megane-kun

My comment is self-documenting, I swear!

Because my work tends to have me working on a wide variety of features, and thus operating on vastly different parts of the codebase, I make it a point to comment out every change I make complete with the ticket that requested the change, and what the intended effect of the change is.

Cue me returning to piece of code I made (after the inevitable bug has arisen) and me staring at my own code changes in bewilderment, wondering what past me really wanted to do. Hahaha!

Due to a mistake I made, I’m chaotic good instead of neutral good. Current set-up is a 27" 1080p HDMI on the left, and 24" 1080p VGA on the right. Not too much in a hurry to replace my smaller monitor though, I need to upgrade my graphics card first to allow for a HDMI-HDMI configuration at least.

Stopped (regularly) browsing it mid-June. Still haven’t deleted my accounts because I am still not sure if all of my comments and posts over there have been truly cleaned off.

It’s a pain when search results point me to Huffman’s site, but with the Privacy Redirect add-on redirecting me to an alternative frontend, and failing that, manually checking the archived version of the page, I’ve mostly eliminated any visits to that place.

Looks great, and it works great on my desktop. I also quite like its simplicity.

However, after playing around with it for a bit, I noticed one glaring flaw. It stores its playlists in one (potentially) huge playlists.json file. It’s great if you’re manually creating playlists from scratch. However, I’ve had several playlists that I’ve compiled from my time in iTunes, and then Media‌Monkey, all of which are now in an m3u format. I can play them in Harmonoid just fine, though it only shows song info for the first song in the playlist, even though it does play the rest of the songs just fine.

Meanwhile, since Harmonoid also has a mobile version, I also played around with it. My playlists worked better over there as it shows the track information for all tracks, not just the first one. I haven’t dug up the files to see how they’re being stored, though.

I guess a feature like “playlist import/export” can be requested. Personally though, looking at the JSON data within the playlist.json file, however, IDK:

{
    "playlists": [
        {
            "name": "History",
            "id": -2,
            "tracks": [
                {
                    "uri": "file:///home/user/Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumberAndTrackName.mp3",
                    "trackName": "TrackName",
                    "albumName": "AlbumName",
                    "trackNumber": 1,
                    "discNumber": 1,
                    "albumLength": 1,
                    "albumArtistName": "AlbumArtistName",
                    "trackArtistNames": [
                        "TrackArtistNames"
                    ],
                    "genres": [
                        "Genre"
                    ],
                    "timeAdded": 1554270035,
                    "duration": 0,
                    "bitrate": 0
                },
                // More tracks…
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Liked Songs",
            "id": -1,
            "tracks": []
        }
    ]
}

In this particular case, it can be supposed that there isn’t that big of a hurdle anyways. The community (the Linux DE customization community) in general isn’t that large to begin with, and I suppose, perhaps with a huge amount of bias, that a substantial percentage of the community already is here in Lemmy anyways. That makes things a lot easier getting the necessary amount of people to use the alternative.

The example you’ve given is really appealing, though my concern is more about finding something that’s already in fairly wide circulation (wide relative to the niche we’re taking about here).

Don’t get me wrong, coming up with a new sense of an existing word like in your example is certainly doable, but I suppose that it’s a lot harder than adopting a synonymous term

If there’s none close enough in meaning and nuance already in use, then yeah, personally, I’m okay with cook/dish.

I’ve always thought it’s something to do with how you can customize fried rice to your heart’s content, and the overall versatility of rice in general.

But given that it is offensive, what is the closest alternative that gives a similar, if not the same nuance without the offense? What do we mean when we say ‘rice’/‘ricing’ in desktop environment customization anyway?