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pimeys, 8 months ago

Not a movie, but The Owl House was quite gay…

pimeys, 8 months ago

Mine too. Luckily we got Fionna and Cake last month. That one is really good too.

pimeys, 8 months ago

This was so weird in the US. Everywhere you get asked for a tip. I got a tip screen even in a supermarket once. For the cashier. I got back home to the EU today and was happy to not tip anymore everywhere…

pimeys, 8 months ago

I really wish they’d do more. And somebody does more of The Owl House…

pimeys, 9 months ago

I see only tomatoes in this sauce…

pimeys, 9 months ago

Luckily I learned in school already that God is dead.

pimeys, 9 months ago

I use foot together with foot-server. The client opens in less than a millisecond, and I usually have tens of terminal windows open at the same time. Tabbing comes from the window manager.

pimeys, 9 months ago

In this job we got to choose whichever computer we want to put the budget on and could just install whatever OS gets the job done. It’s been like this for the past 10 years, but I typically work in tech companies with around 10-100 people.

Went with NixOS as always.

pimeys, 9 months ago

It’s great if you’re a programmer. Even better if your whole team uses it, so you can trivially standardize the build env of the project. NixOS manages the whole OS with nix, but you don’t need it to be a part of the gang.

I’ve been using NixOS everywhere for years, and written long comments on Lemmy about it, so check my history if you want to read reasons why nix :)

pimeys, 9 months ago

He continued on to say he will only be found on Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Great.

pimeys, 9 months ago

Make sure the plants don’t grow too big. Make sure you clean the toilet floor regularly by puking there. Make sure my hand has at least one soft belly to touch every night.

pimeys, 9 months ago

We are the bean eaters, and we are the beaners of the bean… I’ll give up.

pimeys, 9 months ago

Yep. Endless focus groups to rate which songs to play. Extremely small playlists and the hosts are so annoying you want to punch them. Thank god for the internet and endless amounts of music, I never need to listen to radio anymore.

There used to be good stations, with hosts choosing the music they want to play and having a good taste – even better if it’s different from mine so I can hear something new.

All gone now…

pimeys, 9 months ago

Best of all you do not need to click the link, load the website, enable JavaScript because there is nothing without it and then tap the cookie banner away disabling all of the cookies first.

pimeys, 9 months ago

A bot that would send us the content as email, which we’d read using Emacs. I can see that happening.

pimeys, 9 months ago

There are quite a many websites just showing a white page if JavaScript is off…

pimeys, 9 months ago

NixOS was for me the thing that stopped me from distro hopping and re-installations. I just don’t care anymore to switch to anything, everything works how I want and I can focus on using it.

pimeys, 9 months ago

If you happen to customize your OS a lot, with NixOS you can define everything from one configuration: all your packages, your shell aliases, kernel parameters or for example the desktop wallpaper.

You can push this config to GitHub and clone it to another NixOS machine and that one will have exactly the same packages, kernel parameters, shell aliases and wallpaper. Even the package versions, including all the libraries will be the same everywhere.

You can even patch your tools from these configs, have custom kernels and go really crazy. When you commit your changes, they work exactly the same in all your machines. And on boot, you get a list of configurations, so you can boot to the previous config of your current changes broke something, go fix what you broke and retry.

And, with nix the tool, your team can provide the flake.nix and flake.lock files in the software project you all work for. It will then make sure everybody gets the right versions from the dependencies, compilers, linters, etc. If it works for one, it works for all.

Nix the tool let’s you try this out in systems like other Linux distros or removed. NixOS is an OS that is taking a step further and requiring you to define the whole system with Nix.

Oh, and a sibling project Home Manager is great for reproducible dotfiles.

pimeys, 9 months ago

Maybe adding a warning to my previous comment. Going full-on NixOS is like learning vim for the first time. It is complex, takes a lot of time and you need to re-learn lots of things. Maybe evaluate are the good parts enough for you to spend a year re-learning how you use computers worth it. For me it definitely was.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Love it. Thanks for making!

pimeys, 10 months ago

Yep. Also had a 21" CRT and very wonky window decorations with Enlightenment.

Nowadays I can’t use non-tiling window managers anymore, so I’m stuck with sway.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Not until somebody challenges it in court and wins…

pimeys, 10 months ago

My mom lives in a different country, is retired and can very easily use Signal to msg me and do video calls. She has no technical education, and is not very good with the devices. But… she could install Signal and use it every day.

pimeys, 10 months ago

“Are we going to call you a dad or a father?”

pimeys, 10 months ago

I think it’s time to kill Yoshi again. Into the lava.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Exactly this. And it shows a good example for other underrepresented genders that there are others too in the field and they are absolutely amazing; seriously in the top 1% of the devs.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Traces of the Rust work gets merged in every version. They come in small pieces, and now the next version has even more abstractions that are needed for the M1 GPU driver to eventually get there.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Wait, why are we even talking about the mighty Nirvana in a Limp Bizkit thread?

Also, laughing at somebody “still” listening to Nirvana is like laughing at somebody going with Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

Or… Now when I think about it, even laughing at anybody about their music taste is a bit weird.

pimeys, 10 months ago

So these people have a choice: they can accept their way of living is a reason for the current catastrophe. They need to stop enjoying cars, that schnitzel mit bratkartoffeln and start building those wind plants also to the south.

Or they can start blaming the refugees and the women with tattoos.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Couldn’t find :V from the list…

pimeys, 10 months ago

Refactoring that parser you did for the internal DSL in 2011.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Imagine being in the orange forum and thinking everybody’s using Mac…

pimeys, 10 months ago

It works pretty well here in Berlin. The trains go far to the suburbs and beyond, are fast and comfortable. You pay 49 euros a month and can travel anywhere in the country with the ticket. Most of them go even at night.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Usually either one bus or one train. 10 minutes longer, sometimes 15. And so much cheaper and better for the environment.

pimeys, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m a vim and emacs user for some decades already. I had this urge one day to try and work with helix. It kind of misses some things such as file manager or editorconfig support. Nine months later I’m still using helix. It still misses these things, but I really started to like how I don’t need any plugins to work with it and I need about five lines of configuration to have a usable editor. Probably going to continue using it.

And it is written in Rust, which is my main language and I can just jump in to the editor source and fix things if needed.

I miss magit and org from emacs a lot though. Every time I need to write an article, I do it in emacs.

pimeys, 10 months ago

It’s a recession and suddenly the money lost to adblockers matters.

pimeys, 10 months ago

The default installation brings ages old tools for the terminal, due to the GNU tools updating their licenses to GPLv3. So first thing you do is you install homebrew, which is slow and kind of miserable if you compare it to any other Linux package manager. Of course you can install nix, and have a half-decent experience in the terminal.

Then, of course, a lot of things are just not available or are super weird configured from the terminal. There’s no systemd, docker is running a Linux virtual machine in the background and is slow as hell, try to have a few daemons running as services, configure that from the terminal and use the machine headless. It’s not a great experience for an experienced Linux/BSD hacker, and lot of the stuff is missing man pages, or they are just so old they don’t matter anymore.

And, hey, a new OS update comes and you just have to fix things for hours because the terminal experience is not The removed Way and that compiler toolchain you need every day is now broken…

I stopped using OSX in 2008, when an OS upgrade forced me to give my credit card to their App Store, to load an Xcode component I needed to continue using the free compiler I’ve been using for years before that. Installed Linux after that and never looked back.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Well, Brittany Murphy is also dead and I don’t really think King of the Hill is the same without Luanne either.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Such a good movie.

pimeys, 10 months ago

Getting the modem to connect to the internet, which required information from the internet. Going to the library to find that information, after a few weeks I got the RedHat 5.1 to connect. Good old 90’s Linux, where you needed to find the correct modelines for your monitor so X would start.

pimeys, 10 months ago

I’ve been running NixOS for the past four years in all my computers. It’s really, really the end game of Linux distributions for me. But it’s not for everybody. The Nix language can be a tough thing to learn, if you’re not a programmer and haven’t done anything with lazy functional languages before. It’s a dynamic language, with not super great documentation for practical things and missing a good language server that would let you to jump to definitions when learning how nixpkgs work and how to build things.

Also, what I think is a serious problem, is how flakes are not yet enabled in the default installation. So first you learn with the basic template, and some helpful person comes talking about how great flakes are, and in a few weeks you might have written your own system flake finally and got it working. Flakes are really important to understand as soon as possible, because with them you get the lock file that gives you real reproducibility between computers and full control on which version of packages you get.

But, when you learn all that, and get your company to go full-on with nix, having flakes in all projects, it’s the best programmer’s operating system out there. Here’s my config to steal stuff.

pimeys, 10 months ago

This puts me to binge watch the whole series again. Probably my fifth rewatch… Such a great series.