vort3

vort3, 26 days ago

Arch never broke for me.

Unless you seek trouble and do stuff without knowing what you are doing (like blindly copy pasting commands from internet into your terminal), it generally just works.

It’s not as good as those distros where all packages come preconfigured for you to work nicely together, so if you want to build a custom system (like, choose your DE/WM/panels/widgets etc), you have to configure all of that to intergate nicely. But you could always just install KDE and everything is pretty stable there, same as in any other KDE based distro.

vort3, 1 month ago

Is it trying to solve any problem that is not solved by rsync/rclone?

Don’t get me wrong, I love new tools, just curious how is it different (better or worse) from rsync?

vort3, 1 month ago

Depending on your phone / android version / launcher this cab mean different things I guess.

On my phone (MIUI) a dot like that means this is a new app, after you launch it a few times using that icon (using icon, not by other means like jumping into app from a notification or via opening a link) that dot disappears.

vort3, 1 month ago

Others have said already, but XMPP and RSS. Also, nobody mentioned NNTP yet.

I wish everything was accessible by NNTP and we had better NNTP clients. NNTP is like RSS but for forums (so, Lemmy, Reddit, or anything where you could reply to posts). Download for offline reading, read in your client, define your own formatting, sorting, filtering, your client, your rules.

If Lemmy was accessible via NNTP, I could just download all posts and comments I’m interested in and reply to them without any connection, and my replies would get synced with the server later when I connect to WiFi or something.

vort3, 1 month ago

Is there a link to this talk (or interview, or whatever this is) but in a video format, or at least a text without all those «SEE ALSO» self ads?

vort3, 1 month ago

I hope someone watches it and post a tl;dr here.

I’m interested too, but I don’t understand why everything has to be a video (instead of something like a blog post) and don’t have an hour for that.

vort3, 2 months ago

How do symlinks work from the point of view of software?

Imagine I have a file in my downloads folder called movie.mp4, and I have a symlink to it in my home folder.

Whenever I open the symlink, does the software (player) understand «oh this file seems like a symlink, I should go and open the original file», or it’s a filesystem level stuff and software (player) basically has no idea if a file I’m opening is a symlink or the original movie.mp4?

Can I use sync software (like Dropbox, Gdrive or whatever) to sync symlinks? Can I use sync software to sync actual files, but only have symlinks in my sync folder?

Is there a rule of thumb to predict how software behaves when dealing with symlinks?

I just don’t grok symbolic links.

vort3, 2 months ago

I think the way to know is to unplug the PC from internet and see if Firefox can translate stuff.

vort3, 2 months ago

Lack of commercial availability doesn’t change that.

But is there any reason why it doesn’t?

vort3, 3 months ago

The workaround is to not use the software you don’t like.

Use yt-dlp, it gets the job done without any ads, donations, cookie banners etc.

vort3, 3 months ago

I’m pretty sure it was a joke.

Everyone did this at some point, but nobody would admit such a silly thing happened to them.

vort3, 4 months ago

Universal editor you are talking about is vim. Spend 15 minutes doing vimtutor and you’ll be happy 15 years later.

vort3, 4 months ago

I was reading some opinions and blogs about helix and thought it’s really cool, gave it a try, and almost immediately switched back to vim. It was the moment when I tried to use some regex substitution and as it turns out there are no regex matchgroup substitutions in helix. You can’t easily do stuff like replace all occurences of a pattern “firstword secontword: thirdword” with “thirdword - firstword” for example. At first I thought that I’m just new to this editor and don’t know how it’s done, then after searching for a while found that helix doesn’t try to implement things that can be done by external tools, and the way to go is pipe your selections (or entire buffer contents) to sed or awk or whatever and and read from their stdout back into your file (?).

So, while it feels more unix-way (why have regex substitutions when you can pipe into tools that already do this), I still like that vim has this builtin, it feels more integrated into the tool probably. At this point, if helix doesn’t want to implement things other tools can do, why even have regex search and select? This could be done by piping into grep as well, I think. Anyway, just my silly opinion and my experience with helix is that I can’t use it without regex match groups and substitutions and I’m too lazy to learn how to pipe into sed and do this properly in helix, and it feels natural to me that vim has this builtin with a great amount of advanced options and features.

Like, for example, in vim you can do regex searching and tell vim which part of the match should be your final selection. It’s incredible how powerful regexes in vim are.

vort3, 4 months ago

Passenger Entertainment Systems in Boeing 737 MAX.

vort3, 5 months ago

So, basically, vim? /s

vort3, 7 months ago

I might be wrong here, but IIRC Krita has this feature where you can expand any side of the canvas, so technically infinite I guess.