Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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  • I don’t think there’s an official “way”, but here’s mine (which I love):

    On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:

    1. Slack/Teams/Mattermost, whatever my work requires.
    2. Thunderbird
    3. Kitty
    4. PyCharm/RustRover, whatever the job requires
    5. Firefox

    Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.

    With this setup, I’ve mapped Ctrl+Fx to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4 takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5 followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3 is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.

    I almost never use the mouse, unless what I’m doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.



  • I have a few interesting ones.

    Download a video:

    alias yt="yt-dlp -o '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' "
    

    Execute the previous command as root:

    alias please='sudo $(fc -n -l -1)'
    

    Delete all the Docker things. I do this surprisingly often:

    alias docker-nuke="docker system prune --all --volumes --force"
    

    This is a handy one for detecting a hard link

    function is-hardlink {
      count=$(stat -c %h -- "${1}")
      if [ "${count}" -gt 1 ]; then
        echo "Yes.  There are ${count} links to this file."
      else
        echo "Nope.  This file is unique."
      fi
    }
    

    I run this one pretty much every day. Regardless of the distro I’m using, it Updates All The Things:

    function up {
      if [[ $(command -v yay) ]]; then
        yay -Syu --noconfirm
        yay -Yc --noconfirm
      elif [[ $(command -v apt) ]]; then
        sudo apt update
        sudo apt upgrade -y
        sudo apt autoremove -y
      fi
      flatpak update --assumeyes
      flatpak remove --unused --assumeyes
    }
    

    I maintain an aliases file in GitLab with all the stuff I have in my environment if anyone is curious.


  • I have much the same:

    • Files on the network with NFS
    • Kodi on an old laptop under the TV so we can watch said files.
    • Syncthing on our phones and laptops to pull films from there onto that file server.

    The only difference is that I’m using a Synology 'cause I have 15TB and don’t know how to do RAID myself, let alone how to do it with an old laptop. I can’t really recommend a Synology though. It’s got too many useless add-ons and simple tools like rsync never work properly with it.








  • Granted, sudo isn’t in coreutils, but it’s sufficiently standard that I’d argue that the licence is very relevant to the wider Linux community.

    Anyway, I answered this at length the last time this subject came up here, but the TL;DR is that private companies (like Canonical, who owns Ubuntu) love the MIT license because it allows them to take the code and make proprietary versions of it without having to release the source code. Consider the implications of a sudo binary that’s Built For Ubuntu™ with closed-source proprietary hooks into Canonical’s cloud auth provider. It’s death by a thousand MIT-licensed cuts to our once Free operating system.



  • It’s funny, I flocked to Steam because I was under the impression that I was owning the games. While other companies were trying to get me to sign onto their “play everything” subscriptions and Google had their “Stadia” (remember them?), Steam let me download the game and install it on my (Linux!) computer with no license key checks, working offline etc. etc. I feel like the assumption that I was in fact buying my games, rather than a license to play them when Steam saw fit was a reasonable one. This discovery was quite enraging.









  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlThis looks cool but can it game?
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    2 months ago

    The Ampre Altra runs from 32 to 128 cores (dear gods that’s beautiful), but with that architecture, and the company’s stated purpose, it makes more sense in a computer meant to be used as a server rather than a desktop gaming rig. You’d use a chip like that in a Kubernetes cluster for example.

    Combined with an Nvidia card, a brand notorious for being a Pain In The Ass in Linuxland, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the intended purpose of a box like this is a server for AI/ML-based services.