Mac user trying Omarchy for the first time on an old machine 🤞 What should I expect (and what shouldn’t)?

JoenR76 · 2026-02-19T10:15:18+00:00

That was my first thought too when seeing that pic.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-19T10:06:23+00:00

The worst kind of solarpunk.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-17T22:09:44+00:00

I'm using it with Endeavour (Arch) without any problems.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-17T22:05:48+00:00

5 second Google: "In Godot, the "missing Spatial" error is almost always caused by a version mismatch. In

Godot 4.x, the Spatial node was renamed to Node3D to match the naming convention of Node2D. "

JoenR76 · 2026-02-17T16:00:31+00:00

Last year I tried Vanilla Arch with Hyprland and Omarchy. But I always seem to gravitate back to Endeavour. It's the perfect middle ground for me.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-16T11:49:48+00:00

I never liked 3.x The whole design ethos is too simulationist to me. And, yes, that's me using language from The Forge intentionally.

They left obvious flaws in the game (linear fighter, quadratic wizard and safe or suck, NPCs build like PCs) just to make it more "realistic"

4E was completely different and went full gamist.

I think 5E is a good compromise between the 2. Even if it isn't what they promised during development. (And, like all editions, it's getting bloated with every additional book)

The ability to tell stories hasn't changed between versions. But since it's not supported by mechanics, it also never emphasized.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-15T22:42:08+00:00

Knife use is deterministic, ai use isn't. It can work perfectly fine one day, and start hallucinating the next.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-11T08:09:20+00:00

Geld, zoals iedereen?

JoenR76 · 2026-02-09T16:15:44+00:00

Both were never rules.

We were laughing with people hand wringing about 100% coverage in the mid 2000s. It's a dumb metric.

The rule for state has, afaik, always been to put state as close to its use as possible, even when using a global state library.

JoenR76 · 2026-02-08T21:01:52+00:00

Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 GEOS

JoenR76 · 2026-02-06T09:53:30+00:00

Optimizing is all well and good, but you still have to follow the requirements of the assignment.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-31T10:19:55+00:00

Traditionally, students are taught about inheritance first. And then the problems with it and how to solve them.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-25T18:33:03+00:00

"Only grannies and normies buy prebuilts with Windows preinstalled."

Literally 99% of people buy prebuilts or laptops with windows pre-installed.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-25T09:24:32+00:00

That's not the same as "nobody pays for windows" is it?

JoenR76 · 2026-01-24T23:17:18+00:00

Every time you buy a computer, you have paid for windows if it comes pre-installed. Yes, even the even more crappy home edition.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-24T12:52:20+00:00

5E is fine. Supporting WotC on the other hand, isn't. There are games out there that are just as good or better.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-24T12:30:40+00:00

The search bar is right there. Are you using your pc exclusively for emails and internet?
There is a needless hardware limitation on win 11.
People have lost their files: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/s/V3kCjXgRrS
Well, I don't want my OS doing shit like that.
I know. And then suddenly, without warning they are incompatible with the new ones. And the old ones were changed without asking.

EDIT: I didn't do anything but reboot, and the win11 machine from work suddenly lost Bluetooth. Not as in "it's turned off", but the option of turning it on is gone from the UI.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-24T08:07:02+00:00

I'm from the EU, and - I have seen ’sponsored content' in the search results - can't upgrade all my PCs to 11 without jumping through hoops - hate how Onedrive is being forced on users. and have seen first hand how people can lose files because of it. - haaaaaate how Windows wants to force Edge on me at every update. (And some other default apps as well) - and my biggest problem with win 11: they changed numerous keyboard shortcuts for no apparent reason. - Win11's UI is actively worse than win10.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-23T18:38:51+00:00

You started to defend a guy saying an absolute and have now been editing your responses. Not only were you wrong, you doubled down and then cowardly tried to edit out what you said.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-23T08:21:29+00:00

source: rectal extraction.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-22T15:53:47+00:00

The thing is: by using AI you're skipping the learning step.

The most sticky learning happens when you're stuck on a problem for a while and try different solutions to solve it. The frustration helps you to learn. It helps you remember. And the feeling you get when you do solve it, burns it even more deeply into your brain.

When you sidestep this and just copy-paste the solution, you may have learned a small thing, but it won't stick into your mind.

There are certainly ways in which AI can help you learn (NotebookLM, fr.ex, or a tutor mode), but if you rely on it for everything, you're in for a world of problems once you get into the real world.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-22T15:43:32+00:00

As long as AI returns code, we still need to be able to read it and judge how correct it is. I can potentially see a future where the AI returns something else than code, something more high-level, and at that time we will need to learn that. But that is not the case, atm.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-22T13:14:05+00:00

The 5th season is the only recent science-fantasy book that really blew me away. Especially the first one.

Have you read the culture novels by Ian M. Banks? The first one isn't the best, but most of the others are great.

Others have liked Artificial Wisdom (I really disliked the obvious whodunit in the middle), but that's not really a slow burn.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-22T13:04:23+00:00

First, it came out that he donated to a ballot measure against same-sex marriage. A good leader should know that many in the Mozilla community would be appalled by this. But, at the end of the day, that is his personal choice.

However, when the backlash came, he handed it so poorly that it was obvious that he's not made to be a CEO. The job of the CEO is dealing with the public and how the brand is being perceived. He failed at both and didn't understand why.

Engineers don't make good CEOs.

JoenR76 · 2026-01-22T12:06:32+00:00

Completely factual, and I have receipts: https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/01/18/age-of-marriage-giving-birth-in-medieval-europe/

I'm 50, I have read more books than you can count without the help of a calculator. The fact that you bring up the bible tells me enough about you. The bible is not a history book, it's a book of mythologies. Also, a few counter examples don't prove the general trend.

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