My wife thinks we shouldn't get another cat "because we already have two", should I cut ties?
  • zongor zongor 15h ago 100%

    I don’t think you have a choice in how many cats you own; you’ll wake up one day and they’ll be another one

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  • :I'm paying both sides so that i always come out on top:
  • zongor zongor 3d ago 100%

    I had to make a double take as I first read that as “donated to both the Hamas and Trump campaigns”

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  • Days since last Rust Minecraft server
  • zongor zongor 4d ago 100%

    Yeah, you would think there would have been someone making a Clojure version at least

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  • Days since last Rust Minecraft server
  • zongor zongor 4d ago 100%

    If anyone is interested here is a wiki with quite a few of the open source Minecraft servers and clients made through the years.

    https://wiki.vg/Server_List

    Also check out the most Unix-y server ever written which was written in Bash

    https://git.sakamoto.pl/domi/Witchcraft

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  • Days since last Rust Minecraft server
  • zongor zongor 4d ago 100%

    There have been multiple Java based projects throughout the years. The most advanced one that is currently in development is https://github.com/Minestom/Minestom

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  • The Harris campaign says COP
  • zongor zongor 1w ago 100%

    “Country over” party

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  • Zorp vee vee, gangax ril. Zonon freegil "pig poop balls" wurp zinka
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    Engineering? Universal translator is acting up again; send up Ensign Zork, they speak Zetan right?

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  • 'Lola' a new window system for plan9
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    I’m not the author of the site so I can’t know for sure but the culture of plan9 puts simplicity first so many sites are http only

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  • 'Lola' a new window system for plan9
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    It’s a http site not https

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  • http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/plan9/themes/Themes.html

    Been playing around with it a bit, very easy to theme, although I think that creating some sort of icon maker for it would be a good idea. Link here: http://aap.papnet.eu/pub/plan9/themes/Themes.html

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    Are NixOS / Guix SD / Gentoo good choices for development?
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    Yes you are quite right, unfortunately for me I rolled high in electrochemestry and require copious amounts of proprietary games and CUDA cores so GNU + Linux + Proton is where I will need to be for now.

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  • Are NixOS / Guix SD / Gentoo good choices for development?
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    Nix seemed more focused on marketing and cutting corners to make a working product faster

    Yes, this is a big issue in corporate development. It seems like management is in a constant state of barreling headfirst into a "silver bullet that fixes everything" instead of doing things the hard way (which in the long term is almost always better.

    expect to either package it yourself

    I have not maintained any packages before but I am very interested in learning how, I shall look into this.

    Shepherd for its init system

    I vaguely remember this was the originally used in Hurd? if so that is cool.

    https://toys.whereis.みんな/

    This is very cool!

    guix import

    This seems quite useful thanks for that.

    Setting up Emacs, a local SMTP server connected to your email for git, and a CLI password manager will probably be helpful.

    I have been wanting to set up upasfs this may be the push I need to finally get around to doing that.

    It appears Guix may be a good choice in the future but not quite yet, I will try installing it as a package manager and/or try it in a VM to start out with. Thanks for the info!

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  • Are NixOS / Guix SD / Gentoo good choices for development?
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    Ah yeah, that makes sense. I shall try this out in a VM sometime. thanks!

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  • Solar Protocol - Discussion about a solar-powered internet
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    Neat! Im not sure to be honest; seems like some people have handheld lora radios the same way some people have walkies-talkies; would be an important thing to figure out

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  • Are NixOS / Guix SD / Gentoo good choices for development?
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    Using scheme would be a big benefit for me as I already know it whereas NixOS I would have to learn their config language. I suppose that if it is easy to create packages and submit them it would be like compiling it myself except that more people could have access to it. I shall take this under consideration.

    I do have one related question, during install how do you get an already customized config file onto the system during install? How do I create a config file beforehand?

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    yep! (otherwise my server has a lot of explaining to do)

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  • Solar Protocol - Discussion about a solar-powered internet
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    I think this is a very good start. One issue is that the internet has the weakness of having its access controlled by ISPs; sure there are some places to get network access like the library, etc. but if these boxes could also have a LPWAN transmitter attached to them and networked up to other boxes nearby, that would be great.

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    This is why Mothra is the most advanced web browser. The only one to have a fully integrated "moth mode"! However, for us mere mortals I am excited about the ladybird browser as an alternative (in a couple of years most likely).

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    ⑨front user here!

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  • Mozilla will become an ad company
  • zongor zongor 2w ago 100%

    I have it running on a x86_64 Pentium III server; works great!

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  • TLDR: is the amount of time used to switch to these distros worth it? (compared to Debian, Fedora, etc.), or is there a better distro that fits my use case? I have been using Linux for about 4 years now as my daily driver, distro hopping a lot. I have used PopOS (for a few years), Manjaro, Garuda (for a year or so), KDE Neon, Debian, Linux Mint, Nobara (for some months until I ran into system breaking issues), and lastly EndeavourOS. Issues I have run into in the past are around the different packaging systems and versioning. The Debian/Fedora based ones seem to be fairly slow to update and so they have out of date packages, which sometimes is ok, but sometimes if they are too out of date I have to compile it from scratch. Also the different packaging systems (like apt, pacman, dnf...) means that depending on what flavor I am currently running there may not be a analogous system or maybe a package will be missing and I end up (once again) having to build it from scratch. On the other side I have Arch Linux based ones, which usually works great (especially having access to the AUR) but I end up spending a lot of time configuring stuff that isn't built in (which is by design I know), or having stuff randomly be broken after an update. (which I suppose is my own fault I should have probably set up btrfs or something). Also some libraries will build/work great out of the box on some distros and be completely unusable on others for no apparent reason. I looked into Gentoo, NixOS, and Guix SD as possible solutions for my issues. Gentoo because since it seems like I have to compile a lot of my libraries anyways maybe I should use a system where you have to compile everything. NixOS and Guix since it seems they are designed for package management and versioning built into the system which might be exactly what I am looking for. I am worried about the learning curve of all of these. I don't have a lot of time to mess around with configuring stuff all the time. Ideally I'm looking for a distro that works well with my old-ish hardware (with NVIDIA support unfortunately) where I can sit down, program and/or play games on steam+proton; but it seems like I have to choose between "system is stable but packages are old" and "system and libraries are new but is very unstable. Or if I am using snaps or flatpak its "install 5 things and now you are out of memory" (thanks electron). Also concerned about both NixOS and Guix since they seem to be designed behind "everything goes through the package manager", which is super cool for making it so the environment is the same, but I am concerned about getting stuff to work if a package doesn't exist or if the library is designed to use like 'pip' or 'bun.sh' or some built in package manager. Any thoughts about this? any non popular distros that might fit my use case? did I give up on some distro too soon? am I just a confused newb?

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearPR
    programming zongor 10mo ago 100%
    lemmyfs prototype for plan9

    Playing around with plan9’s webfs, have a prototype for reading/writing to the lemmy api as if it were a series of files. The program creates the files dynamically and it can then be mounted to wherever, in the case of the example here I just mounted it to the /n directory. Currently I only have one api endpoint but this is good enough for a proof of concept.

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearPR
    programming zongor 10mo ago 100%
    I finally have place to post this amazing scheme flavor
    github.com
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