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It would be a really huge advantage if there were a really clean way to browse, apply, and (extremely importantly) reverse and remove such a configuration script. I've tried using KDE's customization options to tweak my desktop, and what I found is that I'm very capable of creating the worst desktop I've ever used.

Would it feel better to see your bank account and pay checks shrink by 90%?

For others who might not know, KDE Neon is a distribution. I was initially confused because I thought it might have been an alternative desktop environment to KDE Plasma.

This is probably the greatest curse and blessing of modern Linux: there are an impractical number of distributions. I guess you could probably say the same thing for desktop environments, various services, bootloaders, etc.

Pure mathemistician

On the subject of adding more buttons, I think there needs to be a rethinking of mouse button events at the OS level. Gaming mice with 12-20+ buttons have to resort to creating keyboard events with weird key combinations because there aren't actually that many mouse events, which is insane. There are currently only 12 valid integers (12 types of "click") sent from the raw mouse events. Those need special handling because the numbers are chosen very strangely, but why can't we agree that for any number within some range, the odd number is a key-press and the even number is the key-release, or something like that? You don't have to create named events for all of them, but the raw integers should be valid even if you have to use the lower level events.

If I want to build a mouse with 32,000 buttons, the limit should not be the operating system's mouse event.

Dang, there's a track on there, within a bike ride from me, that goes all the way to the biggest city in my state and passes within a few hundred feet of the university I attended. That could have made things easier.

I'm beginning to suspect that I've read more of this paper than anyone in the current administration has.

While President Trump has proposed a 10% tariff on the world as a whole, such a tariff is unlikely to be uniform across countries.

Oof.

Once tariffs begin increasing beyond 20% (on a broad, effective basis), they become welfare-reducing

Uh...

How can the U.S. get trading and security partners to agree to such a deal? First, there is the stick of tariffs. Second, there is the carrot of the defense umbrella and the risk of losing it.

Ukraine, Greenland, Canada... They've created so much doubt over the defense umbrella that they've really hurt their position here.

I'm still reading the paper, but Stephen Miran must regret writing this...

A sudden shock to tariff rates of the size proposed can result in financial market volatility. ... A second Trump Administration is likely therefore take steps to ensure large structural changes to the international tax code occur in ways that are minimally disruptive to markets and the economy

I can see it. Firefox 137.0 (desktop) with uBlock Origin enabled.

I've always wanted toasters to have a lid to keep dust out. That's one thing I would add to their design.

I recognize that URL! Git-sim is so cool!

I've been using alibris.com

Machining metal parts is pretty loud. How was any of this done in secret?

I like my Garmin, but map updates are surprisingly expensive.

I got dragon from fire + swamp.

Another strange one was puddle + rock = pudding + dragon = custard.

$851?!

Well, at second glance, it's definitely larger than it appeared to be in the picture. Home depot says 35 pounds, so ~$100 worth of copper.

Most of the machines have hundreds of settings divided across a dozen different sections. Simple things like bold and underline make it much easier to visually parse the sections.

This is such an annoying change. I work in a production facility and I don't get to choose what is installed on the computers. It's either WordPad, notepad, or open a browser for Word. WordPad is obviously a step up over notepad if you need any sort of formatting.

Now imagine a machine is malfunctioning and you need to look up the last known "good" settings to see if anything changed. First open a browser, then go to the office site, then fish out your cell phone because you're going to need the authentication code to log in, then dance around for a bit because you're in a warehouse and the reception is terrible, then open the Word app, then wait ages for it to "work on it".

All I'm trying to do is quickly read some text. I don't see how this is better than clicking a text file icon on the desktop.

Even though it would make the language a little more verbose, I would love if Lua had a 'global' keyword and declaring global/local was required. With that one change, I think Lua would have the best implementation of scope out of any language I've used.

Hmm. My hardcover copy has a mangled end-page, as seen in the last example on that page. Everything else looks pretty good, though, and my order history from 2017(!) says it was sold by Amazon Services LLC. I got it for about $59, which is the lowest price recorded on camelcamelcamel. I wasn't aware I'd bought it right at the dip. Today it's $111, which would have been brutal at the time.

I can't really say I've gotten my money's worth, but there's still time. I still want to learn more electronics, but I was left wondering "what's next?" at the end of my Physics BA classes and I haven't stumbled onto the answer yet.

I heard about that in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI5cu3G5oXk

I may not remember it correctly, but I think the two original creators of the site ran out of money and were recommended to a group of investors who happened to be Scientologists.

Has anyone figured out how to pair magit with git-sim (https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim) so that you can use magit's controls but then get a picture of what you're about to do before you do it?

I had to watch several videos on youtube to answer this question for myself. The advantages to using ChimeraOS over big picture mode seem to be tied to Valve's gamescope compositor, which gives you access to a nice UI for limiting framerates, applying mangohud, and choosing upscaling settings. ChimeraOS also has compatibility with Steam Deck plugins.

I know nothing about the plugins. You can definitely do all the other things outside of gamescope's UI, but... it actually is a pretty nice compact UI.

There might be some differences outside of Steam's UI. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NIGPpz_vY) it looks like the desktop mode switches to Gnome, whereas I'm pretty sure the Steam Deck uses Plasma. Maybe that's configurable.

I definitely can't afford an 8k monitor, but this is also the reason I'd want one for gaming. Realistically, you'll probably never run it at 4320p, but depending on how demanding the game is, you can choose between 2160p, 1440p or 1080p without weird scaling. With a 4k monitor your only option is to go all the way down to 1080p.

Manufacturers can also justify making pretty big screens with that many pixels. Samsung's 8k TVs are 80-something inches. Since it's that big, you can sit further back, making up for any loss in pixel density, and still have a huge picture.

Stick drift would be really bad.

For anyone else who would prefer a local editor, my understanding (after a brief search) is that this is a browser version of https://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/.

I found it in the AUR on arch. Elsewhere on windows/mac/linux.

I'm not sure if I'll ever use this as an alternative to writing code, but I like the pretty diagrams.

Straying off topic, are there any discussions going the opposite way? Is it possible to build a structure that lasts maybe 10 or 15 years, then either disassembles or decomposes without too much damage to the surrounding area? Something actually livable, and nicer than a tent.

Where can you find supplies for these kinds of projects? Each 6ft. section of rack would cost $81 plus shipping from McMaster-Carr.Never mind the other components, that would add up quickly. I was trying to find some spur gears for a project, but wow those are expensive. I reworked it to use pulleys, but those weren't as cheap as I'd hoped, either.

Microcenter will ship items purchased online. You have to select "Shippable Items" from the "Your Store" drop-down in the center at the top of the page.