phantomwise

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[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Nice suggestions, thanks!

Challenges usually get the opposite reaction than demands for me, I can't even count all the stuff I've done because of it. Maybe self (not-)imposed challenges would work? I'll need to give it a try. Though challenges also have their problems, like picking the most stupid or pointless ideas because I was advised not to do it. I think there's a correlation between how stupid and pointless an idea is and how quickly my brain latches onto in ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fair point ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No it's really that the result feels like a decision imposed on me and my brain can't deal with that... It's the same if I start to do something I want, then someone calls to tell me to do it and now I can't do it anymore. Not sure if it's PDA or something else, but it's really annoying, especially in combination with AuDHD.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

1 is my goal, though I think I might have reached 2 once. Because shitty ADSL ๐Ÿ˜ญ

My very grateful thanks to people who can afford to do more.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Tried it, not a great success... The only result is making me not want whatever was chosen anymore.

  • Movie A or movie B?
  • I can't decide... I want to watch both...
  • Lets flip a coin.
  • The coin says movie A.
  • I don't want movie A anymore. Movie B it is then.
  • Wait maybe the coin is using reverse psychology on me... I should pick movie C that wasn't in the list just to be safe.

My brain has this awful tendency of going "I could have done it a minute ago but now that someone else told me to I can't anymore"

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago (9 children)

If you look at old silent movies, they were played at different speeds in different cinemas and projections. There wasn't a standard way to play a movie, no "you NEED to play the movie at this specific speed or it will be ruined". I'm not saying the same should apply to modern movies, but I find it interesting.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 50 points 5 days ago (15 children)

Yep very weird, should have been 255.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Or when it's bothering you that it's 256 and not 255... aren't we counting 0 anymore? :/

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm very concerned that people who choose to go to France will just find themselves in the exact same situation along with the rest of us not too long from now. I'd advise looking for a country with a lower fascism approval rating...

We do have lots of cheese, though, if it's any consolation.

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

The day to celebrate will be when the rest of the world gets independence from America

[โ€“] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Finally managed to enable VSCode extensions without doing it imperatively or using home manager I'm so happy I could cry ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ

It actually wasn't even that bad, I'm just terrible at understanding documentation I guess

	(vscode-with-extensions.override {
		vscodeExtensions = with vscode-extensions; [
			bodil.blueprint-gtk          # Gtk Bluprint language support
			ms-vscode.makefile-tools     # Makefile language support
			bbenoist.nix                 # Nix language support
			ms-python.python             # Python language support
			naumovs.color-highlight      # Color Highlight
			ms-azuretools.vscode-docker  # Docker
			donjayamanne.githistory      # Git History
			seatonjiang.gitmoji-vscode   # Gitmoji
		];
	})
 

What are your favorite insane laptops?

Mine is the Dell Rugged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F56ION4_n0

Bump and fall proof, liquid proof, sand proof (and cat hairs proof I assume), extreme heat/cold proof, can be used as a blunt weapon in an emergency. Ridiculously overkill for anyone that's not a geologist working in Antarctica or an archaeologist in the Gobi desert, and ridiculously overkill is fun

 

What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:

  • Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine's programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
  • Every website looks like it's made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit. And then having the nerve to tell you to download the mobile app ๐Ÿ˜‘
  • Why does everything need to be an app by the way? Especially when the only advantage the app gives you over the website is that you're not constantly spammed with messages telling you to use the app... Are you making your website shittier on purpose so I feel like I have to use the app?... I don't WANT your app, you can shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it's made for a phone... Like what's the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP software? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it's not like you're lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can't be opened from the keyboard like regular menus. You know, "keyboards"? Those things that people on DESKTOPS use?
  • All phones look the same. All laptops look the same. It's boring as hell.
  • Laptops must be as thin and flimsy as possible. Bonus points if you can't even fit an ethernet port.
  • I'm so sick of rounded corners everywhere... ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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Personally I think that azerty was meant made by drunk students trying to troll people but it somehow caught on.

  • Hey, qwerty is kinda bad... You think we could try to make one that's even worse to mock it?
  • Oooh that'd be hilarious! Let's make a French version of qwerty but a lot worse!
  • I know, lets put dead keys for all accents except for the accent aigu so that when you need it on an uppercase letter you CAN'T type it!
  • Ahah good one! Let's also not add anyway to type an uppercase cedilla! Imagine, a French keyboard that can't type uppercase รฉ and รง !
  • And what if we rearrange all the punctuation and symbols so that the open and closed parenthesis are no longer next to each other? It'd be sooo funny!
  • Right right! Let's do it too for the brackets and curly braces too!
  • Good one! How about we don't add guillemets which are used in French instead of english double quotes, so that people will be forced to type double quotes and their advanced text editors will have to automatically replace them by guillemets so that the text uses correct punctuation for French?
  • That's so sneaky! Let's also add ยง so you can cite your sources with the correct paragraph symbol, but not use real quotations marks for the quotes!
  • What else would be really stupid?
  • Let's use one key for a random greek letter!
  • What?
  • You know, like ฮฑ and ฮฒ?
  • Ermm... okay... which one? ฮฑ or ฮฒ?
  • Neither, people might actually use those once every 2 years. Let's just pick one at random!
  • ยต it is! Has anyone even seen that letter used in a French text?
  • Nope, never, so it's perfect!
  • How about also adding ยค?
  • What the hell is ยค?
  • I haven't the faintest clue! And neither do you or most people! That why it's funny!
  • Sure, why not, let's cram pointless characters and not add actually useful ones like guillemets! Any other ideas?
  • Let's put the hyphen on the one most unreachable key!
  • Oh that's a good one!
  • I got better! Let's put the period on the same key as the semicolon, but with the semicolon as the default character, and periods will be Shift+semicolon! That way we can say that it's canonically why French phases are long-winded: it's easier to type a comma or semicolon than a period!
  • Man you're hilarious!

When I was still on Windows I put qwerty as my keyboard layout and used the Alt+number shortcuts for accents because that was less painful than using azerty... Those shortcuts didn't work anymore when I switched to linux so I had to find a real solution, which ended up being a colemak base which I modified to add accented letters. I don't like bepo, it moves z x c v and I like them being in the same place as in qwerty for the shortcuts I'm used to, and I didn't know qwerty-fr existed at the time ๐Ÿ˜…

Do you have worse for your language?

 

Hi ! I just made my first AUR package, which was really fun, and I was wondering what your own experience was like. Why did you decide to make your first packages ? What was fun, what was annoying ? What problems did you have ? Had you been using Arch for long ?

Mine was nothing complicated, just packaging a bash game with no dependencies made by someone else... because I wanted to try it and I was too lazy to install it from source ๐Ÿ˜… Just the thought of having to manually check for updates and reinstall exhausts me and my adhd calculated that learning how to make a package would be less effort (never try to argue with adhd maths).

I did have some trouble because the game wanted its config and other files in $HOME and didn't create them directly (it was done by an install script run when installing it manually from source), but obviously I couldn't make the package create them there, which really confused the hell outta me. In the end the creator of the game kindly send me links to AUR packages that other people had done for his other projects so I could see what they had done and I did and did the same, which was to put the files in the locations recommended by the specs like /etc and /usr, and to added a post-install message telling the user to copy/paste some commands to copy the files in $HOME. It's a bit clunky but I guess it works ๐Ÿฅณ

The fun part for me was learning more about how packages were installed, and the reason behind the specs. It's fine reading that packages shouldn't create files in $HOME but it doesn't tell me WHY. Also it's a lot more fun to try anyway even knowing it's a bad idea, just to see what kind of mess happens (turns out it couldn't install because /root/.config was missing ๐Ÿ˜‚ )

If you had told me a year and a half ago when I switched to linux that I'd end up making a package, I'd probably have thought that you were crazy ๐Ÿ˜

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Hi, I tried using an email client over a year ago, and after trying almost all of them in the span of a week I gave up in frustration. Would anyone have a recommendation ? For an email client :

  • That is actively maintained
  • That is not controlled by a company that could pull a Mozilla on it (Thunderbird)
  • That isn't proprietary
  • That doesn't need 77 dependencies and 450 GB (WTF KMail ๐Ÿ˜ญ )
  • That is reasonably fast and light and not too bloated (I just want to read emails, I don't need a full app suite...)
  • That supports POP
  • That supports writing HTML messages (sorry Claws, I really liked you but occasionally I kinda need to write formatted messages to preserve other people's sanity ๐Ÿ˜… )
  • That supports reading HTML messages without showing the HTML version as attachments so that every single email has the paperclip icon and I can't tell which messages have real attachments (Sylpheed I think ?)
  • That supports MailDir format for portability (why isn't it the default everywhere already instead of weird non-portable formats ? ๐Ÿ˜ญ )
  • If possible, that doesn't have an interface that's so awful it's a pain to find anything (Thunderbird)

I also tested Geary and another one but I don't remember much about it... I can't find out whether Geary does support POP and maildir, its documentation page is... well it's a list 8 lines long, but on a page called "Documentation" so it's technically counts as documentation I guess ? ๐Ÿ˜… https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Documentation

Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !

 

Comrades I challenge you to find the stupidest, most convoluted way to run a Windows app !

The rules are :

  • You start with Windows and end with a Windows app
  • All steps must be different, so no using 4 different VM software

Here is my entry, with a score of 9 beautifully stupid steps :

  • Windows > WSL > WSL Wayland compatibility layer > Linux Wayland session > XWayland > QEMU > macOS > Wine > Windows app !

Can anyone do better ? I'm sure whoever get the highest score will gain eternal fame !

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