Beej Jorgensen

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

I don’t know the details behind it, but it sure takes its sweet time figuring it out. I’ve let it sit 20 minutes before giving up.

Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.

I haven’t measured it, but I can tell I’m noticably slower on standard editors than Vim.

When I had to match against misspells I found Levenshtein distance to be most useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance?wprov=sfla1

Really? Mine launches in a few seconds. Maybe I haven’t explored enough. 😁

I started using one of the userspace oom killers a while ago and have been much happier. Instead of the system becoming unresponsive, suddenly Slack just dies. It’s great.

I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

It’s silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn’t bloated halfway to hell. 😁

Was that sadometer correctly calibrated to NIST specifications?

On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.

I’m a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁

The double-edged sword of isolation.

On the one hand, poor communication between apps and waste of storage.

On the other, relative safety from malicious applications, or from otherwise-safe applications built on top of a thousand libraries none of which have been audited by the dev.

I don’t know how it’s going to go down, but I suspect something will come along to address these issues and snatch the market away from Flatpak.