gen2brain

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1. 31.▲
   by gen2brain 6mo ago

   I remember there was a kernel module for the Matrox/MPlayer combination. You get a new device that MPlayer could use. You did get `-vo mga` for the console and `-vo xmga` for X11; you couldn't tell the difference, and both produce
2. 32.▲
   by gen2brain 7mo ago

   Sure, throw several thousand bombs on them. That surely will help. They send kisses currently and are very happy they and their children are dying.
3. 33.▲
   by gen2brain 9mo ago

   This is an older thinkpad I am using, 4 cores, 16G of ram. LLVM is now dependency you cannot get rid of. That is painfull, but in the morning, after several hours it is usually done. Rust is LLVM plus I am not sure what, really painfull. An
4. 34.▲
   by gen2brain 9mo ago

   Error handling in Go is actually very nice. You do not have unhandled errors, not possible unless you really want to not handle the error. Now I even use it similar in Python, amazing how many errors I did not handle at all. But what got me
5. 35.▲
   by gen2brain 10mo ago

   Did such an attack with crazy moving windows happen in the past?
6. 36.▲
   by gen2brain 10mo ago

   Window positioning? You cannot position the window, you cannot send a hint, nothing? So my pop-up with GTK4 will randomly be placed somewhere, anywhere, without any control. OK, GTK4 went further and also removed popups without the parent,
7. 37.▲
   by gen2brain 11mo ago

   I like how even the nus product (jpegli) is a significant improvement. I am in the process of converting my comic book collection. I save a lot of space and still use JPEG, which is universally supported.
8. 38.▲
   by gen2brain 11mo ago

   IUP has custom-drawn controls for tables and cells (additional controls), and it uses another CD (canvas draw) library for that, not internal IUP Draw functions. I also started rewriting that to use the core IUP drawing functions instead. I
9. 39.▲
   by gen2brain 11mo ago

   To me, this argument always sounds like someone is being forced or threatened into creating a desktop app. It was never supposed to be easy; the goal is to create an app that users would want and will actually use.
10. 40.▲
    by gen2brain 11mo ago

    I am working on the UI library and bindings for Go. Still not finished, but currently, the same app can be compiled for Win32, Cocoa, GTK2, GTK3, GTK4, Qt5, Qt6, and Motif. There is a web browser control, a GL canvas, and a regular canvas.
11. 41.▲
    by gen2brain 11mo ago

    Not that I disagree, but HEIF is a container format. What is inside that container is essential. HEIC in HEIF, AVIF in HEIF, etc.
12. 42.▲
    by gen2brain 11mo ago

    I often use <img> with "width" on GitHub, so that I do not have the scrollbars on the main page, and one can click on the image to see the original size. It is ugly, but what is the alternative in Markdown? Several images in
13. 43.▲
    by gen2brain 11mo ago

    I know a few apps that did the same (mpv for example). If you still have it in home root it uses that, when you move it to .config it uses that instead. Auto migrating could and would create issues.
14. 44.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    People are talking about AI everywhere, but where can we find documentation, examples, and proof of how it works? It all ends with chat. Which chat is better and cheaper? This local story is just using some publicly available model, but dow
15. 45.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    If I already have to use a bundled web app, I prefer Electron. My system doesn't have a "system webview"; I don't have webkit-gtk installed/compiled.
16. 46.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    Does FreeBSD even support Wayland? I heard that there is some work.
17. 47.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    I do not give up on my openbox. I use it with LxQt. Now there is a Labwc, similar to openbox. It uses its XML spec for config and is similar. But I am still on X until all issues are resolved. Can I use openbox on KDE now? It used to be pos
18. 48.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    Protocol, maybe, and there was no "Wayland"; there was Gnome and KDE. I was only recently able to try Labwc with LxQt, and I occasionally try to see if there are some improvements because it is not usable currently. The biggest is
19. 49.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    The best apps I've used have implementations for every OS and UI separately. Usually, everyone uses the easier route, but it will only be good enough, not the best. But again, now your app works only on Windows.
20. 50.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    I stopped using Firefox when they removed support for ALSA. I think it is possible to compile with it, but the bin is just PulseAudio. I don't want to compile it every week. That is my only issue, and while I liked Firefox, but they ar
21. 51.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    I stopped reading the rest. I just saw Electron is mentioned. Some people honestly think that is a good approach.
22. 52.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    How can starting a browser be a best practice? This app is lightweight and does not even use a GUI toolkit. You would roughly use 20x more memory. How is that a best practice?
23. 53.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    JPEG can be YCbCr, RGB or even CMYK (usually from Photoshop or similar software). There can also be unusual subsample ratios for YCbCr, such as 4:2:1. I created some WASM Go bindings for jpegli, and I recall that such images cannot be repre
24. 54.▲
    by gen2brain 1y ago

    The UI appears simple enough to be implemented in any desktop GUI library. Why did you decide on using web technologies? Is it because of the libraries you are using in the app?
25. 55.▲
    by gen2brain 2y ago

    Nice, thanks. All the other Qt bindings seem abandoned. https://github.com/kitech/qt.go is interesting though, it uses a huge wrapper, and then FFI calls. Now we can use libffi with purego (there is already a library)
26. 56.▲
    by gen2brain 2y ago

    Because how else would they know that Kamala used to work in mcdonalds. Pure gold in western media.
27. 57.▲
    by gen2brain 2y ago

    Check https://github.com/bitfield/script for shell-like scripts in Go.
28. 58.▲
    by gen2brain 2y ago

    Maybe it just looks slow to you, for example, check the raylib bindings benchmarks, Go is usually at the top, together with Rust, C#, etc. and Python is at the very bottom. Perhaps not the best way to benchmark FFI but it shows that Python
29. 59.▲
    by gen2brain 2y ago

    There is still an ALSA OSS emulation in the kernel, probably distros do not enable it but I have had it enabled for years. All it needs is some ioctl system calls, which does everything for me internally. ALSA with just system calls and wit
30. 60.▲
    by gen2brain 2y ago

    And then there is Pipewire with PulseAudio plugin, and not to mention you can compile Pipewire with support for GStreamer, Jack, etc. I guess we can remove only the Arts and ESD daemons from that list, but the mess just adds up.