fourwd

joined 4 months ago
[–] fourwd@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Using a system where they won't even let you change the wallpaper is some special form of perversion.

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

DaVinci is kind of broken on GNU/Linux, it has audio lags and is missing some codecs.

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never understood why GNU/Linux actually needs swap. Okay, I created a 4G partition for it, having 32G of RAM. I never used all that RAM, but even so, stuff regularly ends up in swap. Why does the OS waste write cycles on my SSD if it doesn't have to?

However, if I artificially fill up all 32G of RAM, the system almost completely freezes faster than switching to using swap as a "lifeline". And it only comes back to life when OOM Killer finally remembers its existence and kills some f__ing important process.

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Have you tried Debian?

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I started learning programming, I was like "tf is a map function?" and I always forgot about it. Then I tried the functional programming language Erlang and understood all these functions very well. But there is a downside, now most for-loops in C++ look terrible to me :)

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Used dark (not black) themes everywhere for 8 years. My eyesight is still good according to my annual physical, but recently I've noticed that I have a hard time reading text written on a dark background. It is slightly blurred, especially when there is no light in the room.

Somewhere I still use dark themes, but I always try to switch to light mode if things look okay with code highlighting or smth.