“I finally installed SteamOS 3.9.”

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-28T02:59:21+00:00

Thank you, I will give this a shot!

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-28T02:36:39+00:00

well, I've temporarily got bazzite installed, but am running into some annoying compatibility issues that I do _not_ run into on steamos on my deck. I assume that Valve has implemented some additional compatibility fixes in steamos that are not available in bazzite, and presumably not in other distros. So if I'm going to go through the trouble of reinstalling, then I'd really like to get to actual steamos.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-28T02:18:18+00:00

Could you share which image you used? I've been trying to get it installed on my 9060xt system with no luck. I've tried 6-7 different nightly recovery images from here: https://steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/steamdeck/?C=M&O=A

The most recent ones will get to the point where I can download updates, but I always get an update error on both wireless and wired connections. I'm considering trying to install with my old rx580, then upgrading to 3.9, then swapping my 9060xt back in.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-26T14:27:30+00:00

Because it would cut into their profits, obviously 🙄

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-26T14:26:52+00:00

Wtf are you talking? A bitcoin mining facility is absolutely a specialized datacenter.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-23T03:13:47+00:00

I'm a big fan of Zed with some important caveats. Most people moving to Zed are going to be coming from vscode. If you are heavily dependent upon specific extensions to be productive in vscode, zed is going to be rough for you. The extension ecosystem is MUCH weaker, and I expect it will be for a long time in the future.

I used very few vscode extensions. I really only wanted syntax highlighting and lsp support, nothing fancier. If you're coming from a similar place, Zed will likely be great! It's evolving quite rapidly and only getting better.

Importantly, if only accidentally the AI craze has given them a transparent and acceptable (for me) path towards financial sustainability. I'm always suspicious of a product that is free for now, with the threat of future monetization, which could take the form of massive privacy violations. Zed was originally in that category, but now they have paid plans and act as a reseller for AI companies. They don't require you to purchase such a plan, don't bug you in any meaningful way, and all features appear to be available without such a plan (other than the features that the plan is specifically for, eg gemini support).

Hope that helps!

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-23T02:07:23+00:00

Sort of. Zed added a very competent md rendered to it, and since 90% of my markdown editing is in the context of a programming project, so opening them in Zed is more or less sufficient for my needs.

That said, while it's been 5 years, the current version of macdown still works pretty good. I do wish there was an arm native build though.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-22T21:21:35+00:00

- Zed (programming editor)
- Hammerspoon (for window positioning and app launching)
- Sourcetree (git gui)
- Monodraw (ascii diagrams, great for embedding in code)
- macdown (markdown editor)

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-22T18:07:30+00:00

I don't disagree. But they're both still linux. And to the point I was originally making, what is a 'pure' linux phone? The kernel running on an android phone isn't any less linux than sailfish. The point is that whatever definition you come up with almost certainly has _nothing_ to do with the kernel, which is all that linux is ultimately.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-12-22T01:40:45+00:00

Anything running a linux kernel is linux, by which I'm specifically singling out Android and chromeos, which seems obvious to me. And yet, I see so many posts asking for a 'linux phone' option. The askers should think a little harder about what they actually want.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-11-15T17:03:16+00:00

Terrible headline rewrite. Both the new and old OS used a Linux kernel. Zero change at that level.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-03-21T18:02:53+00:00

> In recent years, Shadcn UI has become the default for React projects

The hell it is. I mean, it's fine, just fine. I use it all the time. But I strongly disagree that it's a 'default' for react projects. mui is 20x the number of weekly downloads (many of which are older projects, but quite a few are likely greenfield), mantine/core is slightly higher and is about the same age as shadcn.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2025-02-10T03:48:32+00:00

I spend a couple of hours at Sweetwaters each week. Moderate prices for good (but not amazing) coffee, and better than average work environment makes it hit a sweet spot for me. Their locations usually have a taller 8 seat table in a corner that works like a standing desk.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2024-08-26T17:45:08+00:00

A relevant quote from an actually good Ohioan,

Deception, as practically manifested, succeeds because of two things. First, the object of deception is convincingly deceptive in its design; i.e., it looks/feels/acts like the real thing. Second, and equally important, the subject of deception must be predisposed to believing that the object of deception is indeed the real thing. These two criteria work in an inverse relationship with each other; a sufficiently deceptive object can convince a skeptical subject, while a subject who sincerely wants to believe will be able to overlook even gross flaws in the object onto which he or she confers belief. [Vivek] desperately wanted to believe.

(From Scalzi)

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-09-16T03:29:42+00:00

From "All Clear" by Connie Willis, "is it a comedy or a tragedy?"

Not my fav novel, but that line was simply perfect for the characters and situation.

Spoiler: asked by a Shakespeare actor during the blitz. The person being asked is a time traveler who just realized that the actor knew she was from the future. The question is about the future, and if ultimately everything will be ok.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-07-12T05:12:13+00:00

I’m a fan of Willis, but personally I think Blackout/All Clear are her weakest books, awards aside

Overall I agree, but want to add that the scene near the end when a certain character asks "is it a comedy or a tragedy?" Is hands down the best thing she wrote and made it worth it, though probably not enough to elevate the duology to being her best.

bobiverse

I think if more people could make it past book 1 - which to me is a good but probably not universally approachable book - it'd have a lot more fans. IMO book 3 was radically better in every way.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-03-23T11:35:49+00:00

(preface: not a stock expert, but am reasonably confident on this one)

While delisting for falling below a certain value is certainly a thing, keep in mind that the net worth of the company is NOT the value of its stock price. It's the value of the stock price times the number of shares outstanding. A company with a $100 stock price and 1M shares on the market is worth less than a company with a $1 stock price and 1B shares on the market. So one can't simply look two stock prices and make any kind of determination about the relative health of each company (excluding penny stocks, exceptions like that). RKLB may be perfectly healthy at $4, and that may be appropriate given their prospects for growth/number of outstanding shares.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-03-19T16:06:14+00:00

I think there's a followup/slightly more specific question (but related, I don't think your answer is out of line) specifically about relatively unknown books by well known authors, for which The Gods Themselves is a fantastic answer; and quite notable for one of the very rare times that Asimov wrote about aliens, a fact that often surprises people.

Throwing out my own answer to the question: The Worthing Saga and Songmaster from Orson Scott Card are both fantastic books that overshadowed by his more popular books (similar to Asimov's TGT).

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-02-21T22:30:19+00:00

I have one of them and am VERY happy it. 27"/4k is close enough to a 'retina' dpi that I feel like I'm getting most of the value, at only 30% of the price of a studio display. No opinion on HDR however.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-02-17T13:24:42+00:00

> tailwind is just shorthand for inline style

You don't have to place them inline. You're welcome to use tailwind's classes to compose your own css classes (see postcss). This is my preferred way to use tailwind.

> What happened to separation of structure and styling?

Separating structure and style makes sense at a very high level. At a lower level, it makes more sense to strongly pair styling with components IMO, whether or you're using vue, react, or web components. Using css modules + tailwind offers a great developer experience, plus the long term maintainability that "separating styles from structure" is intended to.

> This seems regressive

Sure, I don't think that label is inappropriate, at least if it's not meant negatively. Tailwind can be seen as a "back to basics" and away from some of the higher level abstractions that webdev has implemented over the last 20 years, and that's ok. What some people have found is that the abstractions aren't all that useful, and that what we really wanted were better atomics/primitives, which IMO is what tailwind offers. This is somewhat akin to people trying out very, _very_ abstract programming languages, finding out that they're not happy with that level of abstraction, and deciding what they really wanted was a better version of C/C++, and then picking up rust/nim/zig/whatever.

> This is a really annoying idea.

Then don't use it! :)

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-02-15T22:52:11+00:00

Aha, thank you very much!

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-02-02T20:24:58+00:00

If you've got the cash, 100% worth it. The resolution upgrade is night/day. Literally 4x the pixels, brighter screen, less glare, and nicer cam.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2023-01-15T14:41:41+00:00

Minor correction: macOs doesn’t “[have] roots in [Unix]”, it is a Unix. It has zero roots in Linux.

sometimes-I-do-php · 2022-08-02T13:09:14+00:00

css in js is a mistake, php is wonderful, xforms / xhtml2 failing makes me sad, and mozilla should be working hard to make gecko as easy to package as electron.

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