Intrusive thoughts at the airport [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]
  • sevon sevon 2d ago 100%

    I'm sure counter strike would be a decent option

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  • P3477R0: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
  • sevon sevon 3d ago 100%

    I was vaguely aware that some ancient architectures had weird byte widths, but I did not know about this. Pretty interesting.

    This paper cannot succeed without mentioning the PDP-10 (though noting that PDP-11 has 8-bit bytes), and the fact that some DSPs have 24-bit or 32-bit words treated as "bytes." These architectures made sense in their era, where word sizes varied and the notion of a byte wasn’t standardized. Today, nearly every general-purpose and embedded system adheres to the 8-bit byte model. The question isn’t whether there are still architectures where bytes aren’t 8-bits (there are!) but whether these care about modern C++... and whether modern C++ cares about them.

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  • Do people use Cargo?
  • sevon sevon 2w ago 100%

    The file is named Cargo.toml. Whatever dependencies you add to there are automatically downloaded by Cargo. You can manage them with cargo add and cargo remove.

    cargo install is not the same thing. That installs binaries. I last installed cargo-release to automate the annoying part of managing git tags and crate version number.

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  • I don't know what this site wants me to allow, but no thanks.
  • sevon sevon 4w ago 100%

    Yeah, I saw that one. Actually kind of a smart idea as many people will surely blindly press the keys as instructed.

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  • I don't know what this site wants me to allow, but no thanks.
  • sevon sevon 4w ago 100%

    It's a fake website

    Figured as much. So it's ad spamming that they're going for.

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  • it also kept redirecting to itself like twice a second to not let me go back.

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    kde
    KDE 1mo ago
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    My new lightly fork now works on even more systems, and I'm still looking for people that are interested
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 100%

    Hey that looks nice at a glance. Will check it out!

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  • Cloud storage/backup options [Linux]
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 100%

    I've been using mega synced folders for most stuff. Works fine.

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  • linux
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    Fedora: GNOME or KDE?
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 100%

    I tried to do this before, but it did not work out.

    I couldn't make the meta key alone open overview. I also tried to add a dock there, but I can only have a panel when not in overview, which is the opposite of that I wanted. I also liked the notification menu and the quick toggles menu in top right corner.

    I have been planning to get into plasma extension development to fix some of these issues.

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    Macbook Air wireless card replacement?
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 100%

    Initially installing them wasn't a problem anyway, but rather the driver breaking. It feels good to trust the laptop a again.

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  • apple_enthusiast
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    Macbook Air wireless card replacement?
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 100%

    If you're still looking to free your USB port, I have now confirmed that this upgrade works!

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  • linux
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    Linux on iMac?
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    It would help if you got the model right, and an exact one at that. As the others said, "iMac" isn't a mac laptop, but an AIO desktop.

    ::: spoiler From the thread I gather you have some model of MacBook Air, that looks like this:

    :::

    I run linux on one of these. Everything worked out of the box, except for wireless. See my 2-part adventure for how I solved it.

    Mac "bios" isn't exactly how you'd expect from PCs. Hold down alt key during startup to enter boot menu, and you're good to go.

    If your family member was a mac user before, they might be most comfortable on Gnome, as it has aped many ui features from mac os. It has a similar dock, fluid trackpad-friendly navigation that works the same way, and more.

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  • Why YAML sucks?
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 75%

    I'm fine with python, because it's consistent. In C I get nervous every time I see it.

    goto fail;

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    Macbook Air wireless card replacement (continued)
  • sevon sevon 1mo ago 100%

    Oh, I guess it's all good then. Thanks

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  • Part 1: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1763180 So I went and did it. Ordered an adapter and an intel ax200. It seems work just fine out of the box in linux. This cost me 25 to 30 euros total. ## Pics ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.kde.social%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F57eac1e1-2c41-478c-b8a8-91db0f4fbbb1.jpeg) ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.kde.social%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F0ea6d3df-4dc1-4015-9861-5f000e5cccbd.jpeg) ## Antenna considerations The laptop was only designed for up to ac. The new card can do ax, which uses a different band. My router doesn't support ax, so I have no clue if that will see significant signal drop with the old antennae. I actually haven't even bothered to look deep enough to know if this even would be an issue, maybe it's okay.

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    Translator badge!
  • sevon sevon 2mo ago 100%

    Hi, 'member me?

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  • I don't need to learn the language, I'll just use the translate app.
  • sevon sevon 2mo ago 100%

    Hi, I'd just like to join the club.

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  • How would you feel about this feature?
  • sevon sevon 2mo ago 100%

    I wouldn't use it, but I don't think I have any reason to say you shouldn't add it, except maybe that it's more bloat. Compared to media bias, it seems less useful and more effort to maintain.

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  • Thanks to all translators!
  • sevon sevon 2mo ago 100%

    ❤️

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  • apple_enthusiast
    Apple 2mo ago
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    Macbook Air wireless card replacement?
  • sevon sevon 2mo ago 100%

    Too bad. Guess I'll go order the adapter.

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  • apple_enthusiast
    Apple 2mo ago
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    Macbook Air wireless card replacement?
  • sevon sevon 2mo ago 100%

    2013 Macbook Air as the post says. It's some i5 board, can't say anything more specific right now.

    Anyway, I'm also kind of done with software hassles on this one, and I also prefer linux, so I'd rather keep using it.

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  • Edit: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1921123 I have this old '13 air. It's outta support, so I run fedora instead of macos. It has BCM4630 for wireless (🖕 Broadcom), which had me manually install a rather unreliable driver to ever get it working. Yesterday I updated, and it can't find any networks anymore. Instead of messing with broadcom drivers anymore, I'd rather replace the hardware with something better. Has anyone here tried this? Know what will work both in linux and macos, if I were to pass this thing to someone else later?

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    EDIT: This is now integrated to Photon as the Neutral theme. I did this a while ago, when theming was first introduced. I wanted a dark theme that wasn't black, and also not tinted. ```json {"other":{"black":"#000000","white":"#ffffff"},"primary":{},"zinc":{"700":"#484e57","800":"#373b41","900":"#282a2e","925":"#202225","950":"#1d1f21"},"slate":{}} ```

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