“Ternary operator” means “operator that takes three things”, like unary and binary operators take one and two things.

In C there is an operator for conditional expressions (an ‘if’ that you can put inside expressions) and it looks like this condition ? trueBranch : falseBranch. It takes three expressions, so it’s a ternary operator.

Except it’s the only ternary operator in C (and most languages, if they have one at all), so instead of calling it something like “conditional operator”, they just call it “the ternary operator”

Relationship goals

I have yet to read this, but. But the first part is like the internals of systemd, you won’t immediately need it.

If you want to make use of systemd, you can skip directly to where it explains unit files. You’ll soon see just how much it can do for you

One of my university professors wanted us to program using DrJava, so of course Java 8 it is.

Why did he want to use that? Because it was similar DrRacket, which he made us use in the previous term to program Scheme (which is just lisp for teachers). Of course that was just us being all modern and such, he himself used DrScheme, the deprecated precursor of DrRacket.

This guy is so old that my high school Systems teacher had him as her university professor.

He has a fancy current gen MacBook Pro that he uses for his stuff. Then when it’s lesson time he whips out a windows 95 netbook and a daisy chain of adapters from VGA to thunderbolt.

The pine nuts are the seeds that are inside the pine cones. The pinecone being wooden clearly didn’t stop us from prying them apart and eating it’s content

People put pine nuts in salads all the time, and rodents do as well. It’s also one of the 5 ingredients of pesto.

And why the airplane?

I don’t know, it looks pretty strong. People end up in ER with lightbulbs up their butt, it can’t be weaker than those.

No flared base…

What does this mean?

Today I discovered a new website

What you have in America, I don’t live there. But yes, I do, just a bad one. And if you believe in this meme I raise you another one: would you consider Kim Jong Un a democratically elected leader?

No, the People might just be stupid. You see, many people are gullible and get convinced easily by rallies of some rich politicians. Sometimes, they might even believe that one day they will be as rich as them, and so they see something good for the rich as something good for them. But, unless the people are threatened to vote, or the polls are manipulated, it’s still democracy

“Democracy” has nothing to do with “free healthcare” or any of those things listed. Democracy only means that the citizens vote. They can vote for stupid/bad things but it’s still a democracy. Similarly, a dictatorship that does some good things is still a dictatorship

How is any of those a prerogative of democracy?

A garden gnome that fights sperm whales

Have you tried gnome connections? It’s more on the “quick and easy” rather than “professional” side, but maybe it does the job.

Tho I wonder whether it’s more of a windows-side issue… maybe windows 11 requires some kind of online authentication that cannot be implemented by other clients, and maybe this authentication can be turned off. I’m merely speculating here, but I know that remmina works for windows 10 so it’s suspicious.

https://youtu.be/qxL72JjhDlU

AMD has an nvdec/nvenc equivalent called AMF, on Linux it’s going to be deprecated in months in favour of va-api.

To my knowledge, it does not have an nvfbc equivalent. Which anyway, Nvidia has deprecated on windows in favour of a windows-native screen capture with a name I don’t remember.

For what is worth, va-api encoding + kmsgrab works pretty well for me, it does have some latency, but nothing too unacceptable. Probably less than the one caused by the Bluetooth controller. And none of this is vendor specific, you can get it working on Intel, AMD and Nvidia (Nvidia needs a compatibility layer, but it works). Also, it works on Wayland, but sunshine needs some privileges to work.

Sunshine supposedly supports nvfbc with patched Nvidia drivers, even on Linux, I haven’t tried it, so I don’t know if it works on Wayland. I don’t see why it shouldn’t, as long as you give sunshine privileged permissions (like you need for kmsgrab). Even without nvfbc you can use nvenc, so you don’t need the va-api compatibility layer.

Supposedly, since this Nvidia driver release nvfbc is used as backend for pipewire screen capture, so it should just work for apps like OBS, I don’t know if sunshine has intention to move to it.

In general, screen capture on Linux pretty much works, even on Wayland. The general sentiment that it’s broken is actually old news.

There’s a caveat though. Proprietary apps tend to use outdated stuff (e.g. electron builds from 5 years ago) and thus don’t support screen sharing on Wayland.

The hardware still needs to be brought up and initialised. But the software is the real problem here. The kernel gets fully up in seconds, but then you have to initialize the rest of the OS

The pc ecosystem is modular by design. The kernel will figure out itself the available hardware, moreover there are only two major CPU manufacturers (in the pc space of course), which means you have only two platforms to support.

Mobile phones instead are not modular, they use SoC. While most common socs are from Qualcomm and mediatek, there are a lot more smaller manufacturers. Plus, even if most often they use the same reference design for compute cores, the rest of the soc is often custom and wildly different from others. All of this to say that the kernel needs to already know exactly how the specific soc of the device works, instead of figuring it out on the fly. Which is why you need to check compatibility.

The brick thing instead is because the bootloaders in these devices are usually very locked down, so sometimes you need to replace the bootloader with a more open one, with all the risks that this entails