KindaABigDyl

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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Epiphany is a neat little project, but my understanding is it has performance issues bc it can't use the GPU or something, like YouTube videos load slow.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What they're referring to is that when you use tabs, you end up having some things at the end of lines have to be spaced over for alignment. Thus, you then have to turn on some way of seeing what stuff is tabs and what stuff is spaces and it turns into a big mess.

Hence why normal people indent with spaces instead of hard tabs

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My biggest disagreement is this:

Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.

Always put braces around if statements. It will bite you in the butt

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there a way to watch it post-zoom meeting?

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Have you tried usbmount?

This automatically mounts usb drives if they're vfat, ext4, or hfsplus. Options: sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime

I believe it puts them in /media/run/DEVICE_NAME or something like that

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

It's kinda like arenas in C

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The other guy mentioned:

they already said they were Mac only because they used Metal for rendering

And you say:

Metal is basically the only graphics API on Mac

So they're on Mac bc they need Metal, but they picked Metal bc they're on a Mac? It's circular and friggin weird man

Not to mention there are cross-platform wrappers that will pick from all three depending on system - some that are very prolific among Rust devs (Zed is coded in Rust) like wgpu, for instance. They could've used wgpu and supported all 3 from the get-go and it would be easier than doing Metal anyway!

And so picking just Mac and/or Metal first is suspicious.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 15 points 6 months ago (14 children)

because they used Metal for rendering

That in itself is a suspicious choice tbh

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

I'll give it a look

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bismuth for Plasma 5

Nah. I couldn't get behind Bismuth either. You had rigid ways you could arrange your windows with no way to adjust.

For instance, you can't get a layout like this with Bismuth (or any dynamic tilers that I know of, i.e. dynamic tilers aren't worth using):

---------------------------------------
| A                    | B            |
|                      |--------------|
|----------------------| C            |
| E        | F         |--------------|
|          |           | J    |   K   |
---------------------------------------

The closest in Bismuth would be using master and slave like:

---------------------------------------
| A                    | B            |
|                      |--------------|
|                      | C            |
|----------------------|--------------|
| E                    | J            |
|----------------------|--------------|
| F                    | K            |
---------------------------------------

Which isn't nearly as useful

I gave Plasma a genuine, honest try, both 5 and 6, and it was a complete let down.

But your attitude would make Pop Shell devs burn their own project down out of fear

Nah bc the Pop Shell devs have done an AMAZING job. The new COSMIC will make KDE and GNOME look like pet projects when it drops.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

There's no reason btrfs shouldn't work for every use case.

That said I think the slight performance gains of ext4 over btrfs make it worth sticking to ext4 for games. Imo it's similar to as if you had you main system on an HDD but ran games off of an SSD; that's how much faster it feels.

I would install games to a separate ext4 partition but steam to btrfs (for configs) in that case.

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