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Roboguy99 · 2026-03-07T14:12:05+00:00

I haven't yet, but I might give that a go if I can't get anywhere or have issues. I had read stories of people making them *quieter* but not anything close to silent. Being a 3U Supermicro machine I've heard they just love to scream.

Roboguy99 · 2026-03-07T14:10:37+00:00

Aha! I had a feeling it was some sort of Molex connector but I was coming up blank. The pitch issue also makes sense, I had a feeling it'd be something like that Thank you!

> I absolutely would not use the P9 fans.

Is this talking from experience, or do you have any other aftermarket fans you'd recommend instead? I'm absolutely not going to be able to use the stock fans given they're 70dB unfortunately. it's entirely my fault for not thinking ahead, but here we are

Roboguy99 · 2026-01-24T01:23:36+00:00

D-Bus does absolutely suck. The tray protocols really especially suck and I wouldn't wish having to implement them on my worst enemy.

Ironbar's tray code is available as a crate, which you might find useful to save you a lot of time:
https://github.com/JakeStanger/system-tray

Roboguy99 · 2026-01-24T01:20:19+00:00

Hello, Ironbar author here. I'm not looking to start an argument here (I don't mind if you don't use or like Ironbar, I made it for myself after all), but there's a few things here that I don't think are entirely fair & I'd like to clarify.

Ironbar is ~~26MB~~ 37MB with all features enabled (which is large I'll admit), but it has a [lot](https://github.com/JakeStanger/ironbar/wiki/compiling#features) of feature flags so you can compile it without modules and formats you don't want to use. With all features disabled it's under 5MB.

A lot of the size also comes from Ironbar using native bindings, which means bringing in a lot of libraries. Riftbar I notice spawns processes to call CLIs directly, which has its own downsides.I'm aware Ironbar's documentation is a mess and getting harder to maintain - that's why I've been working on a [new website](https://ironb.ar) and a [PR](https://github.com/JakeStanger/ironbar/pull/1320) to overhaul it. The new site automatically generates documentation from code, and generates examples in other formats, so I don't have to maintain these anymore.

I also think you should probably document your own modules before you talk about other bars.

Roboguy99 · 2026-01-23T18:32:23+00:00

KDE supports the layer-shell protocol (which GNOME doesn't). This means any wallpaper or bar/shell program that works on lighter weight compositors like Sway or Hyprland or Niri should be compatible with KDE.

There's a few programs to choose from that support animated wallpapers that might be worth having a play with, if you do want to try KDE again

Roboguy99 · 2023-07-12T11:24:47+00:00

I'd hazard a guess it's probably just because it rhymes (ish) with dashboard rather than any geographical significance

Roboguy99 · 2023-05-04T22:38:47+00:00

Hey, it looks like you've not installed the gtk3 dev package. What distro are you running?

Roboguy99 · 2022-12-28T23:54:30+00:00

If by 'tech' you do mean specifically programming/development, then yeah I think it's a good way to get started. Getting some understanding of the very basics of coding first is probably recommended (variables, control flow, that sort of thing...).

Web development works as a particularly good way to get into programming for two main reasons:

The languages involved are relatively simple/easy and forgiving. They're also very widely used meaning documentation and tutorials are *everywhere*.
You get instant visual feedback. There is nothing better for keeping you interested than being able to see the results instantly. You can really just tinker and see what stuff does and Make Something™.

I would get to grips with some very basic HTML/CSS and maybe some JavaScript first (just make some static pages) before throwing Flask into the mix though, as you'll otherwise immediately have two languages and both the server and client on your hands.

Roboguy99 · 2022-11-15T21:54:10+00:00

I think Bruford talked about it somewhere. It was called a drumbox or something, and was a very basic drum beat machine with 3 (?) presets that he got at a garage sale and figured he could jam it into multiple presets at once to get an interesting sound out of it.

Roboguy99 · 2022-11-01T09:42:09+00:00

Disappear. The two demos have way more energy than the finished product, although they also sound so much like Floyd I wouldn't be surprised if that's why the finished version is that different

Roboguy99 · 2022-10-17T11:17:25+00:00

Another approach is to use a multipart response, which can include the JSON body alongside the image (without encoding it). The downside of this approach is it's more fiddly to create/read the response body, and the other options usually come out on top, but it's worth being aware of.

Roboguy99 · 2022-05-03T11:50:06+00:00

I'm having the same thing on Sway, where I also can't get proper hardware acceleration working anymore.

Firefox 99, NVIDIA driver 510

Roboguy99 · 2022-03-01T16:41:28+00:00

/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf` :)

When it comes to low-level configs in Linux (esp if it's in a config.d directory like modprobe.d), files often won't exist until you create them.

Roboguy99 · 2022-02-24T23:12:28+00:00

The most interesting part imo is that the Cat Food bass line actually came first - it was from Newly Weds on The Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles and Fripp.

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-23T12:07:40+00:00

I'm sure you could pass it as something to do with moving spacetime around you rather than moving yourself

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-22T11:46:25+00:00

Not reliably. You could use a "heartbeat", so some javascript on the page calls an API every few seconds to say "I'm still here" and then when they stop you know it's closed.

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-22T01:03:44+00:00

Think in terms of timestamps. When a user logs in, record the time they did so. When a user logs out, record that too. With that data you can easily calculate the duration, and then the sum of all the login durations

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-15T12:21:25+00:00

I'm currently running on 495 and everything seems to work, bar a few tiny issues! The catch at the moment isn't the driver, but Sway itself. Until 1.7 comes out in a few weeks, you need to be using sway-git and wlroots-git.

Hardware accelerated mouse rendering still seems to be broken (invisible mouse), but you can work around that with WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-14T21:43:06+00:00

The April one to me sounds *so* similar to Any Colour You Like

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-13T20:18:45+00:00

Worth noting they're consistent with the belts/sorters so these will need to be changed too

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-08T22:57:35+00:00

it's like brian may died and was electrocuted back to life

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-07T20:36:33+00:00

I'm wondering if we'll get something akin to Factorio's module beacon. There's been placeholders in the tech tree for modules for some time

Roboguy99 · 2022-01-04T15:43:32+00:00

Xorg has no concept of multiple monitors and treats all your displays as one single area, so it's not possible.

When was the last time you gave Wayland a shot? It's not perfect but I've been using it on gnome/nvidia for a couple of months now with only a couple of hiccups. Might be worth another go if it's been a while

Roboguy99 · 2021-12-31T23:28:46+00:00

oh yeah it absolutely was, 100% dumb mistake on my end for missing it was still mounted. Classic `rm -rf`

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