KiranWells

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[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 14 points 4 months ago

For anyone who is confused: This is exploiting an old soundness bug in the Rust compiler that is still present. The GitHub issue page has this comment from maintainers:

we already had a crate published on crates.io before which used this bug to transmute in safe code, see #25860 (comment).

this issue is a priority to fix for the types team and has been so for years now. there is a reason for why it is not yet fixed. fixing it relies on where-bounds on binders which are blocked on the next-generation trait solver. we are actively working on this and cannot fix the unsoundness before it's done.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, you can say the same about any large cloud provider. What happens if AWS, or Azure, or Google Cloud go down, or become terrible?

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago

This is probably not the solution you are looking for, given your opinion of the company, but I wonder if using their 1.1.1.1 app (which acts as a mini VPN to a Cloudflare endpoint and changes your public IP) would fix that for you. The upside is it's free, the downside is that it is a Cloudflare-run VPN.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 7 points 6 months ago

You might look into displaying images in the terminal as well; many modern terminals support showing actual images natively

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

They said bcachefs; I don't think BTRFS has it, at least not since I last checked.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago

Actually looking forward to the btrfs swapfile hibernation; I have tried setting it up on my machine before but the documentation was never clear on whether it would work (or why mine wasn't).

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago

Check out Ollama and its extensions for VSCode; might save you some money paying for other services if your computer can run models locally.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don't have experience with mangohud. Does Legacy work without it? And does mangohud work with other games?

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Just going to ask this just in case: have you tried doing a full update and reboot? If you updated and have not rebooted, sometimes drivers get messed up.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have you had any luck with hibernation with a BTRFS swapfile? My computer still does not start from hibernation, and I am not sure why, even though I followed the Arch wiki to set it up.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My computer was taking too long to start up, which I interpreted as failing to boot, but in hindsight was probably just my hard drive being slow. So, I booted into recovery mode, and ran an update. At one point, apt said "there are unnecessary packages" and would I like to remove them? I figured that apt knew better than I did (after all, maybe a package dropped a dependency), so I said yes.

It was after I noticed the very large number of packages that I suspected I messed up. Turns out, apt uninstalled the entire desktop environment, and network manager, so I had to boot into a USB drive with Network Manager installed, chroot into my main drive, and reinstall plasma. As a bonus, I think I missed the main group for the plasma desktop and only installed only most of it, so some of my extensions just didn't work anymore.

[–] KiranWells@pawb.social 3 points 8 months ago

I haven't taken it myself, but "The Last Algorithms Course You'll Need" is free and is written by The Primeagen. He works at Netflix and runs a programming-focused YouTube channel, and as far as I can tell is very knowledgeable and level-headed.

 

I made This old setup a couple of years ago that was (nearly) fully automated with Pywal. I don't think I have the source for most of it anymore, but here is what I remember using:

WM: xmonad
Terminal: Alacritty + fish + starship
Bar: Polybar
App launcher: Rofi, based on adi1090x's themes
Clock widget: Conky, using a custom background made in Inkscape
Text editor: Micro / VSCode
Firefox theme: blurredfox
Spotify theme: spicetify

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