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  1. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

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    Fedora with Sway. I really like Sway. I really dislike that I basically have to build a DE around it. Really wish that something like "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager" gets...

    Fedora with Sway.

    I really like Sway. I really dislike that I basically have to build a DE around it. Really wish that something like "Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager" gets popular so I can just swap my preferred WM into an existing DE.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    It'll Be Okay by Mouse I don't know that I've ever read an autobiographical manhwa before, but I really enjoyed this. I appreciated how the author was about to strike a balance between expressing...

    It'll Be Okay by Mouse

    Mouse was just a regular college student when her legs suddenly started to go numb. At first, she brushed it off, thinking it was nothing. But as the symptoms worsened and even walking became painful, a visit to the hospital revealed something she never expected. What do you do when your body begins to betray you, and nothing feels certain anymore?

    I don't know that I've ever read an autobiographical manhwa before, but I really enjoyed this. I appreciated how the author was about to strike a balance between expressing fears and regrets she has through her medical journey, with her humor and the love she receives from people in her life. I found the art really endearing.

    It's also nice that it's a pretty short read too. The series completed in Korea at 38 chapters, and Webtoons has gotten up to releasing about half of that.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on No one can force me to have a secure website!!! in ~tech

  4. Comment on 'Avatar Aang' movie footage seems to have leaked months ahead of Paramount+ premiere in ~movies

  5. Comment on Continous feed pickle jar? in ~food

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    Haven't thought about Cody in years. I used to watch him a bunch, but I forget why I unsubscribed. Seeing his channel come up from Tildes was a welcome blast from the past, and appreciate your...

    Haven't thought about Cody in years. I used to watch him a bunch, but I forget why I unsubscribed. Seeing his channel come up from Tildes was a welcome blast from the past, and appreciate your summary of what's happened in Cody land.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on 'Avatar Aang' movie footage seems to have leaked months ahead of Paramount+ premiere in ~movies

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    You can find the clips pretty easily (don't know what Tildes' ediquette is about sharing leaks). I love the original series, had no clue this movie existed, but it's now the most excited I am for...

    X/Twitter user @ImStillDissin sent fans of the original fire, water, earth, and air-bending gang into a frenzy when they said Nickelodeon "accidentally" emailed them the full film, posting what appears to be two scenes from the project today. If real, it could be one of the more substantial leaks of recent memory, showing Aang, Zuko, Katara, Sokka, and Toph older and reunited with a new voice cast.

    You can find the clips pretty easily (don't know what Tildes' ediquette is about sharing leaks).

    I love the original series, had no clue this movie existed, but it's now the most excited I am for the franchise's future. The animation looks amazing. The humor landed for me. The voices are kinda jarring though, I didn't feel like they really matched the original characters.

    really hoping this isn't some elaborate ai generated hoax

    13 votes

  8. Comment on Looking for more pop / rock songs with sick sax solos! Got any ideas? in ~music

  9. Comment on Keychron Hardware Design — hardware design files for Keychron keyboards and mice in ~tech

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    Thought this was worth sharing because I think it's really cool when companies make their designs available for people to learn from/tinker with.

    Production-grade hardware design files for Keychron keyboards and mice.

    Study real CAD. Remix plates and cases. Design compatible accessories. Learn from how real products are built.

    This project is source-available for personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial use is not allowed.

    Thought this was worth sharing because I think it's really cool when companies make their designs available for people to learn from/tinker with.

    12 votes

  11. Comment on OpenAI to acquire Astral (creators of ruff, uv, and ty) in ~tech

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    Astral's announcement: https://astral.sh/blog/openai I've really enjoyed Astral's output over the last few years. ruff, uv, and especially ty have been transformative for my experience writing...

    Astral has built some of the most widely used open source Python tools, helping developers move faster with modern tooling like uv, Ruff, and ty. These tools power millions of developer workflows and have become part of the foundation of modern Python development. As part of our developer-first philosophy, after closing OpenAI plans to support Astral’s open source products. By bringing Astral’s tooling and engineering expertise to OpenAI, we will accelerate our work on Codex and expand what AI can do across the software development lifecycle.

    Astral's announcement: https://astral.sh/blog/openai

    I've really enjoyed Astral's output over the last few years. ruff, uv, and especially ty have been transformative for my experience writing Python. Astral hit the scene as my frustration was growing towards Python's ecosystem, where the best developer tooling were used as moats for major corporations (pylance + debugpy in vscode, pycharm for Jetbrains, etc...). Astral seemed to offer really compelling alternatives, that ran really fast. And it was a bonus to recognize so many names from the rust and python blogosphere in the contributor list for those project.

    I guess I was naive in my hope that Astral would be successful enough with hosted offerings (e.g. pyx) to avoid needing to get acquired.

    I don't know that I'd go as far as to say that they've lost my trust. But I am disappointed that their priorities will undoubtedly shift away from those of the developer community towards those of OpenAI. Those two aren't guaranteed to be aligned, so it feels like we're sliding back to a world where the best python tooling is owned by major corporations.

    9 votes

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

  14. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I don't know that I really have any complaints, granted I also haven't used it for particularly long. My use case is as basic as it can be: Only need to support one user Don't need any...

    I don't know that I really have any complaints, granted I also haven't used it for particularly long. My use case is as basic as it can be:

    • Only need to support one user
    • Don't need any collaborative features
    • Don't have any fancy auth requirements (yet)

    Is there anything that DAVx5 + Radicale doesn't do that would warrant you rebuilding from the ground up?

    2 votes

  15. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I'm not actually sure that Radicale supports vCard 4.0 yet. Radicale depends on vobject for their vCard implementation. vobject only supports vCard 3.0. The radicale dev made a PR with a vCard 4.0...

    It's especially neat that they handle the more modern v3+v4 features which even Google with the stock contacts app seem to struggle with.

    I'm not actually sure that Radicale supports vCard 4.0 yet.

    Radicale depends on vobject for their vCard implementation. vobject only supports vCard 3.0. The radicale dev made a PR with a vCard 4.0 implementation, but the maintainer hasn't followed up in a couple months.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    My last phone died suddenly and I had no backups (💀). In the spirit of learning from mistakes, one of my goals with my new phone is to treat it as a thin client as much as possible Contact Sync...

    My last phone died suddenly and I had no backups (💀).

    In the spirit of learning from mistakes, one of my goals with my new phone is to treat it as a thin client as much as possible

    Contact Sync

    Saw a link for DAVx5, which taught me that Android has pretty robust support for syncing your contacts (and calendars) to non-Google accounts. You can use the first party apps (Calendar, Contact, etc...) as frontends to whatever service actually stores your address book and calendar, and use DAVx5 to handle the synchronization.

    Radicale was the first self hosted option I found, took 20 minutes to get set up, and has done everything I needed so far. I've never regularly used a calendar before (partially because I didn't want to bother with Google), so Radicale's calendar and task support has been a nice plus.

    I feel like I'm now just stepping into the 21st century, since the part that's been bringing me the most joy is that I have my contacts and calendar syncing between my phone and computer :D

    Making my NAS available in Android's native file picker (DocumentProvider)

    I've wanted a more convenient way to have apps on my phone use files from my NAS directly, instead of having to manually synchronize a copy of that file on my phone.

    I was messing around my with my file manager of choice (MiXplorer), and ended up accidentally figuring out how to do this. Unintuitively, you need to select the folder and add it to the app's homepage. For whatever reason, this also adds the folder to the system file picker that opens up whenever an app requests to open a file.

    Which is huge, since it opens up apps to be able to load and write to files from whatever storage backends MiXplorer supports (i.e. a lot). It also has the added benefit that any "important files" aren't stored on device in the event I lose it.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Theo Parrish - Falling Up [Carl Craig Remix] (2005) in ~music

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    This is my sign to listen to more Theo Parrish. I've had his song with some Hiatus Kaiyote members on repeat, but I've never explored the rest of his discography.

    This is my sign to listen to more Theo Parrish.

    I've had his song with some Hiatus Kaiyote members on repeat, but I've never explored the rest of his discography.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I'm jealous. Trails the Third is next on my list of trails games to play, but I keep fruitlessly waiting for Nihon Falcom to decide it's okay to discount their nearly 20 year old game more than 25%.

    I finished Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero last week. Took over 100hrs, but still took me less than a year, which is very good for me and JRPGs.

    I'm jealous. Trails the Third is next on my list of trails games to play, but I keep fruitlessly waiting for Nihon Falcom to decide it's okay to discount their nearly 20 year old game more than 25%.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    A wave of nostalgia hit me when I saw this uses Gen 2 art. I forgot how much I missed that.

    In particular I’ve been playing Pokemon Emerald Seaglass, a ROM hack for Emerald which visually overhauls the game - it looks great! - and adds various QoL improvements, notably a party-wide EXP share available early and running shoes available immediately with an auto-run toggle.

    A wave of nostalgia hit me when I saw this uses Gen 2 art. I forgot how much I missed that.

    2 votes