Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.
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On my company mail account I have collected circa 10000 mails during the past 10 years, which is circa 80 mails a month - and that is a lot.
If you’re not following multiple high-volume mailing lists since a decade and archive every single e-mail I don’t think its normal to have 50000 mails in a mailbox.
Edge cases are not the norm, though.
This is why no-one in the right mind uses Sylpheed, but the actively maintained fork Claws Mail (which just recently had a new version released).
Navigating a combination of the distro’s native package manager (apt, pacman, rpm, whatever), snap, flatpack and still having to set up the maintainers’ custom repositories to get stuff that’s even remotely up-to-date somehow
This sounds like a you problem, to be honest. If you want the most up-to-date software, just use a distribution that updates very often or uses a rolling-release concept.
The different UI toolkits, desktop environment, window manager and compositor seem to be fighting each other.
If you use one of them, not that much. If you start mixing them it becomes a huge mess. At one point in time I had Ubuntu installed, running Gnome, but having Openbox as window manager set. It was an absolute mess. Nowadays I think it’s even more of a mess, especially with gnome and this stupid Adwaita library with the stupid CSM.
But I happily ran pure Openbox on X11 for a decade and run labwc on Wayland since ca. 2 years now.
I do a lot of .NET programming and photo editing. I could probably replace VS with VScode or Ryder but it’s an additional hurdle. For photo editing, I haven’t found a single thing that fits my workflow the way Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop do.
Then stick with Windows. Or run this software in VM with GPU pass-through and KVM. I really don’t see an issue here. Use the tool that best fits your needs.
There will always be this one asshole of a coworker who happily name-dropping you in a conference call with the project owner.
After seven years of active development
I wonder where they got this from. The 2.x branch was first released 21 years ago.
Write an ungodly large amount of code-comments - up to a point where you add 20 lines of explanations to a 6 lines long function where two lines are variables assignments.
Source code is for humans to read. The compiler ignores the comments.
Yep! The functionality for performing arithmetic expressions this way is called “arithmetic expansion”.
2.6.4 Arithmetic Expansion
Arithmetic expansion provides a mechanism for evaluating an arithmetic expression and substituting its value. The format for arithmetic expansion shall be as follows:
$((expression))
The expression shall be treated as if it were in double-quotes, except that a double-quote inside the expression is not treated specially. The shell shall expand all tokens in the expression for parameter expansion, command substitution, and quote removal.
Next, the shell shall treat this as an arithmetic expression and substitute the value of the expression. […]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_19_06_04
That is a posixly correct method to do arithmetic expressions.
Even if you ignore the recent few fuck-ups Mozilla did: It does.
It sucks less than other non-Chromium browsers, though.
Thunderbird is the only Mozilla product that doesn’t suck!
I gave up Bash scripting. I explicitly do “shell scripting” now, where “shell” is implied to be a POSIX compliant shell of any type.
Have a look at Luakit (but please don’t try to configure it – this is absurd!)
it doesn’t really suit my needs.
What are your needs?
Also: If someone manages to tamper with the downloadable ISO … they likely will be able to tamper with the signature files, too.
Mmh, okay. So I’ll continue re-downloading videos in non-HDR variants. But good to see it implemented, though.
My personal order:
Repositories > AUR > Making an own AUR package > Making an own package not in AUR > Flatpak > Using an alternative to that application > consider if I really need it > AppImage