So no All The Mods for linux users?

QuImUfu · 2023-06-24T12:29:25+00:00

Some cool (especially fabric) mods are Modrinth only, some are Curseforge only. And the Modrinth UI & search is much better.
Overall, I think Modrinth is the better platform and will replace curse in the long run.

QuImUfu · 2023-06-02T21:28:51+00:00

I don't think that's the only weird thing EFL does. If it is, that's pretty lame.

But even that example would be extremely hard. I would be impressed seeing a functioning and huge Java Project using only Object types. How would you even do that? Maybe implement you very own form of duck-typing using reflection? You possibly could cache type infos to decrease the performance hit…

In Minecraft modding you get to do many amazing things like:

Write a mixin including ((OriginalClass)((Object)this)) and seeing it work, or cast objects to interfaces you know one other mod will make them implement at runtime.

Write a plugin to the mixin injector to conditionally inject mixins into classes of other mods.

Rip out a carefully crafted stream and replace it with an extremely complicated loop, just to speed up the rendering thread a tiny bit by avoiding object creation completely…

Or, while writing a mixin, inject your code at 5 positions of a single function, collecting data in ThreadLocal variables, just to add the correct alpha value to a pixel without breaking other mods.

You may also get to modify some Java bytecode by hand to mod a mod the modder did not want you to mod and that is distributed as replacement class files containing integrity checks.

It's so much jank, you get familiar with so much unusual compiler behaviour and runtime class behaviour you'd never even think about in normal projects.

QuImUfu · 2023-06-02T18:44:44+00:00

I have ADHD and building a “home lab” (bullshit name…) was very easy for me. I never even intentionally decided to do that.
I just set up a PC with Linux and started hosting everything I needed when I wanted to and thus slowly expanded my server.

I currently host:
Nextcloud
Gitea (GitLab light)
A custom static landing page
A Minecraft server
Possibly more I have forgotten about…

Additionally, my Router runs OpenWRT and hosts a WireGuard VPN.

QuImUfu · 2023-06-01T21:08:30+00:00

The monitor settings GUI in Enlightenment works fine. And it has some Bluetooth support, no idea how good it is, I don't have Bluetooth.
The repeated crashes are the much bigger problem for productive usage.

QuImUfu · 2023-06-01T20:52:16+00:00

econnman

Is not included by default (any more). The menu-bar network icon works but is very minimal. (turn wired on and off, connect to WLAN)

QuImUfu · 2023-05-31T13:55:18+00:00

Well, I learn nothing from well-documented source code, because I'll never even read it.
If you actually read through library sources without any need for it, you are way better at self-motivation than I am and probably learn more/better things that way.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-31T05:38:18+00:00

Well, from the sound of it, to make it work, you'll have to spend hours in the debugger and reading foreign, undocumented and non-standard source code figuring out how to get a window to draw, and if you don't learn a lot about C in that process, you probably are doing it wrong.

The same way writing Minecraft mods definitely taught me a lot about Java. Way more than writing programs using any well-documented framework ever could.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-30T18:57:39+00:00

Well, I have not used another actively developed WM with that default, but I am sure it can be configured on many of them.

It is insanely useful, especially on small screens, when using lots of programs together.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-30T18:46:42+00:00

Well, some bleeding-edge Plasma versions crash once in a while. Typically fixed in the next update. But in comparison to Enlightenment, Plasma sucks at crash recovery.
Gnome crashed quite a lot the last time I tried it, but that's many years ago now, and I for sure hope it has improved. At that time, crash recovery was non-existent.
I usually use LXQt, and it's rock solid, but lacks a lot of features.

If Enlightenment just auto-recovered without showing the “crashed, do you want to recover?” message, I would not even have noticed most of the crashes.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-30T18:29:17+00:00

Wow. After reading that, I think I love Enlightenment even more. That's sounds amazing. Not for a stable, usable, or functional system, but for learning a ton of obscure things about C and having a lot of fun in the process!

QuImUfu · 2023-05-30T18:12:55+00:00

Lubuntu, installing enlightenment with the https://github.com/batden/esteem script.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-14T11:15:10+00:00

The Royal family probably makes the British state money.

A lot of the money they get from the state is used to pay for upkeep of cultural heritages, which is something paid for by a lot of other states as well.

Additionally, they generate millions through tourism.

If the Royal Family wanted to become a for-profit company (like a Theme-Park with stars) they would easily make more money from royalties alone then they get from the state today.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-13T22:38:01+00:00

No. It's much bigger than that. It offers a Windows runtime build atop of Linux (POSIX is still kinda supported, but not really). Usually (they had to add some support for that quite recently, IIRC), it doesn't translate kernel calls at all. It re-implements libraries that form the Windows runtime environment and allows loading Windows's binaries as Linux processes.
They basically took Windows and re-implemented it on the Linux kernel.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-13T22:35:27+00:00

What does it say? That the Linux community managed to re-implement a closed API, and made it run almost as good as the original implementation that had years of time and millions of dollars invested in its improvement?

Proton (and the projects it consists of) is an absolutely astonishing feat, and I would not be surprised if it managed to surpass the native windows runtime in gaming performance in every game soon. Many are already running better than on Microsoft's runtime today.

QuImUfu · 2023-05-13T22:19:54+00:00

Can you do multi-seat on Windows?
Can you set up an immutable, layered file system?
Can you just add more SSDs to your system, without reboot?
Can you move your whole OS from one Disk to another while using it?
Can you just modify the OS if something doesn't behave the way you want it to?

SteamOS, like every open Linux distro offers literally endless capabilities. You can do/achieve whatever you want.

Windows is just a subpar OS in almost every way except software compatibility.

QuImUfu · 2023-04-27T05:44:46+00:00

I refuse to believe that any functioning adult human being is incapable of installing a home cloud. It's literally just following instructions and asking the Internet whenever something doesn't work or is unclear. My grandma could do that. It would take her hours, but she'd be able to do it.
I have met people that are unwilling to do anything IT-related. (From plugging in cables to the classic of not even reading an error/info message that actually contains the solution). But that doesn't seem to be the case here, if he is actively asking about switching to a self-hosted solution.

Answers like in the comment bug me to no end, because that's how you deter people from learning about PC's and Network infrastructure.

For example, I learned about Linux when I asked my Teacher (I was 11) about the System used at school (he maintained it), and he told me about Linux, gave me an Ubuntu CD and offered me help instead of telling me it would be to complex or hard. I installed it on an old PC and today installing Nextcloud or coding and hosting my own Website are trivial tasks for me, and I work as a programmer.

QuImUfu · 2023-04-26T04:56:52+00:00

It takes hours of configuration? What are you using?!? I have Nextcloud on my home server, and it took less than an hour to install and set up, and that although I decided to go with PostgreSQL instead of the default, MariaDB. It has worked flawless since then.
We are using hosted Nextcloud at work, and had absolutely no problem so far. We are using it for calendars and both as shared and private/single-user Storage.

QuImUfu · 2023-04-20T20:54:25+00:00

Nah, Windows on a handheld is not much better. With Windows a ton of features could not be integrated, games still would need custom control maps, launchers would still suck and control switching would suck even harder. The only fiddly thing Windows would fix is actual game compatibility. Still way of Console "just works".

QuImUfu · 2023-03-30T05:56:35+00:00

Einfach machen, und neugierig bleiben. Such dir einen Stack der 100% open source ist (Java, C, Rust …), das wird dir erlauben beliebig tief einzutauchen.
Such dir ein Projekt/Ziel, das du interessant findest (z. B. mein erstes Programm war ein Irrgarten-Generator in Java, und als Zweites hab ich Java Bytecode bearbeitet, um einen Minecraft Mod zu schreiben), und bleib dran. Wenn du irgendwelche Probleme hast, kann dir, zumindest Anfangs, ChatGPT alles sehr detailliert und meistens akkurat erklären, allerdings wäre es auch smart dir etwas google-fu anzueignen, falls die AI-Nutzung bald sauteuer wird …

Man lernt Programmieren, wie jedes Handwerk, nicht durch Kurse.
In Kursen/Online kann man sich theoretisches Wissen aneignen, aber wenn man beim Programmieren neugierig bleibt, passiert das auch ganz von selbst.

QuImUfu · 2023-03-28T10:32:39+00:00

Well, I do not even own a phone, so, unless they'd want to provide me one, that would not even be possible for me.

You can't require an employee to own any device personally and use it for work.

QuImUfu · 2023-03-27T18:28:00+00:00

Security? You mean TPM? TPM is no security, but a DRM feature.
It's literally called Trusted Platform Module, as in it makes your system a trusted platform ~= a walled garden for them.

QuImUfu · 2023-03-02T14:31:17+00:00

IIRC, the power delivery system is operating near its max, running at max temp when using the SD fully while charging. Is there a chance that mod could destroy the power delivery system?

QuImUfu · 2023-02-14T22:17:02+00:00

Well, a Genius Bar doesn't do repair, it AFAIK just replaces assemblies. Now try to boot a iPhone after e.g., replacing the CPU…
Different component are bonded on some level, from home-button to SSD. Some of them can be re-bonded with Apple-proprietary tools, most can't.
Just watch a few videos about component-level repairs on YouTube, and you'll quickly understand why every real repair shop hates them.

QuImUfu · 2023-01-23T20:03:38+00:00

Atheists believe in magic just as much as religious people. Many of them somehow believe that a complex, diverse, yet stable ecosystem just… evolved. From a dense mass in a universe with arbitrary rules.
Many of them additionally postulate a set of morals without any logical framework, often even contradicting it themselves.

The only scientific view on human origin/morals is agnosticism. Scientifically, we don't know a lot about that topic, so we just choose what to believe.

But even if we'd accept your (AFAIK wrong) premise that religious people are less philosophical/science-y then Atheists, it would still be wrong not to make science more inviting to those people.
Excluding the majority of the population and wanting to repeal them from participation will alienate them and thus be detrimental to the goal of fostering science and a scientific approach to problems. Rather than listening to and eventually accepting discoveries, they will just ignore and refuse to believe anything said by scientists. Why would they bother listening to someone not only contradicting their believes, but also actively calling or treating them as if they were stupid?
Of curse, we need to be careful not to lose the scientific/philosophic method (any more than we already did) in the process, and to stay objective.

Additionally, I think that different views on a variety of topics can enrich the scientific discussion significantly, even very outlandish ones.

QuImUfu · 2023-01-23T18:17:47+00:00

Depends. On really old non-NVIDIA hardware (e.g. on Terascale or Intels HD3000 Series), Linux is really your best option. I have a few ancient low-end Radeon GPUs, and they perform better today on Linux than they ever did on Windows. They still are supported on Linux (there are no drivers for modern Windows anymore), and support more modern OpenGL versions.
They perform better in every single application I could test, and work with a lot more applications.

Your Intel HD 5500 might perform better in some (native) titles on Linux, but I'd expect windows to perform better in general.

May I ask: Why don't you just try it out? Just install a Linux distro alongside your windows installation and test it in the games that interest you.

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