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reallyzen , 7 days ago

Not a boat owner, but trained on sailboats: if you feel like it, take sailing lessons and get a feel for it, it’s fun and relaxing. I hate motorboats for the noise, the environmental impact. And it’s kinda dull.

In any case, navigation and boating in general has rules, depending on where you are you may have to get a license.

Got to your local sail club, take lessons. When you’re trained you will be able to rent boats from time to time. Almost nobody sails enough that buying is reasonable. And anchoring in a proper port means an annual fee to pay.

reallyzen , 7 days ago

Depends on the machine… Arch, Debian and …Asahi! (Actually Fedora)

reallyzen , 6 days ago

Apple supposedly makes good hardware, and my ‘23 mbp in 14’ has excellent battery, great trackpad, very good sound and a beast of a screen. Now I don’t like whatever material these machines are made of, they are downright unpleasant to grab or touch, and the keyboard is abismal shit. I hate it, I am seriously not using it as much as I could not because Asahi, or Fedora, or bugs, or the availability of certain software for Arm64, but because of that shit keyboard. Asahi runs great, the full Pipewire sound stack developed for it is a pleasure to work on. Switch monitoring every which way, plug Firefox into Ardour and rip youtube, it all works, period.

To me M2 with 16g of ram is about on par with an intel i12 in everyday life. Sure it will win on rendering movies or some specific stuff, but day-to-day it’s like my friend’ Carbon X1 on Mint really.

reallyzen , 7 days ago

" KdeConnect": Notifications, messages, clioboard sharing, link sharing, remote control of your pointing.device, keyboard, command inputs on computer… When it works it’s great, but it is hit-and-miss between distros and updates catching up.

reallyzen , 7 days ago

Never could get it to work with phones, and that from Arch, Mint, Asahi, Macos all sharing flawlessly between thembut no phone would reliably stay sync’ed.

reallyzen , 7 days ago

I have a 2-year old android 11 oppo A53, my colleague some small samsung on A10. Installs fine, sync a first time somewhat, then just don’t sync a thing.

reallyzen , 13 days ago

Theatre tech. Show up on time. Sometimes shows don’t take late comers even with a bought ticket. And it’s bothering everyone else, artists included.

If the venue has a bar, stay for a drink. Like everyone else, artists (and techs) love to have a drink after a hard day at the office.

reallyzen , 22 days ago

Not many indeed. There’s a switch in your settings to only show you games for your designated OS, or there are symbols below the games’ vignettes that tells you which OS is supported: win / mac / steam

Frustrating is famous games from the 32 bits era, where they would be available to Mac but work only on macos pre-10.14 and not from 10.15 when macos went fully 64bits. Which means on top of reduced availability, some of this availability would only work on a mac from 2010 or so.

reallyzen OP , 27 days ago

I’d argue that it may come to that, given the poor availability of (steam) games for the macos platform. And when it is available, you may end up with a disclaimer that it may not run anyway.

reallyzen OP , 26 days ago

They are both on Mastodon. Lina just posted an updated list of games, there’s a ton of them

reallyzen , 27 days ago

Linux Audio

reallyzen , 27 days ago

An AUR package has been done for Arch by (supposedly) someone who knows what they are doing and needs it on their Arch Machine

A Flatpak is something done by someone, to (supposedly) work everywhere, untested on Arch, that may or may not work. And crash (Ardour on Asahi). Or waste hours or you life to render files incorrectly (kdenlive on arch and asahi).

Native versions work perfectly.

I thought I was clever in using arch/aur for everything, but pull KDE or QT apps from Flatpak to keep my gnome install a bit more tidy… For this, you’d have to have those Flataks to work, and sometimes they don’t.

reallyzen , 29 days ago

I assumed OP plugged himself in some hidden serial port (like cars’ obd2) and the washing machine had indeed a tpm to prevent bootleg/non original spare parts.

The human mind can be the deepest well of imagination sometimes. I’m a bit too good at that o.Ô

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I’m going to just drop here “The List” because I am not a musician myself, tho I use free software for audio mixing / production IRL and there’s excellent stuff in there.

It is targeted at Linux, but most of the big ones do exist for Mac or Windows machines. Not that a Linux DAW is any complicated affair nowadays, wink, wink.

I use Ardour on #AsahiLinux mostly. Yes, on a macbook lol.

reallyzen , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

My wife has a T480s on standard 2022 LTS Ubuntu, it is a machine old enough to not need the latest edgy mint ; a friend of mine has had to install it on his 2023 X1 tho.

Standard Mint will do fine. Default DE is boring as hell, be sure to look at others like Gnome. I love Gnome.

Also, using “live” USB keys OP can try several distros and check what they find more attractive in the default state of a distro.

PopOS, Elementary, Fedora, Tumbleweed… So many of them.

I say Tumbleweed is best because of the perfect, seamless integration of BTRFS / Snapshotting / Rollback system. It is truly the best way to dip your feet into Linux and get it back working in a single click when you (inevitably) fuck up.

reallyzen , 29 days ago

T410? Woah! I still mourn the death of my 420 with it’s Dome Light and rugged looks

I hope yours stay on, and on, and on!

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I see I sideload of Gentleman Agreement with the hardware vendors here:

• Hardware Vendors : "Oh No, The Market is Slowing Down!"
• Microsoft: “Hold My Beer, it’s Payback Time”

Everyone wins. Well, the usual suspects win as usual. The environment and the customer can go kiss Mr Gates and Mr Dell’s asses.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Funny story the other way around: the year is 2002 and I live in Laos. Bootlegs Everything Galore, all movies games music cost $1 or about. I discover a game, and then begins a quest to buy The Real Version because it’s a small studio and I really like it all, the storytelling, the modding tools, the community… A quest that would end up in Bangkok looking like the proverbial insane foreigner looking for the most stupid way to spend his money.

I found it eventually, in a shop that didn’t look any different among all its brothers in Pantip Plaza. Took me a while lol.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

DDG has it’s non-track version online since a bit now. Use the !ai bang to get to it

Also you have the choice of Claude insted of ChatGPT, and your queries aren’t harvested for further ai training

In any case, it’s a completely different tab, it’s not mingled in general search results

reallyzen , 1 month ago

You can also ask it when is the cutoff date of their database - there is a gentleman’s agreement between providers not to have ai involved in news / current politics in it’s public chats.

I tried them on a topic I’m pretty proficient on, (a spaghetti recipe lol) and the answer was the most bland imaginable.

The way it is setup by DDG, the restrictions and blandness, shallowness of the replies give me peace of.mind when a ‘natural language’ query is the easiest one. And Claude wouldn’t give me the DOB of that queen because it is Personal Info!

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Ponyos, is in fact, GNU/Ponyos, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Ponyos. Ponyos is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, that version of GNU which quite nobody uses today is called Ponyos, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Ponyos, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Ponyos is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Ponyos is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Ponyos added, or GNU/Ponyos.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I know everybody always grandly takes on the High Seas, sailing them with lots of "arrrr“ and stuff, but I’ve found that small, quick flowing rivers oftentimes do yield a good catch.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Check out Switzerland. Huge private healthcare network, expensive country but the salary is high too. Excellent public transport, good social protection… And magnificent landscapes, smack in the middle of Europe you have access to everywhere. You’ll have to learn French or German tho. It can be a bit quiet, but very very safe. Traditional food is meh, especially if you’re not a fan of melted cheese by the bucket.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

That’s why I mentioned “huge private healthcare network”: the employer does the Work Visa authorisation paperwork for you.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

That’s how I was on Slackware at the time. Reputable, functional, stable - and totally tailorable to your exact needs.

Everybody talks about Arch as a “pedagogic” distro, but you’ll learn a lot working with Slackware. I wonder if Lilo is still around.

reallyzen OP , 1 month ago

Marcan (@marcan) is talking about tackling thunderbolt and power usage while sleeping these days - and other stuff

social.treehouse.systems/…/112277289414246878

AsahiLina (@lina) was back on the graphic driver to get, ultimately, to Vulkan

vt.social/

reallyzen OP , 1 month ago

Asahi supports M1 and M2 chips because that’s what they own.

asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

M3, (and then M4) isn’t there because the cheapest hardware, the Mini, doesn’t exist with them… And also because work isn’t finished on M1/M2.

social.treehouse.systems/…/112277289414246878

The way apple sees its computer customer base now as they see their iPhone base (Must Own Latest Must Buy Shiniest), I do hope for the Asahi Linux project they don’t keep on iterating endlessly with new hardware twice a year.

reallyzen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You guys know that there’s an actual rtfm app that condenses the output of man to human-readable stuff right? Right??

reallyzen , 1 month ago

My bad: it’s tldr not rtfm

Me too I have stupid disputable aliases…

github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Of course. . …I was wrong and it is tldr not rtfm.

github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

But surely you heard about TheFuck?

github.com/nvbn/thefuck

There’s actually an rtfm package in Arch’s aur, but it just opens the archwiki for you which just adds that tiny bit of… of That Arch Way Of Doing Things I guess.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

BRB, got a dotfile to edit real quick

reallyzen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Not going to push Ardour if your brains are wired for Live, but have you tried Bitwig?

(Tho Ardour has Clip Launchers now, wink wink)

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I just finished the full soundtrack of a theatre play using AsahiLinux on my M2pro mbp. I resorted to macos only to render some heavy video tracks.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Ah again. One more moving target to chase for the nice AsahiLinux project.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Mbp sorry, not iPad :(

piped.video/watch?v=1iiFhhOkv14

It is now based on fedora not arch, but the install process is the same

reallyzen , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

AsahiLina was at it yesterday, ultimately chasing Vulkan compatibility:

vt.social/

reallyzen , 1 month ago

You’re not wrong. That’s why I kept a small macos partition to do the hard crunch when needed, like rendering in kdenlive. Everything else I can just do on Asahi, including Ardour multitrack exports.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

In CMY (printing) you get black by adding them all. In RGB (lighting) you get white

reallyzen , 1 month ago

What impressed me at the time was that it worked ; you’d pull huge amount of stuff and then waited in front of a real-life Reversed Matrix full of mysterious hieroglyphs. But Slackware would compile Ardour, Jack, Jamin and whatever else. Yeah it took a while to fetch all the libraries, but then it just did it.

Last week localsend wouldn’t compile on Arch, and took hours to fail it.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Works on mine

Édit: (10)… Ah, I see the point, indeed.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Commodore 64, with the tape reader, hooked to a black&white CRT

Seems I’m the eldest one here for now

reallyzen , 1 month ago

What you are losing is what you are gaining ; I for one embrace the minimalism of Gnome (even macos feels, looks bloated next to Gnome). There’s only 2 extensions that I add, and they are the vainest ones: the Spinning Cube and the Wobbly Windows.

No, there’s one more: the gnome implementation of kdeconnect, so useful to link your phone to your PC.

Of course KDE has great, great software out there, you shouldn’t be loosing anything by switching, so that’s where I use flatpaks, to not have to pull all of KDE libs on my system over the gtk ones: kdenlive comes to mind.

Embrace the zen. Drop the very idea of spending a week to fine-tune your Desktop to your liking - a gnome install is finished in about 5 minutes, including setting up the best wallpaper ever, the competition-winning KDE 6 Peaceful Tree default background.

Or just install the Fedora KDE spin, really.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

Good, good. The flight was a bit bumpy today, but by 11am I was having breakfast at my favorite little place down in front of the mosque. I love the quiet Sunday mornings here.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

I remember the first time I thought we were getting old: A friend suggested we meet for coffee at around 4pm. Fml.

reallyzen , 1 month ago

We used to meet for beers at any time of the day. Or night.

Having tea or coffee anytime past 10am is a sure sign of deliquescence of both body and mind I believe - and I should know since I totally reached that stage.