GustavoM

GustavoM, 5 days ago

Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind “in depth” was to “store” the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text=“‘’$NEWS’:fontsize=etc:other:attributes” followed by a scroll effect (to the left)… which I’m pretty sure its possible, but I don’t know which package is appropriate for the former.

GustavoM, 5 days ago

ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got “filtered” by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my “googling” improved a bit.

GustavoM, 7 days ago

“I don’t value my time. I value my braincells.”

– Me, every time someone says the “…value your time” argument.

GustavoM, 7 days ago

In a nutshell,

Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, “How do I install something on Linux?” – “Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?” – “Distros have their specific packages? Cool!”, etc.

GustavoM, 11 days ago

Just tell him, “Give Linux another shot when you are bored.”.

t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.

GustavoM, 12 days ago

Eh, just you wait until Bill implements AI into it and/or a xz-like backdoor and then says its “for your own good”.

GustavoM, 13 days ago

Quite a controversial take, but I think dietpi is a very solid choice, even for x86 PCs.

GustavoM, 16 days ago

The arch iso offers a install guide nowadays (archinstall), so nah not that much.

GustavoM, 16 days ago

Nah, the average “just werks” user won’t leave Windows even if it took money out of its credit card.

GustavoM, 15 days ago

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Found the Windows poser.

GustavoM, 17 days ago

I too can’t wait when biologically-modified dogs, cats and alike beat videogames using their own undeveloped-yet-modified brain for the first time.

GustavoM, 18 days ago

Three words:

Trial-and-error.

GustavoM, 20 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

That is like asking, “Is breathing worth it?” – well of course. Then again, folks don’t (usually) care due to how most privacy-ruining methods/features are … mostly (in)offensive and easy to tackle.

GustavoM, 21 days ago

…well… that is how I started learning (and getting used to) GNU/Linux, so eh.

GustavoM, 22 days ago

brb installing firefox

GustavoM, 26 days ago

All distros are free – just choose whatever you find interesting, give it a spin, see what happens.

GustavoM, 26 days ago

As someone who switched to wayland way back when sway was dominant…? About time.

GustavoM, 26 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

A “stupidly minimal” cli package that monitors power usage in real time. Bonus points if it is written in C++, with zero dependencies.

GustavoM, 21 days ago

Not really – it has way too many “bells and whistles” to be called as “stupidly minimal”. Then again, what I had in mind was something more straightforward with nothing else than “Current power draw: (number goes here)W. Updates every 3 seconds.”

GustavoM, 1 month ago

Eh, just try new commands in your distro and see what happens – “time is the best teacher of em all”.

GustavoM, 1 month ago

imo, that is like learning a new language you’ll never use – who on earth would search for new employees that can compile their own distro? It’s fun at first, but definitely not useful.

GustavoM, 1 month ago

Being fun does not make (thing) a necessity let alone useful – there are a lot of useless things that are fun.

GustavoM, 1 month ago

No one would want to buy this to use with high-demanding applications, but for hobbies and trivial stuff. With that said, even a Orange pi zero 3 is “better” than both Rpi 5 and the n100.

tl;dr: The magic word is convenience.