walthervonstolzing

walthervonstolzing, 5 months ago

I believe ‘Harry’ is the Welsh version of English ‘Henry’, & German ‘Heinrich’. … At least that’s the impression I got from Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’ plays (H. IV 1-2, & H. V)

walthervonstolzing, 5 months ago

What I can’t quite make sense of, is how ‘James’ itself is a diminuitive of ‘Jacob’.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

GNU-Epoch is not the UNIX-Epoch.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

awk predates perl as well as python by a pretty large margin (1978); it’s useful, of course, for processing things in a pipeline, but as it became obsolete as a general-purpose scripting language, users have had less and less of a reason to learn its syntax in detail – so nowadays it shows up in one-liners where it could be replaced by a tiny bit of cut.

I had worked through a good bit of the O’Reilly ‘sed & awk’ book – the first programming book I got, after being enticed by shell scripting in general. Once I learned a bit of Python, & got better at vim scripting, though, I started using it less and less; today I barely remember its syntax.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

FWIW, I’m typing this on the latest GNOME, on wayland, on nvidia proprietary drivers; and it works just fine — EXCEPT for suspend & resume, which is annoying to be sure; but on 2 screens with different refresh rates & different dpi ratios I at least don’t run into some of the weird behavior I do run into using X11.

I used to be an Xfce purist; but this particular setup is even less taxing on the GPU (GTX 970) compared to Xfce’s standard compositor (around 20W on light usage, vs. 35+W); & and the font rendering is slighly better, which is a huge factor AFAIC.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

Hi; I rely on nvidia-smi mostly; but the nvidia-settings gui app also shows temperatures & wattage (though that app might be x11-only).

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Skimmed over the whole article – I wish this had been available back when I was trying to piece together the basics from the documentation. There really needs to be a 2nd part, though, with some discussion of the GVariant signatures, which the author says were ‘beyond the scope of’ this article – which is true; nevertheless, understanding that syntax (and how to use it e.g. with gdbus) is an absolute requirement for using dbus properly; and as a silly amateur, I lost so much time over them.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

Better cite Wozniak as the one who ‘made’ Apple; but anyway.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

This can’t go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can’t avoid Tivoization!

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

Oh wow I didn’t realize he repeated ‘developers, developers, …’ 666 times on that event.

walthervonstolzing, 6 months ago

Those are Stimpies though. Stimpies of the Ren faire.

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

My Mac died, at which time I was already a commandline enthusiast, & unable to afford a new Mac.

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9e3c261c-62b4-4ff5-bd8c-a598b7b5aba2.jpeg

I thought… well… nevermind…

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

You must be kidding; Yoda was one of Morrowind’s key characters, alongside Teela, Master Bindo, Mister Rogers, and Maiq the Squid (complete ensemble pictured below).

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a7b9bc5f-4717-450b-a908-20a209710bfd.webp

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

Little known fact: A Stanford mainframe kept logs of the activities of the ‘wheels’ in a journal – the ‘journal of the wheels’. Young George Lucas, who briefly attended the university, found that journal, and became fascinated with the ‘Wheel Wars’. He later drafted a document that he called ‘Journal of the Whills’, based largely on what he read on those logs; this is the draft that later became ‘Whill Wars’, and ultimately, of course, ‘Star Wars’.

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

Thanks indeed; but I think I’d be more impressed if it were actually true.

(but yeah, the first draft of Star Wars was called ‘journal of the whills’.)

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

Somewhere im the bowels of youtube, there’s the footage of Stallman quarreling with B. Lunduke on this very question. It was a micro-scandal some 15 yrs. ago, I think.

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

This was on the ‘Linux Action Show’ on Jupiter Broadcasting; Lunduke used to be a very annoying co-host before getting replaced by Matt Hartley.

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

‘should have’ – but didn’t? What happened then?

walthervonstolzing, 7 months ago

Yeah, I’m sure that was the intention; but the wording is off, so I wanted to take a little jibe at it.

walthervonstolzing, 8 months ago

You mention ‘the settings’; though it’s ambiguous whether you looked at the desktop’s, wm’s, or panel’s settings – the relevant settings are the panel plugins’ own little settings widgets, which you can call from a right click menu on the panel plugins themselves.

It’s a bit convoluted; though that’s the so called ‘trade-off’ for Xfce’s modularity.