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Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
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@icedquinn @purple The maintainers of your distro probably. You could maybe write a udev rule that works for you and suggest that and see what they say.
IMO: xrandr is pretty user friendly (except that no one tells you about it) and there are worse things to be upset about.
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@icedquinn @purple If OSX works for you it's nice that you can throw money at the problem. OSX has some serious issues that make it useless as far as I'm concerned.
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@icedquinn @purple But you really don't need to restart your display server to enable/disable monitors. It's something like `xrandr --output HDMI-1 --auto` to turn it on IIRC.
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@purple @icedquinn You definitely don't need dongles. You might actually be able to fix this with udevd now that I think about it. I think that's what this guy is doing: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/281872/udev-monitor-hotplug-rule-not-running
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@icedquinn @purple You could run a deamon in the background to do it. None of the OSes I use (besides guix which I haven't tried this with) run *anything* in the background after bootup besides agetty.
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@icedquinn @purple That's my main complaint with wayland. It's better than X11 if all your graphics drivers are set up correctly. So if the companies that are worst about screwing their users over screw you over then your computer is basically unusable outside of the kernel VTEs or X11.
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@purple @icedquinn My solution is a root menu entry to turn off the phone's display and turn on the external one using xrandr (X11 hotplugging works fine, but X gets really slow on the phone with two screens for whatever reason.) My power management scripts undo this if you lock the phone (just in case you yank it out of the dock without manually undoing this.)
IME: X11 is much faster on the pinephone but maybe some of the latest driver updates have changed that.
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@icedquinn Have you tried turning it on with xrandr?
For reference, this is the machine that doubles as my "TV" set top box and general purpose desktop (the "TV" is a projector pointed into the living room from my workshop.) On my machines with integrated graphics cards hotplugging works without anything special in Xorg.conf.
Looking at it now I'm actually not sure why this works.
```~ $ cat /etc/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "kmsdev" # <str>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
#Option "DoubleShadow" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
# Driver "modesetting"
#Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:7:0:0"
EndSection
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Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
~ $
```
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@icedquinn Wait what? I hotplug HDMI displays with X almost every day.
@icedquinn But that won't deal with all the crap getting shoved into the CFR by the executive branch.
This isn't really surprising but it's good to be aware that it's known for sure now.
Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/3 (submitted by todsacerd...
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How Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web | Almost Secure
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Military Unit That Conducts Drone Strikes Bought Location Data From Ordinary Apps
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@fabiscafe on my phone rn:
`/bin: directory`
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@marathon I'm a little surprised it didn't happen sooner honestly.
@fabiscafe If your shell isn't in /bin chances are env isn't in /usr/bin.
about a cabal of evil linguists, no seriously, missionarism
@elilla Also: I'm pretty sure some of the buildings at the university I went to were named after the same Townsend. At least before they tore down the religion school to build the new school of business in its place.
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Email mastodon+swiley@swiley.net (this makes all of my computers beep and turn on an indicator light and is always the fastest way to reach me.) I was on octodon a while ago but abandoned my account. I've never been a member of gab or parlor.
If you’d like to learn to program I would consider the SICP [1] more or less the peak of American CS pedagogy (at least as far as beginners go) along with “The Practice of Programming” once you get through that.
I play ukulele, I’m ok at reading music and decent at improv. I learned from Walter Piston’s “Harmony” and some of Adam Neely’s videos.
My main phone is a pine phone so if I don’t pick up when you call the battery is probably dead, the modem is probably dead, or I’m currently swearing at calls/pulseaudio/alsa. I’d strongly recommend sending an email instead.
Dispite what my web page says I’ve stopped uploading my scratch projects to GitHub once I started to understand the basics of collaboration with git. I was using the flamegraph as gamification/motivation but it doesn’t work as well with feature branch/squash merge workflows so I just keep most things on my VPS until I’m happy with publishing updates.
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Joined Jan 2021
