Notices by Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)

It’s so hard for me to read long-form stories when not using my e-reader :/ And if I can’t use a reader mode or something to get the story in the right format I end up completely zoning out.

While I really like programming and working on free software, I get a huge dip in motivation when I’m not doing GNOME work. If I could make a living doing my every-day GNOME work, contributing to many different projects, that would be the dream.

Does high-end ARM64 hardware exist? For things like build machines? I hate using QEMU for compiling to my PinePhone.

If you’re interested in gtk-rs, I just landed initial support for composite templates in gtk4-rs!

https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs/pull/51

If you want to see how to use it, take a look at the example here:

https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs/tree/master/examples/src/bin

The fact that anti-maskers exist has put my faith in humanity at an all time low.

@bamfic yeah. The good news is that Glade as it stands will stop working with GTK4, and we may get a new UI designer instead.

If you’re interested in writing a GTK app or want to contribute, I have one bit of advice I highly recommend: Don’t use Glade. It’s usually wrong, and will make more work for you in the future. Especially if you plan to port to GTK4.

UI files are great, but if you want to use them write and edit the XML by hand. Glade is not your friend.

Has anyone worked with procedural/derive macros in Rust? I’m starting to feel lost. I don’t know how to parse derive macro helper attributes within a struct, and I can’t find a single tutorial for it. I finally found a StackOverflow question, but there are no answers.

I may need to seriously ask for help tomorrow. It’s been a full month since I submitted my first invoice to a contract I started, and I’m still missing $200 of it when the invoice was supposed to be paid within 10 days.

I’ve now sent my second invoice, but really I have no clue when I will get it based on it taking over a month for my last one.

I have, total, $137 in my bank account.

I need to pay $1600 in rent each month. So I am in a tight spot right now until I can get paid.

@alcinnz what are the issues with PMOS?

I’m thinking of going Mobian, or maybe PureOS

Semes like a PinePhone may just never cut it as a daily driver for me :/

It is simply too weak. It overheats too quickly as well.

There are just a ton of papercuts so far, though maybe some will be better when I switch of Manjaro.

The Electoral College needs to go no matter what the outcome of this election, imo.

Capitalism isn’t truly a system to manage and distribute resources. It is a system to manage and distribute wealth, with the exploitation of workers being crucial to it.

As a means of managing resources, it is completely ineffective. Under capitalism we have more resources than need for those resources. Yet somehow, people are still without access to crucial resources like food and housing. Why?

Because capitalism is designed for wealth first. Not for providing resources to humans.

Between applying global dark theme by default (leading to poor contrast in many apps), theming icons in a way that interferes with GNOME UI patterns, and disabling animations by default, Manjaro’s team has gotten a lot wrong, imo.

The file manager they chose is also completely awful for touchscreen use.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

@pinkprius texting with family.

Man - it’s such a shame that the PinePhone doesn’t have MMS support yet. I’d probably trial it as a daily driver if that was fixed and it could connect to my wifi properly