We need to stop this usage of proprietary MS GitHub + Discord in free software. It completely undermines the philosophy.
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The rampant use of Discord in FLOSS project is really disheartening. To join yet another Discord channel to receive any kind of support or discussions around the project, is off-putting.
Discord is the worst. The siloing of tons of information that should be publicly searchable and accessible via a public forum, but instead it's siloed off into this closed wall with shitty search.
I actually wish Lemmy was better searchable as well. I think Lemmy could be way better and drive adoption if it had a cross instance search engine / indexer.
If your instance is federated well, how does Lemmy not already have the search you’re speaking of?
I'm unsure. I use jerboa, maybe it's that. But search doesn't really search the content of posts. I.e. how I can google something, include reddit in the search terms, and find a relevant post(s)
Now. Fuck google, but I want to be able to do the equivalent with Lemmy posts.
Kagi has a fediverse lense, but I’d give the Lemmy webUI a try whenever you wanna search something up. It’s not that bad.
I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
You're not alone with your opinion.
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GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator
So is Alacritty, Kitty, Wezterm, and even iTerm.
The README's About section[0] sheds no light on what sets Ghostty apart from the competition, while using vague terms and marketing hyperboles.
[0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty?tab=readme-ov-file#about
From the website linked in the post:
- Windows, Tabs, and Splits: Manage multiple terminal windows, each with several tabs and splits. Better yet, it is all rendered via native UI elements.
- GPU-Accelerated Rendering: Employs Metal on macOS and OpenGL on Linux for efficient, high-speed rendering.
- Hundreds of Themes: Swap between light and dark modes automatically, or choose from a vast library of visually appealing themes.
- Ligatures and Grapheme Clustering: Shows ligatures flawlessly, handles multi-codepoint emoji properly, and accurately renders Arabic and Hebrew (in left-to-right mode).
- Kitty Graphics Protocol Support: Let terminal applications display inline images for a richer visual experience.
It also says it's cross platform (macOS and Linux) and has configurable shortcuts with what they believe are sensible defaults.
Although at least Alacritty already has all of these features (very different “sensible” defaults, though) and is also available on Windows so I'm not sold.
We are reaching autistic levels never seen before
I tried it, and it worked well when I worked locally. But I can't use it to SSH into my server, a lot of things just don't work.
SSHing to machines with bash seems to work fine, but it's a problem with ones that use fish, for some reason
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What is the deal with getting gpu acceleration into a terminal emulator of all things? Of all the innovations that we could use, faster drawing of text doesn't feel like it should be a priority.
GPU rendered text interfaces are pretty ubiquitous already. You can find that in IDEs, browsers, apps and GUIs of OSs. Drawing pixels is still a job the GPU excels at. No matter whether it's just text. So I don't see a point why we shouldn't apply that to terminal emulators as well.
text is like the slowest thing to draw :P when debugging games, a running log can make the 3D rendering stutter significantly.
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Pardon my ignorance, is the default terminal that comes with my PopOS also a "terminal emulator" and Ghostty is a replacement for that?
Yes. But it doesn't have to replace your default terminal emulator. You can have multiple and use any of them.
Finally a gpu accelerated Terminal emulator with tabbing.
Alacritty has windows and tabs.
Idk how to activate it (And my distro Cachyos uses a custom alacrity config
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