blacklion (u/blacklion)

blacklion commented on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC tuxedocomputers.com/en/Di... · Posted by u/Venn1

blacklion · a month ago

Somewhat tangent: x86-based laptops of this brand (it is new to me, I never meet Tuxedo Computers before) looks attractive, but there is no information about their screens main property: are they glossy or matt?

My wife is very sensitive to glossy screens and we have big problems to find new laptop for her, as most good ones are glossy now.

blacklion commented on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 windhawk.net/mods/classic... · Posted by u/znpy

anthk · a month ago

MPD + advanced clients pown foobar 2000 anytime. Also, Audacious, Strayberry...

Audacious with audacious-plugins could play anything (even video game music files) and it still has ProjectM plugins' support.

blacklion · a month ago

Nope, UI for mpd shows that there is 11093 albums in my collection, but first several screens of Albums is all sequences of `?`. Very useful. Number itself doesn't looks right, my estimation is at least half of this number, maybe less.

On the other hand same client shows only 6391 files, which is waaaay to small number if 1 file = 1 track. Ok, there is a lot of image + CUE albums, I wonder, is it 2 files or one?

So it is useless, unfortunately. foobar2000 allows me add folder / file set to playlist and start listening. With system "Artist/Year - Album" on the file system it is easy and convenient. Tags could be broken, but all mys music is here and I always know where to look for what I want to listen now.

blacklion commented on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 windhawk.net/mods/classic... · Posted by u/znpy

anthk · a month ago

MPD + advanced clients pown foobar 2000 anytime. Also, Audacious, Strayberry...

Audacious with audacious-plugins could play anything (even video game music files) and it still has ProjectM plugins' support.

blacklion · a month ago

When I've tried MPD last time (about 2 years ago, to be honest) it failed to play wv.iso format, and I have this abomination in my collection.

Also, it is not very good with broken tags, MP3 tags in local codepages (different for different albums!), etc.

You cannot imagine what can be seen in the wild when it is musical collection started in 1995!

Heck, I'm downloading mpd for windows right now and I'll try to add my collection into it. But I'm not holding my breath, all previous attempts to import my collection in any software failed for 15-20% of collection (different ones for different software).

blacklion commented on Blender 5.0 blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi

crote · a month ago

> I wonder what will be the next category of open source to pull ahead?

KiCad, for PCB design. They have been making massive improvements over the last few years, and with proprietary solutions shutting down (Eagle) or being unaffordable (Altium) Kicad is now by far the best option for both hobbyists and small companies.

With the release of KiCad 5 in 2018 it went from being "a pain to use to, but technically sufficient" to being a genuine option for less-demanding professionals. Since then they've been absolutely killing it, with major releases happening once a year and bringing enough quality-of-life improvements that it is actually hard to keep track of all of them.

From the type of new features it is very obvious that a lot of professional users are now showing interest in the application, and as we've seen with Blender a trickle of professional adoption can quickly turn into a flood which takes over the entire market.

KiCad still has a long way to go when it comes to complex high-speed boards (nobody in their right mind would use it to design an EPYC motherboard, for example), but it is absolutely going to steamroll the competition when it comes to the cookie-cutter 2/4/6 layer PCBs in all the everyday consumer products.

blacklion · a month ago

KiCAD becomes better and better, but one limitation embedded into its DNA is very annoying: one project - one schematic - one PCB.

It is very kludgy and cumbersome to split project into several PCB (for example, stack of PCBs connected by backplane or headers, like Arduino & Shield for it) and/or to have variations of the PCBs for one schematics, like TH and SMD variants of the PCB for exactly same schematics.

Even in my very modest almost-electrical (as opposed to electronic) projects I need one or another from time to time.

As far as I understand it is limitation which is not easy to fix, because all architecture of KiCAD is based on this 1-1-1 principle.

blacklion commented on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 windhawk.net/mods/classic... · Posted by u/znpy

NaomiLehman · a month ago

why do they choose it?

i have a windows workstation because one CNC machine that we use needs it. only other reason i can see is gaming?

I have all 3 major OSs at home and, honestly, Windows 11 is stuff of nightmares to me

blacklion · a month ago

Adobe products, for example. Or any of other of miriad of other products which have only Win/MacOS and no Linux support.

And, no, Wine cannot run anything.

You see, I don't need OS at all, I need applications. Some of these applications are "universal" (FireFox, for example), some has good equivalents, and some are unique to OS.

And, no, DarkTable, or RAW Therappe are not equivalent to Lightroom or Capture One. And no, there is no equivalent to foobar2000 among music players.

blacklion commented on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 windhawk.net/mods/classic... · Posted by u/znpy

Refreeze5224 · a month ago

Windows is weird. The way these mods work is injecting code into different processes, which is a very common malware technique. Keyloggers in particular work similarly to Windhawk. And that is not a swipe at Windhawk, that is just how Windows has you do this type of thing.

blacklion · a month ago

`LD_PRELOAD` works on UNIX-like systems too.

blacklion commented on Mr TIFF inventingthefuture.ghost.... · Posted by u/speckx

4ndrewl · 2 months ago

The great thing about TIF was it's extensibility. Flexible (data could be stored as tiles or in stripes), multiple compression options etc.

Well documented spec, easy to bolt on extras either as public tags - GeoTIFFs added projection metadata - or private, for your own needs.

Back in the day, to improve a desktop application's performance I found it was simple to create a custom reader and writer to handle cases where tiles were completely one single colour removing the need to decompress at run time.

Thank you TIFf!

blacklion · 2 months ago

Unfortunately, it doesn't help.

Almost any digital camera RAW format is TIFF inside. And you can see how much kludges good metadata library needs to read all of them: offsets from the IFD, offsets from beginning of file with or without header, offsets from fields in IFD, etc, etc, etc. You take TIFF, you change header to make your format, and then you cannot implement this TIFF properly!

Even DNG (which is tiff inside) is mangled by camera firmware authors!

blacklion commented on When stick figures fought animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/ani_obsessive

aj_hackman · 2 months ago

Madness Combat

blacklion · 2 months ago

Yep, thank you!

blacklion commented on When stick figures fought animationobsessive.substa... · Posted by u/ani_obsessive

blacklion · 2 months ago

I remember series of stick man fighting cartoons which starts from simple kung-fu/gun porno in big office tower of (presumably) evil corporation, but progressed to some infernal fights, with Jesus, ghosts, hell, etc.

I'm not sure it was XiaoXiao, I (don't) remember some other letter combination in the names of files.

blacklion commented on Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again jsteuernagel.de/posts/usi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lproven · 2 months ago

This may help you.

« An introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD

October 31, 2025 »

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd...

blacklion · 2 months ago

Thank you, I've missed this one.

Problem is, these prepared images contain Linux binaries. Using Linux emulation in FreeBSD for OSS project doesn't feel ... right?