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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't see how that's going to work out well. That's asking to end up with a mess that you're just going to have to rewrite anyways.

I do not even have a complete hatred for AI like a lot of folks do, but I don't trust it that much (nor should anyone).

You'd be better off with an actual deterministic transpiler for that (think TypeScript -> JS but the other way around I suppose), not something with a ton of random variables like an AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ooh, nice - thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This can sometimes come at the cost of intuitiveness however. As an example that just happened to me the other day, I was using Pinta which uses libadwaita and had opened an image to make some modifications to it.

All was going well until I wanted to save a new copy of it (and not override the original). The toolbar has all of these functions on it, open, save, undo/redo, etc... but not Save As.

Apparently there's a tiny little overflow button on the far right side, click it and you get a whole bunch of functions - one of them being the holy "Save As" option I was looking for. I almost went down the route of making a copy of the image outside Pinta and then just overwriting the original.

Apparently the idea of making a copy of an image is blasphemy. Even Microsoft Word when they had first moved to the Ribbon UI made the save button have a little dropdown right under the save option to reveal Save As.

Don't get me wrong, I love how some libadwaita apps look. Mission Center for example? Chef's Kiss - but it's a very simple application that all I need to do is open it to have a quick look at the very pretty looking graphs. Although the latest update seems to have gotten rid of being able to have the sidebar open persistently (now taking an extra click to change between performance graphs)... But I still need to double check to see if that's intended vs being a bug before I judge that too harshly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

LLM Studio is pretty popular, and as for code generation I know IntelliJ (so I would guess all JetBrains IDEs) has support for it with their AI tooling that's built in now. I assume there's a similar VS Code plug-in as well if that's your editor of choice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I cannot recall why I had this open on mobile, but sure!

https://ktor.io/docs/docker-compose.html

I've been working with Ktor (a web server framework for the Kotlin programming language) for about a month and a half, so the docs themselves make sense - but I haven't been working on it from my phone, so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Patching Comic Code? It was quite a while ago unfortunately, so I don't have the exact commands available, but I used their Font Patcher tool in order to do so.

From what I recall, the tricky thing was actually getting the dependencies it required to be installed properly, Font Forge would be up and running but then the script's errors indicated that it couldn't resolve all of the necessary dependencies. Not sure what OS you're on so your mileage may vary - but for Linux they now have an AppImage that looks to contain everything it needs, and for macOS/Windows if you have Docker available there also appears to be a pre-built container for it. There's also quite a few examples that I don't think were there when I used it, since I also recall not being 100% sure of what flags were needed to run it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am surprised that its actually still a product they sell and seemingly update. Looking on their product page, wow it has git support - it can be yours for $22.99/month too!

(That will also require you to give your soul to them too, via a contract signed in blood)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, so that's what those Python notebooks are that I've heard people talk about!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh hey, someone else who uses Comic Code - greetings!

I remember when I first saw it, I laughed - and then it grew on me. Then it turned into "I can't believe I am buying a derivation of comic sans" but it is actually a really nice monospaced font.

Only thing I didn't like was having to figure out how to use Font Patcher to make a copy of it that supports nerd fonts, but it was a one and done process.

(I also don't really like how it looks in my IDE the few times I find myself on Windows, but I don't really blame the font for that one - looks perfect in the same IDE on Linux...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

COSMIC is definitely a really neat desktop, and I'm looking forward to the stable release!

I have had the alphas installed and usually give it a go for a day or two each revision. Currently there's definitely some oddities regarding graphical glitches, such as after suspending the system - but I like where it's headed.

For me right now the biggest roadblock is the lack of a night light mode (blue light filtering). I've gotten so used to relying on it in other desktops.

I do have some crappy $20 blue light filtering glasses, but they're... Not great or comfortable to wear for any extended amount of time. And my monitors' built in color shifting mode is also pretty lackluster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh! Is that swap implementation the default? I got back into LE for the launch of the newest season, and while I haven't had any problems on my Ally or Deck yet, I just finished the campaign so I'm barely into endgame - I hear the issues start as you get deeper into monos...

Funnily enough, I use Cachy on my desktop, but I don't recall seeing anything regarding this, but I'm definitely happy to run it on my Ally too if it helps avoid future potential crashes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For me personally the advantage is that since the editor is opened by your user, it has all of the same config that I'm used to (such as my souped up Neovim config).

Whereas if you sudo nvim /path/to/file then the editor is opened as root and you don't have the same configuration.

 

I just had this notification come up, not sure if it's exclusive to ~~Pixel Watches~~ (appears to be Pixel Watch exclusive currently) and Pixel phones - but seems to be a more "intelligent" version of Trusted Devices since supposedly the range is shorter, and it requires your watch to be unlocked.

Seems nice. If your phone is unlocked by the watch, a screen on the watch will appear for a few seconds that lets you relock the phone (and I suspect prevents it from unlocking again until the PIN is entered).

Obligatory "trust your surroundings" disclaimer if you enable this. I haven't had the opportunity to test the range yet, but I'll certainly enjoy it at home at the very least.

Google has a support document on this feature here - provided by @[email protected]

 

It seems like the communities list that comes up has less entries than I would expect it to, is there a max amount of communities that can show up, or a different type of filter? For example, I'm subscribed to the Summit community, but it only shows if I do a search for it.

Additionally, is there a way to change the sorting for it to alphabetical order, instead of by MAUs?

Hopefully I haven't missed something obvious, or I'll feel quite silly!

 

Back in the Android Wear says, this used to be a feature on my Moto 360, but then in WearOS' next generation/rebranding the feature was lost. Under the idea of separating the watch and phone they somehow just couldn't even include the setting to opt into this.

Just like setting off a timer or alarm on the phone would go off on the watch... Alarms are back (bidirectional too!) but not the timers sadly.

I guess we finally have the technology to sync the two devices again without an external app being installed on both.

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