Been playing lots and lots of Assetto Corsa. Really nice feeling to just pick some 90s JDM car and just drive about with friends (even strangers online) while listening to Music/Podcasts.

(Please don’t kill me FuckCars enthusiasts. I like trains and bikes too UwU)

Fellow GNOME + Foliate + Amberol + GNU + Linux comrade! o7

I always wonder what sort of mental gymnastics this sort of person would perform if you showed them water parks, malls etc in the DPRK? If they maintain their flawed logic that ‘water parks’ == ‘no concentration camp’ then they have to admit that the DPRK is not the hellhole the western media makes it out to be.

It is formal though. The state recognizes it as a holiday.

Why is India and Sri Lanka not red? We do celebrate? It’s an actual holiday?

I’m an SE dude. We have to do a group project at my university. Sometimes I just wanna scream everytime a professor rejects a good project idea because it wouldn’t be economically feasible. Also every competition here is just yet another shitty startup competition where they’re more concerned about your business plan than on the utility of your idea.

Ended up having to go with yet another AI idea. At least we don’t have to do anything with LLMs \_(o.o)_/

This has to be a troll? Like they even said personal property? Idiots usually cry about private property.

God, I love lemmy

Fedora Silverblue and Silverblue specifically. I used to run Arch and did all the cool things from DE customization to custom kernels and other cool shit with scripts and so on. Now I just want a system that I know will boot and just do it’s thing

Notifications?

I have extensions that do small QOL things. I can still use GNOME just fine without a single one of them enabled.

How do you cope with the lack of a dock and system tray?

I don’t cope with that. I don’t really see a huge benefit to having a system tray. Before GNOME 44 added the background apps view to the quick settings menu I just put anything that was ‘background’ into a workspace. Even after 44 I still have this habit and rarely actually need the background view.

As for the dock argument I’m not sure what an always visible dock would provide that the current dash does not. I think I might even prefer the current dash over an always visible dock. Whenever I want to switch windows I just go to the overview and pick out whatever window I want. It’s a lot easier to hit a huge window than to have to target a small icon at the bottom of the display.

I understand that some people might disagree but I actually love what GNOME does (most of the time).

https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.github.flxzt.rnote

This could be something worth trying out. Do keep in mind that the dev admits that the save format is not yet really stable.

I use neovim for the vast majority of the programming I do but I do still have VSCode installed. Maybe I should just delete it? I opened it after I saw this post and there was a whole bunch of extension updates just sitting there.

Kinda wish GNOME builder was a bit better at being a general purpose editor. That’s just because I’m a bit of a GNOME/GTK pervert though and I would love to use a sexy looking app for dev work.

What language are you using?

It would be less disgusting if they did actually be consistent in their equation. In my experience the sort of people who equated Ukraine and Palestine when they wanted people to support Ukraine are now crying about “violence”, “disruption of peace” and “terrorists” when Palestinians decide to punch back a little.

Damn didn’t realize that JXL was such a big deal. That whole JPEG recompression actually seems pretty damn cool as well. There was some noise about GNOME starting to make use of JXL in their ecosystem too…

The immediate advantage is that you could get newer mesa in your distrobox but continue to use a stable one in the host so that it doesn’t fuck up your more important work. I switched to using containers or flatpaks for everything on my system a while ago. I have a distrobox for running odd games I get off Itch and stuff like Steam/Bottles is from flatpak. I even run Silverblue now and haven’t had any major issues for about 2 years at this point. Hell I was switching between GNOME 45 Beta and 44 Stable like it was no big deal.

Funny story. The first time I read that quote was from Call of Duty 2. I was pretty apolitical and ignorant about history. I didn’t have some blanket negative view of Stalin back then so I actually liked the quote. I didn’t think it was negative or some evil maniac giggling about how he could kill millions because it was a statistic. I thought he was lamenting the fact that the death of one ‘great’ figure would be treated as a tragedy and the deaths of millions (his countrymen) would be treated as a statistic. The Georgian poet strikes again.

Xfce has been great at giving old PCs some extra life. I’ve got some people using a Pentium E2180/2GB Ram/Hard Drive machine for some browsing with Mint Xfce. It runs great and is quite reliable. I just hope that it does eventually gain support for Wayland.

I want to read/listen to some theory. The only stuff I’ve read is ‘Principles of Communism’, ‘Wage Labour and Capital’, ‘Value, Price and Profit’ and I’m halfway through ‘The State and Revolution’. What else would you recommend I read?