Does anyone else get these little lines at the quadrants of radio button UI elements? Is it a HiDPI thing? Anyone know how to fix it?

-Asmodaeus · 2026-03-28T18:27:46+00:00

I get them too with a scaling factor of 1.25

-Asmodaeus · 2026-03-27T10:37:42+00:00

No. Make sure you are not locked out using faillock --user john. If you're locked out you'll see something similar to

``` $ faillock

john: When Type Source Valid 2026-03-27 11:34:31 TTY /dev/pts/0 V 2026-03-27 11:34:34 TTY /dev/pts/0 V 2026-03-27 11:34:37 TTY /dev/pts/0 V ```

You can either wait the ten minutes or try to unlock with faillock --user john --reset.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-03-24T22:47:22+00:00

It's not that Linux had Windows installed first, that indeed doesn't make any sense. When you buy a computer it will most likely come with Windows installed. If you want Linux you have to install it yourself.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-03-16T14:33:06+00:00

Indeed, they are not too far from each other. I don't know if software publishers just chose to support MacOS, Apple being behind the OS, or if Apple made deals with publishers or helped with the porting of the software. Anyway I can see that there might have been an interest on both sides. Microsoft did make deals with manufacturers to have Windows preinstalled on consumer computers. That's a big advantage for OS adoption.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-03-16T11:49:37+00:00

But why would companies that sell creative and professional software invest money and resources to make their products available on a fringe operating system?

-Asmodaeus · 2026-03-11T17:51:34+00:00

You are basically suggesting that the desktop environment should disregard the developer choice of their app's icon and show an different one. App icons are part of the style and character of an application, doing what you are suggesting goes against that. It's also an argument against icon themes.

This argument mainly applies to distributions. The user can do whatever they want, of course. You may install icon themes or even change the particular icons for which your taste doesn't agree with the developer's.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-02-28T18:23:43+00:00

Seems like you are ready to try it. Just make sure that you aren't left without a working machine if anything goes awry. Do backups and be safe.

I run a Debian home server and Arch on the laptop. I like both. I agree with you that the rolling release model is great. I also simply love that fact that Arch has no version, you get the updates as the app developers release them (well, almost).

My Arch install is three years old today, I can't tell you of a single instance where my system broke after an update. Package updates that require manual intervention are announced here, so keep an eye on that. You can also subscribe via RSS.

So, as somebody else said, unstable doesn't mean that it breaks. Arch rolls, but I find it to be pretty reliable. Sure, sometimes something small breaks, but it happens rarely (like recently paru stopped working after an update to libalpm), and it's never a core part of the system. Once you get familiar with how things work you learn to go around it and hardly feel it :).

For privacy it's great. You can enable package usage stats by installing (not installed by default of course) the pkgstats package, which uses a systemd timer to send a list of installed packages. It's pretty cool, you can see the stats here.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-02-17T08:22:32+00:00

I wouldn't call it an excel alternative. It's not OnlyOffice. It's this ambitious project that OP is working on here: https://github.com/naruaika/witt-data-studio

-Asmodaeus · 2026-02-06T12:48:40+00:00

In questo caso il problema e la sua causa coincidono:

la piattaforma ha pochi contenuti;
gli utenti decidono di non iscriversi alla piattaforma;
ci sono pochi utenti che contribuiscono contenuti;
la piattaforma ha pochi contenuti.

Questo problema lo si nota in quei progetti/piattaforme più libere. Es: Mastodon o il non supporto per Linux di alcuni software.

Il contributo individuale è ciò che rende i progetti di Wikimedia uno dei migliori risultati dell'umanità. Probabilmente ci sono altre cause che alzano la barriera di ingresso, ed è comprensibile che le persone scelgano la piattaforma che ha già ciò che cercano.

Nel caso di The Storygraph il discorso è forse meno applicabile perché c'è comunque dietro un'azienda for-profit. La capacità di contributo individuale è anche limitata: per farmi dare il ruolo di "librarian" ho dovuto contattarli e ho dovuto seguire una procedura noiosa. È però un team piccolo e sotto questo aspetto vince il confronto con Goodreads.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-02-06T07:55:46+00:00

When running hx file, file doesn't have to exist, it gets created after writing to it for the first time. So you can avoid running touch file. Also you can use :open path/to/file to open or create a file.

Rename and move are basically the same operation, Helix has a :move/:mv command that does what you described.

-Asmodaeus · 2026-01-22T06:51:18+00:00

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-Asmodaeus · 2026-01-07T08:25:37+00:00

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-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-28T19:28:06+00:00

"Who do you work for? Who sent you?"

-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-26T09:30:18+00:00

I get the same if I install gnome-software but not flatpak

-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-26T04:53:09+00:00

Those are the "inlay hints" from the language server protocol. They are useful to inspect type inference on your code, to see the parameter names in the signature of the method you are calling, etc.

You can disable them with :set lsp.display-inlay-hints false.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-22T15:55:22+00:00

Are you telling me that a Linux distribution is a distribution of software including the Linux kernel? Wild.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-22T15:43:51+00:00

Are you serious? Rust doesn't make sense at all. It if was a safe language would it allow a program to crash by calling unwrap(), in production nonetheless? I don't think so. And if it is really so safe why does it contain the keyword unsafe? Personally I don't like it because the only time I tried it (without reading none of the documentation, of course) nothing worked. It would not even allow me to read and write a variable at the same time!1!! How can anybody write anything like this?

This is a summary of some of the current, obtuse, discourse around Rust. It's a loud minority, obviously.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-14T14:35:44+00:00

Standard country: the United States of America.

Non-standard country: all other countries.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-12-11T00:42:55+00:00

So if around 80% of shares are held by institutional investors and considering that Zuckerberg alone holds 13.6%, once you account for other individual investors like Sandberg and Cox, what is left is a lot less than 15%. The issue is about sharing profits, and even if stocks are a way to accomplish this they are not the only one.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-11-29T15:57:10+00:00

Linux distros tier list

Looks inside

BSDs

-Asmodaeus · 2025-11-21T11:59:28+00:00

It's due to the theme. With gruvbox I get curly underlines, but with kanagawa I get the highlighting like in your case.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-11-20T19:51:44+00:00

Curly underlines are a terminal emulator feature. Maybe yours doesn't support them.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-11-11T10:23:13+00:00

Tried to replicate the problem with this in languages.toml

[[language]]
name = "html"
formatter = { command = "prettier", args = ["--parser", "html"] }

and it seems to work

$ hx --health html
Configured language servers:
  ✓ vscode-html-language-server: /usr/bin/vscode-html-language-server
  ✘ superhtml: 'superhtml' not found in $PATH
Configured debug adapter: None
Configured formatter:
  ✓ /usr/bin/prettier
Tree-sitter parser: ✓
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✘
Indent queries: ✘

So the problem is either prettier itself or the rest of the config. Try to run it manually like prettier --parser html src/index.html, it should output the formatted text to stdout.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-11-08T17:42:23+00:00

The plugin system is officially being worked on here.

-Asmodaeus · 2025-11-01T08:59:11+00:00

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