[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 19 points 4 months ago

also as a bonus question, why does every IDE seem to require you to configure every single option before it can run code

What IDE's have you tried?

Kate (and vscode) aren't really IDE's, they're more like extremely extensible text editors. You can make them IDE's, but they dob't come like that out of the box.

On the other hands, actual IDE's often have the inbuilt capability to install and manage the programming language related software.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ubuntu in WSL comes with systemd enabled. Debian doesn't, and you have to enable it yourself.

That's why I chose to have people use Ubuntu in WSL, despite the other downsides. One less step to setup a Linux environment on Windows makes the process smoother.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://owncast.online

One lgbtq+ streamer I know dual streams to owncast

The directory is a list of live owncast streams.

Also, you should be able to chat on owncast streams with fediverse accounts, but the last time I tried, I wasn't able to log log in with my lemmy account.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I disagree, because they are not the same thing.

Immutable means read only root.

Atomic means that updates are done in a snapshotted manner somehow. It usually means that if an update fails, your system is not in a half working state, but instead will be reverted to the last working state, and that updates are all or nothing.

I create a btrfs snapshot before updates on my Arch Linux system. This is atomic, but not immutable.*

There is also "image based" which distros like ublue (immutable, atomic) are, but Nixos (also immutable and atomic) are not.

*only really before big updates tbh, but I know some people do configure snapshits before all updates.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 18 points 6 months ago

As a someone who has used both Arch, and Debian, neither has less or more bugs.

Debian has the same bugs, over the period of their stable release, and Arch has changing bugs (like a new set every update lol).

Yes, Arch is going to get a lot more features. But it comes at the cost of "instability". Which is not so much a lack of reliability but instead, how much the software changes. I remember a firefox bug that caused a crash when I attempt to drag bookmarks in my bookmarks bar around, which lasted for like a week — then it went away.

The idea behind projects like Debian, is that for an entity that needs stability, you can simply work around the bugs, since you always know what and where they are. (Well, the actual intent is that entities write patches and submit them to Debian to fix the bugs but no one does that).

Another thing: Debian Stable has more up to date packages than Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 22.04. This happens because Ubuntu "freezes" a Sid version, and those packages don't get major updates for a while. So often, the latest Debian stable has newer packages than the older Ubuntu releases.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And before you start whining - again - about how you are fixing bugs, let me remind you about the build failures you had on big-endian machines because your patches had gotten ZERO testing outside your tree.

As far as I know, the Linux Foundation does not provide testing infrastructure to it's developers. Instead, corporations are expected to use their massive amount of resources to test patches across a variety of cases before contributing them.

Yes, I think Kent is in the wrong here. Yes, I think Kent should find a sponsor or something to help him with testing and making his development more stable (stable in the sense of fewer changes over time, rather than stable as in reliable).

But, I kinda dislike how the Linux Foundation has a sort of... corporate centric development. It results in frictions with individual developers, as shown here.

Over all of the people Linus has chewed out over the years, I always wonder how many of them were independent developers with few resources trying to figure things out on their own. I've always considered trying to learn to contribute, but the Linux kernel is massive. Combined with the programming pieces I would have to learn, as well as the infrastructure and ecosystem (mailing list, patch system, etc), it feels like it would be really infeasible to get into without some kind of mentor or dedicated teacher.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Aw yeah! This is where my knowledge of absurdly good but extremely niche games comes in. I think I'll make multiple replies to this comment.

Chronosphere

Think enter the gungeon combined with superhot, but simplified a lot. It's a turn based bullet hell, and an excellent arcade game playable in the browser.

EDIT: I'd also like to take this oppurtunity to talk about flashpoint. Flashpoint is a massive archive of basically every flash game and animation, and you can even play them again.

However, in addition to flash projects, I also noticed that flashpoint also archives HTML/HTML5 games... but only a subset of them. Although flashpoint's primary purpose still is as a flash archive, it can also be used as a curated list of HTML5 games.

Here is a website that lets you search the flashpoint database

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 18 points 10 months ago

I just use termux + the simple http server built into python

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No one complained when s6, another init system, also offered a sudo alternative (before systemd did, too). But when Poettering does it, it's bad and wrong and ununixlike!

Maybe setuid has been extremely problematic, and more than one entity has sought alternatives?

Discord is adding ads soon. Currently, they don't enforce the TOS violation of custom clients, but maybe after they add ads, they will begin to do so. I would be very careful with any of this.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://nixlang.wiki/en/tricks/distrobox

https://distrobox.it/

Not the nix way, but when you really need something to work, you can create containers of other distros.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

The screen uses the most power out of any other piece if thr system, for daily use (on laptops which supported driversets for the OS)

Just turn the brightness down, and that will save you more battery life than tinkering with anything, unless you know a specific piece of the system (nvidia gpu) is killing your battery life.

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