When I wrote that, I was sure someone would take offense, but I couldn’t think of a better way to phrase it. 😅

Yeah, I always wonder, if it’s a matter of having multiple knives in rotation, so they don’t dull as quickly and so you can keep some in the sink until you do the dishes.
Because if you’ve got the space and the money to spare, then using the slightly more optimal knife isn’t extra effort anymore.

But yeah, I’m also of the opinion that if you keep your knife sharp, then it can split those atoms, and that’s ultimately what we’re here for.
So, personally, I’d rather not spare the space for having multiple tools with the same purpose. ¯\_(⊙ʖ⊙)/¯

I also just looked this up and apparently, it’s up for debate how exactly the concept should be ported into English, but if we go with 5-7-5 syllables, then this would for example work:

owners are boring
but corgis are quirky trope
excuse yesterday

From what I just read about pacstrap, I think so, yeah, but you can control many more things, like for example you can configure KDE to use wobbly windows¹.

But it’s also declarative, rather than just a script.
If you do configure wobbly windows this way, it doesn’t just do a find & replace on the respective KWin config file, but rather it generates the entire KWin config file anew, with all the values you defined in your NixOS config + whatever defaults may be needed.

This has the big advantage that it doesn’t depend on whatever is currently on disk. It will just make your system match your NixOS configuration in any case.
Disadvantage is that any other KWin settings need to live in your NixOS config from now on, too, i.e. you can’t use the graphical settings anymore or they will be overridden on the next nixos-rebuild switch.

Well, and there’s other disadvantages to NixOS, like it not using the standard Unix folder structure (FHS), so some programs have problems with that, and that there’s at least two different ways to do anything, so it’s difficult to find straightforward documentation.

But yeah, if you can push past the pain of learning it and configuring everything initially, it does then work quite nicely.

¹) Requires Home-Manager and Plasma-Manager, and then this line in your Home-Manager config:

programs.plasma.kwin.effects.wobblyWindows.enable = true;

Yeah, I mean, my colleague pretty much just used this other person’s config like a distro. It comes with programs you didn’t install and defaults you didn’t choose, but if it works, then no need to change it, I guess.

A colleague was gushing about NixOS and so I gave it a shot, too. Eventually, I was wondering how to best configure something and he just told me I can look in his Git repo.

This happened two more times until half a year later, I saw that he was now also using Starship for the terminal prompt. So, I asked what made him switch and his response was basically “Star-what?”.

That’s how I found out that he just copied someone else’s configuration and pretty much left it at that. He was pointing me to his repo, because he genuinely had no idea where to even start configuring these things.

Like, yeah, technically it’s documented somewhere in that repo how to configure that. But I assumed, it would be obvious, if I see the code, because why else would he tell me to look there…? 🫠

I was about to find that same xkcd. 😅
It really is a good way to portray that.

It also shows quite well that shit is hitting the fan, almost horizontally, in a time period where we have proper temperature measurements from all around the world. Even if humans were not at fault, we need to do something about it.

To my knowledge, you can only run individual applications, like Okular, Kate, Dolphin, Krita, Kdenlive.

I guess, this would be the complete list: https://apps.kde.org/platforms/windows/

Well, they all accept the book Old Testament as canon, they just disagree on which fan theory correctly continues that story.

I don’t know, if they collect contact information or how it’s processed, so no idea…

To my knowledge, it’s specifically sunflower oil that’s really high in Omega 6, which is why you shouldn’t consume it when you have rheumatism.

It’s handled like that in North America, because their mains electricity doesn’t output enough juice to operate a water boiler at a reasonable speed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country

So I imagine, in pretty much the rest of the world, it works like you described for Europe…

I guess, it can select the wrong song, if:

• the correct song doesn’t have its acoustic fingerprint in the MusicBrainz database (otherwise it would be the closest match), and
• another song has a similar enough acoustic fingerprint, above a threshold that you can configure in the Picard settings.

I assume, it has to be a threshold, because you might have slight variations for the same song/recording, like silence at the end trimmed or volume normalized or whatever.

And yeah, Picard’s UI is certainly a bit of a hurdle. Conveying information for so many changes is definitely not easy, so I don’t want to complain.
But you know, if it would have detected that some of my songs will get renamed not just with a few capitalization fixes, but rather completely different words, and it would have prompted me for those, then I wouldn’t have misnamed songs now…

You hope that you don’t get sued… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Obviously, the vast majority of people never get sued over this, but if you don’t like someone, it’s one of those lawsuits you can throw at pretty much anyone and they’ll likely be guilty.

It used to be a meme, because every so often a dev left into that direction, even though most devs loved their job. A month ago, I was talking in the office with three other devs when this came up as a topic. It was not a meme anymore, every single one of us had seriously considered it.

Yeah, at some point, I told Picard to just re-sort everything and that was not a good idea. Some songs got renamed or put under a different artist, because I guess, the actual song is not in the MusicBrainz database.
I do have a backup that I should restore actually, but yeah, difficult to notice such changes and especially to know how much damage was done.

I did also figure, I should just add the unknown songs into MusicBrainz, but boy, I added one album and that took more than half an hour…

Definitely leaning more and more towards that unsorted life…

There is Kid3 for Android as well. 😅

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.kid3

It’s not the smoothest Android app, I’ve ever seen, but seems serviceable…

I mean, increasing that timeout doesn’t really sound like it resumes the download, but rather that it never properly cancels it. I don’t think, Firefox would want to implement that, as it’s somewhat bad etiquette for a client to keep a connection open for a long time.

My understanding is that actually resuming partial downloads is generally badly supported by server software and that’s why support for it is not implemented in Firefox.

Yeah, here in Germany, we’ve had a verdict that you need to get written permission from all your contacts, if you give WhatsApp access to their data: https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/document/LARE190000029

I would assume, the same is true in the entire EU.