notTheCat

The point of this post is to find out if people are interested in reading such stuff or it's not worth the trouble.

So I'm a software engineering graduate who grew up and still in Syria, and we can say we have pretty special conditions we live in, power is out most of the time, and the internet connection isn't that good, plus the shit ton of sites that are blocked by US sanctions (even GitHub acts like a removed here), not to mention I have pretty old hardware that I love to use the most of it.

So most of the times I come up with weird workarounds and manual interventions to get stuff working, so I'm thinking about sharing such workarounds and so, both in English and Arabic if people want that too.

I've been using GNU/Linux for quite some time some time so most of my adventures happen on these systems.

So, I would appreciate it if you guys let me know what you think of this, and if you find it worth reading, I don't actually have any idea of where to post my tiny adventures (it's mostly gonna be your usual text and images)

I am a fresh software engineering graduate and I am looking for something to improve my problem solving skills, while I did learn about basic algorithms and data structures, I feel like I could learn further more, I know about big O, fast sorting algorithms, dynamic programming, backtracking, binary trees (Although I do not think I know everything about them), I also know about low level memory concepts.

I am sure I forgot to mention some of the stuff I also know about, but I hope the ones I mentioned give a good insights on where I should move onto next.

Long story short, I don't have the resources to keep any PC on for a reasonable time, so I want to make use of all the hardware I can find, I have an old iPad 4th generation lying around, I know anything related to programming becomes annoying when using a touchscreen but it's what I got, I don't mind jailbreaking it, or even have a Linux distro that actually works on (I'm fine with compiling stuff myself too)

I've read some of this article, it doesn't propose any algorithms for my case, I'm super positive about these boundaries.

If there is an offline algorithm that is optimized for my case it could help me around.

I want to use Lua filters in Pandoc but the LSP keeps complaining about not finding pandoc module in globals, I don't have a pandoc-lua executable on my system, only pandoc-cli, and there's no such thing in my package manager either, I've tried pointing workspace.library to pandoc-cli but it didn't work, I'm a Lua noob too, and I'm on Arch, I'm fine if I have to compile Pandoc myself if that solves the problem

I want to compile a docx file into a Typst file, I believe deep down docx is XML, and Typst is close to markdown with interesting functionalities, is that feasible? Note that Typst does have syntax to define functions and call them and I want to create special functions during the code gen step, is ANTLR the right tool for the job? Are there better tools? I want to have as few bugs as possible

Recently I've seen news about adult swim games going delisted probably off steam, one of my fav games is published by adult swim games and I want to know what will happen to it, will steam strike it off my list even if I have it installed? Will I still be able to back it up and restore its backups? Will I still be able to matchmake through steam?

I'm building a sw that should be able to read the papers read from a scanner and process them with a minimal user interaction, basically I don't want the user to jump into another sw, output an image or doc, and insert that into my sw, this kind of problem seems to be fixed when it comes to printers printing, but I couldn't find something similar for scanners (paper scanners especially, I have no use for QR and barcode scanners), the best I could find is USB HID interface, which seems pretty low level and if I'm not wrong device-specific so I have to write the implementation for each model I need to support (please correct me if I'm wrong), I know this is a Linux community but does Windows have something similar too (my sw will probably need to run on it)

Sorry if this isn't the most suitable community

So I've messed up by not formatting my partitions on installation and now things are buggy, dbus returns permission denied on starting is one of the prominent bugs at the moment

Two days ago, I did a fresh Arch install, everything went fine, then I changed my mind about my HDD partitioning and reformatted it, and installed Arch again, the install boots okay and all, but NetworkManager was down, when I investigated it, I found out that dbus service fails to start here is what systemctl status dbus returns:

dbus-broker-launch[383]: launcher_add_services @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/launcher.c +805 dbus-broker-launch[383]: launcher_run @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/launcher.c +1416 dbus-broker-launch[383]: run @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/main.c +152 dbus-broker-launch[383]: main @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/main.c +178 dbus-broker-launch[383]: Exiting due to fatal error: -107

I've run journalctl with some filtering and found this too:

systemd-tmpfiles[327]: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 999) -> /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of var/lib/dbus systemd-tmpfiles[327]: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 999) -> /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of run/dbus

I ran ls / -l and found out that my boot partition is owned by a user named 999 and group adm (what the hell is this?)

I've tried installing dbus-daemon-units and remove dbus-broker and dbus-broker-units, now I got a different problem which was that dbus was timing out on start, so the problem might not be caused by dbus itself, I really don't want to reinstall Arch again, I'm chrooting into my install for internet connection too