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agent_flounder, 5 months ago

Likewise (related to aid) churning out liberty ships at the rate of 3 ships every other day to counter lost cargo ships was totally superfluous and not at all crucial for England.

agent_flounder, 5 months ago

I’m about as straight as it gets but yeah that dude is impressive to look at.

agent_flounder, 5 months ago

No escape from reality, tongue belongs up top. I went thru a similar thing.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Yup. Colorado requires a front plate, for example.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

As the kids say: Mood. Several months ago when I was binging the show, my growing discomfort at the thought of cases going unsolved drove me to go look up the statuses; at least a few have been solved. Most haven’t though. I hope closure comes one day for each of them.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Yup

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Idk I bet he’s got contacts all throughout the NSA. He’s got a hell of a blackmailing racket going.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Glad you were there to help at least. I imagine being robbed and murdered and dying in the rain would rank towards the high end of the “worst Christmases ever”. If nothing else today will be one of your more memorable ones.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

I like the way you think!

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Hm, guess I oughta try and put up the tree soon.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

“You know it’s just a box right?”

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Feeling of power, control, like any rapist.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

That sounds pretty great. I get sick of having to switch gears for every layer. As a hobbyist it is tough to remember five or six languages well enough when only coding something a few times a year.

Since I do embedded, scripting, web front and back end this is sure tempting.

I have been hesitant to try to learn yet another language (this would make…ummm… idk I lost count ages ago). But with all the hype I may break down and give it a whirl.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

I do use python quite a bit for scripting and backend, app, and I’ve used MicroPython a little bit, preferring C, C++ for embedded. It’s pretty great for what I need.

I might mess around with Rust out of curiosity anyway, though the downsides you mention make it less compelling for me, personally. I’m not a big fan of verbose languages (e.g., Java, though I have used it for some apps).

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Is it not possible for Rust to optimize out unused functions as with C? That seems …like a strange choice if so.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Well that is rather insidious. Crap. They probably understand the reasons for the GPL very well. Doesn’t mean they support them.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Idk what the iso fuck up and I don’t code enough to appreciate whatever technical debt exists in either so I am probably sound like an idiot but…

Since I do infosec, the glaring issue for me is not being memory safe.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Since there are no replies yet I will take a stab that I hope will help get you closer and not send you off on a wild goose chase because of me being an idiot or something.

You may also know all of the following, if so sorry.

I run into Undefined symbol errors usually when some software is trying to call a function it expects to be in a library but the function isn’t because I have the wrong version of the library.

So yeah I think it may be a dependency issue.

The next thing is to figure out which package holds libharfbuzz so you can determine what version of that package you have vs what version is required by Davinci Resolve.

Something I learned about Nobara is that updating software has to either be done in the Nobara package manager or with a specific set of commands on the command line or you might break stuff (like I just did). It seems plausible that if you updated with a simple dnf update on the command line it may have caused issues.

Also… Are you installing Resolve from a Flatpak or …?

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Via Google search for libharfbuzz, It’s a “text shaping engine” – github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

I then searched Fedora distro harfbuzz and got this – src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/harfbuzz

I would then go look for it in Nobara package manager and see if it needs updating or not and see what version it is running.

Another thing I would check is what version is standard in the supported distros. I’m guessing that list includes Fedora and Ubuntu and/or Debian. If the version they expect is different from what you have then we need a way to make the right version available. I’m not sure what is the best answer but I have a few ideas that I would try if it were me.

Man I tell you, apps that have one off install approaches like this are so annoying. I’ve run into this a few times. It just leaves me feeling dirty. Why can’t they just distribute an AppImage or rpm for Pete’s sake?

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Also, what’s the plan to correct salaries for higher than normal inflation over the last several quarters?

(Or maybe that would get you fired idk)

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

What if your needs take a back seat to your trauma? That can’t be good either.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

If you’re happier now then awesome!

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

People don’t need to toughen up. If they’re struggling they are already tougher than you realize and maybe tougher than you can imagine.

Yet even the toughest can’t go it alone forever. Nor should they have to. Sucking it up isn’t healthy and it isn’t a bragging point. It is unwise.

If you need help, you need help. Nobody has the right to tell you that you don’t.

This idea that we have to be rugged individualists is bull puckey and is probably responsible for a lot of suicides especially among men.

All people thrive with support and without it they crash and burn eventually.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

That makes a lot of sense, thanks.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

UK? Yeah that shit is scary. I am gobsmacked they’re pulling that authoritarian crap.

I’m probably full of shit but here is what I’m thinking. Some things like employers not paying enough and treating employees like shit in various ways-- that is depressing if we are totally helpless. If we can form unions and protest in effective ways, that actually get some reforms going, then it feels like maybe there is some hope.

Content isn’t the right response. Neither is giving up in despair. Being able to channel anger and frustration productively seems lots better.

If you’re lonely for a bit, or some things aren’t going great you can learn to live with that, for now while also working on fixing what you can. Spinning your wheels fretting and self-pitying doesn’t help but taking action does.

Some things will always be outside of my control.

It is probably best to find a way to accept those things. Rather than stewing about them. Because all that does is make me feel worse.