Aha, it works now. I’m not certain but I think I might not have noticed before that you have to click “save” to make the settings work. On my screen that involves scrolling down. You might move the “save” button to the top of the settings screen to make it more obvious, and possibly call it “apply” rather than “save”.

I do remember that the new settings persisted in the settings screen after switching to and from the main screen, and that was part of the puzzle.

Haskell is also extremely picky about programs though GHC’s error messages are notoriously confusing. Basically they say “error at line 123” with a bunch of incomprehensible spew saying what the error is. So you ignore the spew, look at line 123, and squint til you figure out what is wrong. In practice that method actually works once you get used to it. C++ is kind of similar IME.

You might also give Ada a try. Its goals overlap Rust’s and I’d like to have some familiarity with both.

Based on your mentions of Python and bash, I’d say spend more time on languages with serious type systems. Rust, Haskell, Ada, ML, and maybe pointy headed languages beyond Haskell.

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This is really nice. I notice that if I load the page for my city, then use “settings” to change the units on that page, then reload the page, the reloaded page is still in the old units. But that’s pretty minor.

I’m more interested in an API for this than in the web UI anyway, since I might like to use it as a widget.

Manjaro itself is basically a fork of Arch, I thought. I’m not sure what its attraction is supposed to be, but I’ll take your word for it. I similarly don’t understand the attraction of Ubuntu over Debian.

I wonder if it can also convert binaries. Put a copy of Oracle through it and watch the shenanigans.

Also wonder whether they can generate movies the same way. Put in a DVD and a completely new movie comes out, with the same plot, characters, etc., but with all the names and dialogue changed and the actors are replaced by deepfakes that look different.

Fwiw look up “derived work”.

But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.

Getting retail distribution beyond your locale is difficult, making a profit is very difficult, but publishing in its own right is quite easy ;).

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There’s about a zillion FOSS RISC-V cores on opencores.org and elsewhere.

We can’t know whether a story is stupid til after it’s written. But wasn’t the Harry Potter series about a wealthy superhero who spent his early childhood in privation as a plot device?

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No point to a new architecture, just use RISC-V. Doing your own CPU chip is mostly about fab, I expect.

Never change, Mozilla. Oh wait.

They’ve also broken the plugin API more times than I can remember. Wonder if they’ll do it again with this redesign.

Bah just fix the browser first. Give a way to disable audio for given sites. Fix the regression that made it impossible to turn off JavaScript on a page that was already loaded. Give a way to edit bookmark URLs from the toolbar bookmark widget. Make about:processes show why “Firefox” (rather than a specific tab) sometimes gobbled the whole CPU. Etc etc.

But why? Just pick a new name and fork, if there’s something worth preserving in the distro contents. I don’t understand what the something is though.

They can’t help themselves.

I’ve never used twitter or instagram. I would say reddit’s big turn-off is in the creep factor of Spez etc. Its communities are way more interesting than Lemmy’s, mostly because the userbase is much bigger.

I don’t completely understand the addictive social media thing or how it’s supposed to be different from television, adventure or science fiction novels, or whatever. But I’ve always managed to stay away from the worst parts of it, so I haven’t really seen what it’s like.

Look at the “all” feed once in a while.

What? No, too big a gap.