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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I've had the typical disasters with partition tables and boot loader mixups, but the one I keep coming back to is updating my Nvidia drivers too eagerly. Whether something gets messed up with an external monitor, or the laptop starts resisting switching away from the integrated GPU, or an electron app I use regularly that makes heavy use of 3D acceleration breaks, or I just need to bump the driver version in a reproducible system state record... it's just bad news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Programming, writing, notes, email… and basically a whole lot of what I use computers for is done with emacs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I don’t think you’re missing anything. I didn’t like the first episode as I found the humor somewhat jarring, and didn’t like Mariner. I kept at it as a show I watch while exercising, though, and it grew on me. While Mariner still annoys me at times, there’s a warmth and enthusiasm in LD that is quite infectious. I think they do a great job at teasing Trek while still loving it, and I am there for it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The stress of those moments left a weird impression. I’m very against splitting the party now when entering checkout territory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

“Are you getting it? These are three separate browsers.” - Anonymous

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I’ve used powerline-go for a long time now. The modules I use are, modules = ["cwd" "ssh" "dotenv" "nix-shell" "gitlite" "exit"]; (from my home-manager config). It tells me everything I need, and looks pretty, too. Maybe I should mix it up for some variety, but I do like the info it provides.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really like the looks of sqlite-query, and hope it makes it to melpa soon. Being able to so easily spin off CSV results from sqlite queries will come in handy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Curious about how sniem compares to other approaches to modal editing. I've been happy with god-mode for years, but exploring variations to modal editing is always a good thing in my book if it can encourage others to give it a try.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Agree with many of the other comments here saying that they'd be very wary of such a project based on what these choices say about the project's maintainers. Something else is that while I have real affection for email and particularly IRC based on past experience, I don't think these two are without problems. Email is so asynchronous that many folks feel obligated to treat writing messages to a list more formally. This is not totally misguided since everyone subscribed gets this message delivered to them. IRC, on the other hand, is so synchronous that you should reasonably worry if anyone will be there to talk with, and about whether or not there are searchable archives.

Something (like GitHub) that can be quick but is also perfectly serviceable for asynchronous communication really does have advantages, imho.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

It really is interesting how async Rust takes the shine off of Rust to such an extent. If good old stack based, single threaded Rust wasn’t so polished, I don’t think the async parts would stand out so much. Something that might help is to have some sort of benchmark showing that Arcing through an async problem is still faster than typical GCed languages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ahh, the scrolling is significantly improved, and the grayed out read articles was a sore point for me. Really great work folks! Looking forward to gestures to dismiss opened images. I also hope link handling can be improved. Comparing just now, Avelon is handling lemmy links very smoothly, while mlem kicks out to Mail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wanted to like it, but didn’t get through S1. I found the humor so uneven that it made the whole thing almost uncomfortable. Is it an irreverent parody, sci-fi, slightly crude comedy, or is it Star Trek? It’s all of those things, and I’m happy folks enjoyed it. I’ll try to revisit at some point, but for now I’m so happy that Strange New Worlds is as surprisingly excellent as it is. For me, it nails the mixture of lightheartedness, sci-fi adventure, and earnestness that I like in Star Trek.

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