pet the cat, walk the dog

Yeah, what I’ve read is that ARM is in fact a mix of RISC and CISC. And meanwhile x64 processors turn some CISC instructions into a bunch of simpler ones as one of the first execution stages. So in the end the situation is basically this:

In theory probably yes, in practice from what I’ve heard ARM has some CISC-style instructions — presumably exactly because they offer performance increases.

‘RISC-V is sloooow – Marcin Juszkiewicz’

Encountered this here on Lemmy a few days ago, haven’t looked into it properly. If you search for the article’s title, you should find the post and comments.

To my knowledge, modern CPUs have a lot of hardware acceleration for various common algorithms, specifically regarding media. This is orthogonal to the architecture itself, and I’m not sure that risc-v platforms implemented all that stuff, seeing as it’s been developed for x86/x64 over decades.

With ARM Macbooks, you need to look into what models are specifically supported by Asahi Linux. It doesn’t seem to work on the newest models, at least not right away. This means either the CPU not being supported at all, or possibly missing drivers for some of the hardware.

I’m using Linux.

The tiger would prefer if the immigrants were overpopulated someplace far away from the tiger.

KC Green has actually made ‘This is Not Fine’ back in 2016.

Interesting, thanks. This Silverbullet thing turned out to be more complex than I originally imagined, I thought it’s a hierarchical notes app as usual.

I have a bad memory so I create a LOT of lists

I’m the same way, but that led me to Org-mode with local files (synced to the phone) and loads of nested outlines, like thousands of items.

But since it’s programmed in Emacs Lisp, I’ve made me some custom commands like logging taken medicine with the current time and date, adding an episode to the log of series watched, etc. I also plan on hacking together a brother extension that would send the page title and address to one of specific places in the outlines, but I keep putting that off.

It’s remarkable how you continue to trudge ahead while being objectively wrong about everything. Your opinion is absurd, and everything you cited is incongruous to the discussion. Try saying anything in any way relevant next time. Again, not sorry in the slightest.

You’re objectively wrong there, sorry not sorry.

Firstly, I don’t need my entire four-thousand-notes file be exported to Markdown.

Secondly, that doesn’t mean that if Org used Markdown, exporting would be impossible.

Copying from Org is objectively bothersome, because Org’s markup format is only used in Org and nowhere else.

includes a Lua interpreter so you can get scripty with it

Any examples of what you’re doing with scripts? I use some custom programming in Org-mode in Emacs, but curious about what other people are doing in different apps.

Org-mode is especially great for people who like branchy outlines as their notes. It allows to jot down a note quickly and to move them around in the tree as the heart desires. I have thousands upon thousands of notes, mostly short one- or two-sentence long.

Plus both Emacs and Orgzly allow some programmatic fiddling with the notes.

The downside is that copying anything with links or formatting out of Org requires converting its markup to Markdown or whatever.

Also, @CarlLandry357@lemmy.world, another factor in learning the CLI is that it gives you power in automating your desktop workflow. Using Bash with a bunch of Unix tools is the most basic automation script you can have, and Linux is very nimble about it (invoking processes is considerably more costly in Windows, so apps tend to do everything in a single process with threads).

For example, a file manager like Double Commander can have custom actions for files defined in the options, and you specify those as a terminal command to invoke.

A more advanced example is a launcher like Alfred (for MacOS) that can run scripts on custom keywords. I’ve had it doing stuff like connecting/disconnecting bluetooth headphones without mucking about with the mouse and tray menus, or handing the headphones over to the phone. Haven’t found anything like that for Linux yet.

Generally, a programmer that knows multiple languages and paradigms is better than one that sticks to a single one, because they’ve encountered different ways of doing things. Particularly, for desktop automation, learning Lua is a boon, because it’s small and fast as hell and finishes scripts before Python can start up. I’m in perpetual mourning for absence of anything like Hammerspoon for Linux, which allows scripting in Lua and has lots of APIs to interface with the OS.

Of course, one milestone in a programmer’s career is learning Lisp instead of the usual stuff.

As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don’t observe the ‘≥1 ratio’ rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.

Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space rather than bandwidth. And if you seed something other than Linux, you might want to research the authorities’ attitude toward that in your area.

Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn’t be adding much.

I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while, dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.

For a programmer, learning the Unix CLI is quite recommended, because it gives you tools that you otherwise would have to find for each particular use-case. Once you get the hang of it, you see that Unix lets you combine a bunch of utils to do many unforseen tasks, while in Windows you’re expected to get a specific app to do any particular task.

PowerShell allows you to do some of that, but it’s woefully behind the times compared to Unix tools that were around for ages, and is simultaneously too complicated for its own good. Plus afaik it’s tied to the OS version, which sucks.

I advise reading through any oldstyle book on ‘learning the Linux CLI’. Even if you don’t remember most of it afterwards, you get the grasp on what utils are available to you, and can find them when the need arises.

One thing to note is that QMP3Gain seems to be a GUI for mp3gain, a terminal util. There are also aacgain and such for different formats, though some of them support multiple formats.

Presumably the server should do the volume adjustment in this case.

It’s like the people complaining that in MacOS the user needs to install third-party tools (open-source ones!) to tune the GUI, and then advising each other how they use this and that tool to disable MS’ bullshit in Windows.