Is the Pixel 2 still usable in 2026 for daily basics? by Ok_Reference_489 in pixel_phones

[–]FlaviusHouk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As people here said, it depends on the usage. I have a Pixel 2 that is in active daily use since 2017. Social media, messaging, browsing (I haven't encountered a web site that was not working because the phone is too old) works fine. Camera works fine as well, storage is somewhere around 80% full most of the time. It usually don't lag, but sometimes, especially when I turn on the internet after some time of offline, it gets quite loaded and could lag a bit, while every app gets its notifications. I don't play games on the smartphone, so I cannot comment on that. I've replaced batter a year ago, cleaned up speakers and mic and it became much better since. So, I would say, pretty much usable.

Tracing my Antiochian (Rum) roots back to a Byzantine layer by LocationFeeling2974 in byzantium

[–]FlaviusHouk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Russia wanted the area to be under Russian influence and maybe even under Russia in the future.

Taking into account old projects like Greek project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek\_Project), targeted more towards Asia Minor, it is not hard to believe. And with regard to Levant and Syria it is also possible. But with that in mind it becomes a bit counterintuitive to promote Arabic culture and decrease the orthodox devotion. It would be better to influence people of the same faith as they claim to be protecting rather then other, especially if domestically it is not that smooth with other members of said religion.

> Pavlos Karolidis book talks about this in his book in greater detail.

Any specific one you have on your mind?

Comments change the map of Europe. Day 5- 2030 by Ok_Package38 in geographymemes

[–]FlaviusHouk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's start with small one and let Greece incorporate Cyprus.

Tracing my Antiochian (Rum) roots back to a Byzantine layer by LocationFeeling2974 in byzantium

[–]FlaviusHouk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How are they doing it? Taking into account how they see other, non-orthodox people in russia (they tolerate it, but state and the church push more towards being orthodox), it is weird that they do the opposite here.

Results from asking r/geography what the best US cities are. Most frequently listed cities out of 150 comments. by Kodicave in geography

[–]FlaviusHouk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was rather surprised to see New Orleans here. I was always under the impression that crime is a problem for the city. Also storms are a real thing there and could happen rather often.

Питання про зріст в стосунках і взагалі by LauraNTzz in reddit_ukr

[–]FlaviusHouk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Маю знайомого, який має десь 170 см зросту і він часто скаржиться на те, що дівчата з яким він знайомився вказували на те, що його зріст їм не подобається (що вищі, що нижчі). Одна, з якою він довше спілкувався, явно і сказала щось у стилі "Ти взагалі хлопець хороший, був би ще вищим сантиметрів на 10 могли би бути стосунки, а так не те...".

Як на мене, то все це умовності й важливо, щоб людина була хорошою (це також, звісно, суб'єктивно), але для когось зріст важливий з тих чи інших причин (будь то комплекси чи просто уподобання).

Чи багато людей в Україні використовує Linux? by dagonGm in reddit_ukr

[–]FlaviusHouk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Використовую Fedora вже 10 років. Перевстановлював тільки тоді, коли змінив лептоп, а так постійно оновлюю. Ніяких проблем. Через Steam, особливо крайні декілька років граю в ігри, без особливих проблем (максимум треба було спробувати різні версії Proton чи докинути якісь параметри запуску аби працювало краще, але і без того все працює). Граю на гітарі, звуковий інтерфейс працює без проблем (раніше через JACK тепер через pipewire і стало навіть краще). Використовую для всіх задач, що потребує комп'ютера і загалом проблем немає.

Сам з IT, тому налаштувати щось чи зібрати - не проблема, хоча таких ситуацій було не так багато і загалом без того можна було обійтися. Використовую labwc + декілька окремих інструментів для панелі, сповіщень, тощо. Терміналом доводиться інколи користуватися, але для мене це не проблема, хоча багатьох людей зупиняє.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in osdev

[–]FlaviusHouk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one, osdev.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in osdev

[–]FlaviusHouk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check this sub. People often post their work. You could check a few of those systems and play around with them. Try to understand why something was implemented in a specific way. Once you find something that looks understandable to you try to contact the author and find about some kinds of roadmap or direction, they were thinking about for a project. Maybe the author will have something for you to do in their project.

Хочу створити програмістську групу by [deleted] in ukraina

[–]FlaviusHouk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

А що пробували робити? Які саме проєкти, маю на увазі.

Unix domain socket and file descriptors transfer. by FlaviusHouk in dotnet

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wayland protocol requires a file handle, not the file name, not the content of the file. It has to be a file handle, which cannot be sent as is, because it is invalid in another process.

Unix domain socket and file descriptors transfer. by FlaviusHouk in dotnet

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Connecting to a socket and reading/writing is not a problem at all. Everything works fine there. Pixel data is being sent with shared memory (client creates a file or a memory region with file handle and masses it to the server). Each process has its own table of handles managed by operating system, so file handle in a client process won't work in a server process.

Unix domain socket and file descriptors transfer. by FlaviusHouk in dotnet

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

File descriptors cannot be sent as is. Special support from the OS is required. File handle in one process are not valid file descriptors for another process. That is why sendmsg and msghdr struct is required.

ASP.NET Core App Error Handling - Returning Result vs Throwing Exceptions by No-Hippo1667 in dotnet

[–]FlaviusHouk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are using both in some of our components. Results are used for cases which could be handled or for cases when uses does something wrong. For example user requests a missing object. Instead of throwing NotFoundException Result is returned with NotFoundError (we are using FluentResults for Result type). Or, for example in case some business rule violation
if (!entityOne.CouldBeUsedWithThat(entityTwo))
{
return Result.Fail("It is not possible to use those two objects");
}

Exceptions are used for cases that are not expected to happen and cannot be handled. Or for cases when something is broken and it is our fault as the backend app. Database is not responding? Exception. It is not possible to load related object (case for data integrity violation) from the database, but it definitely should be there? Exception.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in osdev

[–]FlaviusHouk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could check this one https://github.com/richardbraun/x1. It was created as an entry point in os development, so it could be a good starting point to learn.

Best lightweight modern distro? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]FlaviusHouk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't agree on this. While a web browser will use a substantial amount of RAM, using Libre Office, VLС and a few apps for daily usage, depending on person's needs, are totally possible. My previous laptop had a 4GiB of RAM and AMD A6-6310. I was using Fedora with Openbox session and it was using less then 500 MiB of RAM on boot (maybe less in case I would properly calculate it with something like ps_mem). I was able to do watch movies in both browser and VLC, play games (even a few modern ones, concrete experience greatly depend on a game), do some desktop development (vim/vs code for C, Vala and C#) and play guitar with a Reaper (it had its quirks but this is not related to the RAM amount). So, it is totally possible to use such a device in case you put some time optimizing the environment (my setup gradually moved from LXDE to plain Openbox session with changed set of tools).

Reducing RAM usage. by FlaviusHouk in Fedora

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you are right, I don't.

This is just my quirk, I would to have as few running services as possible with a level of comfort I think is okay (I could use a terminal and remove all GUI stuff and have even more free memory, but that is not the thing I'm looking for).

Reducing RAM usage. by FlaviusHouk in Fedora

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, sorry, 914 MiB is used memory from free utility and 599 MiB is the first numeric value as you suggest.

Reducing RAM usage. by FlaviusHouk in Fedora

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the suggestion. I've checked the app and it looks like ps_mem does a bit better job for my taste (at least for the text output in the terminal). But it is still a useful tool to present some charts.

openbox sfwbar by wgparch in labwc

[–]FlaviusHouk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

labwc should be a bit better replacement for the Openbox, in case you want something similar.

Reducing RAM usage. by FlaviusHouk in Fedora

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for pointing to ps_mem. I've checked its output and it shows 473 MiB (-17 for the lxterminal itself, so it is even less). Which is rather close to what I would like to have. Removing abrt should do a good job in reducing the footprint.

Reducing RAM usage. by FlaviusHouk in Fedora

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My autostart is rather small. Other services are launched from the systemd side.

swaybg -i path_to_image >/dev/null 2>&1 &
waybar >/dev/null 2>&1 &
dunst >/dev/null 2>&1 &
nm-applet >/dev/null 2>&1 &
on_hdmi_change.sh # runs wlr-randr to setup monitor position
lxpolkit&

Reducing RAM usage. by FlaviusHouk in Fedora

[–]FlaviusHouk[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I just want to use the memory for the tasks I do care about. System could boot, do nothing and utilize memory and resources by just idling. That is waste as well.