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I’m a dorky inflatable latex coyote! Linux nerd, baker, some 3D things as I learn. Also love latex. The material, not the typography thing.

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  • Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways – broken in ways I’ve never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.

    • Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it’s open, until you want another window) (I’ve only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
    • The “home” view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that’s empty – sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I’ve repeatedly suffered this)
    • Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn’t from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
    • Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)

    And that’s just my personal experiences. The ones I’ve seen others deal with is much weirder.

    Honestly I’m buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.





  • It’d have to literally be a full CPU that somehow has only read access to the RAM such that it’d be a genuine feat of engineering. Either that or the whole thing is just a virtualized device, but the cooling demands for either method would exceed the threshold for passive cooling in those enclosures and require fans at that point.

    Bloomberg wrote an article several years ago that was absolutely slaughtered for making up from bad sources such a chip concept except even more unbelievable because they claimed it was hidden inside the PCB itself and only like 6 or 8 pins? Absolutely absurd for anyone who understands electrical engineering or microcontrollers at all.











  • If you just want to use other repos, maybe a scheduled script is better than writing a full extension. Since most extensions are only on GitHub still you’d run into the rate limits without the API key pretty quickly unless you only poll once a day and only have a couple from it.

    But sounds like basically HACS Lite would be the kind of thing you’d want otherwise. Rather than scratch I’d say just fork HACS since there’s already a framework there and alter it to remove that centralized repo checking and maybe add a config option for poll frequencies. You end up with something polished that’ll likely fit other folks needs and if you just call it “Lite” you might get interest from them even in it being an alternative version.