David Zaslavsky

@Dave @bitterseeds FWIW I use Obsidian for notes but I feel like the way it handles code snippets is one of its weaknesses. Joplin seems marginally better 🤷 but I have not found a proper “code notes” app that I’m happy with.

@Dave @yodeljunkmanenvy Hmm interesting… I personally tend to think of that as a feature of a notetaking app rather than a text editor. But I see how it could come in handy in a text editor too, sometimes.

@jeeva Thanks! I’ll check it out

@Feeee23 Cool, well, I’m not the greatest expert on Sanderson’s works but I think you could either go on to read the rest of the Mistborn series (books 4-7), which is what I did, or if you’re interested in his epic series, The Stormlight Archive, you could start that after book 3 of Mistborn and then roughly interleave books of Mistborn and Stormlight, which I think I would have slightly preferred in retrospect. If you take the latter approach, I definitely recommend finishing Mistborn books 4-7 before starting book 5 of The Stormlight Archive, because that book references some things introduced in Mistborn. (Even book 4 of Stormlight obliquely mentions a couple things from Mistborn, but that’s not quite so important.)

And no pressure to follow back BTW - I mean, of course you can if you want to, but it’s not expected. 🙂

@Feeee23 Nice, I’m probably gonna add a bunch of these to my list as well. I started and ended this year with Brandon Sanderson and I’m looking for more books enjoyed by people with similar tastes.

(would it be weird if I follow you on The Story Graph?)

@scrubbles nooo 😭

I guess this will be a good impetus to acquire all the music I was getting through Tidal by other means, which I was kind of meaning to do anyway

@orbitz @m4 You don’t need to be running the desktop environment to run the app, you only have to have it installed. Like, KDE apps require (some parts of) KDE to be installed, but typically work fine even if you’re running Gnome instead of KDE, and vice-versa.

Apps do tend to look and feel a little smoother if you use them in their “native” desktop environment though.

@Moshpirit 👍

If you have any experience with computer programming, I would definitely recommend looking up a tutorial on threads for your favorite programming language and writing a little program that uses them. The best way to understand what threads are is through practical experience.

If not, hopefully you can find some good resources anyway! The gist is that threads are kind of like little mini-programs that run within a main program and can be used to do specific tasks that would otherwise “distract” the main program from its work. (That’s not exactly accurate, but it’s the best way I can think of to explain the basic idea in one sentence.)

@mvirts @Moshpirit Yep, htop shows threads in green, so all of those shown in the image (except the first one probably) are threads. You can turn off display of threads in the settings.

Or, if you enable tree display, the threads will display as children of their process.

@mfraz74 @Bro666 @rriemann @[email protected] @[email protected] Gotcha. Well, I use Gentoo so I would be compiling it anyway. Sounds like I should take a look at it again 🙂

@mfraz74 @Bro666 @rriemann @[email protected] @[email protected] Is Amarok still maintained? I thought it was dead. I used to love it but I had to give it up when I couldn’t run it anymore.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Hooray! Very excited for this