JuxtaposedJaguar

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yes and no. It would solve some problems, but because it has no (non-hacky) graphics acceleration, most DEs wouldn't use it anyway. The biggest benefit would be from not having to use a DE in some circumstances where it's currently required.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Businesses doing April Fools was fun until every gigantic corporation started doing it. Now it’s just bland, thinly-veiled marketing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

“I don’t want to learn/use the CLI” is equivalent to saying “I only want to use features that have a GUI”, which you can already do on any operating system (including Linux).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Actually it’s a low budget western movie starring Alec Baldwin that resulted in the tragic killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins due to inadequate safety practices on set.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

If Iceland is all green then why is it called Ice?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

Farmers didn’t realize they were the E in DEI

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I never thought the leopards would eat my face!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Evidently many American companies are ashamed to be associated with their own country.

That's editorializing. Companies want to make as much money as possible, and right now hiding their US origin increases sales.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Each monitor should have its own framebuffer device rather than only one app controlling all monitors at any time and needing each app to implement its own multi-monitor support. I know fbdev is an inefficient, un-accelerated wrapper of the DRI, but it's so easy to use!

Want to draw something on a particular monitor? Write to its framebuffer file. Want to run multiple apps on multiple screens without needing your DE to launch everything? Give each app write access to a single fbdev. Want multi-seat support without needing multiple GPUs? Same thing.

Right now, each GPU only gets 1 fbdev and it has the resolution of the smallest monitor plugged into that GPU. Its contents are then mirrored to every monitor, even though they all have their own framebuffers on a hardware level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My thermodynamics professor made so approximations in his derivations that all of his equations had an “O” term to represent the inaccuracy. Every time he made another approximation he’d say “and, of course, the O sucks up the error”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My high school English teacher still has night terrors about me starting sentences with conjunctions. And that was the least of their problems.

Edit: kind of unrelated, but that song about conjunctions is now stuck in my head. 🎶Conjunction junction, what’s your function? 🎶

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

The trick is to round everything. Pi? Basically 3.

 

I'm not complaining, but I didn't realize how much work it was. It makes me really respect the people who do it on a regular basis.

For example:

  • You know how to use your software, but other people don't. So you need to write documentation.
  • You can just modify the source files, but it's impractical for everyone to do that. So you need to add a config file.
  • You can just drag the output files into place, but that's impractical for everyone to do. So you need to package it.
  • You trust yourself, but distro maintainers rightfully don't. So you need to package your source code and configure the package to compile it.
  • You will abide by your idea of how the software should be used, but other people might not. So you need to pick a license.

Sometimes I think there must be an easier way, but I can't think of any. I guess it probably gets easier with experience.

 

My main server is named Postulate (an idea that you assume for the sake of argument), my desktop is named Axiom (a proved postulate), and my backup server is named Corollary (an idea that follows from an axiom).

What are your computers named, and why?

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