Linux and GNOME contributor over three decades. Blues guitarist.
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Last Notes npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert It would be awesome if there was a way in GNOME Shell quick settings to be able to one-time-charge to 100% even while preserving your normal 80% max. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Why would I possibly be doing all this Qemu hacking lately?! npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Do you work on Linux graphics? npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…ynd9 Lots of youtube and being okay with 1 year somewhere while we refine our choice. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…ynd9 I know this feeling well 😂 npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…kjcu Oh man, the days of NetPositive and trying like hell to get my modem to work. A+ would do again. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert I want to be able to have Sysprof send performance data from all processes which support Sysprof when recording is turned on/off. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Oh look, Red Hat is looking to hire a smartcard person. If only they had someone who worked on the technology in its early days already employed there and denied their move to France. Clownshoes npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert It's amazing how much more programming I can get done when I don't have stupid fucking status reports to write. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert the same things that were wrong with them 2 decades ago. generally you gotta start by picking which one to hate on. libssh or libssh2. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Today was some animation work in a couple of projects, but I can only show this one because the other is still super secret *wink wink* npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Thunderbird, over the course of the past year, has gone from one of the most reliable (but with a face only a mother could love) to both ugly and slow. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Fractal makes me wish for the days of bitchx. I want to support it, because its GTK and all, but I constantly feel like I'm in mid-shift lurch on 1964 VW beetle. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Overview of the libdex work I've been doing recently. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert I do not know the Shell/Mutter code well so I asked an agent to help me binary-search the problem domain. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…a4ar I'm very unlikely to use it in a personal sense. It has messed up UID permissions more times than I can count. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Fedora: npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Took a crack at finishing that async/libdex Varlink library I started a couple years ago. Complete with .varlink interface compiler to C. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert While the end of my time with my former employer was deeply saddening in so many ways, we couldn’t be happier with our move to France! npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Over the past 50 years asset ownership, particularly housing, concentrated at the top and everyone else lost leverage. AI is now repeating that pattern by concentrating ownership of computing in the hands of a few. Protect yourself by owning what you can: your skills, equity, local tools, your operating system, and your own data. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert I’m no longer employed by Red Hat. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert I know everyone says it, but yes the food is so much better in France. Like, the vegetables taste like vegetables again. Also, all of our food allergies just like ... disappeared. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…jlkz there is one annoyance right now that is worked around with an environment variable and that is the vulkan device enumeration is slow when discrete card is asleep. Just force GSK to use GL. I mostly just run on the Intel iGPU. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…jlkz I find it “okay”. I switch between my new thinkpad P1 and it (MacBook pro m2 pro 16”) daily and now prefer the P1 even if it’s a little slower in single threaded perf. Nearly same size and weight. Oled is better. Touch is nice. Matte screen is amazing. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…re2d ctags has regex location identifiers that can be used for late-resolved jumps by name at least npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert In this house we have both flavors. Ube and matcha. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert I wrote about our transition as my wife and I leave the US for France soon. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Apparently Red Hat couldn't get actual pictures of PoC for their yearly ethics training so they just AI generated them instead. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Another project that was coordinated with this was a new http/mail server, for which the mail server is capable of not immediately getting black holed by Gmail. I got spf/dmarc/dkim all working but still in the reputation building ohase. Alma 10, postfix/dovecot/rspamd/opendkim. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Built my new NAS/build server in preparation for a move which turns out to be an interesting project of its own. Encrypted zfs and since it’ll be unattended for some time, boot executables and encryption keys on USB which always stays with me. Almost every stage of the build was frustrating from hardware perspective and I’ve easily built 1000 computers in my life for schools. It was truly simpler back in the day. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Sometimes I wish I could short-sell technologies like stocks. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert We’re leaving the US in the near future. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…7fz3 Perhaps because it can make some optimizations impossible? (e.g. the whole re2 raison d'être)? npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert I was notified just recently that Ptyxis is now the default terminal in daily builds of what will become Ubuntu 25.10 (haven't installed to test though). npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…j2fu Yes, I'm married to one. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…j2fu Because it's typically used to co-opt another culture/ethnicity. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert People saying "I was <blank> in a previous life" has got to be one of the stupidest and most colonist things I regularly hear. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…vklh not sure if I can make it by tomorrow but maybe I’ll grab some gnomies if I can. Convention center I assume? npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Since I won't be at GUADEC '25, I just spent an hour putting this together so I can feel like I'm going to be there. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…ln70 It's a pretty common C trick to put the length before the string and pass pointers to the start of the string. Then you can typedef that. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert Manuals will be replacing Devhelp in the Developer Tools suite for GNOME 49. Lets thanks all the contributors to Devhelp for years keeping things alive and functional! npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert A quick intro on how to use Foundry for those who will never live in an IDE. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert @nprofile…6w8s Nope, it goes to the store vendor first and they do onsite deliveries. npub1f60hyt4dzjupxm23k5rjuw4wjennzl34lstch798t9ju5dpryczqynk7m6 Christian Hergert We just dropped off the first stocking of my wife's hot sauce for the Portland International Airport!
