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chromakode commented on What to expect from Debian/Trixie   michael-prokop.at/blog/20... · Posted by u/exiguus
josephscott · a month ago
"The temporary-files directory /tmp is now stored in a tmpfs" - https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues....

I am not a fan of that as a default. I'd rather default to cheaper disk space than more limited and expensive memory.

chromakode · a month ago
For users with SSDs, saving the write wear seems like a desirable default.
chromakode commented on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes   dynomight.net/colors/... · Posted by u/zdw
rvnx · a month ago
The same with MacBooks in dark mode, once you turn around you can see large horizontal lines separated at regular intervals that are maybe due to the refresh rate of the screen (or something else, if someone knows)
chromakode · a month ago
In my experience these are after exposures from lines of text. They get blurred together into indistinct lines because your eye focus moves between words, superimposing them.
chromakode commented on Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin   schoenitzer.de/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/nudin
amelius · 6 months ago
> As with GIMP 2.10, GIMP 3.0 ships with a Python interpreter embedded and will not use the system Python.

This is great and I wish this was the same with other tools, like Kicad, Freecad and Inkscape.

chromakode · 6 months ago
Blender has done this since Dec 2000.
chromakode commented on ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion   github.com/openzfs/zfs/re... · Posted by u/scrp
endorphine · 7 months ago
Can someone describe why they would use ZFS (or similar) for home usage?
chromakode · 7 months ago
I replicate my entire filesystem to a local NAS every 10 minutes using zrepl. This has already saved my bacon once when a WD_BLACK SN850 suddenly died on me [1]. It's also recovered code from some classic git blunders. It shouldn't be possible any more to lose data to user error or single device failure. We have the technology.

[1]: https://chromakode.com/post/zfs-recovery-with-zrepl/

chromakode commented on Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs   docs.linuxserver.io/image... · Posted by u/weitzj
chromakode · 7 months ago
Selkies[1] is another interesting project in this space. It uses webrtc for low latency streaming and remote desktop suitable for gaming in the browser.

[1]: https://selkies-project.github.io/selkies-gstreamer/

chromakode commented on I am rich and have no idea what to do   vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-ha... · Posted by u/vhiremath4
chromakode · 8 months ago
Sounds like a good time to engage a professional coach or therapist, if you haven't already. Particularly to deep dive on the questions asked at the end of the post. In my experience, I often stalemate these kinds of internal debates on my own, but having a second player in the mix got me out of the gridlock.
chromakode commented on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud   ashishb.net/programming/g... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
jpgvm · a year ago
Google Domains shutdown was an own-goal. They should have just ran it at a loss forever if that is what it took, the optics were and are just awful.

I get it, it was a "consumer" product essentially, hence selling the business to Squarespace instead of someone like Cloudflare. But anything related to DNS is going to make infra folk very wary of what else you might be willing to kill or neuter. It's just at that level of fundamental things that make operators skittish.

chromakode · a year ago
Migrating out of this mess caused me downtime.

Squarespace's domain panel crashed with a nondescript error when I tried to update nameservers prior to transferring out, and they shut off the Google nameservers as soon as the transfer went through on their side. To add insult to injury, Squarespace makes you wait 5 days for a transfer, with no way to expedite -- and in my case, they waited 6 days, taking me offline on a Friday night. This was the worst experience I've ever had using a domain service.

chromakode commented on Fobos SDR: High-Quality Radio for Hobbyists, Researchers and Professionals   hackster.io/news/fobos-sd... · Posted by u/teleforce
nirav72 · a year ago
I’ve seen people use an SDR dongle to figure out the frequency and data being transmitted by electricity meter outside their homes.
chromakode commented on StarBook 7 14" Linux Laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7, 4K, Up to 96GB 5.6GHz RAM   us.starlabs.systems/pages... · Posted by u/mrusme
DanHulton · a year ago
How does everyone continue to get the keyboard wrong on these?

If the left and right arrows are full-size I know it's going to be miserable to use. Probably worse than miserable, because clearly nobody who ever uses the keyboard a serious amount has actually sat down and used it, or the arrow situation would have been fixed _immediately._ Who knows what else is terrible about the keyboard, given that it was pretty obviously not seriously tested?

(I'm poking a bit of fun here, but this _is_ still a dealbreaker for me. I use those keys plenty, and full-height left/right arrows are indeed _miserable_ to use - it's basically impossible to quickly center your hand on them from home row.)

chromakode · a year ago
For any serious work I'm using hjkl.

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