affable? who am I, Chris Broad?

that’s what I’d do for a state machine implementation too

as someone who would also reach for a state machine when doing simple parsing… what’s the better alternative in python?

OK, but the fastest ssds these days tend to M.2 PCIE5 x4 drives and they pretty much all start at 1TB. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places, but I wouldn’t know where to find a smaller, faster drive

Intel optane? is there even any advantage left for optane compared with a fast, modern nvme disk?

heh, funny you should say that

heretic! the only dogmatically correct setup is

• helix
• fedora
• systemd
• rust
• whatever fits your workflow
• gecko
• nushell

Republicans typically lead on the economy (… snip …)

heh sure they do, it’s certainly not like the economy tends to do worse under republican admins

wow, there’s so little city in this city… where are the people supposed to be?

ah we don’t really use those features much. as long as we can hang out and chat as a friend group, we’re good

which features are missing from xmpp that are necessary for most gamer groups? is it the protocol that is missing the support, or specific implementations? genuinely asking since I’d been considering setting up an xmpp server for my gaming groups

the issue isn’t just that she’s reading and hearing these comments online, the issue is that teenage boys are doing so. social media has normalised this kind of behaviour to them, and they bring those views with them to the real world where girls will interact with them: school, sports clubs etc.

I burned loads of DVDs with my favourite shows in the mid 2000s, almost none of them were readable only a few years ago… good thing is I switched to a jellyfin server and found better encodes of pretty much all the shows

lol, I went to Montreal for a conference once and needed to print a poster at A1 size, but the file was made for A2 of something. The clerk at the copy shop told me it wouldn’t fit, so I told him to just rotate and scale up. He kept insisting it would leave a white border until I finally got him to just try it… I was flabbergasted that even at a print shop they didn’t know how these paper sizes work

both are a bad comparison for ICE, which is much more like the SA: low-level thugs used to intimidate the opposition and steal elections, to be discarded and replaced the moment they’re no longer needed

personally I love the way gnome apps use CSD, but then I only ever use gnome. I’m not a fan of the absolute statements people make here, either saying CSD is terrible or superior, I feel like their actual usage is a personal preference.

that said, I would prefer if the gnome project made much more of an effort to integrate its apps into the wider ecosystem. They could add an option that GTK listens to that turns the title bar into just a menu bar, allowing SSD desktops to provide their own decoration. and the gnome desktop could also provide default decorations for apps that don’t have CSD. I think this would provide a better experience for both gnome users and users of other desktops

this is how I ended up finding out there are now much better rips available for many of the shows I burned to DVD in the mid 2000s

yes, I’m usually in favour of stuff happening to boobies, but feel little need to have my own

I’m not autistic, and neither are my friends, but we are nerds who generally work in tech or adjacent fields. most of us watch anime and play video games, and I feel like it’s more accepted in general society now to do so as an adult. So in general I’m not sure those interests mark you as being young for your age anymore

north reference and scale? who’s going to try to navigate using this map? it’s just a way to indicate some stats by country