Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. Holy crap, that "you need to enable macros" popup window only had Ok as an option ? Shouldn't that be a "Yes" and "No" prompt ? Also, knowing macros, can't see you see the macros before you decide to run them ? Lastly, shouldn't there be a mode in which you can only have current-document-modifications macros, which are totally incapable of seeing/accessing what you have on your computer, spawning other processes etc ? How is Microsoft not being sued after having that dumpster fire that are Macros in MS Office being so notoriously insecure for sooo long ?
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  2.  @censoredterminalautism4073  () { } aaah, so much cleaner... I can actually see lines of code now, not half of the screen filled with empty lines
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  3. Some of us have YT Premium, so hopefully he gets enough money to be worth it :)
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  4. Not to mention that the handle can look legit in multiple ways. That is, you cannot know if it is the correct one unless ... you know it beforehand. For example, @donaldtrump can be as legit as @donaldjtrump (the j from his middle name). Same with Elon Musk, maybe the real one is @elonreevemusk (his full name). How can you know by just seeing them ?
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  5. I can't nag the feeling that one day, we'll miss X for its ability to run remote desktop environments. That is, having a thin client and all processing to be done on the server. That is still a thing today and will surely continue to be.
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  6. You used "decimal places" in many places where "digits" was the correct word. Other than that, nice video :)
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  7.    But that would not count ifs and fors and whiles. And sometimes there's significant work done there.
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  8.  @spicynoodle7419  Not sure if copium or trolling. Devs are not abandoning RT, though you can say that the adoption rate is still rather slow. But unlike things like PhysX, it won't disappear. Soon all AAA that care about a graphics score will have RT. On the indie scene it will be probably completely missing for many years, except things made with Unreal Engine with Lumen. Probably Unity will have something like that too in not-so-distant future, if it doesn't already have (didn't check)
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  9. What was wrong with the showoff ? I especially like that it's on point and has no wasted time or text on marketing bullshit. Though you guys seem more focused on the audio and video, which I can't say I saw anything major that was off.
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  10. I was thinking the same. "Hey I have this massive powerhouse of a CPU with 64 threads and 128 GB of RAM" - proceeds to install the most minimal config, using binaries whereever possible.
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  11.  @pacman_pol_pl_polska  :)) Not hibernating, but I am more function over form. I guess I simply don't care that much.
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  12.  @Nekomusu  *Microsoft. And, yes, you're right.
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  13. If Arch is the IKEA of GNU/Linux, then what is Gentoo ? And, just to be sure, in case you or somebody else was thinking of it, using Gentoo in this analogy is not you being the carpenter. You're still not writing code.
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  14. Ok, fine, you convinced me, Gentoo is the carpenter and Arch is the IKEA. Nice points made!
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  15. He REALLY doesn't want those cups...
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  16.  @Speykious  Interesting. Thanks for the explanations and the example.
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  17.  @oofingberg  why?
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  18.  zz zip  It's a slippery slope. And by that I mean, they have to do it, once you do something in a way, it's basically impossible to go back. That's why we have Wayland and no X12. So they have to keep and maintain the security. Yeah, the other features are slower to come, there's some struggle. But that's why we didn't had it before, because it was hard to make it. Nevertheless, this is progress.
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  19. I call bullshit, until you show how it can be done in np++ (which I assume is Notepad++?)
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  20. The problem with these kind of things is if some demented individual learns to use this, and gets to track you easily, or sabotage you in some way - like make your phone constantly search and report, draining the battery or making Apple think you lost your phone and you find yourself with your phone blocked or who knows what other things.
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  21. Yeah, but does KDE have the scheduling optimisation for Alder Lake ? Shit, that sounded like a legit question. Now people will believe I'm an MS shill. MOOOOO
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  22.  @marcogenovesi8570  "is Unix phylosophy against dependency now? Does your scripts work without all the grep/awk/count/sort/whatever? " I think you didn't understand the Unix philosophy. At least from your example which is terrible. A script that you write is meant to use the very unix-like-in-philosophy programs, because *they are to be used for composition*. That is the sole reason of "only" doing one thing and do it well, so it can be brought up and be used in other scripts/programs with as little unneeded stuff as possible. Does grep use awk/count/sort ? Does awk use grep/count/sort ? Does sort use grep or awk ? Do you understand the difference now ? Back to the topic at hand... have you even bothered to read the thread ? Just two replies above and 3 hours before you posted your first post, Hanabishi wrote: "can I use systemd as ONLY the init binary and throw out the entire rest of it? You can, technically. It is complicated, but much easier for servers though. You can get rid of logind because "systemd services are not sessions, they run outside of logind". So you can run for example sshd instead of logind. Journald also can be disabled (you will not have a replacement for logs of course, but kernel dmesg works though)." Even somebody new to the topic should see that systemd clearly isn't so unix-like some would believe. Having 70 binaries is not enough to say they follow the unix philosophy. Please, do check on your favourite search engine ""Systemd: The Biggest Fallacies" on "Jude's Blog.". It will take 15-20 minutes. This discussion will be much more productive after that.
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  23.  @KookoCraft  I think you are kind of confusing the terms. It's called a patch, but it's akin to a plugin, module or DLC in gaming terms. And the idea is that it's easier to add than to remove. So barebones base + pick and choose your features via patches. All in source code so they're compiled and have no runtime overhead. Yeah, it's not streamlined enough, you don't have a one-click or one-command install that will also bring all the patches, so I get that it can get to be tedious and a bit annoying for some. But it's not THAT bad. And it has its reasons.
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  24. So now we can have malware and spyware in Linux too ? I'm thinking of those DRMs that totally destroy the performance or the totally-not-a-spyware-and-a-rootkitofsorts anti-cheat that Valorant (IIRC) has.
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  25. I have two questions. Forgive me if they are extremely stupid. 1) Can you minimize a window in dwm ? And in WMs in general ? (when using just them, without a DE). I'm asking because I'm actually keeping a lot of programs open usually (currently still in Windows), like several terminals, notepad++, 2-3 browsers (and FFX and Chrome usually have 2+ windows opened too), PHPStorm, Skype, Teams, File manager(s) and task manager. And some I don't REALLY need to keep them open at all times, but I do like the instant switch. 2) Can you install and run something like Firefox without a DE and a WM ? I assume that yes, you can, provided you have a ... graphical system (??) like X ? I might confusing a lot of stuff here. I'm just curious what is exactly needed for what.
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  26. If you keep to the latest version, don't you also risk getting the latest backdoor that might've been put there intentionally by somebody who hacked some accounts or servers where i2p is stored ?
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  27.  @orlfman  It's true, though NVidia started to open source their drivers, though only the ones for RTX 3000 or 2000 onwards. If they truly continue that path, he might be enjoying good, open source drivers for his 3070 Ti. Though it's been a bit silent on that front, I wouldn't bet on it happening. But can certainly hope so.
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  28.  @mrmoinn  True, for loops usually have 3 declaration parts, separated by semicolons. What I was thinking was more on the test condition. On ifs in particular, sometimes you have multiple expressions there, and a few of them can be quite complicated. And it's no semicolons there.
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  29. He didn't missed the opportunity. It has all those contacts... on the SIM.
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  30.  @slay3rgamingyt  Offtopic, but could you please change your stupid, stupid name ? You're wasting everybody's space, for no good reason (that I know of)
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  31. Soooo, pardon the question, but what exactly does "ricing" (riceing ? rice-ing?) mean ?
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  32.  @latezksi  Sorry if I appear very stupid... how do you do the part >Use multiple line select to efficiently copy and paste The best I can think of would be to have the resulting JSON to be split per line, as many lines as the source, instead of it being a single line. Then you can select the source and paste as a column in the output, three time. Then join the lines back. I guess that's pretty quick, just as fast as Mental Health's solution.
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  33.  zz zip  Think of it as "in beta"
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  34. The better parts of literally not having any friends :)
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  35.  @censoredterminalautism4073  :))
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  36. I've got a question, have you considered watching or just listening for the whole video ? :)
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  37.  @ukraniankgb9131  Thanks!
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  38. And how do you do the macro part ?
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  39.  @masterg8235  Unless there's something I don't know of (which is why I'm asking), you cannot have a regex that get a source, replace it exactly 3 times, then jump to the next source and repeat. And without that it would be quite some manual work. Not hours, as Mental said, but still not likely to finish faster than he did.
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  40.  @bagzhansadvakassov1093  Well, that's what some dork said above :)
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  41. Can't wait to remotely access my phone from my laptop!
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  42. I'm curious, did SystemD had significant vulnerabilities in its lifetime ? I think that Mental Outlaw actually mentioned that it did not long ago, but I'm too lazy to search for that mention. So, do you know SystemD's track record ? And also Pulse Audio's one, since you mentioned it ?
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  43.  @mrmoinn  LoL, haven't thought that far. Regarding code that's like all the statements in a single line, eventually also "glued" together by gimmicks like comma or !! in Javascript - these cases I'd say they can simply be ignored. Just have a beautify/code formatting tool do its thing and count the lines of the result. While we're here, any binary operator (binary as in takes two operands) should be counted as a semicolon. Yeah, I agree that attributes/decorators/whatever should also count. This thing is hard! Maybe we should just count the abstract syntax tree size and be done with it, lol.
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  44. Holy crap that's... rather low. Unless you have a very low power CPU (5-15W), I don't think that the electricity consumed was less than those $0.02
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  45.  @ishashka  I was thinking of trying it out on my 4,5 yo laptop too. With 6700 HQ. Thing is, the laptop CPUs are actually a bit better on the efficiency than normal desktop CPUs. Sure, lower performance, but much less power draw too. In the end, after seeing what somebody computed in another comment here, and knowing that I don't have a new, efficient (7nm or 10nm) CPU, I realized that I better not waste time trying it. Bottomline, you might have the efficiency, but if you consume $4 of electricity and make $5 of Monero... why bother ? :)
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  46. Did they do anything shady ?
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  47. Sooo, is there a command to list all the packages installed ? Then also list all the updates available ? Haven't installed Gentoo yet, I want to have several days available for it :D On the topic of not having gentoo installed yet... does anyone know if it's a bad (or impossible) idea to install Gentoo on a bootable USB drive and load2ram at boot ? I have a single NTFS parition and I really don't want to rebuilt it or risk bricking the Windows I have. It's also quite full. I also have plenty of ram, so loading the OS into the RAM while also running a RAMDisk is totally doable.
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  48. Thanks for the replies guys! I only seen/heard the term in Mental Outlaw's videos and I thought it's something Gentoo related :))
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  49. I'll be waiting for the based.linux version
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  50. I really hate how the tabs look now. I was on a very classic title bar + menu bar + tabs bar, with lots of tabs. Now, before they were gray, with nice borders and clearly delimitated. Now they're bigger, whiter, much uglyer, shorter on the horizontal scale, things like the playing audio tab is now a stupid text which doesn't even fit, while before it was an instantly recognizable icon. So in the end the whole bar is much uglier, I have less information and it's harder to find stuff in it. Like actually seeing which tab is playing audio when another tab is opened and the whole tab shifts and I have to go back to the tab with the video. I have 0 (read: ZERO) benefits from this change and only headaches. Not huge ones, in the end I can live with it, but the fact that it's all for absolutely nothing makes it 10 times worse. Instead of useless changes, how about separate stop and reload buttons in the address bar that we had before Firefox ?? How about allowing to customize the address bar so things like "bookmark page" and "Reader view" can be taken out and maybe back, forward, stop, reload and home can be added in ? I know, I might be able to change some with themes. I didn't bother.
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