True (in most contexts, probably including this one), but I think that only makes the case for SQLite stronger. What people do still care about is a good flexible, usable and reliable interface. I’m not sure how to get that with YAML.

I think SQLite is a great middle ground. It saves the database as a single .db file, and can do everything an SQL database can do. Querying for data is a lot more flexible and a lot faster. The tools for manipulating the data in any way you want are very good and very robust.

However, I’m not sure how it would affect file size. It might be smaller because JSON/YAML wastes a lot of characters on redundant information (field names) and storing numbers as text, which the database would store as binary data in a defined structure. On the other hand, extra space is used to make common SQL operations happen much faster using fancy data structures. I don’t know which effect is greater so file size could be bigger or smaller.

Because it’s strong and powerful but it’s hard to keep from crashing?

(I’ve never used Arch, and really have no idea how true that is)

As a user, why should I care whether the distro I use uses systemd? I use Mint and I don’t remember having to interact with that kind of low-level nonsense. The distro maintainers can use whatever reasoning they want to pick these details.

Recently built a PC with an AMD GPU. Tried to figure out how to install AMD drivers, because Mint’s driver manager didn’t seem to offer anything like it would for nvidia… Turns out AMD drivers are just part of the Linux kernel and you don’t need to install them at all. Nice.

I did have one problem though - my hardware is too new and the kernel shipped with Mint doesn’t really support it yet. But it was surprisingly easy to install a newer kernel. And anyway for any PC that doesn’t use bleeding edge hardware, this would never be an issue.

<3 Mint and Linux

There is literally a drawing app called procreate. Nothing about this joke is forced, it’s just a direct observation.

Every part of that is fine except not including the cable with the product. But I don’t think I ever got a new product with a USB-B connector that didn’t come with the cable.

You anarchist!

Real talk though, I think specs are literally my favorite thing in the world. The truly great ones are so good that there’s never a real reason to deviate from them - if you do, you’re either doing something wrong or you’re taking a shortcut for a hobbyist project (which is fine, but not for anything mass-produced). USB is mostly one of those great specs. The cable you posted is an abomination. There is always a better way.

I did not know this. Are they allowed by the spec?

Sure, it would have, but I was following the time-honored tradition of reading only the title and the Lemmy comments without clicking through to the full article. If that comment hadn’t been there, it is possible that my intrigue and confusion would have been sufficient to make me betray my legacy and bring shame to my family by actually reading the linked article. Disaster avoided!

Oh, thanks, I needed that to understand what this was talking about.

My university recently switched most of the student enrollment and stuff to SAP, even though they had a very nice system that was launched only a couple of years prior. SAP is so awful, my god. Apparently the switch was mandated by the government or some crap like that. I’m honestly baffled.

I definitely do for quick scripts, but I try to break this habit. The biggest advantage of def main() is that variables are local and not accessible to other functions defined in the same script, which can sometimes help catch bugs or typos.

sqlite is technically just one C source file, so that’s definitely a script.

As much as I dislike about Discord, I can’t deny that its level of service, polish and ease of use are just superb. Especially for voice chat with friends with integrated screen sharing that just works.

There are show stoppers sometimes - occasionally messages just don’t get sent or received for whatever reason, and Discord’s handling of it is just bad. It’s pretty important for a chat app to work reliably for chat. But when it works (which is almost always), boy is it nice.

Haven’t tried Revolt and I likely can’t because of the network effect already mentioned by someone else. How does it compare in ease of use, ease of setting up, feature set for free users, etc.?

Is this even true? I am fairly sure that Linux also has a graceful shutdown process, but I’ll admit I haven’t looked into it.

I think it’s funny for the exact same reason that this xkcd is funny: https://xkcd.com/1168/

Voyager error. It’s a gif of Star Trek, I think.

that does sound super useful

What is reveal codes?