of the transitive dependencies".

That puzzles me. I can simply run pip freeze > requirements.txt after installing my package and whatever specific dependencies on a clean environment, and get a requirements.txt with all the transitive dependencies.

Does people not know about freeze?

#Python

sergi, 9 months ago to python

I really liked @t_redactyl's talk about #Python optimization with #Numpy. I thought it was going to be the typical the typical "arrays are quicker than loops and that's it", but I didn't know about broadcasting and really liked the trick with sorting.

I also liked a lot the time taken to explain how lists work on memory vs arrays.

Check it out at https://youtu.be/8Nwk-elxdEQ

sergi, 13 days ago to community

I've heard before "the Elementary OS community is small but very active/engaging". Where is that community? The official website links to Reddit and Slack. I don't feel like visiting Reddit regularly. To be able to join Slack I need a Gmail or Apple email, or an Elementary domain email.

Is there anywhere else were conversations happen?

#elementaryOS #community