 Yesterday I had the joy of installing Fedora (dual-boot) on my work PC. And oh boy, did Linux come a long way! First, I don’t quite understand why people dislike the Fedora installer. All went pretty smooth, and the installer immediately recognized my free space and created the needed partitions. GRUB also plays pretty good with Windows. I have used up all my data plan for this month, so my speed is capped at 64 Kbps. This is a friendly reminder to all web developers: Keep your bundle sizes small, only ship what you need, compress your images, YOU DON'T NEED REACT IN YOUR F-ING BLOG, test your sites on slow connections and slow phones. You using a Galaxy S22 Ultra with an unlimited 5G plan doesn't mean everyone else does too.
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#Django advice needed! My setup is: I have 5 Django apps, each has 3–7 models. For each model, there is a list and a create/edit view. All are based on the same base.html. I want to have <title> be set in a LIFO manner. For example, list of ‘items’ inside ‘warehouse’ app would have the title ‘Items - Warehouse - Site name’. Right now I have to create almost identical base templates with just the title block for every app. Is there a less repetitive way? @kytta I’ve actually been using blocks as well at the moment. I haven’t cared to optimise this as I haven’t felt the need. How do you organize your files, Fediverse? I have accumulated lots of stuff over the years: photos and videos, school and university documents, job files, private development projects, video projects, music, screenshots — all of which I want to keep backed up. The problem I have is the directory structure. How would you organize all this so that stuff is always easy to find and duplicates won’t spawn? I’ve tried Johnny.Decimal, and it didn’t work for me. Do you have other ideas? #AskFedi
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 -Docs (personal) Then mostly by topic/project and/or chronologically named directories inside. Johnny Decimal looks too rigid to stick to it. Maybe it works for personal files or abstract, administrative/managerial positions. Most projects comprise several kinds of files, and sometimes a high number of them, so I put those into different directories inside the project directory. Otherwise there would be pools of files, and I don't want that.  @kytta @kytta This question is really 2 in 1. How the data is organized and how it is stored/archived. W.r.t media, you’re aware of the lifetime limitations of optical media & flash media. So you’re using a hard drive to store your backups. Backup tech has become a sad state of affairs. Hard drives are cheaper than cassette tapes, but they have moving parts… heads that can crash. Not ideal.
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I find it ironic that, in order to make people use open-source Fediverse servers, Elon had to promise to make Twitter open-source 😂 TimeWarrior looks neat, but it's CLI based, so no easily seen HUD and/or keyboard shortcuts for me... I am doing a small project for which I need to edit a video. Haven't done this in ages. I am using DaVinci Resolve (I have only used Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro in the past) and I am so amazed by how well-made this piece of software is. And it keeps getting better with every update, while staying free for casual users 🤩 Might go back to making YouTube videos again, haha There is a Unicode symbol for anything. TIL there exists the COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY (U+0338) symbol, which makes any symbol appear struck through. I will from now on use it in READMEs of my projects that are in public domain: ©̸ To be fair, it's hard to make it look neat: the font support is at times terrible. Helvetica and Helvetica Neue look great. Inter (used in Codeberg) is also not bad, so I'm keeping it
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@kytta I was tested positive for COVID six days ago, and it’s the worst thing that had ever happened to me. No, not because of the symptoms. I, actually, have none. It’s because of me being locked in for two weeks. I can’t socialize with my roommates (who are out tonight eating pizza), I can’t see my mum, I can’t go for a bicycle ride. Heck, I am technically not even allowed to check my post and take out the trash. I’ve never felt more alone like I do now. Theoretically, if I don’t have symptoms over the first seven days, I can get a test. If it’s negative, I am free. But in order to be allowed to do this, I need to have been contacted by the city’s Health Dept. In 5 painstakingly long days, I wasn’t contacted. Let’s hope it changes on Monday. |
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Second, I think I’m in love with GNOME 40+. The snappiness, the style, the default app set are incredible. I was amazed how I literally didn’t have to install anything extra to do my job (which, to be fair, is basically RDP’ing into Windows machines and connecting to SMB shares).