FizzyOrange

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it's obviously an improvement but I guess you can't really sell a distro on "it has a more logical filesystem layout which may cause some issues, and it's super super niche which will definitely cause some issues".

Probably a lost cause. I imagine Flatpak will actually work properly before the Unix filesystem hierarchy is made sane.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I would be fairly surprised if they actually did this for tracking purposes. This sounds like nonsense to me. They already have plenty of information about you and they literally sent the notification.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 7 points 22 hours ago

The majority of children in the 6–12 age group are highly unlikely to download, configure, or subscribe to VPNs without adult help.

The naivety! It's like 5 clicks to download and use Proton VPN. You don't even need to register!

Even if it were more difficult, children have friends. They talk to each other.

Also grouping 6 and 12 year olds together is an interesting choice. Sure, a 6 year old is unlikely to do this, but why would a 6 year old even try?

Cool. I feel like semihosting is almost cheating though.

Of all the things to buy from AliExpress, this is definitely not one of them.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah it was inspired by Powershell. But it also has syntax that isn't completely awful.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but often their trick is to push through the idea. It's easier if people are just like "eh fine, I can just lie".

Then later they say "it turns out lots of people have been lying! Lying is bad, so we need to stop them." - then they don't need to debate the idea of age verification because everyone has "agreed" to it already. They only need to argue that people must be honest, which is way easier.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most reasonable countries have capitalism and regulations to prevent unbounded exploitation of workers and the environment. Moderation, imagine that. Something a centrist might believe in...

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

No. Closest is probably Zed but it's still way way off from being a serious VSCode competitor. For example it has no settings GUI at all; just a JSON file. It can't edit large files. Font rendering is still hit and miss.

Ask again in 5 years...

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How "production" are we talking? Pretty bad idea if it's an important work server. "Sorry boss, nobody could connect today because VSCode's mojam.service hit one of its many many 100% CPU bugs".

I think in theory there's no reason it isn't technically possible, but I doubt it's set up to allow it because that's a pretty odd thing to want to do.

Edit: oh you want to access it via Android. That makes vaguely more sense.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by FizzyOrange@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
 

Edit: rootless in this context means the remote windows appear like local windows; not in a big "desktop" window. It's nothing to do with the root account. Sorry, I didn't come up with that confusing term. If anyone can think of a better term let's use that!

This should be a simple task. I ssh to a remote server. I run a GUI command. It appears on my screen (and isn't laggy as hell).

Yet I've never found a solution that really works well in Linux. Here are some that I've tried over the years:

  • Remote X: this is just unusably slow, except maybe over a local network.
  • VNC: almost as slow as remote X and not rootless.
  • NX: IIRC this did perform well but I remember it being a pain to set up and it's proprietary.
  • Waypipe: I haven't actually tried this but based on the description it has the right UX. Unfortunately it only works with Wayland native apps and I'm not sure about the performance. Since it's just forwarding Wayland messages, similar to X forwarding, and not e.g. using a video codec I assume it will have similar performance issues (though maybe not as bad?).

I recently discovered wprs which sounds interesting but I haven't tried it.

Does anyone know if there is a good solution to this decades-old apparently unsolved problem?

I literally just want to ssh <server> xeyes and have xeyes (or whatever) appear on my screen, rootless, without lag, without complicated setup. Is that too much to ask?

 

Does anyone know of a website that will show you a graph of open/closed issues and PRs for a GitHub repo? This seems like such an obvious basic feature but GitHub only has a useless "insights" page which doesn't really show you anything.

 

Very impressive IDE integration for Dart macros. Something to aspire to.

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