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I’ve been using Linux for maybe 8 years before getting a Mac and found it to be great to use pretty much immediately. So there’s not really much I can tell you here. Except maybe to install the GNU coreutils from homebrew (and that itself if you don’t have it yet), the ones it comes with suck.

I don’t think there is a way to download Xcode without an Apple ID. The App Store also needs one though you could get by without that. You could just make the account only for downloading Xcode and only sign in in the browser for it, I suppose.

Edit: Oh yeah, get Mac Mouse Fix if you plan on using it with a normal mouse. The standard scrolling behavior is abysmal.

Can confirm it is terrible. I bought a pack from Amazon and both of them have terrible DAC artifact noises. Should have gone with the Apple one.

The disks are the most uggo part. They’re a bunch of old disks of varying sizes with a RAID+LVM setup to make the most use of them while still being redundant.

saiko@vineta ~ % lsblk
NAME                    MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
sda                       8:0    0 111.8G  0 disk  
├─sda1                    8:1    0   512M  0 part  /Volumes/Boot
└─sda2                    8:2    0 111.3G  0 part  /nix/store
                                                   /
sdb                       8:16   1 372.6G  0 disk  
└─sdb1                    8:17   1 372.6G  0 part  
  └─md1                   9:1    0   1.5T  0 raid5 
    └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
sdc                       8:32   1 465.8G  0 disk  
├─sdc1                    8:33   1 372.6G  0 part  
│ └─md1                   9:1    0   1.5T  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
└─sdc2                    8:34   1  93.1G  0 part  
  └─md2                   9:2    0 279.3G  0 raid5 
    └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
sdd                       8:48   1   4.5T  0 disk  
├─sdd1                    8:49   1 372.6G  0 part  
│ └─md1                   9:1    0   1.5T  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
├─sdd2                    8:50   1  93.1G  0 part  
│ └─md2                   9:2    0 279.3G  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
├─sdd3                    8:51   1 465.8G  0 part  
│ └─md3                   9:3    0 931.3G  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
└─sdd4                    8:52   1   3.6T  0 part  
  └─md4                   9:4    0   3.6T  0 raid1 
    └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
sde                       8:64   1   7.3T  0 disk  
├─sde1                    8:65   1 372.6G  0 part  
│ └─md1                   9:1    0   1.5T  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
├─sde2                    8:66   1  93.1G  0 part  
│ └─md2                   9:2    0 279.3G  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
├─sde3                    8:67   1 465.8G  0 part  
│ └─md3                   9:3    0 931.3G  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
└─sde4                    8:68   1   3.6T  0 part  
  └─md4                   9:4    0   3.6T  0 raid1 
    └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
sdf                       8:80   1 931.5G  0 disk  
├─sdf1                    8:81   1 372.6G  0 part  
│ └─md1                   9:1    0   1.5T  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
├─sdf2                    8:82   1  93.1G  0 part  
│ └─md2                   9:2    0 279.3G  0 raid5 
│   └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
└─sdf3                    8:83   1 465.8G  0 part  
  └─md3                   9:3    0 931.3G  0 raid5 
    └─storagevg-storage 254:0    0   6.3T  0 lvm   /Volumes/storage
sr0                      11:0    1  1024M  0 rom   

For iOS, Go Map!! (source) has a similar quests system. I don’t know how well they hold up to StreetComplete though, I’ve never used the latter.

Also, obligatory https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute!

The bingo one actually uses crossbeam channels instead of mutexes, so that’s nice. I haven’t looked too closely at it though.

I don’t think you can do too much about the Spectrum one if you want to keep the two threads, but here’s what I would change related to thread synchronization. Lemmy doesn’t seem to allow me to attach patch files for whatever reason so have an archive instead… https://dblsaiko.net/pub/tmp/patches.tar.bz2 (I wrote a few notes in the commit messages)

Just to give the reason for Rc<RefCell> in the current project. I’m reading in a M3U file and I’m going to be referencing it against an Excel file. So in the structure for the m3u file, I have two BtreeMaps, one for order by channel number and one by name. Each containing references to the same Channel object.

So basically it’s channels indexed by channel number and name? That one is actually one of the easy cases. Store indices instead:

struct Channels {
  data: Vec<Channel>,
  by_number: BTreeMap<u32 /* or whatever */, usize>,
  by_name: BTreeMap<String, usize>,
}

// untested but I think it should compile
fn get_channel_by_name(ch: &Channels, name: &str) -> Option<&Channel> {
  Some(&self.data[*ch.by_name.get(name)?])
}

Not for the built-in Eq derive macro. But you can write your own derive macros that do allow you to take options, yeah.

Do you have some public code you could link to that you’re having this issue with? There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for Rc/RefCell, I think.

Whoa nice, I need to keep this in mind.

Meeeeh, that sucks though compared to iCloud. I haven’t tried it but it seems like it will upload only and not download, and it will not store the entire Photos database (including faces, etc.).

Would be cool if this results in being able to store the Photos library in Nextcloud. Not holding my breath though.

Sounds like exactly the right way to talk about physical buttons to me.

Most computers with (at least) two network interfaces will do. If it’s something too crappy your throughput will be limited by CPU speed but I can’t tell you exact recommendations here. Here’s OPNsense’s hardware recommendations for example, they’re not high at all. Off-the-shelf devices that allow you to do this should probably be fine too.

I’d put Linux on it and use nftables but BSD PF seems to be very popular for firewalls (OPNsense/pfSense are built on this) which I have never used so consider that too.

Not a professional networking guy either but here’s my opinion.

What I would do is use the ISP router as is, open all ports on it (except to itself, hopefully it doesn’t do that…), and put a firewall in between the router and everything else that controls the actual access to everything behind it (in bridge mode between the two network interfaces of the firewall, so you only have the one network).

Could a potential second router also assign addresses to devices in that globally routable space directly?

Devices in IPv6 assign addresses themselves via SLAAC, you just need one device advertising the prefix which the ISP router should already do. The firewall should be able to just purely be there for packet filtering. If you need fixed addresses for public facing servers I would just assign them manually to the respective boxes as you likely also need to add them to public DNS manually anyway.

You should definitely re-encode it in post with higher compression settings that take much longer than you could encode “live” to get a small file with the same quality as your original high bitrate recording. (I suggest the AV1 codec for that)

Here’s a demo one that works on rooted Android: https://github.com/Hirohumi/RustyRcs/

(Also iOS 18+ Messages lol)

It’s not RCS’s fault Google locks down the API on their OS.

No it’s not. Get the spec here: https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/technologies/networks/rcs/universal-profile/#download