ftaghn

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by ftaghn 3y ago
>In other words, it's pretty common for Windows users to experience major driver breakage every time they upgrade to a new major version of Windows This is really a high level arguing in bad faith here. Windows XP was released in 2
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> For those unaware, Linux has a very explicit policy of never breaking userspace But has no qualm with constantly refactoring the kernel side of the coin for the most minor of reasons, which causes endless trouble when it comes to suppo
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> variable length arrays It was such a terrible feature it was made optional in the C11 standard (you can be a conforming C11 compiler and not allow this feature) and will never, ever be implemented in a Microsoft compiler (while C is no
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by ftaghn 3y ago
Most are DIY, anything that is low wattage can be turned fanless if you buy some parts and build it yourself. But OP was daft with his answer. As someone who doesn't like the Apple ecosystem and only uses PC, I can only admit defeat wh
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> I don't know of any IDE that provides even half of what i want TBH. > On Linux (which is my main OS these days) pretty much all options involve a text editor You obviously haven't looked hard enough. CLion fulfills a decen
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by ftaghn 3y ago
As much as people may hate oracle, they employ significant contributors to the Linux kernel. https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/ Many in very important subsystems. The XFS maintainer (who just recently stepped down
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> Granted, my experience with DEB has mostly been limited to Ubuntu - so it could be that/Canonical. It is not a Canonical specificity, but it is overridable behavior. For the dpkg prompting on configuration file changes: https:&#x
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by ftaghn 3y ago
Sid is not, contrary to what others replied to you, a proper rolling distro. Particularly during the times when there are freezes for a new stable release, the repositories can become broken in a way that you may not be able to install soft
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> How's the vim ecosystem now? Is vimscript still dominant? You can have a full neovim experience with all sorts of modern extensions without using a single line of vimscript. Some people even replace their init (neovim's vimrc
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> These projects are no joke and a few hurray contributors not lasting more than a couple of months won't cut it. Those same contributors that remained on vim instead of neovim didn't put much effort into vim9 ecosystem either.
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> Let's see how much traction Vimscript9 will get. In practice, none. It's a wasteland. Extensions that aim to be compatible with both vim / neovim use the old vimscript, while lua has very, very significant traction in th
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by ftaghn 3y ago
I would not be so prompt to compare the situation with Apple and Jobs. Apple is a company that provides something no one else does while also holding a lock on its users. You can't go and install iOS apps on android. On the other hand,
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> That's what set them apart, people wanted mp3 codecs and Nvidia drivers. Oh, it was far, far more than that. For example, wifi support was still extremely immature when the first ubuntu releases came out and a lot of people made o
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> I had the misfortune of having to maintain an 18'000 line bash 3 script My hats off to you, I do not think I have the fortitude to stomach.. this. > run it with busybox with the "exec prefers applets" option > edit
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by ftaghn 3y ago
People all too often forget that there is often a lot of extra documentation hidden in /usr/share/doc/ when you install -doc packages, at least on deb systems, and not just info and manpages. For example, the bash manual
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by ftaghn 3y ago
It is nothing as major as what Python does, but there are routine paper cuts through deprecation and breaking changes across versions, the most notable being 1.9 and 3.0. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019&#x2F
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> and slower. I like to write posix sh scripts for the sake of portability and, funnily enough, future proofing as I don't like having to maintain stuff against changes that break compatibility, which is something bash does (archlin
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> I always expected to become fluent in bash at some point, but the AI became too good at writing my scripts now... This page : https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls Is the fastest way of becoming proficient with shel
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> Be warned, apparently Grub had some kind of problem back in August 2022 Are you referring to this? https://archlinux.org/news/grub-bootloader-upgrade-and-confi... This isn't the first time, and won't be
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by ftaghn 3y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st... This went to court and the man who sued for discrimination lost his case. > -- A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he sc
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> Which really, I feel, demonstrates the perverse incentives of free search. These pages display ads, so upranking them means more revenue for google, and you do the opposite. Google's creators had correctly identified this problem
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by ftaghn 3y ago
>They wanted to control your computer. Palladium, and other features also is about control That level of control was already achieved on mobile. Android is the wet dream that Microsoft had with palladium and failed to execute. I can&#x27
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by ftaghn 3y ago
The problem with degoogling your phone in the west is that you may hit something that requires a non-rooted, pristine manufacturer provided rom to work. In my case, my bank won't allow me to do online payments unless I validate the pay
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by ftaghn 3y ago
>Firefox had the reputation of eating RAM like candy. It wasn't unwarranted. They were dealing with a great deal of memory leak issues in the early Chrome vs FF era. The most important thing is that even when Chrome ended up taking
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by ftaghn 3y ago
>Normal users however don’t care much about performance and whatnot. Their PC came with Chrome, so they use it You talk like it's impossible for nerds to have influence on their surroundings. Way before Chrome got preinstalled on a
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by ftaghn 3y ago
> given that you’re trying to lock out Linux users I had that issue with cloudflare bot captcha when trying to access a web novel website. It would infinitely loop into the "please click the checkmark to confirm you're human&qu
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by ftaghn 3y ago
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/ >Using Alpine can make Python Docker builds 50× slower Musl is a dire mistake.
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by ftaghn 3y ago
>It might be a specific security setting I've made more restrictive than the default Probably not. I recently tried to go back to firefox and eat up some of my gripes with the browser because I don't like chromium's engine
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by ftaghn 3y ago
It is no strawman. Because a lot (most? all? I don't recall, but that was my experience) of monitors in the CRT days had resolutions that went much higher than the true ability of the monitor to show detail, so it really matters to und