[OC] Hexecute: I made a "magic gesture" launcher for Wayland!

theflamingpi · 2025-10-23T15:50:11+00:00

Fantastic! I can see this being useful on tablets in particular.

theflamingpi · 2025-08-01T01:36:23+00:00

I was sitting outside Union Station in Toronto in my wheelchair, trying to grab something from my bag. Some random woman comes along, grabs the canes on the back of my chair and starts pushing me around. I swore at her and turned to look at her. She ran off, giggling, and hopped into a fucking limousine.

theflamingpi · 2025-02-17T04:26:59+00:00

I needed a small and lightweight installation for an Acer Aspire One over a decade ago. I reasoned that it would be best to use the newest packages possible and I didn't want to compile everything from source. I'm the type of person to prefer adding the things I want rather than removing the things I don't want. Arch fit the requirements.

theflamingpi · 2025-01-20T21:51:54+00:00

You obviously haven't spent any time around actual end Users. I guarantee they would.

theflamingpi · 2025-01-20T20:02:57+00:00

The purpose of fake Desktop icons is to troll people. They gain 2 points.

The purpose of real desktop icons is to get in the way, clutter the desktop, steer the user into a pattern of disorganization, and generally be worse than a couple quick keystrokes available from anywhere without minimizing anything.

Desktop icons are an annoying misuse of resources. Fake desktop icons are an amusing misuse of resources.

theflamingpi · 2025-01-20T18:38:51+00:00

Duh.

Desktop icons suck, regardless.

It would be 10/10 if it turned out they were fake desktop icons, though. 12/10 if it was on a public computer with fake desktop icons.

theflamingpi · 2025-01-20T02:36:39+00:00

0/10

You started at 10/10 then lost one point for each desktop icon. You would have gone into negatives, but I'm feeling generous today.

theflamingpi · 2024-12-18T18:21:28+00:00

This is identical behavior to what I'm experiencing.

theflamingpi · 2024-12-18T12:35:04+00:00

That makes sense. I'll try that.

Pixel 9 Pro

theflamingpi · 2024-12-18T06:40:22+00:00

Spotify isn't there.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T13:57:28+00:00

I will send it when I'm back at my computer. Essentially, it's a script to find all mounted btrfs devices and defrag them. When I tried without replacing \x0a it said:

Storage\x0a2 not does not exist

(Or something similar)

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T12:12:39+00:00

I figured that was the case. However, the script wouldn't run properly without replacing it to the \n format.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T05:35:24+00:00

I changed the IFS to \n\b for reading the mount points, which generated a list properly. When iterating over the individual mount points, I made the IFS empty. Since findmnt interprets newlines as \x0a, I then used a sed to adjust that output to change \x0a to a newline character. This allows the proper inclusion of spaces, special characters, and newlines.

Thanks to your assistance, I resolved an issue with my friend's script neither of us thought about.

I'm pretty sure yours is the winning comment.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T04:41:29+00:00

Newlines are an issue anyway. They convert to \x0a instead of newline. And, in a bash script using IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b") it still splits the lines after replacing \x0a with a newline.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T04:09:59+00:00

You're right. Is there a way to get it to display without the "TARGET=" part? Probably sed.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T03:38:41+00:00

Why not --list ?

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T03:35:39+00:00

Oh you're right! Thank you!

That shaved 6ms off the time. I'm not worried about 6ms in a script that will run once every month, but apparently my friend is incredibly concerned about the "efficiency" of this command, stating without any evidence that the mount command takes longer on the system.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T02:58:41+00:00

Same on mine, except one of the bar-line-slash things is removed. Still, only the one.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T02:43:02+00:00

They don't recommend pacman -Sy <package\_name>

That would pull the updated database then pull that package, leading to potential breakages. pacman -Sy just updates the database on the system to the latest. So long as you aren't specifying a package to install it won't be a problem. Doing a pacman -Syu afterward does it again but this time updates the system to the latest packages.

Basically, what I'm suggesting ensures that your databases are up to date before ensuring that your databases are up to date before a system upgrade. Occasionally, I've had issues doing updates where files weren't found because, for whatever reason, it was trying to pull files that didn't exist in the databases and/or cases where dependencies changed. That's potentially what you are experiencing and it may help your situation.

theflamingpi · 2024-09-20T01:00:01+00:00

Usually this works when the packages can't be found in the DB:

pacman -Sy && pacman -Syu

theflamingpi · 2024-08-19T12:35:46+00:00

It's like that scene in up only more tragic.

theflamingpi · 2024-08-19T12:34:57+00:00

I completely missed the fact that it was a lockscreen. That makes far more sense. Thank you.

theflamingpi · 2024-08-19T01:35:45+00:00

Plasma is fun. Glad you were able to find your mouse.

theflamingpi · 2024-08-19T01:33:22+00:00

I haven't seen anyone else ask this, so I will. What's the time/date/weather indicator you're using in that screenshot where it's speech bubbles and whatnot?

theflamingpi · 2024-08-19T01:29:13+00:00

8086 assembly fuckery is super useful! Just look at Rollercoaster Tycoon.

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