It is interesting how little AI written text it takes for me to be grossed out. Just one sentence it seems.

It's like textual uncanny valley.

Absolutely bonkers to brag about your app taking 5 _entire_ seconds to start...

Especially when in reality, a warm start with no updates -- i.e. an absolutely unrealistic scenario -- takes 5 seconds just to show the "loading" screen. And 25 more seconds till everything has finished loading and you can interact with the client.

(measured this on the old laptop I use to play the just-released Order of the sinking star)

(the 420 ms to _restore from the tray_ is even crazier -- I remember Firefox used to do warm starts in ~800 ms 20 years ago)

Distributing decompiled code is still a copyright violation.

Doesn't really matter that they're not distributing the assets.

Yeah, it's a real weird time for Elektron. Their whole business model is that they would sell you the same box multiple times if you wanted both synth and samples. But now people are just adding this stuff to Digitakt mk1.

Yeah, it's been strange to watch.

Personally, I am hesitant to start messing with firmware- I have just gotten to where I'm productive on my setup (octatrack for samples and mixing, DT keys and hydrasynth for sounds, squarp pyramid for programming).

I'm hoping to lock that setup for a year or more and just do electronic music on that system, as I find it productive... I am not sure that adding features would be helpful.

But it's neat to know that I might have a bunch of options when I move out of my self-imposed embargo on system changes next year and I think it's rad folks are enjoying that change to the ecosystem. I'm generally very opposed to LLMs and had happily retired from programming about the time the first bit of that hit, but if folks are successful in making software for hardware that functions well, then that's rad.

I've switched my gaming PC last year to Linux and it's been flawless.

Originally ran a 3070 which matches your "older mid tier" description and then upgraded to a 9070XT maybe 6 months after launch so not so old or mid-tier.

Is it really that different in implementation? Go's yield points are implicit but aside from the devex side how is that different from async await?

We're heavy user of Go at work. Go also makes it way to easy to write bad concurrent code and hard to write good one.

Stick to err/wait group and go routines and it's OK. Any PR with a channel or mutex I'll assume the author made a mistake.

Asking as an outsider to Go. How do you communicate between threads without a channel or mutex?

A goroutins shares memory so you can just share variables if you want. It is basically the same as any other language in this regard.

It's also just as easy to incorrectly share memory and cause race conditions. There's no protection against it and it violates memory safety.

For sure. The parent comment was merely asking if it could be done without channels or mutex, not if it was a good idea or not. Of course sometimes it is indeed the right thing to do.

Haha! Laughing at my own comment: "a goroutins shares memory". The iPhone keyboard wins again.

Wait groups do use concurency primitives underneath. My point is that the primitives that go provides are too easy to use incorrectly. And the language makes it hard to build nice abstraction on top of them. So I generally steer people away from using them unless strictly necessary, channels in particular.

How are things like that, that were preserved (I'm assuming) by the dry sand they were buried under, then gets preserved by archaeologist for the future?

A lot of pigments react to oxygen, and the sandy winds must not be kind to this kind stuff so I'm curious.

I know they've had to close Lascaux to the public for example.

They often aren't, sadly. You typically cannot encase and climate-control an entire site, so authorities will have to make a call on whether they can provide monitoring and preservation, or just re-bury it all. A lot of stuff in Italy is analysed without even unearthing it, because once you do that, the clock starts ticking.

Don't really see why. The issue with PostmarketOS is that there isn't enough people working on it. Not that the phones are locked down. Otherwise phones with open bootloader would have good support.

As other have said the apps for devices is still the issue with Jellyfin.

For TV you pretty much have to use Kodi and all the decent theme require a surprising amount of other plug-ins to work...

Anyone know of a decent theme for Kodi that won't fall over next time it updates? I just need "Resume Watching", "Newly Added" and alphabetical lists.

I'd love a Kodi theme with the design and responsiveness of the Jellyfin Roku app but sadly nothing I've tried has come close. I always end up going back to the default Kodi theme - it's ugly but it works.

(I'd jump to Roku or Apple TV on my main setup in a heartbeat if they supported DV 7 FEL and all audio passthrough formats.)

Wholphin is a great Android TV app, way better than the "original".

Moonfin?

That looks nice but no Xbox support.

Swiftfin and InFuse are great for Apple TV. Yet another reason to use a streaming box.