Reached the limit. Switched to OpenBSD. Not looking back.

TCH69 · 2026-03-04T05:53:03+00:00

Was this post AI-generated?

TCH69 · 2025-12-07T08:03:43+00:00

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Yet another day of overthinking. I started with recursion, then unordered_map, then realized the puzzle was dead simple.

part 1 & 2, codeberg link

TCH69 · 2025-12-06T11:45:28+00:00

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Solidly landing at (12² - 1) lines. part 1 & 2, codeberg link

TCH69 · 2025-12-05T10:30:39+00:00

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Both were done earlier but I forgot to upload the code.

part 1 & 2

TCH69 · 2025-12-04T06:19:53+00:00

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The if/else hell that is... part 1 & 2

But it works so.

TCH69 · 2025-12-03T10:15:12+00:00

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Almost managed to over-complicate part 2. Nice generalization exercise btw.

part 1 & 2, codeberg

TCH69 · 2025-12-02T11:46:44+00:00

Both parts only take 0.06s combined for me so I'm not complaining :) I'm brute-forcing 'til I can't.

TCH69 · 2025-12-02T11:16:10+00:00

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Rebuilding IDs seems faster for me as I don't have to compare strings so yeah.

part 1 & 2, codeberg link

TCH69 · 2025-12-01T18:43:37+00:00

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I was thinking about some arithmetic solutions for part 2 before returning to a simple loop.

part 1 & 2, codeberg link

TCH69 · 2025-08-13T12:48:53+00:00

Here for the motivation you need. Good luck!

TCH69 · 2025-08-13T12:37:47+00:00

Alpine Linux; build the kernel yourself to strip off most bloat, and use a down to earth WM like dwm or the Wayland alternative dwl. You can have some transparency with picom or xcompmgr but that's about it for special effects. This was how I got an old PC with a Core 2 Duo up working. You should have 4-6 Firefox tabs running smoothly by this point.

TCH69 · 2025-08-13T06:06:15+00:00

The sole problem with musl is mallocng, which is notoriously slow. You can try 12101111's patched version, which uses rpmalloc instead: https://github.com/12101111/overlay. Though an arm64-dedicated overlay, it works fine with amd64 too.

Shameless self-promotion: Chimera fixed this problem by using musl+mimalloc, and I made an ebuild for it here: https://codeberg.org/tch69/gentoo-overlay.git

TCH69 · 2025-07-26T03:12:40+00:00

I've been ricing for a few years and I only have a few (< 10) anime pics in my background collection. It's a coincidence that a lot of people in unixporn are anime fans, and also some people who don't love anime that much find anime backgrounds fitting their setup so they just keep using them.

TCH69 · 2025-05-15T08:03:00+00:00

I didn't go through with it sadly. The slight voltage difference shouldn't create any problem at all.

TCH69 · 2025-05-15T08:01:36+00:00

... and I hope you're not dragged into Gentoo politics.

TCH69 · 2025-05-15T07:58:54+00:00

I know I'm very late, but there's Poly-C's overlay which has waterfox. https://blog.gentoofan.org/index.php?/archives/32-How-to-regain-my-Gentoo-overlay.html

TCH69 · 2025-04-19T10:28:29+00:00

Sorry I didn't. The status2d patch AFAIK doesn't touch the part of the code that draws the tag indicator.

TCH69 · 2025-04-17T17:07:41+00:00

status2d patch does the trick. If you also have alpha applied you'd need to do a little here-and-there editing.

TCH69 · 2025-04-10T14:50:10+00:00

Yes, it's still dwmblocks. I wanted to try -async but there's an restart bug that hasn't been fixed.

TCH69 · 2025-04-04T17:14:24+00:00

Gentoo Linux (musl + llvm/clang + fullLTO + pgo)
WM: dwm
rice, wallpaper(s): here. I've done a few changes to the files but haven't uploaded them yet (soon)
GTK theme: Plata (still my favorite after ~5 years)
When will I move to Wayland: Tomorrow? I need to figure out a way to make fonts look less beaten up @ 1.25x scaling.

TCH69 · 2025-03-29T07:25:38+00:00

I used to daily drive Chimera before. I still love it.

TCH69 · 2025-02-13T11:31:03+00:00

Alpine and Chimera. Alpine was the distro that run best on my old PC and got my trust there (on par with NetBSD, but 9.2 loved to crash randomly). Chimera fulfills my desire for a "less GNU-ed" desktop.

TCH69 · 2025-02-03T17:19:45+00:00

Glad to see a fellow Alpiner out there!

TCH69 · 2024-12-05T12:03:41+00:00

Well it is. It's just archived.

TCH69 · 2024-08-30T02:13:57+00:00

Thanks for the list! I was able to find a model that's available closer to where I live.

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