.desktop files are a Linux/Unix thing. Basically, it’s a fancy shortcut, usually to an application, which allows specifying additional infos, like e.g. translated names.
In particular, the contents of the application menu are defined by just a folder filled with .desktop files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut_(computing)#Unix

Yeah, solid counterexample. Wikipedia and other Wikis have a clearly defined goal, i.e. collect factually correct information about a specific topic, which is also a goal shared by enough people to drive collaboration.

Another cool example is the Mutopia Project, which basically archives sheet music. Contributors can just pick a piece of music and transcribe that, and they kind of don’t even have to talk to anyone for the project as a whole to benefit.

But then there is lots of examples, like writing a new song, writing a new novel etc., where the goal is not clearly defined, where it’s difficult to collaborate, because what you contribute might not mesh well with what the others provide.

I think, it’s mainly a matter of the works to which Creative Commons is typically applied, being less suitable for collaboration. You might occasionally see remixes, but that’s mostly it.

In the case of open-source, collaboration is what elevates it, and often makes it better than paid-for software.
You rarely see Creative Commons works that outdo paid-for works in terms of objective quality. Heck, chances are that more collaboration happens in paid-for works, because they can hire an editor, a sound engineer etc…

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Alright, I have no idea. It’s probably been around ten years since I’ve deleted it.

That prices for photovoltaic are dropping rapidly:

LOL

GNOME 3 doesn’t have desktop icons, if that’s what you mean. And yeah, that version number sounds about right. They used to version it as "3.38”, but then instead of “3.40”, they decided to call that version “40” and continue from there.

KDE is very much the opposite of opinionated. It comes with a Windows-like layout by default, but you can do pretty much any layout you want with it. People rather complain that it has too many options.
I would definitely recommend giving it a try, or at least checking out some videos. It happens a lot that people who dislike GNOME, then try KDE and are completely flabbergasted why that’s not the default.

I would still imagine that has a very different psychological effect. Nobody wants to click a “pay”-button…

Hmm, spannend. Also ja, tendenziell eher leer. Habe zumindest mal meine Kühlakkus wieder wieder in das Kühlaggregatsblech/Gefrierfach gelegt, auch wenn ich die im Winter sonst nicht brauche. Mal schauen, ob das etwas hilft…

Ist leider teil der Mietwohnung. Meine Vermieterin hat auch schonmal von sich aus gemeint, dass man den mal austauschen sollte, aber keine Ahnung, dann hat sie gemeint, dass sie kein passendes Modell gefunden hat, weil das ein mittlerweile unüblicher Unterbau sei, und damals auch wegen Chip-Knappheit.

In meiner Wohnung ist das Wohn-/Schlafzimmer direkt verbunden mit der Küche. Und der eingebaute Kühlschrank ist ziemlich alt, wenn ich raten müsste, wahrscheinlich aus den Achtzigern.

Und ja, Alter, das Ding raubt mir teilweise den Schlaf. Immer mal wieder macht es ein lautes Klack, wenn das Kühlaggregat einschaltet. Und dann rödelt das Teil gefühlt alle viertel Stunde alle 7 Minute für zwei Minuten rum.
Es sei denn, man hat länger nicht enteist, dann sind es gerne mal fünf Minuten. Und das Kühlaggregat ist direkt im Kühlraum als Metallblech verbaut, was wirklich jegliche Flüssigkeit magisch anzieht, so dass man gefühlt alle zwei Monate enteisen muss.

Habe echt schon überlegt, ob ich das Ding nachts ausstecken soll, oder mir tatsächlich wegen dem dummen Teil 'ne andere Wohnung suchen soll.

Edith: Nachdem ich das kommentiert habe, habe ich mal darauf geachtet, wie oft der kühlen muss. Meine Fresse ist das nervig.

Here’s their FAQ answer for that: https://just.systems/man/en/what-are-the-idiosyncrasies-of-make-that-just-avoids.html

I imagine, there’s various smaller differences in how the recipes are defined, but yeah, this is the big one.

I find that Just feels a lot like just a collection of script files, with built-in error handling for argument parsing and during execution. And it also offers easier discovery of available tasks and how to use them.

Ist ein Spiel, Shadow of the Colossus.

Oh, I don’t think, it really needs the plug. It’s been around since forever, a proper GNU project and all that.
Sure enough, it’s kind of niche, but there’s even music archival projects that have been typesetting all the works of Mozart et al in Lilypond, so there’s enough of a community to keep this ball rolling for the foreseeable future.

And well, that’s also kind of where it’s strongest: Transcribing existing music.
It’s actually less well suited for composing, because you basically can only listen to things by generating a MIDI, and also you can’t move measures around as easily.
But yeah, I still like it for composing, because I can use a text editor and Git and such, and personally, I also find it helpful to refer to notes with their names for figuring out intervals, rather than them just being random dots between lines…

It isn’t supposed to say “I don’t want to talk to you”, but rather “I’d love to talk to you, but I’m exhausted”. They’ll also probably still talk to you, but just won’t be able to be as energetic.

For example Rust needs to be able to dynamically allocate memory for all of its syntax to be intact.

Hmm, you got an example of what you mean?

Rust can be used without allocations, as is for example commonly done with embedded.
That does mean, you can’t use dynamically sized types, like String, Vec and PathBuf, but I wouldn’t consider those part of the syntax, they’re rather in the std lib…

They’re not really for me, as I find it difficult to relax while playing them, but I’m glad they exist.

Gaming had a real identity crisis around the 2000s, when every other game was a brown military shooter.
Now we’ve got cute games and cozy games and artsy games, and I feel like that opens up the genre to more people and enriches the whole medium.

Cozy games are more difficult to make, though, because the gameplay is not anymore just “point cursor at screen and click in the right moment”. So, yeah, you will get some worse examples, especially as the genre is still figuring itself out.

Yep, two days ago, I closed my work laptop, because I was tired of coding, then half an hour later, I saw myself picking up my own laptop to continue on a side-project. Had to stop myself there, because it does not help with the exhaustion.

I decided to make some music instead, which is thankfully something completely different. 🙃

I found this tutorial pretty helpful for that: http://intorust.com/

You can presumably skip the first two chapters…

Yeah, Rust has pretty good integration of it: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html#calling-rust-code-from-c

You do lose some of the Rust-y-ness, because obviously the C ABI is much more simplistic, but in terms of a stable ABI, it’s impossible to beat C.