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Been happily and very successfully using the official binpkgs, it works really well, sometimes there's a slight delay for the binary versions of the source packages to appear in the repositories, but that's about it. I guess it's kind of running Arch, but with portage <3! And the occasional compilation because your use flags didn't really match the binaries

this is correct, there's even a precompiled kernel (dist-kernel), it works great! and when packages doesn't match your system settings, portage will pull the source and compile them. it's great!

I think some older instance types are still on xen, later types run kvm (code named nitro.. perhaps?). I can’t remember the exact type but last year we ran into some weird issues related to some kernel regression that only affected some instances in our fleet, turns out they where all the same type and apparently ran on xen according to aws support

If you’re using AWS there’s ImageBuilder, it’s by no means a drop-in replacement for packer and a closer look hints at just being ansible behind the scenes. You could probably achieve the same results with pure ansible and some cloud provider modules if needed. Ansible was bought by Redhat though, so still IBM, the licence is unchanged though

Leons daughter Vera talked a bit about her father, his relationship to Kubrick, art and family in “Sommar i P1”, a Swedish national radio show where people in “public interest” talk about whatever for an hour or so. It’s pretty interesting and provide some insights, but unfortunately it’s only in Swedish

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1319508#

I really hope the crazy prize increase of vmware products will end the use of esxi and the rest of the vsphere suite, it is one of the worst applications and apis i have ever had the displeasure of working with!

Second this, it’s simple, made with bash, git and gpg. Been using it for years myself, I’ve also used it as a shared password store at different workplaces with ease.

If anyone wants to run protracker like back in the day but on current hardware, there’s this neat clone https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone

Running dos, win9x and others was quite a lot of fixing stuff as well. Getting your hardware to work with games and is took some patience and a lot of trial and error “back in the days”.

It’s been quite a while since I played around with encoders, video streams etc. It seems the old doom9 forums (http://forum.doom9.net) are still somewhat active, even if the site tagline mentions dvd, the video encoding/decoding concepts probably haven’t changed much and the forums seem to cover later technologies than mpeg2. Protocols and methods for transferring the product is most likely out of scope for d9.

Excellent choice! I started off 2022 with learning c and it’s a lot of fun!

As some other commenters, I really recommend Modern C by Jens Gustedt.

If you’re on Linux you can use man pages for most or all of the c stdlib, it’s a really convenient way to check up on stuff directly from the terminal, less tempting to rabbit hole into something else while in a browser.

I started contributing to a really small open source project, it was less daunting than a large well written, well formatted project and you get to run into “accidents”, figure them out, fixing them, learning from the experience. I realise this is a matter of personal preference, for me it’s a nice learning experience.

Also having (or making) friends who knows c is really helpful.

Good luck!

Since it's down you can get your mod fix from https://modland.ziphoid.com/pub/modules/ (features some good ol' directory browsing though)

I've had best listening results with https://github.com/libxmp/xmp-cli/

A friend of mine wrote an excellent player which uses libxmp and a bunch of other libs to play a bunch of old formats, it's rather good: https://github.com/intealls/modp fair warning though, there's no pre built releases but comes with a handy makefile :)

Portaudio may be applicable, it supports most platforms I think.

http://www.portaudio.com/

I did that as well, also running cp with the -s argument will create a symlink

For you can skip xargs for that and just add the -delete argument to find, for readability and profit(!?)

Randy talked about the doom snes port (among other things) during fosdem 2021, can’t remember if he mentioned Quake , it was a very interesting interview though

https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/speaker/randal_lind...

I think https://www.qwant.com/ use their own, just started using it so I can't really say much about it other than it seems alright compared to ddg and google(?)

I thought it was me being new to go that made some code bases hard to figure out

I know this thread is almost 20h old. But, I started using awesomewm maybe 8 years ago, decided on a look and config and haven't changed it since, every computer i use have the same setup, it is indeed awesome! Thank you so much for your time and dedication, it's a pleasure to use

It should, however not sure about installation documentation. As always, the gentoo and arch wiki should get you there, even on ubuntu

Or you could install pipewire for a pulseaudio free experience, if that's what you're after (that's what I did).

I feel like dawn of war 3 commited StarCraft suicide, they scrapped almost everything that made the dawn of war series great and replaced it with a more "StarCraft like" gameplay to cater to a larger audience, instead of evolving what they had from dow1 and 2, making it a mediocre sc2 :(

Gentoo user here, default is still nano! vi is there by default of course, but EDITOR points to nano

* pass, the standard unix password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/.

Instead of stopping whatever I'm doing, thinking about what password I used last time something forced me to rotate, pass saves the day!

* AwesomeWM, https://awesomewm.org/.

Maybe not a program per se, anyway using easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking through a gui probably saved me a few minutes here and there.

* Gentoo Portage, The Gentoo package manager.

Yea, something that compiles packages from scratch may not sound like your typical time-saver, however, back when I had to track down every dependency and compile it myself just to get whatever package working that wasn't in the current distribution package tree, this saved me a lot of time. - This of course goes for every package manager, however back then(tm) portage had the most current releases and a lot of packages not in apt, rpm, etc.

* tmux (and tmux-cssh), https://github.com/zinic/tmux-cssh/

synchronize ssh sessions, like clusterssh, not very elegant but this saved me more than once, fast synchronized change on multiple machines at once \o/

* Ansible https://ansible.com/

Make tedious boring tasks less so, specify stuff in yaml once, execute and forget about them.

This will also ease communication and working with sysadmins. Everybody wins!

The only reason I can think of is that Apple will make performance incrementally worse for every iOS update, eventually the performance of your "old" iPhone will be unbearable and you just "have" to get a new one.

To be fair, arrogance seems to be quite popular in systemd as well

Gentoo use openrc by default, they provide systemd as an option if you want that kind of stuff on your system(s).

Some basic knowledge about the platform, OS and infrastructure their code is running on.

* Sun Microsystems (not oracle)

* Psygnosis (before becoming subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment)

* IRN BRU candy bars