Geekices

Ever since Carlos Silva left a comment on my last post about this repository, I was left wondering if it wouldn’t be better to migrate my current VM to Scaleway. The price/specs seemed better and for the marginal difference of €1 I would get a dual-core virtual machine with 2GB of RAM and 50Gb of disk space. After a couple of weeks of reflection, I bought a “Start1-S” VPS for €3,99/month and I’ve been (successfully) testing aurto to manage the repository updates. Things have been working out so great that I bought the userrepository.eu domain. ...

Due to my own dumbness (I mistakenly deleted my Ubuntu partition), I installed Manjaro, using the Manjaro Architect release, on my laptop. I’d been thinking about doing it for a while and finally made it because I was too stupid to read the instructions from cfdisk. The shit you create yourself because you’re in a hurry… Anyway, after installing Manjaro, I started reading a bit about this distro packaging and how I could leverage AUR and binary packages. Inspired by the work of Arcan1s, I bought a cheap VPS from OVH [almost €3/month] and built my repository using Arcan1s scripts. It took a bit of fiddling around the config file and the scripts to customize it to the VPS low raw power, but I eventually got it. ...

I’ve patched the next GTK theme for Gnome, for a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. The changes include reducing the CSD height, changing the padding on some buttons and decreasing Gnome Terminal tabs height. There are still some bugs with the theme. For example, Eye of Gnome still has a huge CSD height. I’ll hopefully fix this in the near future, if doable via theming. Feel free to clone it or fork it.

Hoje chegaram os autocolantes que encomendei no Sticker Mule em dezembro, numa promoção em que o pack ficava a €1 e pouco. Com isto, já posso dizer que sou geek e o meu portátil ficou “lit af”. Só tenho pena que o pack não incluísse um autocolante do projeto GNU. Teria sido ouro sobre azul.

Simulation of galaxies and gas in the universe. Within the gas in the (blue) filaments connecting the (orange) galaxies lurk rare pockets of pristine gas – vestiges of the Big Bang that have somehow been orphaned from the explosive, polluting deaths of stars, seen here as circular shock waves around some orange points. CREDIT: TNG COLLABORATION [Jim Parsons inserted by me] This is huge! A group of astronomers, led by Fred Robert and Michael Murphy of the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, found a cloud of gas left over from the Big Bang, using the telescope located at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii. A dinosaur from the past.

Quando li este post do Carlos Martins no Aberto até de Madrugada, a minha primeira reação foi partilhar a publicação no Facebook com uma mensagem um pouco agressiva. Algo como: “da série ‘as pessoas são idiotas’”. Acabei por me retrair no comentário, porque não há necessidade de agressividade e ninguém é obrigado a saber tudo, e partilhei a publicação na rede social. Mas, caramba, as pessoas são mesmo estúpidas. Repara só no top10 das passwords mais populares de 2018: ...

Está a circular um rumor que aponta para o fim do Edge, o browser que a Microsoft lançou em 2015 para substituir o Internet Explorer. O mesmo rumo refere que a empresa sediada em Redmond vai criar um novo navegador, agora baseado no Chromium. Sabe mais no meu artigo no Espalha-Factos.

To get the Biker Mice to Earth. That’s true, sheeple, NASA wants illegal aliens in our planet, so they can steal our jobs, rape our wives and all that crazy shit typically written by delusional right-wing folks. Jokes apart, tune in the NASA livestream if you want to watch the landing.

In the last few weeks, I’ve been using the Plasma Desktop full time in Ubuntu with the Kubuntu Backports PPA enabled. This way I can get the latest version of this desktop environment on Ubuntu 18.10. The latest Plasma Desktop version is 5.14 and it’s really amazing. On my hardware, it uses less resources than Gnome Shell, although it takes more time to get to the destkop. And the best part is not having the Gnome Shell process eating up more than 1GB or 2GB of RAM (even after the garbage collection patches). ...

GTK: Ant Nebula (slim standard buttons) https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1099856/ Shell: Ant Nebula (slim standard buttons) Ícones: Plane https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1178976/ Cursores: Breeze [parte do Plasma] Wallpaper: https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/wallpaper/699858 Typeface 1: FiraGo Regular https://bboxtype.com/typefaces/FiraGO/ Typeface 2: Fira Code Retina https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans