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fb03 commented on Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor hypr.land/... · Posted by u/AbuAssar

Since we're now bragging about how vanilla our systems are, the only things I install are wezterm, nushell, helix, nix. I've moved everything else into git repo's so they're no longer system configs, but project configs.

Last week I took a repo full of notes about the sizes of building materials and made inkscape and gimp "dependencies" of that project.

Next time I install Linux I think I'm going to make the filesystem immutable so that I not only don't configure it, but can't.

fb03 · 18 days ago

I think the next move is to not install Linux at all, completely impossible to mutate as it's not even existent? lol

fb03 commented on Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor hypr.land/... · Posted by u/AbuAssar

bigyabai · 18 days ago

You'd be surprised. The color themes look super complicated, but writing the CSS for one of these desktops is like a weekend project (at the longest).

fb03 · 18 days ago

I guess you sabotaged your own point with the answer. If it takes a full weekend to just have my DE look like what I feel is needed, that's a lot of time wasted that you could be doing useful work or even gaming, in that sense, idk. But to each their own.

I was a ricer before in my heydays of Linux, but now, after 25 years, I just use whatever comes by default with Xubuntu (XFCE) and a Macbook

fb03 commented on Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor hypr.land/... · Posted by u/AbuAssar

qsort · 18 days ago

It's a phase. I used to try and customize everything, tiling window managers, custom color schemes, Arch, etc. Right now I'm on a Mac so vanilla I didn't even change the wallpaper.

fb03 · 18 days ago

Was about to mention this. 25y+ linux user here, we all had our ricing phase, where we'd customize our desktop and shell to oblivion. Now, I'm always on a as-vanilla-as-possible Ubuntu machine, or a Macbook with the same default wallpaper that came when I bought it.

The only thing I do to my new systems is installing oh-my-zsh, because that gives me a lot of goodies for basically zero configuration (I just use and learned the default presets to be "my own")

fb03 commented on Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC maruos.com/... · Posted by u/fsflover

zorrn · a month ago

I think Apple would actually be in a position capable of doing this. Slap an M1-4 into an iPhone Case with MacOS. Normally you have an interface like iOS, which shouldn't be hard because iOS is based on MacOS, and when you connect it to a monitor you have normal MacOS. Normal iOS applications need to run on MacOS which I think they already could.

You would just have to allow apps to transform the interface between desktop and mobile or allow both interfaces to access the same data. And for apps that aren't working just show a small windows on the desktop and either disallow opening only-desktop apps on iOS or make everything small and allow zooming.

You could also make something MacBook-like where you connect your phone or slide it into the side.

I think one of the problems here is that Apple then could only sell 1 device to everyone and not potentially three (iPhone, iPad, Mac).

fb03 · a month ago

I don't think this would accidentally eat at Apple's laptop market because the laptop-in-a-stick option would still need an external screen. If you're travelling for work or something, might as well just have your phone AND your laptop, instead of phone + external screen full of messy cables. but YMMV

fb03 commented on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops linaro.org/blog/linux-on-... · Posted by u/MarcusE1W

fb03 · a month ago

I'm still waiting for the apple laptop killer (a 12h+ laptop with plain Ubuntu) but it's still brittle as fuck. I'm so frustrated by the current state of the mobile computing space. I have to have an Apple locked down device, which I hate, just because I want proper battery life.

A aarch64 Ubuntu vm inside MacOS runs faster and lasts more time than a booted up Ubuntu on arm in these devices. This is how far behind these things are.

and what bums me the most is that it's all about software. The hardware is great, but software on Snapdragon is taking a lot of time to catch up and it screams M$ lobby to me

fb03 commented on Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine github.com/renoise/pattrn... · Posted by u/bwidlar

cocodill · a month ago

Can anyone recommend something similar for Python or Golang?

fb03 · a month ago

Well, we could FFI this into a scripting language for sure

fb03 commented on Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine github.com/renoise/pattrn... · Posted by u/bwidlar

fb03 · a month ago

Offtopic: This is awesome, but oh my god, my heart almost skipped a beat when I thought it would be Renoise itself going opensource. I've been tracking with Renoise for the past 14 years and I love it to bits.

Very curious to test this as well

fb03 commented on MCP is eating the world stainless.com/blog/mcp-is... · Posted by u/emschwartz

easypancakes · 2 months ago

Hi! I am a bit lost in all of this. How do you create your own agent and run your own loop? I've looked at PydanticAI but don't get it. Would you please give me an example? Thanks!

fb03 · 2 months ago

Of course! In the PydanticAI docs for Agents, you have a fully defined example of a tool calling agent (roulette_wheel.py)

https://ai.pydantic.dev/agents/#introduction

If you need professional help in any of this, I also do consulting and/or can do mentoring on my knowledge in this area.

fb03 commented on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach? · Posted by u/akktor

noisy_boy · 3 months ago

Your enthusiasm is shining through. For someone wanting to do exactly what you said "just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head." and faced with the issue of "There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'.", how do I choose? I am not a music maker, I have never made music - I would like to though. I don't even have a style or workflow. I don't know how to start.

fb03 · 2 months ago

PS: My background is also as a computer programmer with previously zero music making experience. My first tracks were absolute garbage, and that's fine. Every new track is 0.01% better (read: less worse :') than the last one, and that's it. Rinse. Repeat.

fb03 commented on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach? · Posted by u/akktor

noisy_boy · 3 months ago

Your enthusiasm is shining through. For someone wanting to do exactly what you said "just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head." and faced with the issue of "There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'.", how do I choose? I am not a music maker, I have never made music - I would like to though. I don't even have a style or workflow. I don't know how to start.

fb03 · 2 months ago

Start by starting! Pick a DAW, if you can't pick one, pick one of the most famous. Ableton Live maybe?

Just put some notes down and hit the play button. That's the whole feedback loop. Everything else is just honing your skill and repeating this feedback loop 80 thousand times until you start getting stuff out that you semi-like :)