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The #famous 46% #freeze in the #GUI #installer of #NixOS. If u open the #cli view there ull see that #nix actually builds stuffs for u from 46% , since #calamares isn't designed to know those, it might look like it freezes at 46% but it's actually #installing.
Sharing this incase u are wondering about that #behaviour.
It's cool seeing /r/unixporn all adopt hyprland. Great project to support, the clear successor to i3 in the wayland world, and many improvements.
Kinda stale seeing the same thing everyday though. I miss the early days of linux WM when we had a bunch of different paradigms. fvwm the multitool, lots of looks. enlightenment the bleeding edge 360noscopepushittothelimit customize everything, windowmaker and nextstep doing the NeXT vibes.
There are some things that are just better as a command, some things that are better in #GUI. I love finding out that there's a GUI (#KDE Ark) for something I've been using command line for (#7Zip archives with #encryption).
#PUDELstat: An improved modular low-cost #OpenSource #potentiostat / #galvanostat for #electrochemical laboratories:
-#Arduino / #GUI -controlled
-requires #LabVIEW
-cost ~ US $40
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c01044
#DIYbio #chemistry #electrochemistry #lab #instruments #voltammetry
#PetPeeve: I hate that "Music" is one of the standard home folders on desktop computers. I love music, but I want it to be "Audio" -- not all audio is music (plus "audio" pairs better with "video"). When was this default established, in #MacOS X 10.0, #WinNT, earlier? (I think NextStep or BeOS might have had a "Sounds" folder.) Now, seemingly every #desktop uses this default: #Windows, #Mac, #FreeDesktop environments (#GNOME, #KDE), are there any exceptions? Like the #DesktopMetaphor itself, we're stuck with it, even though it chafes.
#GUI #UserInterface #Legacy #OldManYellsAtCloud
#UnreasonableExpectations
The joys of being a #CLI guy in a world full of (web) #GUI users…
So, I'm now working on a newish (to me) project that's based on #AWS. Customer's dev-to-prod topology is set up through a few dozen accounts. Each of the accounts is its own authentication-domain. Each account's webUI has a 1-hour timeout for login credentials. Each account's CLI credentials have a multi-hour timeout.
I'm a CLI-first kind of guy, and the AWS webUI's session-management is kind of ass: if you're logged in to one account, you can't really be logged into another in the same browser profile. By itself, not a problem, since I mostly use the CLI utilities and each terminal session can maintain a wholly-separate login session to AWS.
One of the customer's programs that I wrote some #terraform for was having issues connecting directly to their RDS from their remote-desktop hosts. I got pinged on Slack to take a look and try to figure out what's wrong.
I do a quick query of the RDS's security group and see no rules indicating that the security group should allow access. The PM who pinged me to help the customer-user, is barking that he sees the access-exception in the GUI. "Cool: I'm not seeing what you're seeing in the CLI".
Ultimately, it turns out that the customer-user had attached a security-group to the RDS and added her ingress rule there. As designed, the RDS was only supposed to have a single RDS attached to it and any modifications should have happened there. PM gets cranky that I'm making too many assumptions and that I should ignore my automation …never mind that the automation was supposed to be how people deploy/modify RDSes and associated objects. I point out to the PM that, at no time in the conversation, did anyone say "I added a security group and made my changes there", just "I made changes". I further point out that the webUI's view on things can often be the result of a compound query and that I can make a similar query, but only if someone provides me enough information that I know to do so. Ultimately, I was able to see what the customer-user had done by executing:
aws ec2 describe-security-groups \
--query 'SecurityGroups[].IpPermissions[].{
CIDRS:IpRanges[].CidrIp,
Groups:UserIdGroupPairs[].GroupId
}' \
--group-id $(
aws rds describe-db-instances \
--query 'DBInstances[].VpcSecurityGroups[].VpcSecurityGroupId' \
--filters 'Name=db-instance-id,Values=' \
--output text
) --output text
I love the GUI design in audio programs. Knobs, faders, dials, displays. Some of the plugins are just really 'out there', others clean and clinical but giving you the 'audio engineer' feel when tweaking them. The only other place where I see such beautiful, fun, quirky GUI design is in video games.
Last 2 days #coding #antibrowser #gui #apps in agnostic shell wrapping for any language (22 so far including #ada #cobol and #sed (yes sed)) shown scenario 74 apps on a single machine, slower than spreading out the tuples server,client,test driver on 3 different machines. Still effin fast because no #browsers, no windows manager no fekking bloated libraries, nothing but #C and #sockets no fonts either! don't need em