Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. He'll do elementaryOS eventually. There's so much low-hanging fruit 🍏!
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  2. Fr. Ethernet randomly stopped working on one of my elementaryOS (Ubuntu deriv) machines yesterday. The Ubuntu docs on NetworkManager were unhelpful, but popping over to the Arch Wiki I found the commands and configs I needed to tweak in about five minutes and got it back online.
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  3. Other way around (I know—I was as surprised by you when I first found out). Aptitude is a "graphical" interface for apt.
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  4.  @anonymouscommentator  I don't have a satisfactory answer. All I can definitively say is: - I opened three projects I have open concurrently all the time - Responsiveness suddenly ground to a halt, and I got some sort of "low memory" / "out of memory" warning from the IDE (Xmx, btw, is set to 2GB by default—my system has 128GB in total) - Before I could close some windows or kill IntelliJ altogether, COSMIC completely locked up - I tried again a few days (and a few software updates) later, after radding JetBrains' new experimental Wayland support flag to the VM options (and raising Xmx to 4GB), and everything worked fine.
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  5. Like a Minecraft modder or a Mojang employee? Because if the latter you're better off learning C++. And if the former, honestly knowing Java is a hinderance, as the way you have to set up Minecraft mod projects is pretty bespoke.
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  6. The Logi M570/575 is 🐐 if your thumbs aren't old and arthritic like mine. I'm a Kensington Stan, fwiw—I would kill to protect my Expert Big Ball, and the Orbit is the best fingerball for anyone who only needs two mouse buttons. Just stay away from ELECOM unless you're up for performing some mods—amazing pointers that are absolutely ruined by bearings that are literal garbage.
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  7. 0:20 Now I feel really old because my first tiling experience was Windows, it was the default WM experience, and it was glorious. I'm talking about Windows 3.1
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  8. Thank you! Downloading it now. I'm still using Audacity (sandboxed up the wazoo in a flatpak) because I was waiting to see where the dust would settle.
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  9. I cut my teeth on the Adobe Suite back in the day (nostalgic noises for Macromedia/Adobe PageMaker) and ran a (legally obtained!) copy of Photoshop 7.0 for years through WINE, but I made the switch to GIMP a few years ago and never looked back. Now, though, my kid is getting really good with Photoshop CC (education licensing = drug dealer giving you a discount on your first hit), and I have no idea how anything works in their new system.
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  10. Every macOS developer I know has a .zsh_profile as long as their arm. Everyone who does serious work on Windows carries around their vscode settings file on a thumb drive. Meanwhile, I've customized Ubuntu and now elementaryOS for over a decade exclusively through graphical settings applications that are way easier to use than Windows Control Panel (switchboard is bae).
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  11. Okay, but what is an Erlang JAM file?
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  12. ​ @zerotwo_.002 Is Budgie coming soon? The only DE that's on my radar in terms of "imminent Wayland support" is Pantheon.
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  13. The dealbreaker for me is that the "compress" options only include zip and tgz. No xz? Back to file-roller for me.
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  14.  @somenameidk5278  Yes. Look at any compression benchmark—LZMA has the best compression ratios across the board. Gzip is still the speed champ (IIRC), but if I'm bunding up an installation of something to stick into cold storage, I'm going xz almost every time.
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  15. ​ @rodrovelasquez1634 Is maté the correct pronunciation? That's what I thought from the beginning, but I thought I heard it pronounced some other way by someone with a lot more knowledge than myself.
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  16. I think this is where dual-licensing can come in handy. Say I'm Fairphone or System76, and I want to ship some FUTO-developed apps on my devices. Could I pay FUTO a nominal royalty to grant me permission to do that?
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  17.  @yigitorhan7654  Oh, that's great! Thanks for the info.
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  18. Unironically: I could really use a guide to declarative package management using Nix (OS optional). nix-env and nix profile are great and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of the advantages of the system.
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  19. I'm usually a big fan of Calver, but for packages that don't require continuous updates (and where consistency of the ABI and clear depreciation roadmaps are incredibly important), semver is the way to go
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  20. I understand the desire to leave off LibreOffice—it's big and consumes a lot of system resources. But if you need to open a docx on your 32-bit single-core laptop, the alternative is doing it in the browser, and that is way worse
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  21.  @JessicaFEREM  Okay, cool, we're on the same page. I just mean that the problem with update-on-shutdown is that you don't find out if the update broke your setup until you start the system back up.
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  22. As much as I hate how Apple forces all iOS browsers to use WebKit, I'm at least grateful that it's effectively capped VP8's market share. I also hear from web devs that WebKit is the absolute worst when it comes to actually adhering to standards, though, so 🤷‍♂️
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  23. The Ancients teach us that the entire universe is carried on the back of a turtle. What the Ancients failed to mention is that the turtle is named Logo.
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  24. I thought the whole point of Arch was that there was no right way of doing things and that you were supposed to configure your system exactly how you wanted it. 🤷‍♂️
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  25. pytorch-rocm has been solid for me on Arch. ROCm was actually the big reason I ditched Ubuntu (despite it being "officially supported" and with debs being available, I could never get it working).
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  26. I came to make this comment. I have a really hard time recommending this software in workplaces and other settings that try to be actively inclusive. I usually just refer to it as the "GNU Image Manipulation Program" (Imp is also a term people should avoid as it's used as a derogatory term for people with dwarfism).
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  27. ​ @Redmage913 I'm trying to remember the permissions set by Timeshift—I hope it's not u+w but I'm not positive.
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  28. Intel says their Lunar Lake APUs meet the 40 TOPS requirement, and AMD already has NPUs in their mobile systems, so this isn't going to be limited to ARM.
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  29. lol, I thought this was about the macOS Finder extension that Apple reverse-engineered with zero credit or acknowledgement, thus coining the term Sherlocking. I was so confused why this dingbat was asking for an exe.
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  30. At the same time, I think this explains why Hyprland >0.32 is broken for me on SteamOS-through-Nix—because while you can install multiple versions of wlroots, if you don't put them in different profiles, it will just use whatever package has the highest priority. Now that I know how to do rollbacks (Nix is bae in this department), I'll have to give this another go.
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  31. I felt like a complete degenerate when I grabbed my package count, but at 1704, you have me beat by over 400+, so that's a relief 😅 I'm guessing we could both benefit from a wipe & fresh install, but I ain't got the time for that.
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  32.  @ayaya-ayaya  Three things: 1. Flathub is moderated (and I've witnessed firsthand what happens when a maintainer goes rogue and tries to insert malware—the Flathub staff locks that stuff down) 2. The requested permissions are shown when you install the package 3. The user can always use a tool like Flatseal (or just use the CLI) to further restrict permissions (for example, I made sure Audacity had no network access around the time the telemetry 💩 hit the fan)
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  33. "Normie" distros need to be working overtime to get their installers to the point where they set up everything automatically, and everything a user could want is a click away in a GUI "store." elementaryOS 8 has done this really well, Mint has a good track record (but Wayland is still experimental), Fedora KDE is going to be a full spin, and Pop_OS! is going to be the 🐐 once COSMIC is released.
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  34. ​ @LaughingOrange If you're on a Debian-based system, just install PythonIsPython3
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  35. See if I'm going to jump on a random repo and virtue signal, it's going to be to try to get them to rename their primary branch from master ➡ main (see: 5:28) Sincerely, a non-practicing Jew. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. Happy federally mandated holiday to most everyone else.
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  36. Did this stop being a thing at some point? It used to be that distros like Ubuntu offered a "minimal" or "network" ISO and then "LiveCD" which, as it was meant to be runnable on airgapped systems, contained the full software suite without assuming you could access the internet.
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  37. Not to say that Wayland is perfect, but "There is nothing wrong with" Xorg is something you really only say when you've been using it for so long that you're just acclimated to its limitations.
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  38.  @theoliverblogs  Ooh, I see your point. That said, JSAUX will almost certainly have a transparent backplate or whole-case kit for the updated model (which IIRC has been reported as easier to body-swap than the first iteration). And it's super easy to find cases for the Deck in all flavors these days. But if you feel the itch for the "limited edition" version and your finances permit it, I absolutely wouldn't judge you if you went for it.
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  39. That choice of 2004 was so sus. The year that Linux went mainstream was clearly 2006 when I adopted Linux (Dapper Drake represent!)
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  40. You didn't do my bae elementaryOS, so I'll do it for you: You want your desktop experience to be absolutely clean and clutter-free. You're tired of Choice Paralysis and just want your system set up by someone else as they whisper UX into your ear. You want your machine to work out of the box... because want to never leave that box.
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  41.  @ShadowOfTheSPQR  Yeah, but that's low-hanging fruit. 🍏
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  42. Massively triggered. You're not wrong, but Blender has the least intuitive UX of any 3D design program in existence.
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  43.  @qunas101  It's possible for software to be highly capable and customizable while also being straightforward and user-friendly for beginners trying to perform simple tasks. Say what you will about Adobe and Autodesk (and I have a lot to say), but my 8yo learned to use Premiere Pro and TinkerCAD without any help whereas it took all of my considersble Google Fu to figure out how to do crossfades in Kdenlive and combine 3D objects in Blender. But maybe I'm just old. 🤷‍♂️
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  44. I use Steam exclusively in Big Picture Mode, so Exit Steam (which actually shuts it down rather than minimizing) is always right there for me. And hey—you always have the option of modifying the launcher script. One of my favorite things about Linux: almost everything is a plaintext file that lives in userspace.
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  45. AI-generated code is such an enormous can of worms. 1. The submitter is much less likely to understand the code they're submitting 2. The submitter is much more likely to naĂŻvely trust the code than something they copied from StackOverflow 3. Neither the "proompter" nor the LLM's company is considered the "author," so even if it's not verbatim-plagiarized from the training data, how can anyone transfer a copyright to the project?
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  46. Command-line is just more efficient. If there's a piece of software I want, I could: 1. Select AppCenter from the launcher 2. Wait for it to verify its network connection and load 3. Enter the software name in the search bar 4. Figure out which listing is actually what I want (because SEO is affecting Linux app stores now??) 5. Click "Install" 6. Watch a spinner spin 7. Open the app Or I could open a terminal and type $ flatpak install vlc (don't even need the full identifier any more!), and with, like, three additional keystrokes I have it running on my system.
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  47. Actually, "comprehending" is something that GPTs do really well. The magic of these algorithms is that, rather than use recurrent networks to find deep patterns, they instead focus on "attention" mechsnisms that contextualize the input into as many ways as possible. This makes them ideally suited for information extraction and summarization. The issue is that they're lousy when it comes to insight and invention—their goal is to synthesize the most likely /appropriate response to a proompt from the training data, and that means that they can never exceed their training data. For a vulnerability scanner, that means that they can only ever find code similar to other vulnerabilities and can never actually discover novel threat risks.
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  48. Have you tried mamba? Drop-in replacement for conda, but the solver is ridiculously faster. IMO mambaforge should be everyone's first and last choice of a portable Python installation.
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  49. ​ @user-pe7gf9rv4m I prefer to think of nosql as a helpful reminder—"No! SQL!"
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  50. This mirrors my Linux story so well. I switched to Linux at the encouragement of my Intro to Scientific Computing professor. This was 2006, and the choices for a newbie were Fedora and Ubuntu. I really hated rpm/yum, and so Ubuntu it was! Fast forward a few decades, I was talking with my boss and telling him about some issues I was having with my (desnapified-)Ubuntu-based workstation, and I made a joke about switching to Arch. He said I should do it—and that he ran Arch. This was literally the first time he mentioned that he daily drove Linux, let alone Arch. I tried it in a VM, learned about how little is included in Arch base, and then did a dull install, dual-booting Arch and Ubuntu. It took less than two weeks before I was 100% on Arch. I will say: I knew enough to know that I was hopeless with fdisk, so I did all my partitioning in system-rescue and GPartEd. 10/10—CLI partition management is exclusively the realm of the Gods.
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