Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

@b0rk I do read-write constantly, and judging by the replies I'm one of the few who doesn't hate it. It basically forced me to get comfortable working in detached HEAD state.

It'd be nice if git submodule update could keep branches attached.

https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Ubuntu upgrade borked desktop, new streaming setup on Manjaro. Playing Ultimate NES Remix.

Yay, I just made a working PKGBUILD for https://github.com/Stary2001/InputClient-SDL

I'm not sure if I can submit it to AUR though because the author of that program didn't bother with a license.

"But what about <well-known suffering-causer>?" Hope that they learn better, or that their power is taken away from them. Hope that they do not suffer in turn, hope not for retribution. Know that the path they are on does not lead to happiness, and have sympathy for that.

I've glimpsed this for most of my life, but I didn't understand why most people are missing it. You really do have to love everyone, including those who cause more suffering than you could fathom, including parts of yourself that hurt you, or that you're ashamed of. There can be no room for hate. You can call no one a sinner. The world will fling shame at you, and you must not let it touch you. They'll tell you that some are not deserving of love, and you must not believe them.

There's a kind of power that comes from loving everyone, no exceptions. It's power to change yourself. To see clearly what's important. To know that everything really will be OK, even if the worst happens, while still caring about the suffering that is there, still wanting to live and make things better.

@jk The primary concern with duplication isn't space, it's security. If each application ships with its own copy of a library then they tend to not get security updates.

@stib @jk Kind of, but I can't drop an old binary into it, someone has to package it.

@jk I'd actually love to have something where I could drop in an old Linux binary and it goes "oh, you need a whole 32-bit Linux stack with an obsolete version of GTK. I'll just shove that in a directory somewhere so it doesn't interfere with your core system".

@jk In practice Windows has a lot fewer "system packages" to begin with. Mostly there's OS libraries and stuff shipping with the application.

I feel like a middle ground is possible where your libraries can be shared between applications but they're not "global installs" so installing one doesn't require removing another.

Even a "package manager" that emulates the Windows thing of dropping in a dll would actually be pretty good imo, but to my knowledge no one is doing that.

@jk OK so this particular thing requires a specific audio system (that is probably obsolete) and can't use wrappers. That makes sense to me. And the package manager may have correctly determined that in order to satisfy that requirement, it must replace the audio system.

I feel that this is not a helpful suggestion and the package manager is too clever. Although in my experience that usually results in confusing errors where I have to try 10 different things to figure out what it wants.

Writing and tracking a todo list is way easier when it's so your domme knows when she can mess with you without interfering with things you need to get done.

@birb https://buttondown.email/amelore/rss

Yep, work and personal desktop both on Manjaro now.

Personal desktop very broken by upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04. I think I'm just going to install Manjaro.