I used to have lieer’s gmi (read: mbsync with gmail tag syncing) paired with notmuch. It’s good when it works, but it’s annoying to need a service in the background.
I used to use Gnus, but Gnus is sometimes weirds out if your tag filters are too complex for it
the best resource in Guix is searching the irc logs or reaching out to their irc directly. The manual only gets you so far
I love it, but the configuration is messy. Many packages are out of date, but the Scheme syntax makes it easy to update them and build them on your system.
Problem is, getting these updates merged with the upstream never happens generally speaking (I have several open patches), so you end up having two working trees in your local Guix repo, and heaven forbid you run guix pull on the wrong branch.
Also you can’t just install these packages, you have to import the keyrings of any packages that access the kernel. That requires you to go to the website, check out the owner of the key, see their contributions and decide for yourself if you trust it
+1 for Alpine. I had my reservations due to their mistrust for glibc which rattled my GNU sensibilities, but musl is rock steady and all my apps feel stable and hackable.
Gnome is a harmless though. It’s so benign it’s reliable.
KDE is glossy and featureful and sometimes my CPU fan doesn’t go down for whole hours because baloo is scanning my entire filesystem (including various conda installations) despite me repeatedly asking it not to.
Pulseaudio should have hooks
# cat /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-switch-on-connect
load-module module-exec
load-module module-exec arguments="path/to/your/script.sh %s"
(where %s resolves on trigger to the name of the sink added)
Your script.sh should then match the first argument to the name of the sink you want to control, and then run
# path/to/your/script.sh
if [ "$1" = "THESINKIWANT" ]; then
pactl set-sink-volume $1 40%
fi
this is high level trolling, kudos sir
One should note that though Thunderbolt over USB-C offers the same speed and connectivity as a native thunderbolt cable, the native cable can be 40m long whereas the USB-C implementation is max 2m
Thank god that no one made a transfer speed standard of 88 Gb/s
ah good point
dunno, the system might ran out of RAM due to lack of swap, but the drive should be fine due to the limited writes
If the system you have has enough RAM you could load the entire OS to RAM and then change the writeback settings to a high interval
wine-staging-wow64 has been a godsend for me in terms of performance
they’re pretty good, and the faults they have are improving steadily. I dont think we’re hitting a ceiling yet, and I shudder to think where they’ll be in 5 years.
Yep. I don’t recommend shit anymore to family members because it’s either:
a) not what they want (the proprietary service was better)
b) you will be doing damage control for the rest of your life
I think this is more than just two pawns flirting, this is the queen torpedoing in from an angle to take down a castle, bulldozing any innocent pawns she hits along the way.