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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Shut up and take my money!!!

I switched from Manjaro to CachyOS and OMG! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

within 6 months running it as a desktop OS with KDE it broke twice during update to the point that it was easier to reinstall than to fix. it maybe better a a barebones setup, but as a desktop, I had issues with it.

I switched from Manjaro to CachyOS and OMG! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'm not sure where did you get an idea that I was complaining about something. I've been running Linux for over 15 years. I know how to maintain my system. I was simply saying that I found a distro that's better FOR ME than the one I was using.

I switched from Manjaro to CachyOS and OMG! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It the breakage happens, hopefully Timeshift will save me. That's the best thing that I learned while running EndeavourOS.

I switched from Manjaro to CachyOS and OMG! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I am finding that out too. much better than Manjaro's repos.

I switched from Manjaro to CachyOS and OMG! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

While I don't have much in a way of hard data, it feels much snappier. Also, it seems to utilize less ram. I believe the difference lies in the Cachy's repo. A lot of the apps I use daily are not installable from Manjaro repos and so I had to use flatpaks and AppImages. AUR was also a hit or miss for me. Catchy, on the other hand had most of the apps I use in it's repo. Things like Tutanota desktop client and Zen browser as an example.

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I switched from Manjaro to CachyOS and OMG! (discuss.online)
 

I first started using Manjaro after being on Debian/Ubuntu derivatives for years. Mint used to be my daily driver, then LMDE for a while. After struggling with Endeavour OS, through 2 or 3 breaking updates requiring a reinstall I made Manjaro with KDE Plasma my home for several years.

Manjaro was stable and, I thought blazing fast, compared to Mint. Everything just worked and was cutting edge. I thought my distro hopping days were over and I found the one that works for me.

Recently I've been reading about Cachy OS and decided to give it a whirl on my test Dell Latitude. Turns out that, I had no idea how fast and lean Linux could be on that off-lease business laptop! I know have it installed on my main Laptop and it's leaps and bounds faster than Manjaro, has none of the bloat and just works! I know it's early, but I think I have found a new home! I have timeshift set up just in case, so I'll see how stable it is over the next few months, but so far I am impressed.

Highly recommend everyone who's into Arch and rolling release to try it.

OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience in c/[email protected]
White House says it has tech that can "manipulate time and space" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Growing up in USSR we had a saying: a comrad comes to you with a shovel, points to a patch of land and says: "you will dig from here and until supper".

I bet White House, with it's ties to Putin's Russia, means something similar.

Great take on "Why don't more people use Linux?" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

totally this!!! Most users just need a browser and an email client at best. They couldn't care less about the OS that's sitting on top of. If they could go to a store and see a $1000 laptop with Windows and $800 laptop with Linux being sold side by side, majority would pick the cheaper one if they could still get online with it.

Help! Connecting to IBM Informix DB in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems that the JBDC driver has a requirement for having 2 JAR files (JDBC driver and BLOB object) which I have but can't figure out how to specify the path.

Help! Connecting to IBM Informix DB in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm trying to connect to an existing DB hosted on IBM Informix Dynamic Server. Using Postgress is not an option in my case. I have not tried SQL Alchemy yet, but I suspect it'll have the same issues as it appears to be just a way of accessing other libraries (such as JDBC), which I am already having problems with.

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Help! Connecting to IBM Informix DB (discuss.online)
 

Hello, Python Community!

Has someone been able to successfully connect to an IBM Informix DB with a Python app? I have the following environment: DEV: Windows 11 Python 3.13.3 64-bit VS Code

DB: IBM Informix 12.10 hosted in Azure I'm able to connect to it usind DBeaver (JDBC)

I have tried the following libraries to try to establish the connection: ibm_db: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\ibm_db_test.py", line 1, in <module> import ibm_db as db ImportError: DLL load failed while importing ibm_db: The specified module could not be found._

pyodbc: I have an ODBC DSN connection established Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\pyodbc_test.py", line 3, in <module> conn = db.connect("Dsn='DSN_NAME'") pyodbc.InterfaceError: ('IM002', '[IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified (0) (SQLDriverConnect)')

JayDeBeAPI: I have downloaded the same JAR files as DBeaver uses and copied them to a dir local to the project and added the CLASSPATH variable: set "CLASSPATH=%PROJECT_ROOT%\Java\jbc-4.50.10.1.jar:%PROJECT_ROOT%\Java\bson-3.8.0.jar"

File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\JayDeBeApi_test.py", line 3, in <module> dbConn = db.connect("com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver", "jdbc:informix-sqli://hostname:port/db_name:INFORMIXSERVER=server_name", ['user', 'pass']) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 412, in connect jconn = _jdbc_connect(jclassname, url, driver_args, jars, libs) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 221, in _jdbc_connect_jpype jpype.JClass(jclassname) ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jpype\_jclass.py", line 99, in __new__ return _jpype._getClass(jc) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^ TypeError: Class com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver is not found

PyInformix: SADeprecationWarning: The dbapi() classmethod on dialect classes has been renamed to import_dbapi(). Implement an import_dbapi() classmethod directly on class <class 'pyinformix.ifx_jdbc.InformixJDBCDialect'> to remove this warning; the old .dbapi() classmethod may be maintained for backwards compatibility. engine = create_engine('informix+ifx_jdbc://hostname:port/db_name;INFORMIXSERVER=server_name;delimident=y;user=user;password=pass') Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\peterg\source\python\dbApp\PyInformix_test.py", line 5, in <module> conn = engine.connect() File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 3274, in connect return self._connection_cls(self) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 146, in __init__ self._dbapi_connection = engine.raw_connection() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\base.py", line 3298, in raw_connection return self.pool.connect() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 449, in connect return _ConnectionFairy._checkout(self) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 1264, in _checkout fairy = _ConnectionRecord.checkout(pool) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 713, in checkout rec = pool._do_get() File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\impl.py", line 179, in _do_get with util.safe_reraise(): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\util\langhelpers.py", line 146, in __exit__ raise exc_value.with_traceback(exc_tb) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\impl.py", line 177, in _do_get return self._create_connection() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 390, in _create_connection return _ConnectionRecord(self) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 675, in __init__ self.__connect() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 901, in __connect with util.safe_reraise(): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\util\langhelpers.py", line 146, in __exit__ raise exc_value.with_traceback(exc_tb) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\pool\base.py", line 897, in __connect self.dbapi_connection = connection = pool._invoke_creator(self) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\create.py", line 646, in connect return dialect.connect(*cargs, **cparams) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\default.py", line 625, in connect return self.loaded_dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams) # type: ignore[no-any-return] # NOQA: E501 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 412, in connect jconn = _jdbc_connect(jclassname, url, driver_args, jars, libs) File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jaydebeapi\__init__.py", line 221, in _jdbc_connect_jpype jpype.JClass(jclassname) ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\peterg\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\jpype\_jclass.py", line 99, in __new__ return _jpype._getClass(jc) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^ TypeError: Class com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver is not found

IfxPy:

Uanble to install, seems that it does not support the latest Python 3 version.

Any help would be appreciated. I can attach the sample code of every method I tried if that would help.

With respect to nuclear energy, in what ways will it help alleviate the climate crisis and where will it not? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nuclear is much more green than any fossil fuel based energy. It's also much more stable than renewables because it does not rely on the sun, wind, tides, etc. Renewables need more development around grid-scale storage. This is where nuclear can be a good transitional stop to an all-renewable energy future.

There are drawbacks to nuclear, of course, storage of waste material is chief among them.

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Lada Convertible concept (www.tumblr.com)
 

Let's resurrect SCM on Lemmy!

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Changing account credentials (discuss.online)
 

Not sure if I'm missing something, but I have changed my password on one of my accounts and couldn't find an option in Sync to update it. Is there an option? I had to remove the account and re-add it back to update the password which, IMHO, is a less than ideal way of handling this scenario.

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