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🯁🯂🯃🮲🮳 ← If you can see this, you are cool.

Tech nerd with social capabilities. Enjoys simulation games, pen and paper roleplaying, drinking beer and messing with technology while listening to Hatsune Miku.

Engine programmer of We Are Football at https://winningstreakgames.de

#flightsim #aviation #penandpaper #pathfinder #tabletop #ttrpg #linux #steamdeck #selfhosting #postmarketos #cplusplus #cpp #opengl #simd #hatsunemiku #vocaloid #anime #archlinux
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fell, to random
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Here's a Flatpak story: The other day, my best friend told me that he had switched to Linux! Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, a noble choice in my opinion. He's a smart guy, but he was having some issues that he couldn't figure out: Firefox' maximise and minimise buttons were missing, drag and drop from archives wasn't working, his selected theme wasn't applied everywhere, and many other small issues I can't remember now.

I tried reproducing his issues on my machine, but everything worked fine for me. We were confused. Is there missing libraries? We went through packages to find out what my system had that his didn't. It was weird, everything was kinda working, but the devil was always in the details, for every single app.

And then we found it: All those applications he had issues with were Flatpaks! He simply didn't pay attention when installing them through the Discover store. He didn't even know what Flatpak meant.

I helped him remove Flatpak from his system and install the system packages instead, and all issues were gone.

Man, Flatpaks suck. How does anyone prefer Flatpaks over system packages? How does anyone think this was a good idea? Stop trying to invent new things to solve old problems and instead go back and fix the problems.

Containers, Flatpak, Immutable distros, it's all wasted effort. There is no magical solution that will solve all our problems. The only way to solve all problems is by solving each problem individually one by one. And that is exactly what countless distribution and package maintainers are doing on your behalf every single day.

And you should appreciate it for fucks sake.

fell,
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@element For the sake of this discussion I glanced over the Arch Wiki page about Flatpak again. Specifically the troubleshooting section.

"There is no ideal way to apply system themes in flatpak apps"
"There is no single standard to set the cursor properly."

I find this unacceptable. The response to "Flatpak is not the future" is only giving me more reasons to avoid Flatpak, as it fails to defend the original arguments.

However, I do believe Flatpak can be a great way of distributing software, if - and only if - all apps and system components are Flatpaks. But at this point you might as well consider Flatpak it's own Linux distribution.

To me, the only use of Flatpak in its current state is more like an emulator. It's not really emulating anything, but it enables some applications to run that wouldn't otherwise run on the system, which is a common use case of emulators.

fell, to random
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I'm a Docker (or containers in general) non-believer. I simply don't believe in the promises it makes.

Docker is supposed to be easy to set up, easy to update, easy to migrate and always works. However, I've head plenty of stories where a container setup doesn't want to work, doesn't want to update or doesn't work after migrating. It's the same shit.

I'll stick to plain old system packages and there is absolutely nothing that will stop me.

#Docker #Container #Cloud

fell, to Matrix
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I just learnt about jemalloc in order to fix the memory hunger of Synapse.

So yeah, Python developers will rather hijack the glibc memory allocator than switch to a resource efficient language.

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✨ Improved Loops Share menu

Now with a new "Not Interested" button to help train the For You feed along with Bookmark and Report features!

#loops

fell,
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@dansup I'm assuming it's using a pretty standard recommendation mechanism, is it?

fell,
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@dansup It would be cool to document the "rules" somewhere in the about section. I think it would help potential media coverage understand the benefits of open source. What do you think?

habaneroharlot, to random

Update:
Yeah, nope - I told my partner that I had cold feet. Again.
I'm just not ready yet- I don't want to move to a rural area where I don't have my license, I don't have any prospect for work or education, and I don't speak the language.

Like sure, cheap house- but there is nothing there for me.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@habaneroharlot/post/C6Rstagu1Ut

fell,
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@habaneroharlot Houses are overrated. I spent my entire life in appartments. You don't need a house.

Gargron, to random
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Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐

fell,
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@Gargron You shouldn't complain. I'm feeding two people on literally half of that.

tazgetroete, to random German
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🏳️‍🌈 📺 Die Queere Medien Datenbank Queermdb untersucht regelmäßig die Rollen queerer Personen in Filmen und Serien, seit 2021 explizit im deutschen Fernsehen. Im vergangenen Jahr verzeichnete sie eine deutliche Zunahme an relevanten queeren Rollen.

fell,
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@tazgetroete Ich finde, das sollte dem realen Anteil in der Gesellschaft folgen. Einen Teil der Gesellschaft zu überrepräsentieren ist auch nicht unbedingt gut.

fell, to random
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Stop calling them "reply guys". This is a social network, meant for interaction. If you don't want that, then go run a blog instead or shut up.

fell,
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@graves501 In my experience "reply guy" is used for any sort of unwanted replies, including people who simply disagree with the poster.

fell, to web
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I'm sick of web apps. Someone should make TeamSpeak or Mumble, but with video.

#Web #TeamSpeak #Mumble #VoIP

fell,
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@holsta I have not.

fell, to music
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Wait, did Foobar2000 always have an automatic dark theme? 😲

sos, to random
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Some of my favourite bits from MS-DOS 4.0 sources in C:

  1. Cursed Pascal
  2. Witty boolean
  3. Variable hell
  4. Fdisk full-screen menu visualisations in comments

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fell,
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@sos Someone really didn't like C, huh?

fell, to random
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Why does cheese get tastier when molten? 🧀

dansup, to random
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Loops + TestFlight #soon

fell,
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@dansup Will it be available on Web/Android?

ipg, to random
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BATTLEYE
RICOCHET
XIGNCODE
EAC
EA ANTICHEAT

MY COMPUTER IS GIGAVAXXED. I CAN NEVER CHEAT.

fell,
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@ipg What's that VRChat world? Asking for a friend.

fell, to macos
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How open is MacOS compared to Windows? Does it have annoying popups? Can you uninstall everything you don't want? Does it run useless crap in the background? I never used it, personally.

#AskFedi #MacOS #Windows

fell, to linuxphones
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My 72 year old mother is in a hospital right now. I had to make and take all sorts of phone calls lately, just to manage things like insurance and care facilities.

It got me thinking about Linux phones. In this current time I couldn't use something like @postmarketOS because even missing a single call can cause huge difficulties and delays right now.

I really hope calls can be made more reliable in the future. 🙏

#LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #MobileLinux #postmarketOS

fell,
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@felix I do have a Pixel 4a with Android 13, so that's not the issue. But if I didn't have that, I would be out of luck.

fell,
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@felix Yeah, I mean that's why I keep an untouched Android phone as a backup.

Linux and Open Source is a hobby, I do it for fun. It's all good.

fell, to linux
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Man, I love the AUR. They even got fedi-fetcher!

Let nobody tell you that Arch isn't for servers. It's a great experience, honestly.

#Linux #ArchLinux #AUR #FediFetcher

fell,
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@bitlevel I'm using Arch on 8 machines (some desktop, some server) for a about 3 years now. I barely had any stability issues.

One time, bluetooth stopped working.
One time, a specific wine feature stopped working.
That's about it. Both fixed itself over time through updates. And none of this is really relevant for servers.

Debian is great, use whatever you prefer. I'm just saying that the "Arch is unstable" myth is not true.

nical, to random French
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I was curious about how the new vulkan-based GSK renderer that shipped with gnome 46 worked so I took a peek using renderdoc. Here is a breakdown animation of each draw call (highlighted with the wireframe overlay):

A breakdown of each draw call going into rendering a frame of gnome's settings app

fell,
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@nical Does that mean it calculates the distance for all fragments, even in the middle, far away from any corners?

davidrevoy, to random
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Morning routine

#webcomic #krita #minifantasytheater

fell,
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@davidrevoy I know somebody needs to hear this: If you have trouble with stress, anxiety or sleeping, try cutting out the caffeine! My neurologist advised me to live caffeine-free and I felt a lot better since I did that.

I still enjoy coffee, it's just decaf! ☕

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Good news everybody, companies can now place adverts in your Start Menu that lead to executable code. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138949/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-recommendations-setting-disable

fell,
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@ultrasquid @GossiTheDog I have heard it's planned for 22nd of May or something like that

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