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  • I set up a very straightforward Godot dev environment yesterday using toolbox which is built on top of rootless Podman.

    • Create a new fedora toolbox
    • Enter toolbox
    • Install DotNet dependencies, git, etc with dnf
    • Install Godot binary from release page
    • Turns out there were other dependencies I needed
    • Godot wanted a few Wayland libs on the container, so I installed Weston (maybe overkill)
    • Godot wanted libxrandr so I added that too
    • Godot just works ™

    The nice thing about toolbox is that it uses my native host Wayland compositor. So whatever I have running in the toolbox can be interacted normally through sway (my host WM).

    You can either distribute a container image with your given toolbox configured, or just document the setup steps.



  • You can host docker volumes over NFS, but the actual container images need to exist on a filesystem that supports overlay (which NFS does not) unless you want things to be slow as shit. And I really do mean miserably slow. A container image shared over NFS will take forever to spin up because it has to duplicate the entire container filesystem instead of using overlays, and then it’ll blow up your disk usage by copying all these files around instead of overlaying them. It’s truly unusable.




  • Sometimes the freeze might be in the display manager. Eg xorg or your wayland compositor has crashed.

    In that case, you can use keyboard controls to change tty and fall back to a text interface. I think it’s ctrl + alt + Fn$number, where $number will correspond to the tty you want. Most graphical sessions launch on tty2, so you would use crtl + alt + F1 to switch to tty1.

    From there you can log in and use terminal commands to launch a new gui session, or to try and debug what went wrong. Generally, I’ve only had freezing issues on Linux when my GPU is dying. There was also a period where my work computer didn’t have enough swap space. It would freeze whenever I tried to compile code during a video call.


  • I can go to China, buy a book full of propaganda, fly to the USA, and read it with no issue.

    I can tune my radio to a shortwave broadcast from Mexico, and there’s not a damn thing the FCC will do to stop me.

    I don’t even fucking like TikTok. It’s an amalgam of all the worst dark patterns developed by corporate social media. Of course, nobody in government gives a fuck when Zuck does the exact same thing. I think it really comes down to the fact that as a foreign company, ByteDance can’t play the same election fundraising games that American companies do.



  • I used to browse certain subreddits for negativity bait. Eventually I decided that I didn’t want to immerse myself in a negative mindset so often.

    The trick for me was to recognize those moments when I was on auto-pilot and navigating to those spaces because I was bored and it was a reflex. I would remind myself that I know it’s bad for me, and then force myself to do literally anything else. Go to some other website. Vacuum the floor. Put on some music and go for a walk. Eventually I lost that reflexive instinct, and now I have no desire to go back to those places.

    I’m not going to pretend that what worked for me will work for anyone else, nor will I say that I’m now a better person for avoiding those spaces. I’ve probably replaced that habit with an equally pointless one, it’s just nice to not always view things from the context of tearing others down.







  • I always assumed that it was to quickly delineate what people say in their capacity as a citizen vs what they say in their capacity as a representative of their government.

    “Sarah Carter, from the Canadian embassy, says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet” could be interpreted as a personal opinion. “Canada says to avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet” is clearly an official statement.

    Plus, sometimes the news may be reporting on a memo or announcement from a government entity which was crafted by several people and has no author listed.