If you have a thinkpad, you can probably extract the XML configuration from the windows driver installer using innoextract for your laptop. Then you can map those to pipewire settings with wireplumber to get very similar output to windows which was tuned in labs by the manufacturer (minus dolby atmos/dax).

Here is one for a recent thinkpad p1 gen8, no app necessary.

https://github.com/chergert/thinkpad-p1-gen8-pipewire-config

This is true. I wrote a sandbox for applications shipped on an immutable distro last month and it uses all the same portals just fine but no ostree/flatpak whatsoever.

You also can have separate portals implemented with different processes if you, you know, use d-bus properly.

I didn't understand flashbacks in movies until about a decade ago when I realized I had it. What a corny and lazy story-telling-tool I'd tell myself.

I still find it a lazy story-telling tool, even in writing. It feels like an admission you can't find ways to weave the disclosure into the "present day" of the story in a natural way. Though, the notion that others can imagine these things if described to them makes it at least somewhat more understandable.

Oh. Interesting. I’m the same. Are those flashbacks actually a real thing people experience? I had also assumed it was just movie gimmicks.

They are real for some. I have Aphantasia but my wife has Hyperphantasia so we compare notes often. Each of us are at the edge of the spectrum.

Oh that's interesting. I feel like my visual recall/imagination is probably slightly below average but that I have incredibly unusually vivid auditory imagination and recall. I’ll have to read into hyperphantasia, I wonder if having one strong sense but average or below average in others is common or unusual?

Yes, unfortunately they are. I say unfortunately because they are often connected with trauma. When something goes very badly, those memories can go cycling around one's head. PTSD can do that too. Some people relive wars years after they happened. It's very real.

I mean, yeah, I can sort of replay things that happen in my head (obviously it’s nowhere as vivid as real life but still imagining through things I saw), and then sometimes I do realise you saw something significant that I hadn’t realised when I do so. So if that’s what you mean by flashbacks, then yes?

It's awesome. I moved to France from Portland, Oregon this year. I went from 1gb to 8gb fiber for half the cost in France.

That's a pretty interesting move. Any other experience you are willing to share about France compared to Portland? I'm actually curious and have always considered Oregon to be one of the nicest places in the US.

Very much depends on what you look like.

I'm white, but my wife is not. The moment you step out of Portland the racism is palpable. And even in Portland you have a bunch of white people that try so hard to not be racist that they come off super awkward and weird.

It's a thing.

Not that France isn't, but it's different. Some white guy was cat-calling my wife the other day in Mandarin. She is not Chinese...

This was something I would have never understood living in the US until I moved to France 4 months ago. And yeah, as much as I dislike the company, those lockers are clutch.

Package delivery is pretty good when you live in a country with a standardized address system, large homes and where the delivery driver can park in front of your home.

However if you live in a historical city center where your address is the equivalent of “That small door if you go up two stairs behind the old tavern” then package deliveries plain suck. Especially since you don’t have the “village postmen” anymore. You have ten delivery companies and none of them have fixed routes.

I live in one of those places (Copenhagen) and I prefer the local online shops, since they offer all the delivery choices.

I always choose delivery to the convenience shop on the opposite corner. It's open late, and picking up a parcel takes about a minute.

Does it still completely screw up file/group owners in user containers? Because they keep saying it gets fixed and then that 1 out of 10 times it's not.

> I found it hard to believe we couldn’t get a wakeup timer more granular than 1 ms, so I looked at what KWin was using. Indeed, it was passing the sleep duration in milliseconds to a QBasicTimer.

I fixed the same thing in GNOME a few years ago across GLib, GTK, and Mutter/GNOME Shell. It required getting glib onto ppoll() finally.

This feature (fibers in systemd) was also modeled after libdex (which I wrote for GNOME).

I've been doing this with something very similar in GNOME for years now. It also does io_uring, threadpool schedulers, workstealing, "pollable semaphores" (like IRIX), profiler integration, and makes fibers implemented as futures themselves.

https://github.com/GNOME/libdex/

The good news is that before writing Ptyxis, I also ported GNOME Terminal to GTK 4 and doubled the performance of VTE. So you know, use whatever you like.

Hey thanks for your work, I’m really enjoying Ptyxis on Arch.