mcepl

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[–] mcepl 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ehm, what would be a difference for you, if you install sway?

[–] mcepl 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not vim necessarily, but I would really suggest thinking about a plain text editor of your choice and some of those lightweight markup languages (Markdown itself, reStructuredText, ASCIIDoc … I prefer rST, but they are mostly the same). Exactly because it allows me to concentrate on the content and ignore formatting. Besides, formatting, do you write for print or as everybody else these days for HTML? Why do you need a large word processor which is build primarily for preparing documents for print? Every serious text editor has some kind of plugins with spellcheckers, grammar checkers, dictionaries, etc.

[–] mcepl 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, of course, the sockets are the answer to everything (and BTW, d-bus uses sockets as well, e.g. /run/dbus/system_bus_socket on my current system), but the problem is no standard for the communication over these sockets (or where is the socket located). For example, X11 developed one system of communicating over their socket, but it was used just by few X11 programs, and everybody else had their other system of communication. And even if an app found some socket, there was absolutely no standard how exactly should programs communicate over it. How to send more than just plain ASCII strings? Each program had to write their own serialization/deserialization code, their own format for marshalling binary data, etc. Now there is just one standard for those protocols, and even libraries with the standard (and well tested) code for it.

[–] mcepl 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Size. I really don’t like the current 6”+ phones. The last phone I really liked was Google Nexus 5, because it had just 5" display.

[–] mcepl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://youtu.be/4WuYGcs0t6I (Richard Brown (FOSDEM 2023): “I was wrong about Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap”)

[–] mcepl 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, and "I use Gentoo" before that.

[–] mcepl 1 points 1 year ago

Without regards about this discussion, run, don’t just go, and buy a vertical mouse. Just saved my wrists.

[–] mcepl 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string… teach him to make his own regular expressions and you’ve got a man with problems. -- yakugo in http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3022 (and yes, it is http:// never https:// for this domain)

[–] mcepl 5 points 1 year ago
  1. Many Linux installers can preserve /home when asked nicely.
  2. (as root) rsync -avz /home/youruser/ other-machine:/home/
[–] mcepl 1 points 1 year ago

I haven’t meant it as the criticism of ZFS. It is just so, and perhaps there were good reasons for it. Now (especially with the convergence trend) it hurts.

[–] mcepl 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is twelve years old, but it nicely illustrates what BTRFS (and ZFS on other OS) can do … https://youtu.be/9H7e6BcI5Fo?t=206

[–] mcepl 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ZFS is not really hip. It’s pretty old. But also pretty solid. Unfortunately it’s licensed in a way that is maybe incompatible with the GPL, so no one wants to take the risk of trying to get it into Linux. So in the Linux world it is always a third-party-addon. In the BSD or Solaris world though …

Also ZFS has tendency to have HIGH (really HIGH) hardware/CPU/memory requirements.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032175

So, which Fediverse community is the official successor of /r/openSUSE? [email protected] or [email protected] ?

 

So, which Fediverse community is the official successor of /r/openSUSE? [email protected] or [email protected] ?

 

A typical FloreatCastellum story: delightful, very original, well written characters. And brief.

A completely geeky author of the yet-to-be-published book “A Brief History of Red Telephone Boxes in The United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar, and their social impact in the 20th and 21st centuries” finds so far unrecognised phone book in the London Whitehall and her passion for the research breaks through all anti-Muggle repellent charms. And the story starts from there. Highly recommended!

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submitted 2 years ago by mcepl to c/[email protected]
 

I have heard about this story so many times, I have felt compelled to download it and read it. It is pleasantly written, I don’t have any serious complaints about it, but in the end it is just yet another indy!Harry mixed with (never explained) sudden whirlwind romance, where Harry and Daphne get from 0 (him not knowing her name) to marriage (and of course the married bed) in a week or so. If you read something like this, you've read it all, I am afraid. Interesting part is that the whole story is from Daphne’s point of view (that’s at least something different).

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mcepl to c/[email protected]
 

What in the world I have just read? It could be just one rather normal run-of-the-mill indy!Harry story with mildly evil Dumbledore where Harry will build his own base and defeats Voldemort, but the author for reasons I really cannot understand put whole story into Harry & Hermione’s third year (of course, it is a Harmony story, it is indy!Harry after all, isn’t it?).

Which again is nothing bad. There are really few stories in the Harry’s third year and there are many themes which could be fruitfully investigated. I would love to finally somebody utilized the best JKR sentence in whole heptalogy (“Lucky you,” said Ginny coolly.’ OotP), it is the year of Ginny’s and transition from freaked out little girl to the storm of energy she is later in the series, it is the most peaceful Harry’s year (whole year happens absolutely nothing, everything is in the end), so we could have more of non-Voldemort-happy-life-at-Hogwarts. Did author use anything of these?

No, she/he didn’t. I have absolutely no idea, why this is a thrid-year story at all, it could/should be just slightly AU fifth or sixth (even better) story as well (somehow saving Sirius is the only requirement), and even better because even with twenty+ minds in them, these are still thirteen/fourteen year old bodies going at it like rabbits. Ewww!

 

After reading an excellent “One Week Late” by Bethany Delleman, I hoped that this story might another (very rare) example of non-canonical pairing P&P story. I have always thought that the relationship between Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth could be very interesting to explore, and generally that a relationship with a solider (looking how well the relationship with a sailor worked in “Persuasion”) could be interesting as well. Except the story had did not much of that exploration. Since the first wedding, it was quite obvious how it will end and there were only two ways how to achieve that end, neither of one which I liked. In the end the author decided to follow both of them. Oh well.

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