agent_flounder

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

I appreciate what glorious eggroll does. And I’ve had no issues with the few games I’ve played on Steam.

I’ve been running Nobara for several months and it has been very stable though I find it is lacking a little polish around the edges in some areas. Kind of like how Mint was when I first started about 10y ago.

I’m trying out Fedora now for a while. On kernel 6.5. I was on 6.1 in Nobara. I have one game that’s crashing now (it wasn’t crashing in Nobara … go figure). So I may have to go back to Nobara or try to figure out what they did with Nobara vs Fedora that would help.

When Mint gets to kernel 6.x some day, I might jump back. (5.19 doesn’t support my GPU). Overall Mint became very polished. I hardly ever ran into weird issues. Although I do remember feeling Cinnamon blew up every so often.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

The software is almost certainly provided as is, with risks assumed by the person installing it.

Still, I doubt any dev wants a catastrophic outcome and takes steps to avoid that or warn the end user if the code is more likely to bork something.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the dev to do their best but it’s also not like you can sue them and win, most likely.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Oh holy shit you’re right! Badlands Booker! Total legend. I actually met him at an eating contest way back. Seemed like a really cool guy.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

One of us could probably put that together pretty quickly lol

But if we did want to build a new distro recommender… Maybe there are like 5 or so questions that would be relevant.

Just off the top of my head some possibilities:

If you’re a beginner, Mint is a good choice. One could argue Ubuntu (noobs don’t gaf about snap if they even know what it is). I think noobs would want good GUI tools and a very popular, very polished distro. So issues are infrequent but finding answers is easy.

Into gaming? There’s a few distros that come up like Nobara. (I’ve seen Manjaro mentioned but idk).

If you want something that looks kinda like macos there’s Endeavor. Does anyone recommend that one these days? I don’t usually see it mentioned.

Idk.

You’re probably right, an rng that chooses between a few distros might be better lol

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Morning, wood!

agent_flounder, 6 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, 6 months ago

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

agent_flounder, 7 months ago

Omg Lisp. I’m dying. Our object oriented programming class in college involved programming in Scheme. This was… a while ago.

Saving this forever.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

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

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

Yup. Colorado requires a front plate, for example.

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

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

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

Yup

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

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

Feeling of power, control, like any rapist.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

“You know it’s just a box right?”

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, 7 months ago

Sweet, welcome! :) I know the feeling. I just finished reinstalling Nobara after being dumb and goofing up patching. Then I tried to fix it and made the system totally unusable and I gave up.

A while ago I jacked my grub config and decided to try to fix it manually. I managed to stumble through it and learned some stuff, though I am still fuzzy on some details.

I mostly want to just use the computer without a lot of headache and both Mint and Nobara have been great for coding (various), electronics design, 3d modeling and printing, graphics, photo editing, and such.

agent_flounder, 7 months ago

You might want to check out OpenMV Cam which does some cool machine vision stuff and runs MicroPython.

I would probably start looking at OpenCV software for RasPi if you need more processing power.

I’ve been playing with ESP32 lately. I’m frankly kind of shocked at how well documented the API is and how well it all works. And it’s mostly open. I haven’t done anything with ESP32 Cams I bought, yet. No idea what is possible there or where to start.

Hopefully that helps.

Meanwhile I’m over here trying to wrap up a simple Bluetooth-enabled amp project for the last couple months lol. I should do more with machine vision.

agent_flounder, 7 months ago

How many pins does it have in the circuit board?

Someone said it might be an encoder but I see “103” on it which is used on potentiometers to indicate 10k ohm (10 x 10^3)

agent_flounder, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

That…isn’t quite right.

Git is a distributed version control system for software development^1.

Version control allows you to manage code versions and changes to code. You take snapshots, so to speak, of every change you make.

Distributed, in this context, means multiple developers can write code on each of their development computers and merge the changes, usually to a centralized git server.

GitHub runs a web-based git server at GitHub.com so teams can store their code in a central location on the internet.

1. Ok, technically, even though It’s often used for software source code, it can be used for any set of files and directories.

agent_flounder, 7 months ago

Toss some cheap canned mushrooms in there. Top Chef!