https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacus_atlas

Yeah, good point. It also doesn’t update when the content of a file changes. So, in order to detect a change in a directory, you have to walk all the files and sub-directories and the directory itself to get the last-modified timestamp for each of them. Then determine the highest last-modified and compare it to what you measured in a previous run. If they differ, a change happened.

Yeah, I’m building more-or-less an alternative to make. Major difference is that I’m not using shell commands, but rather users will define their build code in Rust …because it’s intended to be a build tool for Rust applications (beyond what cargo does).

Thanks for the comment, though. So far, I haven’t limited inputs to just be files, so I don’t actually assume to have a last-modified timestamp. Rather, my assumption is that I can get some value which changes when the input changes. In the case of a file, that’s the last-modified timestamp, but theoretically, it could also be a hash. But that means I have to store these values to be able to detect a change. Being able to just say that one thing is newer than the other without storing anything, that is pretty cool and might be worth changing my assumption for.

I don’t think, inotify works for me, because I don’t have a continuously running process. My users rather just run some build command and then I go and check, if any input files changed since the last run.

openSUSE is now one big btrfs partition. They dropped the separate xfs for the home partition maybe two years ago or so. It makes it less likely to run into a situation where the snapshots fill up the root partition (which is really ugly to recover from, because users will try to uninstall packages, which doesn’t help, since the files are still contained in a previous snapshot)…

To be more precise, you don’t really want to use the snapshotting in the home-directory. You can still use btrfs itself and for example, openSUSE sets it up so the home-directory is in a btrfs subvolume that’s excluded from snapshots.
At the very least, you’d want the snapshots in the home-directory to be independent from the rest of the OS, so that you don’t end up rolling back what you’ve worked on when you want to roll back a faulty OS update.

Well, and you also just want proper backups of your home-directory, so the snapshots are not as useful…

Hmm, you mostly press the button in the top right to progress through turns as well as through the individual ‘decisions’ within a turn. And each decision is something like “What should this unit do?”, so it will automatically select a unit and you can instruct it by either clicking on the map to tell it where to walk/attack or with the buttons in the bottom left.
In your first turn, one of those units is a settler, which you might tell to found a city. In that case, you also have to tell the city what building to construct, for which it will bring up the city screen and then you select that in the list on the left. Well, and if you do build a city, you also have to select a technology for it to research, which brings up another screen with the possible technologies in a tree structure, where you select one technology and confirm it.

I’m sure, there’s tons of places one can get stuck on, but it is fairly linear gameplay, so don’t overthink it…

Well, if you played it a few years ago, the tutorial was also still rather sparse. That should be better now, too.

Frankly, I would be surprised, if anything uses groff for displaying --help, unless it shows the man page for that.
The most basic implementation of --help is a manually formatted multi-line string written into the source code, which gets printed as-is.
For dynamic layouting, you do need more logic, but rendering it to groff source code first does not make that easier. For tabbing, you print an appropriate number of \t.

It does show those for brightness for me, too:

Thanks, I was looking for a solution for that, too. 🙂

Yeah, it’s the exact same expression as of all the others, but I’m feeling that one so much more. Possibly, because I am an introvert, too…

I’m guessing, it’s a parody. There’s a couple which has been posting pictures like this to the internet, but it’s normally some amazing scenery from where they’ve travelled to. It’s always the woman in the center of the shot, dragging her partner along who’s taking the photo. I’m guessing, it’s trying to say that a hotdog stand is an amazing place to travel to…

openSUSE, because of the snapshotting. It’s zero-setup and just gives peace of mind when doing upgrades, as I can roll back even from the bootloader.

I have no experience with this, but I figured a Rust library might have tried to solve it (static linking is very much the norm here) and I found that ash can statically link the “Vulkan loader”. I don’t know, what that actually means, for example whether it would still load libxcb at runtime. Might be worth looking into what they do…

See the “Optional linking” section here for their description: https://crates.io/crates/ash#optional-linking

Needlessly absolute take. Yes, there’s going to be parents, who’d rather pay extra than look into what other games they could give their kid, as well as loyal Mario fans, who will pay pretty much any price. But there’s obviously also players who do weigh up their options based on price, and who will make different decisions when they have to decide between two titles, when one of them is cheaper. Especially with the additional invest for a new console and the more dire economic situation, I could see many players not buying into the Switch 2 at all.

Yeah, for me, the big thing was that I only found out you could test-run Linux without installing after I had made the decision to install it. Of course, having no real clue what I’d get into massively delayed the decision…

This is why I recommend FOSS apps for base functionality like that. There’s plenty folks out there, who’ve implemented a grocery list app as a hobby project, who don’t need to try to make money off it. As such, their app can exist without ads, tracking or needy notifications.

For anyone else wondering WTF SAE is:

Tools and fasteners with sizes measured in inches are sometimes called “SAE bolts” or “SAE wrenches” to differentiate them from their metric counterparts. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) originally developed fasteners standards using U.S. units for the U.S. auto industry; the organization now uses metric units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units#Other_names_for_U.S._customary_units

I mean, if it’s still shit and it’s getting even worse, I don’t know why we wouldn’t continue to mourn that, or at least call it out.

Well, as the other person said, it was not a failing of LiMux. It was political. Munich had been ruled by one coalition throughout the lifetime of LiMux and after it went to a different coalition, they announced the switch back.
The manager of Munich’s IT department also publicly stated that they were surprised by the decision, because there are no larger technical problems and compatibility is resolved by providing virtualized MS Office, where necessary.
Coincidentally, Microsoft also moved its German headquarters from just outside of Munich’s tax region into Munich around the same time.

Well, traditionally, console prices were subsidized by the more expensive game prices. They’d sell the console at a loss to then make that back per game. Them raising both the console price as well as game prices is what makes it awful.