exocortex

First of all: Please don't tell me how impractically this might be or confusing or whatever. This is like a thought experiment and let's be honest: We don't JUST want efficiency when modding our desktops -- we also want it to look sick and individual and have people watch in admiration -- or something like that. So keep that in mind before dismissing rightaway :-) thanks!

• I recently thought about a concept of tiling window managers. I don't know If this already works out of the box in some window managers. It was originally how I understood the concept of "tiling window managers" before I really got to know how they worked.

My general idea: Everything is just tiles on a larger canvas - with some exceptions everything visible can be laid out as a position on the screen. Also widgets are just tiles placed next to each other. There can (imho should) exist some rules for easy sizing of tiles / widgets, but that's details. I sometimes have the problem of working with one main application, but having to look up two other things A) and B) one after the other. I would switch between two screens all the time, but more ideally I would only move my screen slightly to get a look on either A) or B) while in both situations still having my main application in view. Moving between apps can be done simply with arrow keys (e.g. super + arrows) or mouse. There's also quickjump-positions. For example pressing 1 2 3 4 etc would move the screen to a previous set position (and could also preset the focused application)

Similar to a smartphone the background can move along in a more subtle way.

The login screen would just be a different place on that canvas - for security the rest outside the view has to disappear even when invisible while logged out (to avoid weird security issues :D

possible exception: An exception to "everything is in the canvas" could be when maximizing a focused application: Then the actual application is moving in front of the view (while the rest of the canvas is getting slightly further away). Some nice blurring could make that really nice. If the application tile isn't in the screen's aspect ration before it will change its aspect ration in the same motion while moving.

So in short: Instead of having tiles fixed to screens why not have tiles everywhere and move the screen step by step.

A lot of hotkeys need to be thought about here of course. Also specialized behavior to resize tiles. Increasing the width/height or changing the aspect ratio would require moving surrounding tiles around in certain situations, but these shouldn't bee too complicated. Again: some rules about minimum/maximum values for width/height/desired aspect rations could help.

Even the angle of viewing could be changed in some situations not in situations where switching often is required. But I'd love me some nice rotation and translation when locking my screen :-)

What do you think?

( I might cross post this to reddit's unixporn subreddit later as well)

Hi, I've got an old netbook from Samsung that has an old Intel Atom CPU (Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz). I installed Arch on it and am now thinking of a suitable window manager. I tried Hyprland (kinda expecting it to not work really) whick didn't start at all. Before I had Debian with Gnome, which technically worked, but everything was extremely slow.

I've used Gnome for a long time, but I know that there are a lot of other window managers out there. I would like to have one that avoids graphical gimmickry in order to be fast. (I like some nice little graphical details, but only if it's still running buttery smooth).

If you have some tips that would be very nice!

EDIT: thank you for all the recommendations I'll try out a few!

Hi! I tried out yew last night and was going through the tutorial (the link). At the end the tutorial is using a link to an external resource. My guess is that the tutorial app shall create a website with a list of (empty) videos that is created by reading an external json-file from the yew-website. The problem is that this doesn't work for me, the list stays empty. I also don't find the full source of this example somewhere. On the site it is only iteratively described. I am pretty sure I have everything like on the website.

The Matrix is an often used example, but for me it's the Alien Prequels - especially Alien: Covenant really makes the Original Alien much worse. When the original was released in 1979 it had the perfect Monster. A dangerous killing machine of unknown origin. The missing background of the alien is a big part of its scary mess. It's a blank space in its mythology that the viewer can fill with many explanations. As these explanations are not precise they don't have to be logically coherent.

Covenant (and to a lesser degree Prometeus) wanted to fill this blank space and tell us the aliens origin. But once you fill out this missing piece of information it is fixed and can only be one piece. There exists now only one singular explanation. And its a boring: The Xenomorph is basically a creature with it's origins on earth (because David, who's origin is on earth created it).

I find this hugely dissapointing. The biggest dangers of deep space are all human in origin is extremely small minded.

(Star Trek: Beyond had the same boring plot - the mysterious villain turned out to be a human after all. As if only humans are capable to pose (or create) a serious thread to humans.).

What are your examples for franchise-movies that somehow made the original worse?

Ein sehr interessanter thread, in dem ein Entwickler ein paar Analysen beschreibt über die Preisentwicklung von Waren in österreichischen Lebemittelketten.

I'm not a fan of outright blocking certain communities and would rather have a kind of "relevancy-factor" or "weight" with which i could tune the frequency of seeing posts from certain communities. A factor of 0 would be the same as blocking a community. 1 would be normal.

I am not familiar with the exact method with which posts are displayed in "Everything" or the ordering thereof. But I'm sure it's taking the up votes into account. A relevancy factor of 0.5 would treat a post with 1000 up votes as if it had 500 and there for position it lower.

This way highly up voted posts from certain communities would be able to appear.

Using filters is very useful. Though I like them I often fear that I forget about them after a while and don't know what I'm missing.

In other applications that are more structured as fixed channels like discord, or messaging apps like Signal etc I am able to mute notifications for a limited amount of time.

For people who are hesitant about filters (like me) it would be nice, if I could set a filter for e.g. "Linus Tech Tips" with a timeout of 2 weeks. I don't care about this sub/community that much, but blocking them completely because of the recent drama seems strange for me.

Another thing that I would love would be a way to still see the filtered content. The filters would then be like automatic labels/tags that would be attached to posts. The normal view would be only "unlabeled/untagged" items. But for every filter there would be a button clickable to show only the filtered items.

Lemmy (and by extension the fediverse) is theoretically more robust against powerhungry individuals because people can move to another server. But if users loose all their data (their liked / saved posts and subscribed communities) when moving to another server they are less likely to do so, which increases the power of the people who run the servers over the users of those servers.

So if there's some time in the future I'd love to have a feature that is making it simple to "move my stuff".

I'm trying to run an LED matrix display (with a Max7219 controller) from a raspberry pi pico using rust. There is a max7219-crate that I used. But i am unsure about how to prepare the pins I want to use. Can I Use any of the pins? Do I have to set them to push-pull-output?