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Spore,

Yeah, I literally learnt how nix works through guix documentations.

Spore,

I believe that I’m already using it on NixOS. Working without visible problems since half a year ago.

Spore,

Git and Email are not mutually exclusive. In order to collaborate with git, you need and only need a way to send your commits to others. Commits can be formatted as plain-text files and sent through emails. That is how git has been used by its author from literally the first release of it.

Spore,

Honestly I’m surprised that so many people don’t know how git can be used without those repository hosting sites. That’s one way to use it, not the only way. And it’s not even the way it was originally designed for.

Checkout git format-patch.

Spore,

A git server don’t need to know email to work, and it is not required to have a git server. Email in this workflow is an alternative to a PR: contributor submit a set of commits to the maintainer (or anyone interested). Then the maintainer is free to apply or merge the commits. After that the code can be pushed to any servers.

Spore, (edited )

This reminds me of a similar experience.

The first release of WSL(2) 1.0 (this versioning alone is worth another post here, but let’s not talk about it) have its CLI –help message machine translated in some languages.
That’s already evil enough, but the real problem is that they’ve blindly fed the whole message into the translator, so every line and word is translated, including the command’s flag names.

So if you’re Chinese, Japanese or French, you will have to guess what’s the corresponding flag names in English in order to get anything working.
And as I’ve said it’s machine translated so every word is. darn. inaccurate. How am I supposed to know that “–分布” is actually “–distribution”? It’s “发行版” in Chinese and “ディストリビューション” in Japanese.

At last I had to switch my system language to English to set a WSL instance up. From then on I never use any display language other than English for Microsoft products. Sometimes “translated” is worse than raw text in its original language.

Related links if you like to see people suffer:
github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7868
github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4111

PS: for the original post, my stance is “please don’t make your software interface different for different languages”. It’s the exact opposite of the author has claimed: it breaks the already formed connection by making people’s commands different.
It’s the CLI equivalence of scrambling every button to make sure they are placed differently in different languages in GUI. I hope this sounds stupid enough so that no one will try it.
A not-so-stupid way that I can think of is to add a “translation” subcommand to the app that given any supported flags in any language it converts them to the user’s language. Which is still not so useful and is not any better than a properly translated documentation, anyway.

Spore,

I’ve tried it and I think it’s easier than a natural language to learn. Modulo the speaking part.

Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon (techcrunch.com)

"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "

Spore,

Difference is that YOU CAN BE THE ADMIN whenever you want while still being able to talk to others. Over.

Spore,

Kent just made a reply on this.

TL;DR: Fast on his machine. The reason of the difference is unclear though.

Spore,

You can swap it with the standard one. It’s on another non-official channel called nonguix.

Spore,

Guile and Guix is way better documented than Nix. The language have more features, so you don’t have to use a hack to load packages, can actually know what is accepted in a function instead of blindly copying what others do, and it comes with a formatter.

Spore,

There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the “Substitute for nonguix” section: gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

Spore,

Compared to btrfs it’s claimed to be faster and having working RAID support. Its unique feature is using a fast device as cache to speed up access to slower, larger disks, I think.

Spore,

Some have better ux, some support more platforms out of the box. I don’t find it a good idea trying to replace everything though.

Spore,

Note that skim performs worse than fzf. There’s a new matcher in Rust called nucleo which is faster, but it currently doesn’t have a cli and can only be used inside Helix editor (hx)

nu is probably the best shell for ad-hoc data processing, handling all my daily needs in one expression.

fd and rg have another thing in common, that they’re both 50% shorter than their traditional alternatives /s

Spore,

It kinda fills a niche.

I use fish for simple command pipelines as well. But traditional shells are not as good when I need to do anything “structured”, because they treats almost any value as a string and don’t have anonymous functions. The first problem means that you have to parse a string again and again to do anything useful, the second means that when both pipe and xargs fails you are doomed.
Nu solves both of the big problems that matters when you want to do rather complex but ad-hoc processing of data. And with a rather principled design, nu is very easy to learn (fish is already way better than something POSIX like bash though).

Personally another important reason is that I have a Windows machine at work and nushell is much easier than pwsh.

Btw fish is also going to be a “tool in rust” soon :)

What is the best linux alternative to OneNote?

I’ve no problem with using LibreOffice for most of my document needs, but i haven’t found a good substitute for microsoft’s OneNote yet. I mainly use it to plan my RPG games and it helps a lot. What alternatives are there for organizing notes on linux, with similar features to those that OneNote provides?

Spore,

I’ve tried Joplin, Logseq, and Obsidian. The best one was Obsidian but it’s not FOSS and is getting bloated over time.

I’m settling on zk now. This small command line utility solves almost all of the note managing needs for me.
Double links and tags make me forget about these “infinite free board” functionalities in OneNote: turns out they tend to be used inefficiently. Graphical sketches can be embedded in markdown or linked to a drawn picture.

The best thing about zk is that its notes consist of plain text and no extra tracking data is required outside of the file (unlike any others above), which means it’s absolutely free to pair it with / move on to other tools when needed, or working temporarily without the support of it.

Spore,

I think most window managers have the functionality to avoid windows occupying the space for custom bars. maybe you can make use of this.

Spore,

They don’t choose. Choice is something to make when people have enough time and resource. Instead they use what they are familiar with and have little time to grab and learn a new thing.
Free software comes with an implicit cost while pirated Windows doesn’t, ironically.

Spore,

Datalog. Basically relational, but have much simpler syntax and semantics,and is able to convey more complicated queries in a composable manner. Mainly used in Clojure-based databases where actual programs instead of strings are used.

Spore,

No it can not. It is needed to connect to a VPN first in order to reach the tor network from China.

Spore,

Thanks for the info. I still wouldn’t consider these as long-term solutions bc they tend to be frequently blocked and/or are really slow.

Spore,

Also parquet if the data aren’t mutated much.

Spore,

The point is 140kbps opus is almost identical to 320kbps mp3 for human so it saves over 50% size for the same quality. Also it’s a royalty free format.

Spore,

There already are conventional abbreviations: see Section 2.1. I doubt they will be better supported by tools though.

Spore,

It does not work like that. $ is required in shell languages because they have quoteless strings and need to be super concise when calling commands. # and // are valid identifiers in many languages and all of them are well beyond the point of no return. My suggestion is to make use of your editor’s “turn this line into line comment” function and stop remembering them by yourself.

Spore,

So why not just use the lean and maintainable wlroots

wlroots can’t be used (comfortably and idiomatically) in Rust because it’s too hard (if not impossible) to provide a memory-safe interface for it.

we can move to another implementation of the Wayland protocols.

So unfortunately this has already happened.

Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer” (www.pcgamesn.com)

Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future,...

Spore,

the developer chooses to work with these publishers beforehand

What kind of paradise are you living in?

Spore,

Btw, for those who think it’s natural to select things by left clicking on them, try pressing space in dolphin to activate the “selection mode”.

Spore,

Any stream content. Any subscription. Anything that I can’t access because of my nationality.

I’d pay for other things.

Spore,

You may find yourself lucky at nyaa.si, but there’s not many.

Spore,

KDE Plasma 6 for the resolution of so many issues; COSMIC DE as a brand new choice in the future; Guix System to have KDE and more packages shipped because it’s literally the best designed distro as of now.

Spore,

When Windows decided to auto update in the middle of an important meeting without any prompt;
when I download files overnight and the fan takes off at midnight by its telemetry process;
when it gives me a full screen ad trying to change my system settings and stops me from entering the system on time;
when the system starts to integrate with ads from the browser to the taskbar.
It’s not because how good Linux is, it’s because how bad Windows has become.

So I left after my little checklist of must-to-haves is fulfilled. With no regrets.

Spore,

If it’s only for 3 days you need nothing unless you get diarrhea.

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