“Attacks”.

The Caeser cipher used to be a valid cryptography method, and then it was not.

What does this imply? That the creator of C++ thought that their language would be the end all be all?

Tough news for them I guess, but no, it is not. On a long enough timeline, neither is Rust probably, but such is the price of innovation.

To call superior innovations an “attack” is one of the most folly things one can do.

Before someone asks what makes Rust superior, the very fact that the C++ creator is using the term “attack” here should very well be evidence enough, because it is an ad hominem fallacy. Instead of criticizing Rust, because they cannot find a valid way to, they choose instead to attack the character of Rust users.

Thank you, this is great information.

This is probably some of the best advice here. It’s important to prioritize what is going to be the most costly if you don’t fix it now, and if you try to do 7 things at once, you will feel like none of them will ever be done, which contributes to your stress more than still having 6 broken things after fixing one.

This would be what I was thinking of then, thanks for clarifying.

If Windows and Linux are installed on the same drive under different partitions, I seem to recall that a Windows update can fuck your Linux partition.

Was there a Windows update recently?

Awesome, thank you! I had not yet looked for any video tutorials, so this is great!

I used boost until I saw it was sending me dark pattern ads from an ad network, to which the dev had noted they reported it, until it happened again and I moved to voyager, where I no longer have such a problem.

Here’s to you, Nicolo and Bart,

Rest forever, here in our hearts,

The last and final moment is yours,

And agony is your triumph

Thanks! The Rustlings course is interesting because it kind of presents you with code to fix without having explained how to fix it.

This is kind of fun because I get to try to apply my knowledge from other languages to see if similar things exist in rust.

Otherwise, there is a hint feature to help you along. They also recommend following along with the Rust book when doing it, which I have been, so it has been quite informative!

Wonderful, thank you!

I go from the repos myself.

At the minute, a true open source and free browser/web engine, though I know this is nigh impossible to maintain without thousands of people. Some part of me is hopeful though given recent events.

The problem with Element as it compares to discord in my experience of showing it to discord-heavy users is that it does not contain the feature set that they are seeking.

Discords roles and permissions abilities, multiple channel types, streaming capabilities, public bots that are easily joinable, profile customization features, moderation capabilities, and more have no real equivalent in Matrix/element. Hence, when I have shown it to discord users before, they have 0 interest in using it because for them it is like reverting to an IRC.

I like cmus best. It is both as simple and as complicated as I need it to be.

This can happen if you tighten any screws/knuts that hold it in place too much. It creates enough stress that when there is enough of a temperature change, the weakeness presented by the fixture can cause it to shatter.

Wow, fascinating to see I am one of the Few Debian users. It works great on the distribution, even better than what I had heard about other platforms.

Yea, I have to use windows at work presently and I hate every second of fighting with it.

Windows doesn’t even have a fully functional implementation of focusing windows on hover, a common feature of any Linux system WM I have ever used. There is a setting to do this in Windows accessibility settings, and it’s true, it DOES change focus on hover; but it DOESN’T change the functionality of foreground windows getting pushed behind those windows, making it pretty much pointless, and actually more annoying to use.

Also just the performance is such shit, probably because it’s now designed to be doing hundreds of unnecessary telemetry tasks at all time on the back end. Also what the fuck is with every piece of Windows software configuring itself to run on boot or as a service? So incredibly annoying.

Possibly, though I would be surprised. I only recently got this job so the laptop is brand new, but I have also had it long enough that it was an odd and unexpected event, before then I had not had any power issues, and not since either. Since it is not reproducible, I’m not so sure it is the battery.

Outside of this, it is either Win 11 or the Dell hardware that has other peripheral issues. Often when disconnecting from a secondary display, the screen freaks out and I have to try again. Furthermore when logging into the laptop remotely, Windows 11 for some reason decided to wipe out cleartype, making all the font textures crunchy, despite having set Remmina to connect with best-quality settings.

but I also read some comments about doing kind of bad design on purpose. Like keeping things plain, boring, “function over form” kind of design. Is that a thing in the scene?

Not for most projects as far as I have seen. You are right that for a lot of things, UX/UI can be a bit of an after-thought, but for some projects it can get a lot of attention.

I feel as though a lot of projects have recently reached a point where they have time to begin thinking about how things look though, and it’s nice because I think it has made Linux and open source as a whole much more appealing to a wider audience.

It used to be that you would show someone a Linux desktop and they would recoil from it because of how things looked, but now when I show friends screenshots of customized window managers and applications in their current state, so many more people are attracted to it because the aesthetics now crush a lot of what the proprietary stuff has.

Even my parents in their late 60’s when I put them on Mint with Cinnamon felt as though they could more easily find where things were compared to Windows, and felt as though it is the embodiment of what an actual modern OS should be.

All in all, if anyone claims they don’t want a better UX/UI because they are focusing on “function”, it usually just means they don’t understand the meaning of the word. People like you who want to contribute on that end are very welcome.

I unplugged my company issued Windows 11 Dell laptop from its charger yesterday so that I could go ask a manager a question in their office, and the entire computer just shut the fuck off despite having full charge. I’m so glad I moved all my personal stuff to Linux.