Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. @ Despite being a very small portion of the population, name the group that is responsible for over 50% of a certain type of crime done against children. Care to take a guess? Which offends you more, the statistic, or the crime?
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  2. They each have their strengths/weaknesses, it is simply a matter of which one you are accustomed to. I spent most of my life using systems with floating windows, first Windows and then various Linux DE's, most of that being Plasma. Now that I have used tiling window managers exclusively for 4-5 years, my experience would be vice-versa to use a floating manager, I have not done anything worthy of envy other than use a tool that fits my personal workflow better.
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  3.  @No-mq5lw  The learning is the hobby. I don't release, nor even try to hard to finish any game, just like creating the engine, design, etc. I am terrible at artistic stuff, so it is a hopeless endeavor anyways xD
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  4.  @budgetarms  Your point is well-taken, but there is a difference between having a loyal following and causing drama everywhere you go. Zig has a cult-following, literally aims to be "better C", yet C and Zig communities have mutual respect for each other with little/no drama whatsoever. It is likely a vocal minority of Rust users who give it a bad name for others, but this minority seems to be its entire leadership, both in the foundation and the community. We unfortunately only ever see the worst-of-the-worst, as the "normal" users are simply minding their own business.
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  5.  @lorenzo42p  I understand, I do it for a living. If my failure case is not failing when it should be, it is a flawed failure case and not accounting for something. Not failing is still informative.
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  6. Probably the same thing it says when the entire Linux ecosystem and Linux itself is clearly technical people going out of their way to not use Windows. You forget that pretty much every single Linux user was once a Windows user, and had to go out of their way to remove, reinstall, and learn a new OS on their computer.
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  7. They are typically going to be one of: kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, and now Ghostty. I like Alacritty, but the lack of literature support is a deal breaker, as I use a terminal-based editor for writing code, otherwise any one of those are great terminals.
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  8.  @shApYT  "sudo !!" ftw
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  9. The for-profit Mozilla Corporation thanks you for your previous donations to their Mozilla Foundation tax write-off.
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  10. I have a philosophical aversion to flatpaks, snaps, etc. I understand their purpose in theory, just never actually had the need for them in practice.
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  11. This can be done on other systems as well, but Plasma most definitely makes it easiest to do, even on the fly by just clicking the title-bar and opening the menu. It is a "first-class citizen setting" on Plasma, not buried in a configuration or require additional tools just to get the window class for matching, etc.
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  12. ​ @zizlog_sound  I agree, but to be fair, nearly all distros are just toy projects where someone wanted to make their own "default" configuration, selection of installed software, and branding. There are realistically only 4-5 relevant distros, which all others stem from, and they all exist without any consequence whatsoever to the ecosystem. Unless you are writing some uber-specific software (i.e. package management), there is no such thing as developing for a specific distro that other distros will not also benefit from.
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  13. I guess it does if you consider every normal discussions like this "drama". There doesn't even seem to be anyone in disagreement here, just a few people discussing possible amendments to a the wording of the guidelines to better cover edge-cases.
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  14.  @penguin86bitals  Exactly. I think this is a huge misconception that people who don't write code, but are somewhat familiar with technology, do not understand: memory safety has nothing to do with memory leaks, it merely means a program cannot access illegal/out-of-bounds/garbage memory by accident. They seem to equate "memory safety" with "prevents all memory bugs", which is patently false.
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  15.  @jfbeam  This confirms something that I had questioned, though I have never done any kernel/firmware development with Rust to know enough to make the claim. I don't even know how one would write "memory safe" code when interacting directly with hardware, though my experience is limited here.
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  16. I honestly never found any of the zsh plugins worth using. Most seem to be just huge collections of worthless aliases anyways. Aside from the P10k theme, I just have my own functions/scripts for the things I need.
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  17. When I have to use a floating window DE, Plasma is definitely my choice over GNOME, but I am way to wed to tiling WM's as a part of my workflow to use it at this point. Muscle memory for my hotkeys is hella hard to overcome, and trying to recreate it in a floating DE feels like a cheap replacement.
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  18. Yeah, that is surprising. I know many people (both personally and online, communities, etc) who have made the switch FROM vscode to superior terminal editors, but it is extremely rare to hear of someone switching FROM one of those to vscode.
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  19. I haven't personally had any problems with wine on Hyprland (...yet), but native Wayland support with wine is one of my top "wishlist" updates to get among all Linux software. I know there is the wine-wayland project, but it isn't without its caveats, and does not work with things like Lutris, etc AFAIK.
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  20. I exclusively use Linux, and hate Windows, so believe when I tell you that no one is going to hold it against you for using Photoshop for image manipulation. I think GIMP is a fantastic tool, but no one honest is going to try and imply that it is even close to being equivalent to Photoshop at the professional level. GIMP being free and running natively on Linux is its only advantage over Photoshop. Adobe owns the market and has the resources to make sure it stays ahead, so there is no shame for GIMP, the fact that they are even mentioned together is testament to GIMP's power, but it is not even a competition between the two for anything serious.
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  21. @ Perhaps it does, neither of us can argue with the results. I don't need to be his friend, that is not what open source code is about. "Does he write code" is literally the only important factor. I have better things to do than police the words that people say online, least of all the ones they write on their personal blogs. EDIT: Also just wanted to say that the project has over 400 contributors and nearly 2000 PRs merged. There is no reality where "just developing the project on his own" is even remotely accurate.
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  22.  @__Brandon__  Any language that interacts with IO is capable of a memory leak. There is nothing "broad" about it: there are zero exceptions. I would be happy to show you a memory leak in standard Haskell code if you can't find one with a basic search.
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  23.  @undefinedchannel9916  Skill issues. Jokes aside, their is nothing Arch-specific regarding trackpad, this sounds more like an issue with your desktop environment and/or configuration, which actually installs trackpad-related stuff as dependencies. With the exception of pacman, its related libraries, and a few utilities like arch-chroot, archlinux-java, etc , there is absolutely nothing in Arch that is unique to or maintained by the distro.
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  24. They exist. While I know there are more, Alpine Linux is probably the most popular one. I think other distros like Void Linux could be setup to be GNU-less also, but my experience with it is rather limited to say that definitively.
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  25.  @isofruitfruit9357  I still don't understand, and you did not answer the very basic question: is DEI exclusive to particular races? If yes, then DEI, by definition and on its face, is in-fact racist. If not, then there is nothing racist about what the previous person stated, and it is unclear why you would perceive it as such. There is nothing complicated about this that requires an essay, which I can only surmise is intended to obfuscate that which is self-evident.
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  26.  @WMan37  The drivers (i.e. dxvk and others) can be local with the game folder, that's what wine overrides are for. Many installers for games on Linux do exactly this. I understand that you are settled into your familiar way of doing it, but nothing you listed is somehow only possible with flatpak. Many others do it their familiar way that accomplishes exactly the same end-goal without flatpak. A binary driver sitting in your trash folder works just as well as one in /usr/lib, you just need to make sure your game/prefix knows how to find it. Neither is better/worse, and I am not recommending against your way, you should do it the way you choose to, but just informing you that you are not actually reliant upon it for the same result. If for some reason you couldn't use flatpaks, there are alternative and common ways of doing it you could explore.
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  27. ​ @kxuydhj  I agree, while I strongly dislike Snap for the technical aspects of it alone, my primary gripe is for philosophical reasons. Being pushed hard in an inorganic way by a corporation gives me strong Microsoft vibes that I personally choose to steer well clear of.
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  28.  @rjawiygvozd  I think it is hard to call it great, or even good, as the idea behind it is flawed from the start. It's main primary selling point is that it tests for longer and is supposedly more stable, but then it allows users to install from the AUR, which is intended for Arch and its packages that are already out of testing, causing actual instability that far exceeds anything an extra few weeks of a testing phase would accomplish. If we ignore this, you are left with what is essentially a re-branded Arch with a selection of software somebody else likes installed for you, and a GUI to downgrade the kernel, which is of course only going to cause instability. It is unironically far, far more unstable than a basic Arch install could ever be. I prefer vanilla Arch, but if I were to recommend a distro based on it, it would not be Manjaro, but something like CachyOS or Endeavor that actually do it well.
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  29. I highly doubt, 1.4 isn't even in repos of rolling-release distros yet, let alone become a hard dependency of software that uses it, which likely wouldn't even have adopted it yet either.
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  30. 16 series are still perfectly good cards, have no shame. As a fellow broke gamer, I have learned not to get caught up in chasing the latest and greatest, my lowly 1650 is still playing Cyberpunk on Linux at 70-80 FPS with a mixture of medium/high settings.
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  31. I am indiscriminate in where I place my blame, and apply it equally to the entire web-development industry, whether someone is a "developer" or "designer" makes no difference to me: all played their part in achieving the same end.
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  32.  @bigmistqke  Because you stated that dog-whistles are only heard by two groups, so you must belong to one of them since you heard it; It is testing your logic. If it is neither, then it would indicate you are just making things up as you go along.
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  33. ...he stated between bites of skin that he peeled off his foot during a lecture...
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  34. @ I seen your replies to other comments, and have come to the conclusion that you are either a Mozilla employee or extremely naive.
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  35. Ironically the original reason that led me to switching to Wayland was that wine was not running a game I wanted to play, but for unknown reasons it would work in Wayland (I assume using xwayland). I never did investigate the root cause, but I eventually ended up switching my primary machine to use a Wayland-only environment, a this situation caused me to give Wayland a second-look and realize that it was now viable for full-time, daily driving, even on my Nvidia card.
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  36. Doubt.
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  37. Why would anyone ever want to use either of them?
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  38. If there was ever an application that screamed to be rewritten in Rust, it is this one.
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  39. I am in the same boat. I can see the benefit with servers, but I just don't see any reason to bother with it for personal desktop environments.
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  40. Is this satire?
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  41. Exactly. The proper name of an application should not have these type of bizarre and arbitrary restrictions. Most sensible repo-type sites use a "display name" and separate "slug" for a unique identifier that is more restrictive in its naming convention. This is a pretty standard model that has worked forever, allowing the best of both worlds, not sure why they chose to turn it into this silly mess.
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  42. People/groups with their mindset never do, they will go to their graves blaming their woes on everything but their own actions (or lack of), and will continue to double-down. If they loose half their user-base for banning people, they will simply ban members who bring that up as a topic of concern.
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  43.  @enderteck  I assume the irritation is coming from the pretentious "You don't know after 12 years ? Lol" part of your comment, not the correction itself. The "I am just here for educational purposes" stance falls flat after that.
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  44. NVIDIA is the bigger GPU manufacturer that is sold in more machines, so it kinda makes sense. I personally have never even owned an AMD GPU. I have nothing against them (I have an AMD CPU), I just have always used NVIDIA, have been happy with the results, and never was unable to overcome any of the NVIDIA issues that everyone blows way out of proportion.
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  45.  @szaszm_  The irony is that this extended testing period will cause greater instability for AUR packages for Manjaro users. If an AUR package gets updated on account of a repo dependency being updated, that new repo update hasn't hit Manjaro yet, and the package would be broken in the interim.
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  46. Rust is a perfect language for kernel development, just not the Linux kernel.
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  47. Bait used to be believable. Low-quality.
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  48. Is it capable of making sycalls or interacting with the file-system (the answer is yes)? If so, it can leak memory. It is that simple.
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  49. I am also confused why Brodie thinks that "works on my system" is somehow not an appropriate (and helpful) response in this context. It indicates the proof-of-concept for the error is flawed and not accounting for some significant factor. If it was a full-proof example of the failure, then it would have failed.
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  50. ​ @RenderingUser  There is not a person alive who is familiar with the entire X11 API, and that is not being hyperbolic. It is literally over 50 million lines of code, filled with tons of legacy stuff that isn't even relevant anymore. Saying "just maintain xorg then" is like saying "just stop being poor", it is not some trivial task.
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