codemonk

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Does anyone have a Feker Alice 80 and modded it? I am asking, because from the pictures it looks like the tenting angle decreases from the middle to the outside of the keeb. Technically, it seems to be a split keeb with two PCB. Judging from the few views on the PCBs I found, these are straight. Anything else would surprised me. Many custom made keebs with strong curvature have small PCBs per key. Even a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard I could look inside, has multiple small PCBs. Still the Feker looks curved to me. So my question is: Is it curved and if yes, how did they do it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately this is not the case. A lot of people leave school assuming that scientific discoveries are eternal, unfailable truth that we just know to be true. Few ever understand how we acquired our knowledge and how to lewrn to understand it. Many assume you 'just have to learn it'. Those your play around with computers or other stuff have an advantage. They know how to gain understanding not just how to learn facts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yes please. Passively cooled Framework with a much longer runtime on battery => awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Such a great project. Bringing joy to a friend and reduce e-waste at the same time. Love it. Would give away the SSD from my old Core 2 Duo based laptop (which got replaced by a used Gen4 i7 laptop from my company when they sold the devices to employees for very little money. Now they are giving them to schools for free, which is great). Sending it around half the planet is neither free nor sustainable, though. Would be cheaper to buy a new one. But maybe you find someone to help out. For me, an SSD was a great improvement for that old machine. As stated in another comment, upgrading RAM did not work in that particular case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: The machine might even have more RAM. I also had an laptop with a Core 2 Duo. The mainboard supported up to 4GB of RAM. However, the BIOS only supported 3GB (for whatever reason). Around 200MB are used for the iGPU. That left me with 2.8GB of RAM out of 4GB.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Haven't seen it indeed. Afaik, app icons should be fine. In case they are not, I have an idea, what the issue might be. Thank you.

Reading through the bug tracker, the GNOME approach seems to be one I see way to often: "The standard is outdated in our view and does not suit us. Let's just treat it as obsolete and make our own incompatible thing. If this breaks stuff, its not our problem." I prefer those that say: "We need an updated standard." But they seem to be the minority, at least these days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Still working on my app launcher. Currently working on on user config. Recently I added support for app icons and there freedesktop.org icon themes. Icon themes are more complicated than I expected. Themes can have multiple fallbacks themes which themselves can have multiple fallback themes. Totally makes sense. I just did not think about it too much before implementing it. Allowed me to implement a nice breadth-first search. Most themes have a single fallback theme, so it is not of much use, but hey, I follow the spec. 😅

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

"Asynchronous programming in Rust" is really good, imho. My colleagues and I read it to get a deeper understanding of async Rust. I was skeptical at first, because it is from Packt, but it turned out to be a decent book. Also enjoyed the recent rustacean station episode with its author.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

At work and for hobby projects. At work I am looking at using Rust for safety-critical systems. As a hobby I am building a dmenu alternative. It is a fun project and I have a menu that satisfied my wishlist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I would not call it a bash. Go's approach naturally comes up in discussions on async Rust. Thus, it makes sense to at least briefly mentioning the trade-offs that approach has.