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

  1. Ooh, I just got super excited about this, because it might mean that SimCity 2000 will be playable in Wayland one day!
    1
  2. I grew up in Maryland. The oriole is our state bird. This is deeply offensive. Even though I love snaps, and cherish those ads in my motd, I have no choice but to boycot Canonical and uninstall Ubuntu across all my systems.
    1
  3. I have no problem with things breaking when I update—I chose to use Arch over Ubuntu—but things breaking because the system decided to update without asking me first is an entirely different matter, and it's one of the big reasons I haven't dailied Windows in 17 years.
    1
  4. Definitely good to have when developing and debugging, but once you've got your build process solid, GitHub Actions (I know, owned by Microsol) is ace for not needing that local VM.
    1
  5. Do you know if it supports X-input (as in, 🎮)? I've been looking for an alternative to input-remapper.
    1
  6. Welcome, penguin chick! Your rainbow knee-socks are in the mail.
    1
  7. ​ @Kraust It doesn't need to be a force-push, though. It should be an interactive rebase of the PR branch onto the HEAD and a regular push. I didn't quite understand why it's not.
    1
  8. Interesting. I just used example configs, taken from project GitHubs, AwesomeHyprland and various galleries, and my setup was more than usable within maybe an hour. I'm not a particularly opinionated tiling user, though, so that could explain the difference if you have specific preferences.
    1
  9. The sad thing: that's probably the win from Google's perspective. YT hemorrhages money, and if you're blocking ads, you're probably also blocking tracking—without any way to monetize you, you're a straight loss to them in the form of the cost of serving you HD videos of Brodie shilling for Wayland.
    1
  10. ​@kleddo3126​ What 99% of people want is atomic distros where you can roll back system settings to a last good state. You can technically do that with any distro by just installing Timeshift, but Silverblue and Vanilla should be more frequently recommended.
    1
  11. ​ @arturpaivads That's what they said about netbooks and ChromeOS too. All that happens is you end up with eWaste at the end of the day when people don't realize they can do more with their hardware.
    1
  12.  @yasamito  Endeavour + Pantheon = :goat-turquoise-white-horns: if you can manage it—the packages are going through a ton of development right now with the upcoming release of elementaryOS 8, and it's not clear to me that their extras repo maintainer is actually testing anything before deploying.
    1
  13. LibreOffice is pretty nice, IMO. But if GDocs isn't your style, I believe Office365 is fully available in the browser now.
    1
  14. ​ @Plexsusmax Are you offering me a job?
    1
  15. ​ @Ozzy_Helix_ Holo is a garbage desktop OS. It's a console OS with an immutable filesystem and an entirely arbitrary update cadence.
    1
  16.  @Ozzy_Helix_  Plenty of great OS's for OEMs—Dell and HP sell 1-2 SKUs that ship with Ububtu, and Pop is literally a distro developed by an OEM. But most makes don't want to take the risk.
    1
  17. ​ @jeonghutamilim2259 My point was that we don't want to be forging digital refugees in a crucible. We want to be welcoming them with open arms and rainbow knee-socks.
    1
  18.  @SunsetNova  Aww, that's Qt
    1
  19. Python3 code is extremely forward-compatible. It's been my primary language since 3.4, and the only times I've had stdlib code break was when an import moved around (and that move was telegraphed versions in advance).
    1
  20.  @thingsiplay  It was never random, just nonsensical (IIRC it had to do with hashes). Dicts being non-ordered was never part of the spec—if your code relied on that behavior, then that's just xkcd 1172.
    1
  21. Donation doesn't even mean money, it could be time, PRs or even bug reports. The issue is that legal departments hate when developers make open source contributions, because the very knowledge that BusinessCorp uses common_package is somehow a "trade secret."
    1
  22. Me but with gedit completely unironically. Thank God there's a flatpak of it.
    1
  23. You mean the ML-based filters and new generative AI plugins?
    1
  24.  @happygofishing  Yeah, that was the joke
    1
  25.  @bitterseeds  Ah, yup. I see the discussion that this is a firmware limitation. That really blows. Or doesn't, I guess, depending on what the fans are(n't) doing.
    1
  26.  @mskiptr  Brodie's video also taught me the joys of pipx. It's great for software that doesn't need a specific version of Python.
    1
  27. Please tell me that thing about Spark is a joke. I'd sooner trust an implementation written in LUA
    1
  28. A fish-lover wrote the Ansible playbooks for my former employer's entire data science stack, which meant that every time I logged into an EC2 I had no idea what the 🐠 was going on.
    1
  29. It's a shame that VLC can't be installed by default with most distros (due to codec licensing concerns).
    1
  30. Loved my M570, but I had to give it up due to twitching in my thumb, so now I'm all about the Logitech fingerballs.
    1
  31. If you hit Ctrl twice in Pantheon (elementary), it will draw a flashing circle around your cursor
    1
  32. You must not know very many programmers. Most people—Rust devs included—just use whatever tool is right-ish for the job.
    1
  33. Just FYI—if you're not already using conda, UV or Nix to manage your virtual environments, you really should.
    1
  34. Steam Input is glorious for i3/Sway, just saying.
    1
  35. Casr in point: the best guide I've found for setting up Pytorch-ROCm is the Arch Wiki.
    1
  36. Windows 7 was a mighty fine OS. Though I didn't use it much outside of VMs, my experience with it was that it did its job and otherwise stayed out of the way. That's something I can't even say about a lot of modern Linux distros these days.
    1
  37. That's actually not a bad idea... 3/4 always-on machines are debian-based.
    1
  38. Per the Arch announcement, 5.6.1-2 (and above) are fine. As Brodie mentioned, Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible—the new build is out of "an abundance of caution."
    1
  39. One of the first games I installed on my Steam Deck.
    1
  40.  @levygaming3133  Allegedly ROCm is supported on RDNA2 and above, and AMD does have drivers out for their XDNA "neural" coprocessors. I have a machine with a 70W 7840HS, so one of these days I do plan on actually trying to get an AI stack up and running on it, but mostly just for a laugh. I am blessedly pivoting away from that waste of space and trying to put as much distance as I can between myself and "AI" before the bubble bursts.
    1
  41.  @itjustcrashed  When I heard some company called Spigot or something was making a handheld, AMD-powered Linux computer I clicked "pre-order" so fast it was only after that I thought to ask what those joysticks were for. I'm only half joking, but I really did need to create a Steam account to order the Steam Deck.
    1
  42.  @akeem2983  IMO it falls in the same camp as kitty (the difference is that kitty doesn't look like dog-poop OOTB). Simiarly, rxvt falls in the same camp as xterm.
    1
  43. ​ @cameronbosch1213 AI is going to kill it. Few people want AI, fewer still wants always on AI, and nobody wants to be told that their perfectly good laptop is no longer supported because it can't run AI.
    1
  44. Ah, I've had similar issues on my main Arch machine which runs COSMIC with Pantheon for X11 fallback. Certain updates would completely corrupt the GTK themes, meaning anything that used those style sheets (file manager, terminal) looks like garbage, with many apps being plain unusable. Using Pantheon Tweaks to "switch back" to the correct theme fixed the issue, but I'm guessing flushing the cache would have had similar results. That's the great (and terrible) thing about Arch: beyond being on the bleeding edge, it's also Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. 🖖
    1
  45. ​ @volodymyrkilchenko I was going to ask the same question about pulse until I remembered that if you install pipewire-pulse (the best way to purge pulse pulse, if nothing else), then you don't have to change anything on your system—any audio routed through pulse will get redirected through pipewire as a drop-in replacement.
    1
  46. ​ @zvoidzy I have. But it led to me posting a bug report on the package's GitHub and getting some cool peeks behind the curtain at their development process, so I'm not complaining. It was also happy days when I got the notification that the bug was resolved and could celebrate by immediately -Syu'ing with no exclusions.
    1
  47.  @Luci-gh7ud  Ah, right. It's the new MacBook Air that ships with a 30W charger. That I regularly use to charge my Steam Deck. Because USB-C, baby!
    1
  48. I'm with Daniel (and Linus) on this. GitHub is too aggressive about forcing you to use Git their way. Hell, I remember when "rebase" and "squash" weren't options! For me, the worst part is that release notes are not stored as tag annotations, and the only reason why that I can fathom is really obnoxious vendor lock-in. I still use prefer GitHub over GitLab or bitbucket because the former make my eyes bleed and the latter is owned by the people who develop Jira, but lack of alternatives does not make GitHub good.
    1
  49. ​ @cameronbosch1213 not if you remember to include the Intel+Nvidia entries. It's super close, though.
    1
  50.  @bigpod  Depending on the packaging system, the post-scripts are still semi-structured, though.
    1