fourwd

joined 5 months ago
[–] fourwd@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In my case, I didn't see any advantages compared to public trackers. Users of private trackers are supposedly all so elite, but in reality they pay for seedboxes and try to be the first to download literally every new release to at least somehow support the ratio around 1.0.

Guys, while you seed all sorts of junk for the sake of who knows what, I seed really useful content on public trackers and have a ratio of 99.3, which in fact does not affect anything.

There are normal private trackers, of course, such as Milkie, but there are a lot of dead torrents there.

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

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

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 18 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (3 children)

Have you tried Debian?

[–] fourwd@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.