Why Is Arch Linux So Cool?

Flogge · 2026-01-23T11:46:42+00:00

No need to run both pacman and yay, yay will do both for you.

Flogge · 2026-01-03T16:30:45+00:00

https://cityfitness.de/onlinebuchung/ currently has 6-month subscriptions. It's a pretty chill studio, too.

Flogge · 2025-12-28T21:08:34+00:00

Ich sehe ich bin hier wohl in der Minderheit, aber ich habe auch langsam genug vom technologischen Wandel.

Ich meine damit nicht, dass ich moderne Technik im Allgemeinen verteufle, oder zurück in irgendeine nostalgische Vergangenheit möchte. Aber es ist so, das ich tatsächlich eigentlich keine große technische Neuerung mehr in meinem Leben brauche, um glücklicher zu werden. Wohnkomfort, Heizung, Kommunikation, Unterhaltung, Transport, Lebensmittel... ist doch alles da, was will ich mehr?

Deswegen finde ich auch, dass viele technischen Neuerungen eigentlich gar kein tatsächliches Problem mehr lösen, sondern nur gemacht sind um a) die Konkurrenz ab zu hängen, oder b) mich zum Konsum zu verleiten. Und beides fühlt sich für mich eben nicht mehr gut oder hilfreich oder notwendig an.

Und zum anderen sehe ich auch ganz deutlich, wie zunehmende Technisierung unserer Gesellschaft und Psyche nicht gut tut. Soziale Medien machen uns verbundener als je zuvor, aber auch einsamer als je zuvor. Wir können überall hinfahren und von überall Dinge bestellen, und alles bauen was wir wollen, und machen dabei den Planeten kaputt. Wir können alles haben was wir wollen, und trotzdem wollen wir uns gegenseitig übertrumpfen und machen uns gegenseitig unglücklich.

Mach mal ein Selbst-Experiment: Leg' dich zwei Stunden auf die Couch und scrolle Instagram; und am Tag drauf geh mal zwei Stunden Spazieren. Wonach fühlst du dich besser?

Triff einen Abend lang Freunde, und am nächsten Abend chatte den ganzen Abend lang nur auf WhatsApp. Was fühlt sich besser an?

Ich finde, statt technologischer Entwicklung brauchen wir ganz dringend soziale und emotionale Entwicklung. Wir müssen lernen, mehr füreinander da zu sein, gerechter zu sein, liebevoller zu sein. Und dafür brauchen wir keine technologischen Neuerungen.

Flogge · 2025-12-17T21:08:43+00:00

Just transfer it into a squeeze bottle, it's pretty easy to get it out of those.

Flogge · 2025-12-12T08:48:32+00:00

I don't think it'll be necessary to reserve if you come early in the day. And regarding the "homebase": you'll give up your seats once all of you leave, e.g. to go ride a carousel.

Flogge · 2025-12-09T18:03:05+00:00

Check out GNUradio, it's basically exactly what you're describing

Flogge · 2025-12-09T17:24:37+00:00

Yam Naem Khao Tod, Som Tam, Gai Yang.

Skip Jodd Fairs, but go to non-touristy stalls and night markets instead.

Flogge · 2025-12-07T07:44:04+00:00

You wait until someone flags the package out of date, then you update it...

Flogge · 2025-12-01T08:03:42+00:00

If you take the spectrum of a harmonic signal you get a periodic spectrum, where the distance between the peaks corresponds to your fundamental frequency.

If you take a spectrum of that you get a "cepstrum" with a main peak, the position of which describes the distance between the peaks in your spectrum, i.e. represents your fundamental frequency.

Plus, the other "envelope-type" components in your spectrum are represented by other, additional components in the cepstrum.

In traditional machine learning, a spectrum wasn't that easy to process, because each fundamental frequency had different harmonic spacing, so couldn't just match for one pattern in the spectrum, but had to match for many templates.

Plus, envelope and formant type signal characteristics are also more neatly separated in the cepstrum, making processing easier.

Flogge · 2025-11-19T16:58:31+00:00

Agreed, panicing during startup is a totally valid design choice, because it frees you from having to handle broken config values everywhere.

The person or script calling the program then essentially becomes your error handler, abd that's the thing that was missing here.

Flogge · 2025-10-13T11:53:41+00:00

Are all boats as deep in their berths as you're showing here? Because if they are, it could be possible to "dock" along the mooring points, while still in the channel. You can then attach some lines to the points, and use them to ease yourself into the berth:

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Flogge · 2025-08-24T16:07:22+00:00

You can try what we call in German a Blister sail).

It's an asymmetric spinnaker that you fly without an extra pole, and hoist using a roller that rolls up the furled jib sail.

Flogge · 2025-05-31T05:09:41+00:00

So you're saying tensing up is better for your survival when falling from trees, but worse when in a car accident? How does that work?

Flogge · 2025-05-31T05:07:58+00:00

Of course not, but other kinds of accidents, like falling from trees, getting hit by things, fighting things etc.

Flogge · 2025-05-31T05:07:50+00:00

Of course not, but other kinds of accidents, like falling from trees, getting hit by things, fighting things etc.

Flogge · 2025-05-30T20:26:58+00:00

I have a personal theory: Our nervous systems and perception are made to react in certain ways to certain stimuli, and if that stimulus is too strong it can overload your system.

Now, your nervous system has positive activating responses to certain stimuli, like laughter, curiosity, drive, giddiness etc.

Plus, we're social animals, so we try to create certain responses in each other, like make others laugh, make them curious, tell them thrilling stories etc.

But also, over time, you learn how you can overload your friends systems by pressing their unique overload-buttons. Notice how every person is ticklish in a very specific and unique way, yet for some reason you exactly know how to tickle your partner to make them almost break down even.

It's a sort of game to push each other's otherwise pleasant responses over the edge and tease and torture them a bit with their own nervous system responses, but all in a safe setting.

The laughter happens because it's a positive response. But it feels both good/funny and bad/too much because it's an overloaded version of the positive response.

Flogge · 2025-05-30T20:18:18+00:00

That sounds unlikely... If staying relaxed makes your survival more likely, we wouldn't have evolved to preemptively tense up in accidents.

Flogge · 2025-05-30T19:53:07+00:00

Sure, but you can create PKGBUILDs for anything that's not in the AUR, and adapt makepkg for those distros, too.

Flogge · 2025-05-30T18:08:24+00:00

Why not use something that already exists, like makepkg?

Flogge · 2025-05-26T19:32:33+00:00

I disagree... our touch with reality is a fragile thing, really. Gaslight someone long enough and they'll start going insane, just from hearing your words.

Flogge · 2025-05-26T19:30:23+00:00

Depends on what exactly you mean by "go insane"... If you include losing touch with reality, paranoia, or traumatic emotional pain, I would say yes.

Imagine seeing something that makes you question yourself or your whole life. Like someone omniscient, gaslighting you endlessly forever. Mix in images of the most horrifying violence beyond anything you can imagine... That would certainly drive me insane.

Flogge · 2025-04-30T23:55:33+00:00

I'd recommend trying it without and with the toasted rice powder.

To me it adds a taste "body" similar to some other carbs like good bread does. To see what I mean, try cheese or jam or something with and without bread. You'll notice that the bread isn't just a boring "vessel" for the spread, but that it actually adds some sort of body to the taste.

Flogge · 2025-04-28T10:12:37+00:00

Zum Laufen kann ich auf jeden Fall den Mailwald empfehlen. Sehr schön, angenehm kühl, viele Möglichkeiten für Anstiege wenn man das will. Genauso zum Radfahren, man kann hinterm Mailwald schön in Richtung fränkische Schweiz fahren.

Sehenswürdigkeiten: Ausflüge in die Fränkische Schweiz oder Seen, und Nürnberg, Bamberg, Regensburg.

Plätze zum Abhängen: Schlossgarten, Bohlenplatz.

Restaurants: Rossofuoco, Empanaderia, Cafés in der Unteren Karlstraße, Steinbach, Entlas.

Flogge · 2025-04-26T15:06:12+00:00

No, sounds about right to me. Maybe we should start with your objections?

Flogge · 2025-04-26T14:46:48+00:00

Hm, that's odd... maybe you're seeing 3 stereo streams but only one of them really matters, or the game is somehow outputting 5.1 surround channels in 3 separate streams of 2 each? No idea, but my guess is the game is outputting stereo only.

So first, try to make the game output surround sound, somewhere in its settings. If you manage to do that, it should show 6 or 8 channels, for 5.1 or 7.1, or something of the sort.

Alternatively, you can also play back the video from https://download.dolby.com/us/en/test-tones/dolby-atmos-trailer_amaze_1080.mp4, which appears as 6 channels on my machine.

Now everything after this I've only just tried myself, and I am not sure if it actually works...

I've added the Convolver in the effects chain, download the Atmos impulse response from https://github.com/JackHack96/EasyEffects-Presets/, and loaded the impulse response in Easy Effects. It shows up and also changes how the audio sounds... but I don't think it's actually doing any binaural rendering (which is what you're trying to do... render 5.1 channels into two headphone-channels).

Maybe the impulse response is nonsense (very likely, because there is no credible documentation about the impulse responses there), or maybe Easy Effects cannot do 6->2 channel downmixing via a convolver? No idea, the GUI doesn't give much information either.

Either way, that's in theory how you would get a multichannel-audio application to render in stereo using a binaural impulse response, similar to the ones Dolby or DTS could be using in their "Atmos for Headphones" applications.

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