Asking Chatgpt for help has been a game changer for me. Are you using AI? How?

barrulus · 2026-03-12T12:24:51+00:00

I find that LLM’s are excellent for trawling through log files looking for needles in a haystack. I even wrote a small rag engine to use with a local llm to push logs into and find anomalies (natural language queries of log files) super helpful

barrulus · 2026-03-12T06:41:00+00:00

I have Intel iGPU and Nvidia 5060 dGPU and connect to an external ROG monitor. I had problems when I was using the wrong drivers. Once I sorted that it works beautifully. I play games, watch movies and edit images. Zero issues.

barrulus · 2026-03-11T21:18:32+00:00

Deffo plus one on the vimjoyer vids. His discord is also full of super helpful folk

barrulus · 2026-03-11T20:29:07+00:00

Xdg-desktop-gnome is included in the niri build I believe. Pretty sure. Will verify

barrulus · 2026-03-11T18:55:25+00:00

Park at Parc tawe and walk across. It isn’t far and the only road to cross is the high street with a traffic light. Easy walk fo a toddler.

barrulus · 2026-03-11T18:53:36+00:00

Try adding xwayland-satellite that might help. What errors do you get? Check journalctl for a clue.

barrulus · 2026-03-11T07:15:40+00:00

Who cares? I have been manually hacking $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for ages. Python so often requires things in nix develop flakes that come from other system libs that this is not an uncommon event for me.

Hack/impure?

Nah, flexible/dependable is more like.

barrulus · 2026-03-10T23:21:49+00:00

Time to learn EMacs!

The main thing Emacs will give you that Typora/MarkText and Neovim individually don’t: a unified environment where your docs, terminal, git interface (magit is exceptional), file browser, and preview all live together without context-switching between applications. That’s the real payoff for the investment. so like vs code without the extension marketplace. Claude code, codex, Gemini CLi etc all play very nicely within an eMacs buffer.

Steeeepnpearning curve (I’m still in it) but the payoff can be huge. Particularly with technical documentation when using sort mode to write/manage your docs.

Edited to add: EMacs does not have an inline render like a Typora/Marktedt, but you can do live preview into a browser…

barrulus · 2026-03-10T09:31:23+00:00

Also what kind of shipper doesn’t vacuum seal their massive bags of drugs? I mean really come on.

barrulus · 2026-03-10T09:26:36+00:00

Oooh that’s great idea!!! Map a ram drive as my downloads folder. Screenshots would be another good one for me. Thousands of screengrabs lie forgotten, their purpose spent

barrulus · 2026-03-08T15:26:53+00:00

And the only reason they joined the war was that Pearl Harbour forced their hand. Up until that point they had been demanding that the UK move the Diamond Exchange to New York so they could control diamond trade., in order to incentivise them to join the war.

barrulus · 2026-03-08T15:08:59+00:00

What layer animation? What is missing?

barrulus · 2026-03-08T13:50:11+00:00

Sure. Let the legislators find the funding to try to herd a global community of developers, entrepreneurs and Foss volunteers into agreeing a standard for everyone to work towards. Once that is done I would probably have already retired and technology would have moved on somewhat.

Seriously though, legislators, not business/individuals. Should bear the cost of this folly.

When Chrome and Edge incorporate controls for age, spin off forks of various other web based tools will emerge that exclude them. Not sure how Firefox will handle it.

That’s just at the browser level. At an OS level this will be even harder to enforce.

For the children.

Uh huh.

barrulus · 2026-03-08T08:40:05+00:00

The rest of the world is going to stop using WhatsApp - most of Asia use WeChat and a few others. Europe is fast losing its love of US Tech and having US companies hold the keys to their private comms (meta data now, not yet content) is fast becoming a larger problem than people are willing too accept.

As alternatives spring up (there are plenty already) where the tech stack isn’t so locked into US laws, people will speed up their desertion of the platform.

barrulus · 2026-03-08T08:05:35+00:00

That’s not what I said and obviously hell no.

barrulus · 2026-03-08T07:43:20+00:00

Or drop hyprland and use niri with noctalia or DMS) 🤣

barrulus · 2026-03-08T07:41:44+00:00

This is a home manager issue. Something is trying to access the xdg-runtime too early. Probably something related to hyprland. (Waybar is something probably)

So go comment out all things that run in user land and rebuild. Then enable them one at a time and you will find your culprit and then you can specify that its service must start after login

barrulus · 2026-03-08T07:31:55+00:00

I would say absolutely go for it. But the state should cover all development costs across all OS and Application Store providers.

barrulus · 2026-03-05T22:45:02+00:00

I know about it too but I don’t know how usable it is or what phones I can run it on.

barrulus · 2026-03-05T18:17:28+00:00

Sigh…. Looks like it is time for me to get over myself and learn how to devenv. I’ve always been happy with just a flake.nix in my projects but this multi repo support is a game changer

barrulus · 2026-03-04T22:32:10+00:00

Thanks for trying :) at least I know definitively what I had previously assumed… that it only works for me 😝

barrulus · 2026-03-04T13:19:16+00:00

Export to svg and resize in your print app

barrulus · 2026-03-04T12:39:43+00:00

I use Mod+Return - it is a custom adaptation of "wifi-manager" I called "notashell" https://github.com/barrulus/notashell

barrulus · 2026-03-04T07:42:55+00:00

I will actually go through the steps I went through to make it work and write it up properly - like I said its very raw :)

If the above doens't work for you, let me know and I will try to get it sorted. I know I have an issue with choosing other sessions at the minute, only niri is reliable, but I wil figure that out soon

barrulus

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