I love the soil science memes! I don’t have much background to understand them myself, but I have a pedologist friend who gets a kick out of them.

What a comfy business-class runabout they’ve got! Why didn’t they use that more often?

Probably refers to Trump’s proposal to mass deport Palestinians, and to turn Palestine into a “luxury riviera”. But given Netanyahu’s own horrifying behavior I respect the stylistic choice of the article leaving it ambiguous.

No, but I remember overhearing one of my teachers saying it’s actually helpful. That was in the early 90s in California.

At this point I don’t know what the difference is between waylandFull and the other wine packages. Last I checked waylandFull pointed to a much older wine version. But I see that’s just changed. Since Wayland is not in Wine’s main branch my guess is there’s no need for a Wayland-specific package.

When I was working on this yesterday (I think) only the staging and unstable wine packages were on Wine 10. But yes, it looks like today all of the Wine packages in NixOS unstable are updated to Wine 10 so you could use wineWowPackages.stableFull, or whatever you want.

I’m sorry about the Bottles issue! I was using Bottles, but I couldn’t figure out how to get a Wine 10 runner, or how to get it to use the system Wine which is why I went to Lutris.

Good point! There is also a spot you can set this in game settings in Lutris.

I haven’t tried this in Steam. Steam still requires X11. Can Steam spawn a native Wayland window if it’s running in xwayland? I assumed not which is why I went through Lutris. But if it can that would be great!

Edit: Oh yeah, Steam can launch native Wayland games! Now that I think about it that makes sense - Steam spawns a sub-process that manages its own windows so the sub-process doesn’t get stuck in X11 land. This is great! I thought I was going to have to wait forever for Valve to release a Steam update with Wayland support!

I think the Proton options that Steam provides are not updated to Wine 10 yet so they won’t run in Wayland without the special registry setting that the previous Wine version requires? I tried hacking in a custom compatibility runner that runs wine from the Nix package, but I got a message saying that a running instance of steam could not be found. But I was able to get a runner that works from wine-tkg-git by following instructions here.

• from that link click, under the “Proton nightly builds” heading click on “Wine Master”
• click the latest workflow run
• under “Artifacts” click to download proton-tkg-build
• unzip and then untar the file, put the extracted directory in ~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/
• you’ll see a new runner option in the compatibility settings for games

I’ve come around to doing it this way too. systems is not automatically supplied as a flake input - you can get such an input like this:

inputs = {
  systems.url = "github:nix-systems/default";
  # ...
};
outputs = { self, nixpkgs, systems }:
  let
    eachSystem = f: lib.genAttrs (import systems) (system: f nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system});
  in
  {
    # ...
  } 

The handy thing about importing another flake to get a list of four strings is that anyone consuming your flake can override that input in case they want to use a system that isn’t included in your original flake. There is more information at https://github.com/nix-systems/nix-systems

I’m not saying he won’t get away with stuff he lawfully can’t do. I’m saying that it’s easier to get away with it if too many people think it’s legal or normal.

I’m thinking about protesting and maybe a tax strike, particularly if the Supreme Court says that actually a president can withhold federal funding despite earlier courts repeatedly blocking previous presidents from trying the same crap.

But it’s not about me specifically. I know it’s cliché, but the guy in power only has power to the extent that people accept it. Right now there are lots of people out there who hate these orders, but are confused about whether they are legal, or assume they are legal, and are therefore less likely to resist. Public outrage is a real force that many governments have found themselves unable to simply shrug off.

Deporting people for activism would be illegal as it violates the first amendment. Most of the recent orders are illegal - it’s important remind each other of that to avoid falling into the trap that we’re supposed to fall for of thinking that these are things a president can do.

I think of sourcehut has already-federated git hosting because to send the equivalent of a pull request instead of making an account you send patches via email using git’s built-in email workflow. Email is federated, therefore that is federated git collaboration.

There’s not true. There’s MMT which says that taxation is a money sink in an abstract sense. But that’s not a universally-accepted theory, and even if you do accept it it doesn’t say that taxes aren’t necessary. According to what I’m seeing on wikipedia, under “Criticism”, MMT proponents say they never said a government could spend without revenue.

Both MMT and more widely-accepted economic theories say that if the government prints money without bringing in proportional tax revenue that leads to inflation which gets to a similar result as not having money in the first place.

In practice the government has bank accounts that tax money goes into, and spending comes out of.

Yes; first pull the black plastic piece out of the end of the refill. I read that there needs to be a little airflow into the refill for ink to flow, and when the back of the refill is jammed into the pen that can cut off airflow so you might cut a little notch in the end of the refill where the black plastic piece was. I also sometimes trim about 4mm off the end of the refill, or put a tiny bit of wadded paper in the pen for spacing. But I do this a little differently every time I put a new refill in.

Pilot Hi-Tec-C is a gel pen with refills that happen to fit in the Space Pen. It puts down a crisp, fine line.

The problem with the stock Space Pen is that it’s a messy ballpoint. I might be getting worse-than-typical results due to being left handed, but in general I find ballpoints don’t write crisp lines, and the ink smudges on my hand much more than gel pens do. But with the gel swap I do lose the feature of being able to write upside-down.

I carry a Fisher Space Pen everywhere, but I switched its cartridge for Pilot Hi-Tec-C refills. It takes a little fiddling to get the refill in there, but once it’s in it works great!

I’ve been using nushell as my shell for a long while. Completions are not as polished as zsh - both the published completions for each program, and the UX for accepting completions. But you get some nice things in exchange.

I LOVE using nushell for scripting! CLI option parsing and autocompletions are nicely built into the function syntax. You don’t have to use the shell for this: you can write standalone scripts, and I do that sometimes. But if you don’t use it as your shell you don’t get the automatic completions.

Circling back to my first point, writing your own completions is very easy if you don’t like the options that are out there. You write a function with the same name as the program you want completions for, use the built-in completions feature, and it’s done.

Not because of the spore stuff, but because of the way that they have to deal with so many “danger to the entire galaxy/universe/multiverse” type events back to back. Like, doing a few is fine, I generally enjoyed the xindi arc in Enterprise for example, but having so many starts to feel very forced after awhile.

I totally agree. When the stakes are over the top it makes the universe feel small. When everything depends on one crew at all times it feels hard to believe there is a larger world they exist in in which to immerse my imagination. Discovery has fantastic characters, acting, directing, costumes, sets - I would love to see all these great features thrive without leaning on artificial plot tension. The main goal of any show is to make you care about what happens. Ideally you care because you feel a personal connection to the characters. But making the stakes huge, and including frequent ticking-clock scenarios is easier. The thing is I do care about these characters! The artifice is unnecessary!

But it got better the longer the show went on! I appreciate how every season the stakes got smaller, and more believable, and the pacing got less frantic especially in the last two seasons.

My thinking is similar. I’ve seen this news story more than once:

laptop stolen containing customer data… hard drive was not encrypted

I don’t generally have customer data, but it can happen every once in a while.

I’m sorry, I wasn’t completely clear. Yes you can run games on ARM on any OS with an emulator. When I said “won’t run any better” I meant you’ll get the same emulation slowdown on Linux as on Windows.

The point of the article is that stuff runs faster on Linux because you don’t need an emulator, and it implies that that includes games. That’s disingenuous because any games that require emulation on Windows will also require emulation on Linux. If there’s no ARM build, there’s no ARM build.

I’m impressed by the Kanban system you’ve set up there! Your backlog looks better groomed than any Kanban board I recall seeing.

I just play the same handful of games year after year so there’s not much to organize.