• Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    How is it licensed, Jigsaw? Eh? What distro is it from? Is that a fucking Snap wheel?

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        What I hadn’t anticipated in my 20 years away from Linux was not only had teams of unpaid volunteers been beavering away behind the scenes to make everything work better, other much more enthusiastic teams have been thinking up new and exciting ways to break it again.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    33·
    3 days ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    but is it written in 6510 assembly, with cool graphics and catchy music with fast arpeggios?

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    3 days ago

    The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
      8·
      3 days ago

      I think we need to take a bit of a step back and consider what kind of shed we might use to store this wheel…

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        To answer that, we’ll need to do a deep dive into foundation technology (to determine if it is lacking and needs some improvements) (because we don’t want our wheelshed to sink).

    • Wolf@lemmy.today
      7·
      3 days ago

      What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa?

      It works fine. It’s a perfectly good wheel.

      Hey where is Underwaterbob?

      He’s trapped in that Jigsaw room.

      The door is unlocked though?

      Yeah, but there is a wheel in there and UWB won’t leave until he figures out if there is a way to improve it.

      Has any one asked him to?

      No

      Will he get paid to improve it?

      No

      What does the wheel do?

      You roll it out of the way so you can exit the room.

    • Part4@infosec.pub
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yeah but neither the romans, or medieval peasants had computers, so why are you on about?

    • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
      136·
      4 days ago

      Hello, Rust developer. [My name, etc.] It works fine, and is written in C++. [Rest of challenge is the same.]

      Truly diabolical

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      49·
      4 days ago

      Look, I’m not saying the wheel is wrong. It rotates, but what if two people try to turn the wheel at the same time, in opposite directions?

      What if—instead of risking misuse of the wheel—we have a my_wheel::Wheel, which only one person can rotate at any given time? The multiverse could enforce this safety at compile time by making it impossible for there to exist a universe where two people both think they own the right to rotate the wheel. In fact, it could even make it impossible for me to lend out the wheel to more than one person at a time.

      And, maybe… we could make the wheel even better. Cars rest on top of wheels, sure. But what if I wanted to make a car that rests on top of other cars? If we rotate the super-car’s wheels, we don’t want to make the sub-cars flap around—we want the sub-car wheels to rotate. It would be more future-proof to make a Wheel trait, then to make RubberTyre implement Wheel. Then, if we ever needed to make cars into wheels, we could have them also implement Wheel—but delegate the responsibility of rotating to their own wheels.

      In fact, we should make it into a whole library. Our other projects could need wheels. Mr. Mittens might need them eventually!

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      27·
      4 days ago

      Disclaimer: I have never actually written Rust.

      neither have most of the people advocating for (or against) rewriting stuff in Rust lol

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        13·
        4 days ago

        I’ll have you know, I’ve started several projects in Rust!

        Only to realize I don’t have time to do unpaid work even if it IS fun.

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    28·
    3 days ago

    Spent months setting up my home server with Docker containers while learning Linux. Everything worked perfectly fine.

    Then I realised Ubuntu Server is just a Debian-flavored landfill. Switched to EndeavourOS. Everything worked perfectly fine.

    Then I made NixOS my daily driver and thought, “Hey, let’s ruin my weekend.” Migrated the server. Everything worked perfectly fine.

    Found out I could run containers as systemd services. Replaced Docker out of sheer spite using compose2nix. Everything worked perfectly fine.

    Then I heard btrfs was the bee’s knees. Reformatted my drives, migrated again, and spent a week learning why subvolumes are better than sex. Everything worked perfectly fine.

    Got a free MacBook. Slight hardware bump. Migrated again. Spent hours fighting T2 drivers while deepthroating Tim Apple’s cock. Everything worked perfectly fine.

    Rewrote every systemd service as NixOS modules. Why? Something something George Mallory. Everything still works perfectly fine.

    Did I ever notice a difference from the frontend? Nope.

    Was this a good use of my time? Fuck no.

    Did it need to happen? Does the pope compile from source in the woods?

    • tux7350@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      Im at the compose2nix phase of this pipeline. Ive got a bunch or sevices in Docker compose files and all of my systems have been running Nix for over a year now. Ive gotten the hang of my repo and made a couple modules for my specific uses and im hooked.

      What would you suggest to migrate all my compose files into a nix friendly environment? I use flakes as well.

    • Zoe@lemmynsfw.com
      5·
      3 days ago

      I mean it sounds like you just enjoy spending your time doing that sort of thing. I’d say that was a good use of your time if you wanted to do it, no?

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    But my wheel will be much better. I will start from the center with a very simple skeleton and build on top of it as needed. It will be very modular, elegant and easy to understand. It will be my masterpiece.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    110·
    4 days ago

    Developer: Kill me if you must but i’ve turned the wheel into a modular service called systemd-wheel

      • Wolf@lemmy.today
        2·
        3 days ago

        Consumer: It say’s here I can subscribe to ‘Wheel Pro’ for only $69.99/month and I will automatically receive all the latest features the second they come out!

        Noob: I just use WIMP, it’s free and does 99% of what Wheel Pro does. I don’t need all those extra features.

        Consumer: Psh, WIMP is ugly and you can’t even adjust the tire pressure by millipascals.

        Noob: They added that feature in March.

        Consumer: I NEED IT FOR WORK OK!

    • GreenCrunch@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      That name may be taken, depending on how you look at it! Game developer Tim Cain wrote an OS abstraction library called GNW (GNW’s not Windows). That allowed games like Fallout to be built for DOS, Windows, and Mac without major changes. I highly recommend his Youtube channel!