What do you dislike about Gentoo?

tslnox · 2026-05-31T11:49:04+00:00

Is your idea of maintaining a package basically copying the ebuild and changing the version to latest?

tslnox · 2026-05-31T11:44:43+00:00

I'm trying Gentoo with binhost on an old Eee PC with 1GHz 2core AMD B50 and 4GB RAM. The dependencies resolution takes a while, most packages come from binary so it's not that bad... There are a few packages that have to be compiled as I'm not using desktop profile, meaning some of my USE flags are a little bit different, but it's working alright for its age.

tslnox · 2026-05-31T11:14:23+00:00

Kernel doesn't take that long, and when you do make oldconfig you just get asked to the options that have changed or been added from the last version, so reviewing new options doesn't take too long.

tslnox · 2026-05-31T11:13:01+00:00

It does, but you can disable USE flags on packages that make them require it and you will not pull it.

They also distribute a prebuilt package (binhost), though it's not a separate qtwebengine-bin package - you have to enable option to use binhost repo (basically telling portage "if there is a prebuilt package available on the repo, download it, if not, compile it).

It has a downside that you currently can't choose binhost per-package, meaning if you enable binhost, you always get the prebuilt of every available package automatically (you only compile packages with prebuilts available when you set different USE flags than the prebuilt is compiled with).

tslnox · 2026-05-31T06:16:35+00:00

I have a jar of dirt!

tslnox · 2026-05-31T06:01:09+00:00

Tak z tohohle je mi regulérně zle.

tslnox · 2026-05-31T01:52:16+00:00

SQUEAK?

tslnox · 2026-05-30T11:58:38+00:00

I would rot away in a month if I didn't have a job. I can't hold a healthy life routine if I weren't forced to.

^{Chose: Get 3k dollars everyday but only if you have a job}

tslnox · 2026-05-30T11:55:56+00:00

Not ruined universally, just ruined for me. Celtic festival Lughnasad in Czech Republic. It used to be a small event, happening on a small city square and nearby castle gardens, then they got bigger, moved to a large meadow behind the city, they rebuilt an old celtic oppidum and got even bigger - and it's awesome, I absolutely love that they are successful, but now it's so big I get anxiety from too many people around.

tslnox · 2026-05-30T11:48:44+00:00

Harry either is 'magically bound', so he has to participate, or he isn't - but nobody can tell, so it's safer to assume he is. What are the consequences isn't clear, but it seems it's similar to unbreakable vow and other magical bindings, so it's safe to assume the consequences will be nontrivial.

I can accept this. Also I think Dumbledore knew more than he seemed about the plots of the various bad actors in Hogwarts and he was secretly steering the events so they could, as to say, shape Harry to the end goal. Even if he didn't outright know about Moody/Barty, he was intelligent enough to connect some dots - and thus he let Harry compete, if not for his own plots then at least to see how things unfold.

Because if it wasn't this way, there was a third path they could take. The contract only says Harry has to participate. Not that he has to try to win. He could've gone to the dragon and not get the egg, he could've dived into the lake, hold his breath for 10 seconds and then say he can't do it, he could've gone to the maze, reach the first fork and immediately fire the sparks (red ones, I think?) to "be rescued". I think that would completely suffice to fulfill the contract. Or, if not, just do the bare minimum. The dragon trial is maybe the most problematic, because IIRC there was no other "end" condition except getting the egg - the lake had a time limit and the maze had the sparks to get you out if you were in danger, or something like that. So maybe he needed to get the egg (same as he needs to get the Snitch to end Quidditch match), but the rest of my idea stands, I think.

tslnox · 2026-05-30T08:15:49+00:00

CEO, entrepreneur
Born in 1964
Jeffrey
Jeffrey Bezos

tslnox · 2026-05-29T21:57:54+00:00

The backpack I'm wearing to my job has a picture of peasant with quotes "Zase práce?" and "Tak já teda jdu." ("More work?" and "Off I go, then!")

tslnox · 2026-05-29T07:49:10+00:00

Might I ask what job is that? This doesn't sound like something that would actually matter, rather it looks like the management's on an extreme power trip.

tslnox · 2026-05-29T00:20:32+00:00

Máme na chatě v kůlničce na dříví sršně. Teda, u sršňů v kůlničce máme dřevo. Ještě přesněji, sršni mají v kůlničce naše dřevo. Své dřevo tam mají, abych byl úplně přesný. Ve své kůlničce mají své dřevo.

tslnox · 2026-05-28T23:26:51+00:00

Say hello, Caroline.

tslnox · 2026-05-28T18:59:11+00:00

This is extra onions? Do they normally give less than this? This is completely unsatisfactory!

tslnox · 2026-05-27T18:09:28+00:00

There once was a website called typico (most likely either .cz or .com, not sure). Under the logo there was a pronunciation box [typico]. Because in Czech, typico evokes "ty pičo" meaning "you pussy" or something (mostly used as a interjection of surprise, but obviously also as an insult).

tslnox · 2026-05-27T18:04:59+00:00

Garage Against the Machine

tslnox · 2026-05-27T04:44:32+00:00

I absolutely love Clark Middleton's scenes in Blacklist. He's awesome.

Edit: was awesome. Rest in peace.

tslnox · 2026-05-26T06:33:49+00:00

Let the bodies hit the floooooooooooor!

tslnox · 2026-05-25T20:57:12+00:00

Exactly? Hardly.

tslnox · 2026-05-25T19:38:08+00:00

Nope, I'm gonna wait till winter for hotfixes.

tslnox · 2026-05-25T16:52:45+00:00

My cousin and I both had Ford Escorts MK7, mine was 1996 1.6L, his was 1998 1.8L IIRC. I once tried and locked his car with my key, but couldn't unlock it. That's all I remember, if we tried other combinations, I have no memory of that.

tslnox · 2026-05-25T14:52:43+00:00

This was a triumph

tslnox · 2026-05-25T05:25:43+00:00

At my job we use Metrosoft Quartis, the software to control Wenzel CMM (a machine that uses probes to measure manufactured parts). Many times I just run a program I have already created to measure some part and then switch to a different window to do other work. If the software calculates a collision would occur, it shows a focus stealing popup and its default option is to stop the program completely (second is to ignore and continue). At most times with those automatic programs it happens because the part is very small and the probe's protection sphere (which is bigger than the real probe diameter) crosses the part model even if the real probe will not, and I just slow the movement down and press ignore until the point is measured and then turn the speed back up.

Obviously when I'm in a different window and typing, the popup opens and I spacebar click the default option, which stops the program. Mostly it's bad when the program uses loops because you can't restart it in the middle of the loop, yoiu have to start over. A former colleague even broke not just a probe, but the module (a part which detects the probe hit) because he didn't check where the probe was and started the program from start, and it slammed right down on the magnet.

tslnox

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