SexualPolytope

SexualPolytope , 21 hours ago

Better Call Saul. I find it so amazing how they were able to take an existing (brilliant in its own right) story, and extend it in both past and the future. It fits in so nicely. There are very few (if any) plot holes, and the story is enjoyable in its own right. Add to that the superb acting of almost everyone, and the elite cinematography. I don’t think there’s a single aspect of this show that I don’t like.

SexualPolytope , 1 day ago

Never have I ever failed an exam.

SexualPolytope , 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

AUR. If it doesn’t exist on AUR (very unlikely, but happens sometimes), I make a package for it.

On non-arch distros, I often use LURE.

SexualPolytope , 8 days ago

I only use my own installer scripts with LURE, so I’m not sure about the safety of the publicly available repos. But the project itself seems to be pretty solid and reliable.

SexualPolytope , 11 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

I’ve been very happy with Navidrome. I have it accessible on a subdomain, so I can just use it from wherever I want. Feishin is a great frontend for Linux desktop, and Tempo is a great frontend for Android.

My friend uses Jellyfin instead of Navidrome, and he’s also happy with it. Both the frontends that I mentioned work with Jellyfin as well.

SexualPolytope , 11 days ago

Navidrome does that. I think you just used a bad frontend. Try Tempo if you’re using Android. Or Feishin on desktop.

SexualPolytope , 20 days ago

I mostly eat leftovers from last night’s dinner for lunch.

SexualPolytope , 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

Right in front of me is a guy editing a >10 page LaTeX file in Overleaf on a 13 inch laptop. The sidebar takes like 1/3rd of the screen. The editor in around 3 inches in width, and he needs to zoom into the PDF preview to read it.

My point in, some people simply don’t care about anything.

SexualPolytope , 23 days ago

I’ve heard many people complain about DuckDNS. Personally use desec.io for DDNS and it’s been solid.

SexualPolytope , 23 days ago

I prefer Office 365 online.

SexualPolytope , 24 days ago

Getting a job won’t make things easier. Most people need human friends to live a fulfilling life. I think you might be imagining that people dislike you, as we socially awkward people often do. Just try talking to people, and you’ll surely make a few friends. I’m socially awkward, but make it a point to attend some social gatherings outside of classes/job so that I’m basically forced to talk to people, no matter how hard it is. If you’re just starting university, it’ll be easier as everyone is trying to make friends, and there’ll be many open events. For later years, it might be a bit harder, but try joining some clubs. I’ve found astronomy clubs to be pretty chill and welcoming to new members.

Just make it a point to attend some social events. There will definitely be people who will appreciate your personality, just give them the chance to get to know you.

(All of this is assuming you don’t have some underlying mental condition. If you find it hard to follow this advice, maybe seek help from a professional.)

SexualPolytope , 25 days ago

What I’ve realized in my (very limited) experience in selfhosting, it’s always best to use a general purpose server OS rather than anything geared to a specific usecase, unless that’s the only thing you’re gonna use it for. So, if you want a separate NAS drive, then it’s a good idea to use TrueNAS on it. But on your main server, it’ll be best to use some sort of RHEL downstream distro like AlmaLinux.

SexualPolytope , 29 days ago

I also used to use Telegram for these, but have recently switched to ntfy.sh Would highly recommend.

SexualPolytope , 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago)

I don’t get scared easily, but Kothanodi had me watching through my fingers. It has four vaguely connected stories, and two of them are very fucked up. There’s a decent amount of infanticide and other atrocities inflicted on minors, so be warned if you have any childhood trauma.

Also by the same director, the movie Aamis is about cannibalism acting as a replacement for sex. It’s pretty fucked up as well.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I know too many Indians seriously affected by this.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

That’s literally Megumin from KonoSuba lol. She’s supposed to be one of the strongest wizards around, but refuses to learn anything other than explosion magic. Explosion magic is basically useless in most situations, as it just flattens a huge area.

SexualPolytope OP , 1 month ago

Yeah. I’m not sure if edited titles are acceptable here.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

Try to get some prescription painkillers, ideally opioids. None of the over-the-counter stuff even comes close. Tramadol helped me manage pain after my surgery.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I’m surprised by how many people use Overleaf for writing LaTeX instead of installing something locally. It’s not that hard, guys. And the experience can be infinitely better as you can actually customize it however you want.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I understand using it for collaboration. But I see people write their homework in it. They’re not collaborating with anyone.

Also, these people use it all the time. I understand using Overleaf if you only use LaTeX rarely, since you don’t need to set anything up.

I personally edit offline, and copy to Overleaf if I need to collaborate.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I’ve heard about Typst, never really tried it. I don’t think I’ll completely be able to switch anytime soon since no journal accepts it afaik. But maybe I can try it out for personal stuff.

SexualPolytope OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Civic police and civic volunteers are supposed to be temporary employees that help the police during stressful hours like during festivals. But the current ruling party is basically using it to legally give money to their goons.

SexualPolytope OP , 1 month ago

The reason for there not being many Hindi signs is that the protest is centered in Bengal. Bengalis don’t really have a good relationship with Hindi due to political reasons (even though they have linguistic similarities). In recent times, the central government has been trying to force Hindi on all Indians, which has made the situation worse.

SexualPolytope OP , 1 month ago

No.

Source: I’m Bengali. I speak Hindi, and no one else in my family does. And my family isn’t that uncommon from the general population.

SexualPolytope OP , 1 month ago

I’m from proper Kolkata. And yes, some do understand Hindi because it’s similar to Bangla, but people rarely speak it. And even if we do, we do it reluctantly. I speak in English with my non-Bengali friends, and it’s pretty common to do that in my cohort.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It’s good that OP mentioned that it’s “furred”. Otherwise, I could’ve mistaken it for a man.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

There’s a (pretty great) movie where cannibalism is treated as a substitute for sex. It’s called Aamis.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

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SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I use Syncthing and a bunch of rsync scripts to keep my machines in sync. The stuff I want synced continuously is handled by Syncthing. Other stuff is synced on a daily basis using the rsync scripts and anachron. For Photos, I use PhotoPrism. I simply sync the Photos from my smartphone to a folder and make PhotoPrism scan it on a regular basis using ofelia. For cameras, I need to copy the photos manually, but I don’t think there’s a way around that.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I do use Ventoy, but a more “traditional” alternative that I like is Popsicle. Super lightweight, and works very well. Some cases do require a dedicated USB, where Ventoy won’t work, at least not without trickery (e.g. anything with persistent storage).

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

<span style="color:#323232;">wine </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;"> iterate (</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">++</span><span style="color:#183691;">" Is Not an Emulator"</span><span style="color:#323232;">) </span><span style="color:#183691;">"WINE"
</span>

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

Sorry, I should’ve specified, it’s in Haskell. Idk where you tried running it.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You’re pretty much right on the money. In Haskell, a String is a type synonym for [Char], so we can use the list concatenation function ++ to join strings. ++ is an infix function i.e. [1,2,3] ++ [3,4,5] = [1,2,3,3,4,5] (which will be equivalent to doing (++) [1,2,3] [3,4,5] by virtue of how infix functions work in Haskell). When we do (++ “a”), we create a partially applied function. Now, we can supply another string to it and it will add “a” at the end of it.

iterate f x produces a lazily evaluated sequence [x, f x, f f x, …]. So, to get the nth entry, we can do wine !! n where we use another infix function !!. With partial application, we can modify the definition of wine to create a function that takes an Int n and spits out the nth entry of it by doing

<span style="color:#323232;">wine </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">= </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#795da3;">(!!) </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">$</span><span style="color:#323232;"> iterate (</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">++</span><span style="color:#183691;">" Is Not an Emulator"</span><span style="color:#323232;">) </span><span style="color:#183691;">"WINE"
</span>

We needed to wrap the !! inside parentheses because it’s an infix function. $ just changes the order of application. (IIRC, it’s the least significant function.) You can think that we’re wrapping whatever’s on the right of the $ by parentheses. Now we can do wine 2 instead of wine !! 2 to get “WINE Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator”.

I’m by no means a Haskell expert. (I’m not even a professional programmer lol.) So, if someone would like to add some more details, they’re more than welcome.

Edit: A much more readable version might be

<span style="color:#323232;">wine 0 = "WINE"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wine n = wine (n-1) ++ " Is Not an Emulator"
</span>

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I haven’t really done much recursion in Python, but can’t we do a tail-recursive version so that it (almost) never reaches recursion depth issues?

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

The people involved with this bullshit should be sacked. Typical power-tripping idiots.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It’s a choice. We know that it’s riskier to use stuff from AUR. Which is why it’s highly recommended to read the PKGBUILD before installing the package. The basic Arch install doesn’t even include an AUR helper. That said, AUR is typically very reliable for packages with a decent userbase. It’s mostly due to the community aspect. Bad actors are caught relatively easily as the PKGBUILD is available to look at.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’ve been using exclusively Linux since high school, and now I’m doing a PhD in math. It’s always been pretty smooth. I used to have a separate Windows rig for gaming, but don’t really need it anymore, now that Proton works very well with most games. (I don’t really play AAA games, so that helps.)

Coming to the point, for academic stuff, I mostly needed to use a PDF reader (Zathura and qPdfView), LaTeX, and some computation and graphing software (mostly SageMath). I sometimes needed to use DOCX files, but LibreOffice works well for that. Most other software I need from time to time are usually Linux native.

Also, many universities provide access to O365. I’ve used it in some rare cases where I needed to provide input in some collaborative document. But in most cases, I was able to convince my friends/colleagues to use Google Docs instead.

Unless you do CAD, or some creative work, Linux should be perfect for your usecase.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I dislike both. But since Google Docs is free, it’s easier to use everywhere and with all kinds of groups.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

There’s also PhotoPrism.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

No, it’s powered by Tensorflow, not an LLM. It’s the useful side of AI, basically, also it’s locally hosted. In case you don’t like it, you can disable it. It’s still a great app.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

I’ve been using Gallery for PhotoPrism for a while now and it’s pretty solid.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

Relevant xkcd

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

Individual philanthropy is never a solution. Most of the breakthroughs happen by public funding. Tax the rich, and fund the research. Don’t let the MFs claim they’re helping anyone out by donating 1% of their stolen wealth.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

Lol. Hope you found something else to enjoy with the tea.

SexualPolytope , 1 month ago

Don’t mean to necrobump. But I have Syncthing GUI working over a very similar setup. Let me know if you still need help setting it up.