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I've been waiting for a few months for the marketplace to get an International English Linux keyboard in stock, as well as the 61Wh battery (both for 13") to upgrade.

Does anyone know what their intent is there? Do you just wait for a bunch of people to batch up with the "Notify Me" list, or do they intend to just keep a few of everything in stock and it's been a bad luck streak for me?

If you're running Windows, what version and why? If Linux, what distro?

My laptop is running modern hardware with NVME drive and has 64GB of RAM. Running Pop!_OS 22.04 with Gnome/Wayland.

When I launch the cosmic-store or cosmic-edit (for example) via command line or launcher, each takes about 25 seconds for its app window to load. Loading the Pop Shop in the same fashion takes less than 1 second.

I saw a few lines indicating files couldn't be opened, and thought at first maybe my ulimit was set incorrectly, but there is plenty of headroom on my user (soft limit: 4096, hard limit: 1048576).

I do see a handful of logs that look questionable:

May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Couldn't move process 17126 to requested cgroup '/user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope': No such process
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: app-gnome-com.system76.CosmicEdit-17126.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░ 
░░ The unit UNIT has entered the 'failed' state with result 'resources'.
May 04 07:50:59 rosie systemd[2109]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-shell.

What could be causing the cosmic apps to load so slowly?

I like the analysis here--sometimes you don't want the highest quality if it is too slow or too expensive. In that case, maybe mixtral-8x-7b might be a sweet spot, or perhaps Gemini Pro if speed is of utmost concern. Nice break-down here.

Some article websites (I'm looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a "Continue Reading" button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective--I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide the text and make me click a button, then have me scroll? Why has this become a fairly common practice?

I want to run a command and see all of its output on the left hand side, while simultaneously searching/grepping for particular lines on the right hand side. In other words, I want a temporary vertically split screen in my CLI, ideally with scrollback on each side of the split, but where I expect the left hand side to be scrolling thousands of lines quickly, while on the right hand side is a slow accumulation of "matches" to my grep.

Is this possible today? What tools would you recommend to accomplish this?

EDIT: To be clear, a one-liner is preferable over learning tmux or screen, although this does motivate me to perhaps begin learning tmux.

In case this is an X/Y problem: The specific command I'm trying to run is an rsync simulation (dry-run) where I want to both check that the command works, and subsequently check that there are no denied errors. The recommended way to do this is to run the command twice, as follows (but I want to combine it into one pass):

# first specify the "-n" parameter so rsync will simulate its operation. You should use this before you start:
rsync -naP --exclude-from=rsync-homedir-local.txt /home/$USER/ $BACKUPDIR/

# check for permission denied errors in your homedir:
rsync -naP --exclude-from=rsync-homedir-local.txt /home/$USER/ $BACKUPDIR/ | grep denied

LazPaint is a surprisingly good image editor.

I've looked around at many raster image editing apps for Linux, and I have mostly been disappointed.

• The Gimp is hard to use and has lagged behind major other platforms' banner image editors.
• Pinta is "ok" but has graphics glitches on my hardware (Intel).
• Inkscape is good but specializes in vector graphics, not raster images.
• Krita looks like it might be particularly good for artists using a tablet, but is mediocre for raster image tasks and has a complex interface.

I've also tried various "simple" apps such as KolourPaint [1] and Drawing [2], but these are generally more like "MS Paint" and have limited capabilities when importing images for various editing tasks.

LazPaint has all of the major features you would expect, without an over-complicated UI--selection, layers, gradients, filters, shapes, opacity, many file formats etc.. However, it is not wrapped in a Flatpak, so you need to download the "deb" file and install with Eddy (or the CLI):

https://github.com/bgrabitmap/lazpaint/releases/tag/v7.2.2

As an aside, I recently also discovered Pixelitor, and I think it's another one to keep an eye one. The author seems to be making some great progress lately (most recent release in September 2023).

• [1] https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.kolourpaint
• [2] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing

The pop_os subreddit has many Pop!_OS-specific help requests per day. I'm kind of surprised there aren't more here on the Fediverse/lemmy side of the community.

I browse looking for ways to help, and after having shifted my attention from Reddit to the Fediverse I feel like I could be helping out more. Why aren't there more requests here?

Beginning Linux user: "Ctrl-Z is undo, right?"

Advanced Linux user: "Ctrl-Z dammit fg"

Kent Beck is a computer scientist and author. In his post, he takes a more personal turn. His "code book" for emotions is insightful.

This list reminds me of the importance of listening to our own emotions--complex signals of inner state (inner facts) that carry great significance if we're to gain deeper insight into our motivations, and then go on to improve our world and the world in general.

Identifying our feelings can sometimes be a challenge in itself, but interpreting them is also a skill and depends on wisdom and knowledge. I'm not sure there is a perfect interpretation of each emotion, but I appreciate and learn from others (like Kent Beck) who attempt to simplify these feelings into clearer meanings:

• Fear—a call to focus. I need to increase a priority & let go of other things.
• Anger—a call to establish & enforce my boundaries.
• Anxiety—a call to pay attention to something I am ignoring.
• Flashbacks—a call to deal with my past trauma.
• Confusion—a call to step back & re-establish my intentions. For me this often takes the form of asking what I would do if I was serving my mission to help geeks feel safe in the world.
• Envy—a call to safeguard my social standing.
• Jealousy—a call to safeguard (or let go of) an important relationship.
• Hatred—a call to accept something about myself I don’t like.
• Boredom—a call to do something I am avoiding.
• Apathy—a call to accept that I am stuck.
• Guilt—a call to change.
• Shame—a call to accept myself & then change.
• Terror—a call to freeze in the face of fear (rather than run or attack).
• Sadness—a call to release something I’m attached to.
• Despair—a stronger form of sadness. I really need to release something I’m attached to.
• Grief—a call to honor loss.
• Depression—a call to understand deeply.
• Suicidal thoughts—a call to change. (I hesitated to include this. If this is you, get help. I’ve read too many “logical” geek suicide notes. My suicidal thoughts diminished when I learned to interpret them as saying, “I really don’t want to be in this situation.”)

I am currently having issues with using Blender on my desktop computer where Blender just locks up/stops responding randomly while I manipulate positions of objects or node graphs. Blender never unlocks and there does not seem to be a consistent cause for this issue. All other programs run fine while Blender is locked up. My computer is not locked due to memory, CPU, nor GPU usage.

Please, if anyone can provide any information on this, I would greatly appreciate it!

Computer details:

Blender version: 3.6.1, only non-default add-on is MolecularNodes v2.7.4

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04

GPUs: GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX Titan X (both pretty old, but still running strong with other visualization softwares)

GPU Driver: 535.104.05

CUDA Version: 12.2

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz

RAM: 32 GB

Edit: just noticed that Blender is still using 100% CPU (one thread of 8) even after being locked for 15+ minutes now.

Edit 2: Added Blender version and add-on details (duh).

Edit 3: This is not arising due to loading corrupt blender files. I just started a fresh run, recreating the desired blender process for the visualizations that I am interested in, and the program still locked up.