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Visually Create Video Clips with mpv, FFmpeg and a Lua Extension(nickjanetakis.com)
1 points by nickjj 4mo ago|0 comments
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by nickjj 4mo ago
In case anyone missed it, the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system https://jguer.github.io/yay/lua.html#upgrade-selection-hooks . You can
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by nickjj 4mo ago
Makes me wonder what a property like that would go for today, 10 years later.
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by nickjj 4mo ago
> don't really recommend it to others, since there's all these great tools that have the features you need I thought about using any one of those tools but happily chose shell scripts and symlinks instead. It hasn't let
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I don't know how this works but does this mean if someone gained physical access to your locked running computer, they could gain access to your full encrypted drive and anything saved on disk? My reasoning there is if you used an encr
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by nickjj 4mo ago
On the bright side you can get quite far without the AUR. I have 1,135 packages installed. Only 3 top level packages are from the AUR and 2 of those 3 are from the same author, they just happened to split their packages into a client /
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by nickjj 4mo ago
Just throwing this out there but do you happen to have dual monitors where 1 of them is a 4k monitor and the other is not?
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I know what you mean about "just works". With OBS recordings (not streaming) on Linux I occasionally get situations where short but heavy disk or network I/O will cause my webcam's video to get out of sync with my microp
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by nickjj 4mo ago
When I switched to Linux from Windows last year I noticed I had a lot of keyboard input latency only when gaming. It was like I had ~100ms of input latency and it felt exactly the same as playing old school Quake I on a dial up connection w
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I had performance issues with Mise which I reported here https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/4821 . Unrelated to Mise but related to zsh, there's also https://github.com/jeffreytse&#x2
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by nickjj 4mo ago
I'm sure it doesn't help that people continue to buy things at this price. Steam Deck had a huge price increase (~40-50%) but it still sold out in 24 hours. All it would take is for everyone not to pull the trigger on buying thing
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by nickjj 5mo ago
It's funny how out of touch AI is with seeing the big picture of problems. Here's an example I encountered last week: Someone in my neighborhood is a 75 year old chemical engineer who likes computers and got into Linux a few month
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by nickjj 5mo ago
You can get a lot of laptop in the ~$700 range if you look beyond Apple and Framework. I picked up a Nimo N155 for $570 back in September 2025. Today it's $700 due to RAM prices. Its specs are: 15" 1080p IPS display, AMD Ryzen 7 6
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by nickjj 5mo ago
It's no problem. At least in Spain, Portugal and Türkiye as an English speaker. I spent a few weeks solo traveling in those countries. Sure you will encounter folks who don't speak English but you'll be surprised at how far b
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by nickjj 5mo ago
Yep, at a place I used to do work for I used their API to build a number of time saving things, all of which were tiny shell scripts. Like adding a custom text field to each ticket with a human description of what a ticket did which someone
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by nickjj 5mo ago
Don't feel too bad. I've been at places where the AWS annual spend was a real lot of money, let's say way over 100k but not 1 million USD. Support tickets went unanswered for months, assigned account reps left us hanging for
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by nickjj 5mo ago
My desk is only 48" wide (4 feet / 1.2 meters) and 30" deep (76 cm). This is enough space to have a massive mouse pad with a full sized keyboard and mouse on it with enough space to the right of it to comfortably sit and work
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by nickjj 5mo ago
Another one is how much time it takes to maintain vs how much interest it has. This is different than burnout. I created and maintain example Docker Compose starter projects for Flask[0], Rails[1], Django[2] and Node[3]. I've had these
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by nickjj 5mo ago
> Many of the issues could potentially be solved by modern LLMs? Yesterday I asked an LLM what customizations niri made to the KDL language. It said niri modified the language to add single line comments with //. However if you
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by nickjj 5mo ago
It's also very dependent on where you live I think. I'm in NY (not NYC) and it's rare to find anyone smoking. When I visited Türkiye last year, I've never seen so much smoking in my life. Not just walking around the stre
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by nickjj 5mo ago
Yep, this is the way. It survives human memory and doesn't depend on software. If you keep it in a dark environment that's not super humid the ink should last a really long time. Even in non-optimal conditions (NY summers with hig
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by nickjj 5mo ago
I moved to Linux from Windows 6 months ago. Here are some minor things that always went sour on Windows: Webcam's settings would always get reset semi-randomly The date from the clock would frequently disappear Mic's
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by nickjj 5mo ago
You could look at the process itself and apply the things that sound good to you. It won't help with official certificates but you can start replying back saying you adhere to certain things that are suggested by SOC 2 Type 2. I can al
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by nickjj 5mo ago
With a bit of technical knowledge you can get pretty far with accounting without AI or cloud services. I run a small business (no employees) and GnuCash was ok. Then I got tired of battling it for years to do certain things. Spent a few day
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by nickjj 5mo ago
Browsers still have a lot of memory usage on their own. I am running Arch Linux here. When I boot my machine into a full desktop environment it uses 1.1 GB of memory total, for everything. If I open Firefox, it in itself uses about 1.3 GB t
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DotFriedRice: Niri / Arch Linux Desktop Environment with Modern CLI Tools(github.com)
2 points by nickjj 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nickjj 5mo ago
> But if it can't talk to the internet, I kind of don't see the issue. No internet access doesn't save you. With file system access it can delete a file. Without sudo access it can silently add something to your user'
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by nickjj 5mo ago
I've had public dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice for a long time but recently branded them and after having run native Linux for 6 months, I added a desktop environment based on using niri and Ar
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by nickjj 5mo ago
It depends on the business use case and requirements. Using a managed database solves this problem, so there's that an option. If you self host your DB, if the data is on block storage you can at least spin up a new instance and connec
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by nickjj 5mo ago
> It's pretty simple to understand - when a user opens a tool, it's because they want to do the thing that tool does, now. Yes and this also applies to other things like videos. I'd be curious what others think about this:

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