My first experience with *nix was a professor leading me into a server room though two biometric locks and setting up the config files for a compute cluster faster than I would have been able to open the files.

He was using Vim, and though it took me a while to learn, the sheer speed with which he was able to get us out of that unbelievably noisy server room sold me for life.

Well, I use vim for text edits and nvim+extensions for an IDE. As close to a vim purist as is reasonable. But frankly, it’s the first one you learn to use well.

Yeah, this is the good argument against rust-coreutils. Caring what programming language your binaries are made with? That’s pretty out there.

Oh my god theres a Yes, Minister episode about this.

In the announcement they say the resolution (2880x1920) was chosen to be used at 2x scaling for that reason.

I dont fully get that? Its not a multiple of 1920x1080, so thats unclear to me.

I was a longtime KDE user, but the lack of reasonable trackpad gestures drove me up the wall on my laptop, so I’ve been using niri+noctalia for the last couple months. It just feels so right, it’s lovely. Still some edge cases, but overall just so good.

AI slop alert

Consider me enlightened! The recontextualization of the statement makes it make a lot more sense. As with many things, being swept into the tech sphere robbed it of meaning. I also think that the sentiment of “the tools used to build something are not the same tools which can effectively dismantle it” is true in many senses, not just in the context of social/politiical/institutional change.

I was confused by the section “How Taking the ‘Master’s Tools’ Seriously Can Serve Enshittification”. It transitions from an argument that

The early internet was structured around the assumptions of its architects: predominantly white, male, Western, educated, and abled

(which is true), then links this group directly to Facebook. While these descriptors apply to both the founders of the internet and the founders of the tech giants, facebook is at least 15 years younger than the foundation of the public internet, and these two groups are both mutually exclusive and ideologically at odds. The author then goes on to use the social harms of big tech to push back against Doctorow’s first stage of enshittification, when the companies are “good”.

I think this is a fundamental misreading of Doctorow. He has spent his career as a free software advocate, and claiming that the first stage of corporate capture of the internet is the ideal would be anathemic to his more general arguments. What he means by “good” here – and he says this frequently in public discussions on enshittification – is that the product does what it says on the box, with no BS. That people are tempted to use it because it allows people to access the internet without coming up against the sharp edges of the technology itself, and that is a reasonable compromise for many people at first, because it allows more people to access the internet.

The article argues that in order to fully represent the experience of all stakeholders, the internet “getting worse” is an incomplete view, and to understand the impacts outside the white, male, etc. perspective, we should use the tools of decolonialism, which would be true if Doctorows project was a thorough sociological analysis of the impacts of technology. But it isn’t, it’s a rallying cry. The goal of his book is to make a coherent narative of the change in experience for consumers of technology over the era of Big Tech, and it does that. This is far from the only case where it leaves out strong tie-ins to other philosophical or sociological concepts, but there is a strength in a focused argument as well.

It’s unsurprising that Doctorow misappropriated Audre Lorde’s words in their meme form, becuase that’s what the book is – an abbreviated, digestible approach to the topic. However, I’m glad that someone made those connections.

Proton is still wine with extra sauce. It’s just that occasionally the sauce tastes bad :)

Ahhh got it. I thought it was a “I know this is inadvisable, but dammit I’m going to do it anyways” type of post :)

You can’t run steam with no compositor whatsoever, but you can use the steam deck’s solution of using their gamescope micro compositor for everything. You should be able to install gamescope and just run gamescope -e {other CLI options} steam (assuming you’re using the native Arch package and not the flatpak).

My experience using gamescope for steam has been very mixed, but I’ve seen a tutorial somewhere on doing exactly this.

Gamescope isn’t necessarily the best option for every game, and having a normal compositor (which, for now, must support XWayland) is just a much more flexible solution.

This may also be possible with something more general like xwayland-satellite, but frankly steam and all its games still run on the X11 protocol, so if you really don’t need a GUI you might be able to install a vanilla X11 instance and hook to that directly. I can’t speak to either of those options directly.

But is this worth it, in a practical sense? No. You have a reasonably powerful system, and the only performance you’d be saving is a few percent of a single core on the CPU, which in your config is absolutely not worth it.

The GNOME platform application is used by flatpaks. Basically, a flatpak can be built against/designed to be used with a specific visual toolkit. To do that, it needs to download specific parts of that toolkit, which is what you’re seeing.

I’m in the exact same position.

Just FYI, pipx does use a virtual environment behind the scenes. The idea with pipx or uvx is to install a python script as a standalone script.

Most likely an adapter issue, some failure in communicating the possible resolutions through the HDMI/DP conversion.

Can you find a flex io HDMI port on eBay? Just make sure you get the right version of the flex io card. That’s the most “supported” way to deal with ports, but it’s more expensive than a simple adapter cord.

I would say chocolatey and scoop are pretty much interchangeable. I don’t remember why I landed on scoop. Agreed that until recently there have been no package managers on Windows whatsoever.

I mean kinda. You have to use both WinGet and Scoop to cover all the use cases…

Well, in this case I think it’s a remnant of n++ predating any package manager on windows. I do think that an embedded self-updater is better than having to download a new version through the browser.

It wasn’t entirely clear to me if the compromise effects those of us who installed it though scoop/winget, as the package manager should pull directly from the correct source, so the compromised updater shouldnt matter. Reinstalled to be sure.

I see, the time does but the round doesn’t. I saw the round and assumed they’d be the same, oops!

Oh of course! I meant to say they aren’t worth it to me, folks’ uses and wants for a smartwatch vary so widely. I totally agree that the pebbles have great aesthetics, and the issues about data collection for pretty much everything else on the market. I do wish the new pebbles had a heart rate monitor, though.

The bangle and the pebble both have the e-paper display, but as far as I know they’re the only ones. They’re a huge draw for me, I love not having a bright screen that kills the battery.