wing-_-nuts

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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>I'm not some anti-wayland zealot but you will pry xfce out of my cold dead hands. Hard same. I'm using xfce on my laptop with mint xfce edition, and it's a breath of fresh air. Everything just works how you'd expec
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
With a project as user/dev hostile as wayland, it's much better to be a 'last mover' than first. For the life of me, I'll never understand how wayland got traction with the community. 'Hey guys, we decided to i
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
For me, the biggest thing was simply my ability to work in a quiet environment with little distraction. We went from an open office floor plan that was so loud I wore noise canceling head phones and a baseball hat to block the buzzy lighti
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>By the time I actually got to college I realized these techniques were not only more effective and enjoyable for me than sitting down in lectures, but that the vast majority of students never actually had to build these muscles to begin
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>my energy company was trying to put load into its batteries at the times when the grid most needed it. I'm not sure I understood this sentence?
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
It's not licensed per se, but in certain areas of the defense industry, one is restricted to using the 'DOD approved' subset of C++. Coders that know how to be productive within those constraints (and can pass clearance) a
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
We are actually fortunate. Folks from LATAM seem to have no problem integrating with US society. Europe seems to have a much harder time with their pool of migrants. Probably due to the lack of birthright citizenship
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
Took a min to read the link, that was a surprisingly good summary. My whole concern with the AMOC is that given it's a non-linear system, and we've seen evidence of 'fast shutdowns' in the climate record before, I fear w
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I get what you're saying, and in the beginning days of the internet, I hoped that people would adopt a payment system where a user could distribute a pool of money to the pages that they visited, in order to pay for server uptime, cont
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I am just repeating the 'gist' I've gotten from my research on the topic, but the risk of AMOC shutdown has gone from a low probability / high impact prediction by 2100, to 'we think there's a strong chance of
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I don't know that there are any pop sci books on amoc collapse specifically, the more popular books on climate change acknowledge it's a possibility but do not really dig into the effects beyond the fact that it will chill europe
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I've been reading up on the inevitable collapse of the AMOC (the potsdam institute has a number of really good videos covering the subject). Everyone hears 'winters will be up to 10C cooler', but few realize that this will al
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
Not to mention the cost of premature deaths of children and the elderly who don't deal with heat as well
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I love these small models that are able to fit onto local hardware. Even they are capable enough to be helpful and while I think AI is still a bubble, these open models give me faith that the underlying tech isn't going away.
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
My personal benchmark for 'maybe this function is too long' is when it doesn't fit on the page.
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I've lost count of the times my buddy and I wanted to play coop, and I was forced to log in to my ms account for a split screen game. I remember back on the original xbox, and x360, using 'guest' just worked . Forcing peop
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I remember windows 2000 being pretty rock solid. I used it as my gaming os for years while folks struggled with windows me and windows xp (IIRC, xp did eventually become pretty good)
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
The ux for the settings and such are ...special, but it does what I need it to do and I haven't sought out other options
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
to be honest, I use the calibre ebook viewer without bothering with calibre itself (so far) and I find it to be good at what it does
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
I'm wondering this too. I also thought about setting up calibre as I own a ton of drm free books and while the calibre reader itself is nice (the viewer is all I mainly use), sometimes I do find myself wanting to read on my phone whil
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
1. Their sample implementation was bad , I think it was just a demo app for car displays or some such. They should have ported over a simple wm. 2. Yeah, the major projects like gnome and kde had enough developers to dedicate to porting
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
>Arguably the problem isn't the display server No. If you tell users they should switch to a new display server, you shouldn't be surprised if no one takes you up on it if you don't provide basic feature parity. If you te
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
Yeah I used x forwarding to access matlab from my uni lab from the comfort of my own home, while all the other students had to slog to the lab lol
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
It is absolutely not the DE/WM devs driving this, it's the wayland folks saying that xorg would no longer be maintained. They literally just dumped an Ikea box of protocols on the table without even bothering to provide a decen
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
By the time wayland becomes the default in xfce, maybe the wayland team will have added window positioning to the protocol...
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
Question, does your monitor have a KVM? Cause I definitely notice this behavior, even on windows and os x with my monitor. I believe it was the same way on linux as well but it's been a minute since I used linux on my desktop
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
Depends on the game. Many shooters have always targeted 60 fps (COD / BF iirc). A single player game may well target 4k30hz unless the user selects 'performance mode'. In the PC version Resident Evil 5, hit reg with a parti
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
When you say game streaming, is this the steam streaming stack?
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
My biggest problem with wayland was how it was basically forced on the community. It broke innumerable things for years , put all the responsibility for implementing things down on the DEs and WMs themselves. All of this hassle, forcing s
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by wing-_-nuts 2mo ago
>give Bazzite a whirl I never really understood Bazzite's immutable fs thing. Can one install standard dev stuff (i.e. compilers, ides, etc) easily under bazzite? This use case is the main reason why I lean towards maybe using cach

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