JustTesting

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[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

'Programming from the ground up' the main idea of this one is to teach programming in a bottom up way, so very low level.

it's mostly about teaching (linux) assembly to beginners, so in a way it is just learning a new language. But it's mainly about understanding low level how a computer works, like registers, kernel calls, how function calls are handled, all for beginners. It's really easy to pick up.

Knowing those fundamentals can go a long way in understanding other computing concepts.

Others that come to mind are :

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
  • A Philosophy of Software Design
  • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"

I love my Glove80, had it for about a year now and couldn't be happier.

For anyone interested in alt layouts, https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/alt-layouts/index.html is one of the best introductions out there. Also https://lemmy.world/c/ergomechkeyboards is a nice resource on fancy keyboards.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 8 points 5 days ago

There was a recent paper that argues 'bullshitting' is the most apt analogy. I.e. telling something to satisfy the other person without caring about the truth content of what you say

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Adding a copilot button to a laptop, 10 years jail

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, cars are certainly important everywhere in the world and still too important in Switzerland. But relatively speaking compared to other countries they're really not that important.

Right now there's a vote coming up to build more highways, it'll be interesting to see how that turns out.

To put some numbers on things, we spend 4-5 billion per year on rail, we spend 8.8billion over the next 3 years on road maintenance plus total another 11 billion until 2030 for new road infrastructure. I wouldn't call that 'barely investing', it seems roughly equal to me.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uhm, this came out as part of a law suit against them by the record industry? So they are in the process of being sued.

While not surprising, the admission, which was made as part of court proceedings responding to a massive recording industry lawsuit against the company, shows yet again that many AI tools are trained on, essentially, anything that companies can get their hands on.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 points 2 months ago

It's not. A single miner often has like 4 GPUs running at 100% load, 24/7 and I doubt someone will build a 100 Megawatt facility with thousands of computers to get fallout tokens.

Though it is the same thing in the sense of running computer to generate worthless digital tokens. The main difference in that sense is that fallout tokens do actually have a use(in game)!

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried Jellyfin? It's a FOSS fork of emby, so pretty much a drop in replacement and it's been working very well for me.

Personally I use jellyfin as a backend, with the web interface and jellyfin app as frontend. Plus Kodi as an additional frontend for my beamer, with the Kodi Jellyfin plugin and Yatse remote to make it feel more like a TV.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 4 months ago

one way to do this from within python itself would be to use the site module with pth files to monkeypatch the code in question. This would amount to patching it each time it gets started, not modifying the python file permanently, and without having to touch the original python code at all.

This write-up goes into more details and also links to this (unmaintained) tool for doing so.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can get Fusion360 to work okay-ish in Wine. Probably not good enough for professional use but for my hobby use case it works well enough (sometimes a bit laggy but usable). this does most of the heavy lifting in getting it installed.

[–] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

there's a lot of stuff you can do, and you can end up with something usable, though not great, at least not in my experience. NVidia's drivers are to blame, they don't really work well with opengl and have lots of issues (and also regressions).

The 550 beta driver is ok-ish, steam flickers but I can play games. Drivers before 535 also somewhat worked, though it really depends on your GPU.

But I don't think you will have it working acceptably without some work.

Here's some pointers on stuff to try:

  • check protondb for how other people got games to work, you can filter by your GPU.
  • try running through gamescope or gamemoderun
  • try the modeset=1 (and maybe fbdev) kernel parameters for nvidia drm
  • and there's tons of env vars and other things that can help, I couldn't summarize them all here, but as a pointer: XWAYLAND_NO_GLAMOR=1, WLR_RENDERER=vulkan, LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia, GBM_BACKEND=nvidia-drm (for the drm above), __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
  • try the beta drivers, if those are available somehow (I'm on arch so they were easy to install), or just different driver versions in general.

The above is meant more as hints than something to copy paste, so use at your own risk. You can of course always just install a second DE with X11 and log into that for gaming and use your regular DE for everything else

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