lucy
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lucy
@lucymcphail.com
toucher of computers, doer of maths, Certified Yapper™

she/they
it has a song??? I'm sold
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
it's a solid maybe then, it won't be for another few months that I actually get this thing built anyway haha
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
it's more when it doesn't work though, I used nixos on my laptop for two years until it drove me crazy

maybe I need to give it another shot, but we'll see
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
why though
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I usually just use tmux sessions for each project and then open editors inside them, but naturally that only works if your editor runs in a terminal
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
that's super weird, I'm on debian trixie so a pretty recent kernel (6.12 I think?), maybe I've just got something horribly misconfigured somewhere :')
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
which one though? mine is 11th gen intel which I think was pretty bad for this, it's a bit better with deep sleep instead of s3idle but I'd still rather just hibernate or turn it off
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
plasma, it's comfy
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
yeah back when I had a work mac I was really impressed with how good the sleep was, and I used that all the time. but windows machines sometimes do stuff while they're sleeping and drain the battery, and my framework laptop with linux has worse battery drain when it's sleeping than when it's idle
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
they don't?? I'm too young to feel this old I swear
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
as a linux user for both desktop and servers, I always have lots of swap on laptops and desktops so that I can hibernate them

do these people never use hibernate?
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
huh, syzygy tablebases are a collection of endgame databases used by chess engines as well, I wonder if the name comes from the same place
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
it's not just google either, my galaxy s24 has gemini and some other google AI things, but it also has a bunch of AI tools that come from samsung on top of that (couldn't tell you what any of it does though, I've turned off basically everything except circle to search)
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
hey I know what all of these things are but I still stick with debian because I like having a computer that works :3
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
but it's so much work :')
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
it's okay, you're cool enough to get away with it
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
it's such a waste of a really cool technology as well; like the techniques that LLMs and friends use have some extremely useful applications, but no, we just had to use them to make stupid chatbots and "art" generators trained on piles of stolen work
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'll happily admit that freebsd is awesome, but I imagine I'll need linux specific things on this machine so I don't think it'll happen
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
but I don't want to call the british transport police
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
who would do such a thing
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
good thing there's plenty of space for those zeroes in the 7th guest bedroom, I'll have jenkins move them there at once
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
the age old tradition of seeing a gorgeous but absolutely enormous house, and going "heating bill must be huge eh"
November 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM