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  • janAkali@lemmy.onetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow did you find Lemmy?
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    5 months ago

    I remember seeing lemmy maybe 4+ years ago on some open-source subreddit. It had practically non-existent user base, so I’ve ignored it. After that, I remember a first wave of people making mastodon accounts (even before elon). There I’ve first heard of concept of “fediverse”. I liked the idea but I honestly thought it had zero chances to compete with mainstream social media.

    And then everything turned to shit, making a gap between something like lemmy and reddit a lot smaller. So I’ve jumped the ship with everyone after the API shitstorm.









  • Ok, because of this post - I decided to bite the bullet and try wayland again. And it was much better experience this time:

    I’ve installed sway “pattern” on OpenSuse-Tumbleweed and:

    • Previous time I had some issues with lightdm not supporting sway, now - it just works.
    • I still use xdotool and i3-msg in my custom scratchpad script and yet everything is working.

    waybar absolutely supports clicking tray icons.

    I confused it with swaybar, that’s installed with sway by default and should be an i3bar-compatible. Waybar doesn’t seem to support i3bar protocol, but anyway, after I configured it - it’s like 95% there from what I want.

    • I had to force xcb platform for appimage of nekoray (qt VPN gui), because it’s complaining about missing wayland-egl plugin. But it’s a small problem with straightforward fix, so not that bad.

  • I could switch tomorrow if I could do my current setup:

    • Tiling Window manager (sway?)
    • simple status bar to output text from a script with clickable applet icons (waybar?)
    • the way to show/hide windows on a button press - I have a script that I use to quickly toggle 3 dropdown terminal windows

    Last time I tried Wayland in December, I had issues with waybar not supporting clicking tray applet icons. Also I’ve ported my dropdown terminals script to support sway - and it worked half the time, like, literally every second key press was ignored.

    On one hand I have X session that currently has no downsides for me, on other - wayland that has no upsides. Tell me, why would I switch?


  • I’m usually bad at chess, please point out if I’m wrong:

    c6 -> Ba4: bishop is safe, pin stands

    queen can’t take because:
    c6 -> Ba4 -> Qxa4: Rook and pawn for a Bishop

    Nc6: Knight is pinned

    Nc6 -> c4 -> a6 -> Ba4 and then push pawns? That’s something I’d have done.

    But realistically, I think pin, potential for blunder and applying pressure could be enough for a brilliant move, depending on rating.





  • For one - the error handling. Every codebase is filled with messy, hard to type:

    if err != nil {
        ...
    }
    

    And it doesn’t even give you a stack trace to debug the problem when an error happens, apparently.

    Second reason - it lacks many features that are generally available in most other languages. Generics is the big one, but thankfully they added them in last half a year or so. In general Golang’s design principle is to implement only the required minimum.

    And probably most important - Go is owned by Google, aka the “all seeing eye of Sauron”. There was recently a big controversy with them proposing adding an on-by-default telemetry to the compiler. And with the recent trend of enshittification, I wouldn’t trust google or any other mega-corporation.


  • janAkali@lemmy.onetoLinux@lemmy.mlFlatpak can look daunting...
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    1 year ago

    I have all apps I use daily in the appimage format. Yesterday I decided to try btrfs for my root partition and did my annual Linux reinstall. All my apps were already there and ready for work from the start.
    I also have a usb flashdrive always on me with the same appimages. Just in case I’d wipe a hard drive by accident and wouldn’t have an internet connection or something like that (in case of emergencies). You can’t do this with flatpaks or snaps.




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    Edit: uh oh

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