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by ayushnix 5y ago
I bought an RPi 4 with the goal of streaming my Android screen using scrcpy but that turned out to be horrible. If I'm not mistaken, the RPi 400 has the same hardware specs as an RPi 4 (minus the keyboard) so your experience would most
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Umm, you don't need to define your PATH variable in `config.fish`, not unless you make it your default login and user shell. You should keep using bash as your default login and user shell, define your environment variables, like PATH,
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> ... a lot of tools rely on updating bashrc as part of installation and some of them don't have an equivalent `config.fish` such as?
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Right, as I said, writing multiple lines of commands on a shell doesn't really make sense because it's not interactive usage, it's scripting. And scripting should be done using an editor, which is what you're doing by us
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Why not? If I'm writing scripts for automating configuration on modern macOS, for example, where ZSH is installed by default, why not write ZSH scripts? I guess there are two reasons - if the script doesn't need arrays, POSIX
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Then you have to learn two languages. Why would I need do to that? > But I write complex commands in the shell a lot ... It's not rare that I write commands that are more than 5 lines long. Ah, well, yeah, in that case, you mig
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I can't think of a single reason why you'd need to rewrite your POSIX sh or bash scripts to be able to use Fish. The `#!/bin/sh` shebang is there for a reason.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I don't get why people expect POSIX compliance from fish. Your interactive shell and your scripting shell can be, should be, and often are, different. I use bash as my default user shell, fish as the default shell of my terminal emulat
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I checked my Airtel Fibre connection, IPv6 is explicitly disabled by Airtel and there's no option to enable it.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Last I checked, IPv6 on JioFibre was broken and I couldn't get a publicly discoverable IPv6 address. Have things changed?
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by ayushnix 5y ago
I don't know of a single ISP in India which offers functional IPv6 in broadband connections. I won't consider 4G because it's almost useless (at least in India) for doing anything serious.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
We can either bury our heads in the sand, have a false sense of security behind CGNAT connections and keeping devices running without a firewall, commercialize IPv4 as much as possible to point of consuming loopback address spaces and make
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Cannibalising reserved address space like 127.0.0.0/8 will only get the IPv4 internet so far. Eventually, the scarcity of IP addresses will make IPv6 the more business-conscious choice for many applications The decision to consume
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Is CoPilot and its models open source like the GPL software it trains on are? There's a difference between public domain and GPL. You can do whatever you want with public domain works and nobody can say otherwise. That's not the c
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Is there a reason neither Guix nor Nix have made an LTS-type repo? Nix and Guix are already esoteric enough to scare people away, I don't imagine how these projects would be able to reliably manage LTS releases unless they get se
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> I'm writing with Hacker News readers, and especially developers in mind Not all developers are system administrators, which is one of the reasons why MacOS is vastly more popular among developers than Linux. Imagine executing `sud
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Experience helps, but it doesn't take an expert to tell that removing 90 packages in order to install 1 application doesn't seem normal. You're looking at it from a seasoned Linux user's perspective, not from the pe
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Searching using Vimium-FF was broken for me for almost an year. I kept waiting for it to be fixed until my patience ran out and I switched to Vimium C and it worked fine. The author of Vimium C also raised a PR and it looks like it was fina
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by ayushnix 5y ago
Looks like the apt developers were sensible enough to fix this problem rather than blaming the user for not reading a wall of text. https://twitter.com/JulianKlode/status/1461026051405058048
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> ... and the bug that he ran into that didn't let him install steam shouldn't have been there in the first place. Exactly. If an operating system is offering a GUI for installing software, it should work. If it isn't work
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by ayushnix 5y ago
From the point of view of an absolute beginner, Linus shouldn't even be on a terminal. The PopOS shop should've worked. If it didn't work, a package installation shouldn't have asked him to nuke his GUI in huge wall of t
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Honestly, I don't know why so many people, especially developers still use Windows. A combination of comfort in familiarity and lack of viable alternatives. Not everyone has the money to buy an expensive Mac. With Linux, you poten
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Is it? Because this is exactly what I do on mine (w/ GNOME + PaperWM) and it's fantastic having so much space. I don't even scale the fonts, either. Good for you I guess. I, for one, can't read text at size 6 or 8
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by ayushnix 5y ago
2x scaling on a display that needs 1.5x scaling would look cartoonish. Every GUI element — titlebars, headers, icons, menus etc would be bigger than they should be. You could scale down the fonts to make the text bearable and not look like
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> Some of them I’ve seen even just left it at 2x scaling and did the whole video with a giant cartoonish UI that had no actual usable space. Either that or they keep it at 1x scaling and just scale the fonts instead which is a pretty deg
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> I’m also using 1x scaling on both displays which perhaps simplifies things. I'm sorry if I sound snarky but this right here is the problem. Using a display at 1x scaling which needs at least ~1.5x scaling for text and images to be
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> 4. The 3:2 display is awesome for programming and content creation, and I don't know why more devices don't adopt it. The display on the FrameWork laptop needs to be scaled fractionally (about ~1.6x) which is a deal breaker f
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by ayushnix 5y ago
> What's the rationale for keeping RSA as a default these days? Can't think of any reason except backwards compatibility and regulatory compliance. I don't use anything except ED25519 in my own setup.
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by ayushnix 5y ago
You can either deal with it once in while or you could let it pile up for years and then when a new major release comes up, you could spend days troubleshooting or reinstalling from scratch. I think either method is fine, depending on the c
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by ayushnix 5y ago
You get SELinux by default if you care about security although it's kinda esoteric and hard to understand. You get to work on a potentially Red Hat Enterprise Linux like distro. Might come in handy professionally. Hmm, can't think

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