frnx · HackerTrans

2 miesiące temudiscuss

Probably inertia rather than double standards? It took me a long while (several years) to even start getting rid of all Google services for myself, I completely understand the feeling.

frnx

4 miesiące temudiscuss

The new large cycling strips that appeared in the last 5-6 years are so good. At commute time there are frequently jammed with /cyclists/, but let's face it it's miles better than being stuck in a car. I shudder to think about the alternative where each cyclist was instead alone in a small car, this wouldn't even fit on the roads.

frnx

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

I have an older ASUS laptop from 2015 which also has (more minor than this!) ACPI state management bugs. I initially bought that machine because it was a pretty high-end and was somewhat disappointed about both the build quality and the firmware/software support.

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w zeszłym rokudiscuss

I'm wondering where the "forks" translation came from in the first place. Google Translate used to be fairly reliable for simple translations, but I've seen several examples in the last couple of years where it goes batshit crazy, including starting to loop hallucinating sentences on repeat. Is absolutely nobody checking how well it performs before deploying nowadays?

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w zeszłym rokudiscuss

On the other side of the fence, both KDE and Gnome (which are the main desktops I'm using) are absolutely rocking it lately, the slow improvements are really paying dividends!

frnx

2 lata temudiscuss

I'd been looking for something like this for a while now... but just like other e-ink phones the privacy policy is a bit chilling : they explicitly say they collect "everything" including precise location, messages, etc. I get that from a run-of-the-mill Android device, but it's very disappointing from a device supposedly focused on digital health...

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9 lat temudiscuss

Reminds me of the last time I borked my btrfs.

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11 lat temudiscuss

Here are a few I haven't seen in a lot of places but come in really handy.

First, alias this on Linux to get the 'open' command to work like OSX (e.g. 'open file.pdf'). It shadows a real 'open' command, but I have never used it, so no big loss :

  alias open='xdg-open'

The second one I use all the time. A process that is stuck on I/O (or other uninterruptible syscalls), or even a Python interpreter stuck in a C extension, won't always respond well to Ctrl-C. However, Ctrl-Z (suspend) and this alias (kills the last suspended process group) do work relatively well :

  alias killit='kill -9 %%'

This one I use a lot for copying the output of a command to the clipboard. Just run 'command | pbcopy' and then Ctrl-V elsewhere. pbcopy is actually an OSX command, I aliased it on Linux for ease of use :

  alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard'
  alias pbpaste='xclip -selection clipboard -o'

This one runs a program under GDB. You can run e.g. 'gdbrun =python test.py' and debug C extensions more easily:

  alias gdbrun='gdb -ex=r --args'

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