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Is there a text editor/notes app that adds Unicode symbols?
  • Why not just use RTF documents?

  • What are your favourite controllers?
  • The PS2 one is pretty much the same, isn't it? I've never used one of those myself though.

  • What are your favourite controllers?
  • PS3 (that’s the Dualshock iirc?), Steam Controller, and the Wii U Pro Controller (I quite like the two analog sticks at the top). In that order probably.

  • Since the last update, I have to snip off the end of my password to log in
  • That probably means it was silently cutting off the password until now. Cursed, reminds me of the original unix crypt() which I think did the same.

  • Report shows that AAA games for iPhone and iPad aren’t exactly a hit with users
  • Eh, that’s not really true. Games from decades ago still have a good chance to play fine on modern Windows because Microsoft cares about backwards compatibility. That’s like one of the main appeals of Win32.

    I don’t think there’s a problem with deprecating and removing APIs like Apple does in principle but if you combine non-free/proprietary focused ecosystem with that, like they also do, it’s a software preservation disaster.

  • Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch
  • While users can see the toggle if they have installed the iOS 18 developer beta

    Anyone know what toggle they are talking about? I’m not seeing anything in Messages settings nor Cellular settings. Or do they mean the toggle is US-exclusive?

    edit: Ah, I found a screenshot. It’s supposed to be under the MMS messaging toggle in Messages settings but doesn’t show up for everyone yet (including me).

  • Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled
  • I'm not opposed to paying for online services in general, I'm just not going to pay them to make the site worse with every update. (Plus I kinda categorically refuse to give Google money at this point.)

  • Indie games using retro graphics
  • I need to mention the Enigma Trilogy here. It uses the retro graphics so well to its advantage to create a strong horror atmosphere that I don’t think could have been done anywhere near as well with high fidelity graphics.

    And it has a very small audience and definitely deserves a lot more so go check these games out! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/41914/THE_ENIGMA_TRILOGY/

  • Concurrency models of Rust and Golang
  • I’m talking about the text in the “The problem with async” section in the article you linked in the OP.

  • Should I make this: (distroless) containers builder, by taking list of packages or a gentoo ebuild file
  • Unless you specifically want ebuilds, take a look at nixpkgs dockerTools. It does everything you list here.

    https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools

  • Concurrency models of Rust and Golang
  • Can we stop referring to the "what color is your function" post for languages it doesn't apply for? Contrary to Javascript (where it does apply), Rust with tokio has adapters for both async -> sync (Runtime::spawn_blocking) and sync -> async (Runtime::block_on). It probably isn't a good idea to overuse spawn_blocking but calling an async function from a sync one is literally no problem.

  • How the hell should I even switch mail providers?
  • No. You don't own that. Plus you need direct control over DNS records since you need to set up MX and TXT records and I think some other records as well.

  • How the hell should I even switch mail providers?
  • While you're at this, get yourself your own domain so should you ever want to move provider again you don't have to change your mail address again and can just point the new provider to the same domain

  • Removed
    “Systemd is the future”
  • It was added in v256, maybe you don't have that yet

  • Are your kitchen knives angry knives?
  • official knife post

  • New poll finds Europeans think America will leave them out to dry
  • The alternative is leaving them to get “special operationed” without any outside help, and then Poland or whoever Putin thinks he deserves to take land from is next, isn’t it?

  • Do you still have a pay phone in your city or town?
  • There’s one at the main station. It said out of order on the display when I looked at it. And they removed the one in my home town near where I grew up, I think there’s a phone for emergencies only now in its place or something like that.

  • OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity
  • I mean I give it a 100% chance if they are allowed to keep going like this considering the enormous energy and water consumption, essentially slave labor to classify data for training because it's such a huge amount that it would never be financially viable to fairly pay people, and end result which is to fill the internet with garbage.

    You really don't need to be an insider to see that.

  • Introducing the DreamBerd Vision Pro
    github.com Introducing the DreamBerd Vision Pro · TodePond DreamBerd · Discussion #580

    Today we're proud to announce the DreamBerd Vision Pro. It's not AR or VR. It's spatial computing. And Lu Wilson has done a FULL COMPREHENSIVE VIDEO REVIEW that's completely unbiased and unsponsore...

    Introducing the DreamBerd Vision Pro · TodePond DreamBerd · Discussion #580
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    Linux doesn't serve birth time attribute over NFS

    According to this Phoronix article, Linux should support the birth time attribute in the NFS server since 5.18. However, it doesn't show up in the stat output when looking at the file through the NFS mount, or elsewhere (at least, the Dolphin file browser and also a macOS client):

    % stat file File: file Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1048576 regular empty file Device: 0,70 Inode: 103416894 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ saiko) Gid: ( 100/ users) Access: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100 Modify: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100 Change: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100 Birth: -

    What gives? Running stat on the server directly, it shows the attribute. The backing file system is ext4, kernel 6.5.12. The client is using kernel 6.1.63.

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