trevor

Bye 👋

This is probably the most underutilized, but extremely helpful features from macOS and I never expected to see it ported to Linux because i thought no one else knew about it.

Super happy to see it going into libinput!

Well, hopefully the get on that. They have to realize that a large portion of their target demographic (people fed up with garbage search) also rightly don’t want their search histories tied to their real identities.

What does this actually do? Is it possible to use Kagi without providing them personal information to create your account yet?

I answered most of this in the other thread, but I am aware that anyone can make flatpaks. What I meant is that flatpaks were supposed to make it easier for devs to get their software to end users by allowing them to not have to worry about distro-specific packaging requirements or formats.

But when someone else takes it upon themselves to make broken flatpaks, ones that you’ve requested they stop doing, now they’re making things worse for everyone involved and should be considered a hostile fork and treated as such.

They work on other distros… if they work at all. If those “strict guidelines” are resulting in flatpaks like OBS and Bottles, which are broken and the devs have tried to get them to stop shipping, then I’ll pass on Fedora flatpaks.

I dont criticize Flatpaks for allowing alternative packaging sources. I criticize Fedora for sneakily (whether intentionally sneaky or not) setting their broken flatpak repo as the default, leading to a bunch of confusion by Fedora users that don’t know they’re actually using different, sometimes broken, packages from everyone else.

The uBlue downstreams of Fedora know this, and they have the decency to present the user with that information upon installation. So thankfully, their users don’t end up wasting their time with problems that Fedora introduced.

I think a sort of Linux compatibility layer could go a long way toward making Redox more viable. It may already have one, but that seems like a good place for an ex-Linux kernel dev to work.

can they simply fork?

Forking the Linux kernel will effectively guarantee that no one will run their software. None, but the most niche distros would ship it. If the Rust people are forced to fork, their time may be better spent contributing to Redox.

Why do people love Rust so much?

Rust makes it very difficult (but not impossible) to write dangerous code, whereas C pretty much guarantees you’ll write something dangerous (and therefore insecure or buggy) at some point, especially in larger codebases, like the Linux kernel. Arrogant devs will defend keeping Rust out of the kernel by saying things like “write better code”, but if the people writing kernel code for 20 years are still writing dangerously flawed code, it’s safe to say that at a certain point, we need a better tool. That tool is Rust.

Rust also has very high-quality libraries that produce nicer finished products. I learned Rust because of clap and ratatui, which make superior CLIs and TUIs to anything else. Seriously, go use a CLI or TUI that was made in Rust. Try bat, a cat clone. You’ll get easy, great command-line completions, easy-to-read help output, optional, beautiful syntax-highlighting, theming, etc. It’s hard for me to go back to vanilla cat.

And I say all of that as someone that likes C. C is really fun, and it’s a very powerful language, but it was not designed to be memory-safe. If it was, the people complaining about Rust would just complain about C too.

The lesson is that Fedora Flatpak Repo needs to fuck off. It’s an anti-pattern to have an obscure flatpak repo with software that is packaged differently from everything else.

The entire point of flatpaks was to have a universal packaging format that upstream devs could make themselves, and Fedora is completely undermining it.

Just the way the owning class wants it.

Fuck this. I’ll be blocking the new fake 196 then.

Nah. Even if the Snapstore backend were FOSS, you should still avoid Snaps because the way they implemented sandboxing subtly breaks many applications.

Not to mention, they dishonestly co-opt your apt install invocations to sneakily install the Snap version. Actual Microsoft behavior. If a company is that eager to deceive you and shove their tech down your throat, you should avoid it at all costs.

Good things take time. But it seems close enough to ready if you didn’t accidentally by a Nvidia garbage GPU. You can already run the Steam Deck image on most AMD hardware just fine.

Does Mistral actually provide the training datasets, or are they using the fake definition of “”“open source AI”“” that the OSI has massaged into being as megacorp friendly as possible?

On Macs, I remap it to the Command (super) key. On Linux, I remap it to Ctrl.

It makes copying, pasting, etc. way more ergonomic and doesn’t strain your pinky 😌

I’m running GrapheneOS, and they unfortunately do not have that implemented yet.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, it seems the Pixel/GrapheneOS kernels don’t support limiting the battery charge limits :/ I tried ACCA, and it installed the ACC magisk module, but the device kept exceeding the charge limits.

Does anyone know of a FOSS app that can limit charging on Pixel devices? I imagine it would require root, which is fine for my usage.

I’m using one called “Healthy Battery Charging”, but it only gives you notifications and you have to manually plug and unplug the device.

If you want Alacritty with tabs, COSMIC Term uses libalacritty, so you get the same performance, but with tabs (among other things).

I can’t find the video, but i saw someone interview him, and PepsiCo asked him to use a different name.

He now goes by Skylar Spence. It’s a different genre, but I love the songs he’s released under that name.