Great Blue Heron

  • 6 Posts
  • 34 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 4th, 2023

help-circle
  • I understand that - that’s why I mentioned terminal sessions into my home assistant instance and the file editor add-on. But when developing a home assistant component the only way to run it is in a home assistant instance. VS Code with devcontainers provides a development home assistant instance for this purpose. If I’m just editing the files in my production instance then I need to keep.restarting it to load new versions etc. Maybe I’ll just install another instance for development.


  • Yeah, I’m just learning that now. Devcontainers is great because it runs a full instance of Home Assistant for debugging and test. There is DevPod Containers that might do the same thing, but I don’t use DevPod so it’s also a bit overwhelming (using that word a lot today…) to get going and I’m not sure if it’s compatible with the devcontaiers configuration in the Home Assistant dev tree.




  • Great Blue Heron@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldThanks Solver
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 months ago

    You can’t always trust the KPatience solver for some games. I have not worked out yet which games it’s broken for but I routinely win Simple Simon games that it says can’t be won. There others, but I can’t remember which.

    I also have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the solver hinting - I’d like hints to only point out moves that I’ve missed based on the cards on the table. The hints often seem to be positioning the cards for future moves.




  • I think the bigger question is how many corporations are supporting foss projects? I’m sure a lot of us contribute a bit here and there if we can and I’m sure it makes a difference - but if some of these corporations, making billions of dollars profit, contribute just a tiny fraction of their wealth it could make a huge difference.

    It’s the same argument as recycling, turning off lights, walking instead of driving etc. etc. - yes there are 8 billion of us and if we all do it, it will make a difference, but the difference we make is still not significant compared to corporate greed.

    We are being gaslit to accept yet another scenario where we socialize the cost and privatize the profit.






  • I’ve thought about trying a tiling window manager, but I don’t think I’d get the benefit. I don’t really do a lot these days and normally just have one or two things going concurrently and with two screens that’s trivial to layout.

    The main thing I struggle with (with my old eyes) is things like Firefox that override the normal window manager decorations - I find the edges get lost and they blend into each other. A tiling window manager would help with this, but I just turned off Firefox’s ability to do that.


  • Oh damn what were your reasons for moving from freebsd back to Linux?

    My work was AIX, HP/UX and a bit of Solaris. Linux development was starting to get to the stage where our customers were looking at using it for “real” workloads and I figured I should get comfortable with it again so I’d be in a position to take on production servers at work.

    I don’t think I’m concerned about being on older (stable) stuff - I really only use Firefox (I dumped the Debian release and added the Firefox repository) and a few utilities like a music player etc.

    I was also considering openSUSE Tumbleweed and didn’t really decide not to do it - it’s just that a USB with Debian was sitting on my desk when I decided to do it, so that’s what I used. A big part of my anxiety about switching from Windows was getting my data under control - now that I’ve done that it won’t be an issue to switch distros so I might give it a go. I may even try Slackware again now that you’ve got me thinking about it.



  • Because I only used it for a few months and it was a while ago! It was ony mentioned to age me. Not long after I installed it we got nice new RS/6000 860 laptops and I ran an AIX desktop for a couple of years. Then we got Intel laptops and Windows.

    I went with Debian because I’ve been running Ubuntu servers at home for years (since zfs on Linux became solid enough that I could switch from FreeBSD) so I’m comfortable with apt package management and wanted to stick with that. I didn’t want to stay with Ubuntu because of the commercialisation creeping in.