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Felix Urbasik
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mastodon 4.6.7🯁🯂🯃🮲🮳 ← If you can see this, you are cool.
Tech nerd with social capabilities. Enjoys simulation games, pen and paper roleplaying, drinking beer and messing with technology while listening to Hatsune Miku.
Freelance graphics programmer working on Rust https://rust.facepunch.com
#flightsim #aviation #penandpaper #pathfinder #tabletop #ttrpg #linux #steamdeck #selfhosting #postmarketos #cplusplus #cpp #opengl #simd #hatsunemiku #vocaloid #anime #archlinux
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Joined December 06, 2022
If Apple is making cheap laptops now, that means they are already planning to introduce other revenue sources, like subscriptions. Mark my words.
Self-hosting is awesome, but boy is it ever time consuming.
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I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me.
I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the work I am supposed to do.
This little message will pop up at regular time intervals and ask me if I'm doing work right now. I have to answer honestly. The time interval is shortened/lengthened based on my answer.
I finally went ahead and migrated my Mastodon to NixOS so I can finally update it again. Same for Synapse.
This took a while. Writing NixOS configs is just as time consuming as writing configuration the first time, but now I hopefully have a long-lived solution. 🙏🏻
It's so sad. With CalDAV we have a really nice open protocol for syncing events, todos and notes. The protocol, which is technically more of a file format (iCalendar) even supports quite complex reccurence rules and even things like recurring tasks.
Unfortunately, client (and server) applications usually only implement a subset of what's possible.
Know some good ones? Let me know!
#CalDAV #iCalendar #ics #Calendar #PIM #LinuxApps
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@davidrevoy This needs a follow-up where the AI is totally confident that it did the right thing. Either that, or it apologises and promises to never do it again, and then does it again. 😅
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@oldperl@mastodon.online Naja "wie Excel" kann auch LibreOffice Calc sein. Aber "Tabellenkalkulation" wäre der bessere Begriff.
Which item of everyday life has generally improved compared to when you were younger?
For example: I find scissors in general have gotten a lot better. ✂️
#AskFedi
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@Tijn@dosgame.club I worked on two indie titles in a small team of 12. We always measured a piracy rate of about 25%. Which means we were seeing 25% more players than we had copies sold. We didn't do anything about it. Worrying about DRM takes time away from making the game better. It's an endless cat and mouse game. We needed more people to know about the game in the first place. In the end, it wasn't enough, and 25% more sales probably wouldn't have saved the studio anyways.
Is anyone else just tired of messaging, in general?
I avoid to open instant messenger apps lately because reading and replying to messages from friends and family just takes so much energy.
Imagine taking a nap, but after sunset for about eight hours. 😳
KDE Partition Manager just nuked my fucking work drive. I have a backup, but WTF.
Meanwhile, I found the perfect solution: @planifyapp@mastodon.social
Planify supports reccurring tasks and is just overall pretty nice. I use it to work through a daily checklist and keep track of weekly and monthly tasks. It also works really well as a scratchpad for other little backlog todos. It's getting a ton of great updates recently.
It really encourages you to think about *when* you plan to do something. That really helps me a lot.
The annoying thing in Windows that re-enables unpopular settings is called "User Choice Protection Driver" (UCPD.sys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQUYh4iKsB0
It's original intent was well-meaning: Prevent apps from messing with user defaults, like the browser or installing unwanted extensions or toolbars.
Linux doesn't have any of this, AFAIK. Malicious software could change all sorts of user defaults. This could become a real problem with its growing popularity. 🤔
#Windows #UCPD #Linux #CyberSecurity #IT
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@chris@hallo.ween.de @fsfe@mastodon.social @digitalcourage@digitalcourage.social @marcuwekling@cultur.social @nlq_nds@social.nibis.de Könnte @tuxedocomputers@linuxrocks.online hier vielleicht ein Angebot unterbreiten, dass sich fördern ließe?
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@sako@mastodon.gamedev.place That looks soo nice! Downloading right now. Would you like any feedback? If so, what kind?
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@DrewNaylor@mastodon.online There is an open feature request which also mentions a workaround if you haven't seen it: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=149142
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place It's super cool, but appears to be Windows-only. If anyone knows an alternative that works on Linux let me know.
Since this year I have massive trouble accessing anything hosted on AWS during the evening hours like these.
My ISP is Deutsche Telekom AG (AS3320) and it looks like the only route to AWS (AS16509) leads through Cogent (AS174). MTR is showing more than 30% packet loss through Cogent to an AWS target.
I know peering between DTAG and Cogent has been historically bad, but I never noticed issues until now. What happened? Do any BGP nerds know more?
#BGP #Routing #Internet #Backbone #AskFedi
To anyone trying to buy a Steam Controller right now: If you get an error message just keep clicking!
I just got one after ~100 mouse clicks.
#Steam #SteamController #Controller #Valve
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@BmeBenji@mstdn.social Then it's probably actually out of stock now. I got an error message when selecting the payment method that I ultimately got past.
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@sjb@mstdn.io I'm probably also not doing myself a favour by funnelling WhatsApp, Signal and Discord into my personal Matrix instance.
You would think having it all in one place is convienient, but it can also get overwhelming.
This is such a ridiculously random game. WTF. #GERPAR
The missing feature mentioned in this article is Windows Hello.
Okay. I do agree that it would be nice to authenticate with a Linux desktop using the webcam.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-replace-windows-with-linux
#Linux #Windows
I somewhat agree with @torvalds@social.kernel.org on his recent AI statement.
LLMs for programming tasks are useful - for the time being.
Are they economically viable? Probably not.
Are they sustainable? Hell no.
Are they copyright infringement? Most likely.
But this is not what Torvalds is talking about. This guy just wants to make his Kernel better.
I fully expect LLM providers to enshittify the living hell out of these things to recoup their insane investments. They won't stay useful.
#AI #LLM #Linux
I just went "early swimming" for a discount at the local pool. 🏊🏻♂️
I did 500 meters and a little extra and it felt really good. I think I finally found my preferred form of exercise.
Getting out of bed at 6 AM for it will remain a challenge, though.
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@Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com I'd like to commission an artist to interpret the owl of fading memory.
My neurologist advised that I should try EEG Neurofeedback. Unfortunately public health insurance doesn't cover it.
Well, I'm just going to DIY it. I just ordered an open source Neurofeedback device with some electrodes.
https://www.olimex.com/Products/EEG/OpenEEG/EEG-SMT/open-source-hardware
Everything costed me just under 200 €, which is roughly the cost of a single session. I'm by no means a trained professional, but I think I can make up for it with unlimited free sessions.
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@sjb@mstdn.io I fully expect local LLMs to become more viable over the next few years, though. Either in your actual developer machine, or as an on-prem deployment just for your company or team. I think, or hope, that running them in datacenters is just a stopgap solution.
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I really like flipping through the panels on mobile. It's more of a story this way. :)
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@element@mastodon.matrix.org @bsky.app @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org But does it federate? 🧐
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@sjb@mstdn.io They seem to get pretty good at doing the right thing correctly, that's for sure.
I had exactly the same feeling feeding mine and others works through Microsoft or Anthropic, but that goes away as soon as you hear that your coworkers are already using it heavily. At that point you might as well.
I got curious, and every second attempt yields a successful useful change. The other times the model misunderstands me or barks up the wrong tree. Not really a time saver to be honest. 🤷🏻♂️
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@sashin@veganism.social @kdwarn@social.coop @pauldoo@mastodon.scot You can try putting the icon in the "proper" place which would be ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/note.svg and then just using "note" in your .desktop file. If it's not picket up, try running update-desktop-database as a command. That will also sometimes tell you what's wrong with the .desktop file. Oh and, one more thing: Did you put the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ ?
How is it that my dinky little x86 HTPC boots up faster from fully off than the average streaming stick or smart TV needs to wake up from standby? 🤔
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@Merritt@mastodon.social But can it type the elusive uppercase ß? How else are you going to yell "SCHEIẞE!!"? (just kidding, nobody actually uses that character because standard German keyboards can't type it easily)
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@sashin@veganism.social @kdwarn@social.coop @pauldoo@mastodon.scot That's most likely because gnome is trying to map a running program (the terminal) to a .desktop file, which will then result in the terminal icon being displayed.
That mapping was historically based off window class, but in wayland it's called app-id I think. I don't know of any way to make a terminal window appear as a different app.
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@opensuse@fosstodon.org When I was little, my dad usually supplied me with hand-me-down computers from his programming business. At one point, he told me about how Windows was an operating system and there is this other completely free operating system called Linux. He gave me a CD with what must've been SUSE 9.0 or 10.0. I spent countless hours playing around with it, but ultimately switched back to Windows. I returned later for another attempt with Ubuntu 8.04 and finally made the switch to Arch in 2021.
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@pixx@merveilles.town I know nothing about sourdough but I always thought it needs to stay warm?
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@thejessiekirk@ohai.social You mean like Windows 7 then? The new one in Linux Mint 22.3 is pretty nice. Linux Mint is also Ubuntu-based.
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@sjb@mstdn.io Yeah. At this point, you should under no circumstances build your workflow around it.
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@philpem@digipres.club Your profile sounds a lot like what Vaillaint Group was looking for when I was there. Unfortunately, they don't offer anything suitable in the UK at the moment.
https://jobs.vaillant-group.com/uk/go/all-jobs-uk/4817101/
I worked there for a few months but quit because I found the environment too bureaucratic. Classic large corporation, not a lot of creativity.
Anyways, good luck finding something.🤞🏻
(I hate to admit it, but I found both this and my current job through LinkedIn.)
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@demofox/116055619194355358
This should have been a thing 20 years ago, but I'm glad we have it now.