For the longest time people wondered: how do bees fly and don’t bump into each other? There are so many of them!

To find out, people used high speed cameras, and then they were shocked by the fact that bees actually do bump into each other.

Isn’t it ridiculous that we just take our assumptions on something we have no idea about as facts?

DimStar sounds familiar… But I can’t remember where I could hear about him.

Yeah, I just downloaded a few communities from AUR, they run really well under Plasma 6.

Have you never tried to download a community?

I use Quassel hosted on my server.

I wish I could switch to Inkscape, but it’s not there yet.

It is really good lately and only getting better, but there are 2 major issues I have with Inkscape.

1. Tabs (as in, tabulation, the \t character) in text objects. You can find workarounds, like splitting your text into multiple objects and aligning them on your canvas, but it’s just not as good as being able to align your text using proper text alignment tools. Tabulation doesn’t work in Inkscape because it’s not in SVG spec, AFAIK.

2. Object styles. Again, there are workarounds, but they’re not as good. Can you create a text style called “numbering”, use it to number a lot of stuff in your document, then just change font family (or make it italic, or bold) all of the numbers at once by changing the “numbering” style? I don’t think it’s currently possible. Sure, inkscape is not a word processor. But can you make an object of style “banner” with a blue gradient fill, orange 2 px stroke and 50% transparency, use it multiple times, then when you need to change from blue gradient to red gradient just change the “banner” style? Again, there are ways to achieve this, but if you do this kind of stuff, inkscape is just not ready to replace your tools.

Don’t get me wrong, I really want to switch to FOSS all the way and wait for these things to get implemented. As soon as they’re there, I’ll be the first to make the switch. But it’s not now, unfortunately.

If I’m wrong, I’ll be happy to stand corrected.

Arch never broke for me.

Unless you seek trouble and do stuff without knowing what you are doing (like blindly copy pasting commands from internet into your terminal), it generally just works.

It’s not as good as those distros where all packages come preconfigured for you to work nicely together, so if you want to build a custom system (like, choose your DE/WM/panels/widgets etc), you have to configure all of that to intergate nicely. But you could always just install KDE and everything is pretty stable there, same as in any other KDE based distro.

Thanks!

Is it trying to solve any problem that is not solved by rsync/rclone?

Don’t get me wrong, I love new tools, just curious how is it different (better or worse) from rsync?

Probably it would be better to edit my comment, but I’ll go with a reply to myself.

To all fans of RSS: there’s this service called FeedBase that is essentially a RSS to NNTP gate. You add your RSS feed to that and it becomes a newsgroup on their server, and you can subscribe to it using any NNTP client. New articles appear as new posts in that newsgroup and you can post your own replies to them. So, you get RSS but with discussions or comments.

https://feedbase.org/

If you try this, let me know what RSS feeds you’re reading, so we could read the articles together and have some discussion there!

P.S. This comment is not an ad. I genuinely love feedbase and use that myself.

Others have said already, but XMPP and RSS. Also, nobody mentioned NNTP yet.

I wish everything was accessible by NNTP and we had better NNTP clients. NNTP is like RSS but for forums (so, Lemmy, Reddit, or anything where you could reply to posts). Download for offline reading, read in your client, define your own formatting, sorting, filtering, your client, your rules.

If Lemmy was accessible via NNTP, I could just download all posts and comments I’m interested in and reply to them without any connection, and my replies would get synced with the server later when I connect to WiFi or something.

Is there a link to this talk (or interview, or whatever this is) but in a video format, or at least a text without all those «SEE ALSO» self ads?

For future readers: if you want something like Rimworld, but with a fantasy setting instead of SciFi, there’s Dwarf Fortress. But yes, it can be confusing, so Rimworld is easier to get into, as it’s more user friendly.

I play dota 2, community can be toxic, but if you are not a snowflake or know how to use the mute button, its good.

I played this game way before dota 2, when it was a Warcraft 3 map, so I have been playing dota for about 18 years. Can confirm, it is addictive, and I believe it is one of the best competitive games out there.

So I guess it’s something like pressing ctrl+c: most software doesn’t specifically handle this hotkey so in general it will interrupt a running process, but software can choose to handle it differently (like in vim ctrl+C does not interrupt it).

Thanks.

Fun fact: pressing X (close button) on a window does not make it that your app is closed, it just sends a signal that you wish to close it, your app can choose what to do with this signal.

How do symlinks work from the point of view of software?

Imagine I have a file in my downloads folder called movie.mp4, and I have a symlink to it in my home folder.

Whenever I open the symlink, does the software (player) understand «oh this file seems like a symlink, I should go and open the original file», or it’s a filesystem level stuff and software (player) basically has no idea if a file I’m opening is a symlink or the original movie.mp4?

Can I use sync software (like Dropbox, Gdrive or whatever) to sync symlinks? Can I use sync software to sync actual files, but only have symlinks in my sync folder?

Is there a rule of thumb to predict how software behaves when dealing with symlinks?

I just don’t grok symbolic links.

So basically dithering is on its own separate channel?

Can it integrate fzf or does it have fuzzy search?

Universal editor you are talking about is vim. Spend 15 minutes doing vimtutor and you’ll be happy 15 years later.

I was reading some opinions and blogs about helix and thought it’s really cool, gave it a try, and almost immediately switched back to vim. It was the moment when I tried to use some regex substitution and as it turns out there are no regex matchgroup substitutions in helix. You can’t easily do stuff like replace all occurences of a pattern “firstword secontword: thirdword” with “thirdword - firstword” for example. At first I thought that I’m just new to this editor and don’t know how it’s done, then after searching for a while found that helix doesn’t try to implement things that can be done by external tools, and the way to go is pipe your selections (or entire buffer contents) to sed or awk or whatever and and read from their stdout back into your file (?).

So, while it feels more unix-way (why have regex substitutions when you can pipe into tools that already do this), I still like that vim has this builtin, it feels more integrated into the tool probably. At this point, if helix doesn’t want to implement things other tools can do, why even have regex search and select? This could be done by piping into grep as well, I think. Anyway, just my silly opinion and my experience with helix is that I can’t use it without regex match groups and substitutions and I’m too lazy to learn how to pipe into sed and do this properly in helix, and it feels natural to me that vim has this builtin with a great amount of advanced options and features.

Like, for example, in vim you can do regex searching and tell vim which part of the match should be your final selection. It’s incredible how powerful regexes in vim are.

Instead of cd into output of ls | grep I’d suggest you to install fzf and fuzzy find directories to cd into.