Just tried it and atuin is really great. ble.sh is a bit much but after disabling couple of features it’s quite useful. Thanks for the tips.

For me it’s wezterm (for nice tabs and nerdfonts support), starship.rs for some additional info in the prompt and, well, NerdFonts because nothing really works without them anymore. I didn’t have any issues with bash but atuin someone else mentioned looks nice so I will give it a try.

The closest we have in the EU would be like Revolut.

No, revolut is still just a private bank. The closest is Polish Blik or Spanish Bizum. Those are run by central bank and you identify with your phone number. I never used Blik but in Spain all banking app support Bizum payments. It’s also widely used. Most small business accept Bizum. Some online stores also accept it.

For me the only issue is that I don’t want to rewrite all my Awesome widgets. KDE has really nice widgets but it still doesn’t have independent virtual desktop per monitor so for me it’s completely incompatible with my workflow. Looks like waybar is most popular but I’m not going to write widgets in C++. AGS looks like it would do what I need but I’m not sure if anyone is actually using it. I could try it but I have 0 issues with Awesome WM so what would be the point of spending months moving everything to Wayland? I will probably do it one day but it simply doesn’t offer me anything right now.

a consistent way to make the 2 different DPIs of the screens work in a way that made sense

What do you mean? I used multidisplay setups for 15 years, I never checked what’s the DPI of my monitors is and never had issues. I just plug in any external monitors I have around and it works. I did it on desktop machines and many different laptops. I’m always baffled when people say their monitors don’t work because of sync rates or DPI. What are they trying to do and what’s not working?

Yeah, I’m saying that I was really naive 10 years ago.

For example: https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/economic-impact-trumps-tariffs-europe-initial-assessment

It’s older analysis for multiple scenarios including no deal scenario:

“An overall GDP drop of about 0.3 percentage points is significant but unlikely to push the EU economy into a recession as the EU was expected to grow by 1.5 percent in 2025 before the tariffs. It should be noted that these models do not account for all effects, such as the risks posed by a financial crisis in the US.”

10 year ago I saw Germany as the most pragmatic state in EU. Professional and with a clear plan for everything. Today I see them as the most corrupt and incompetent or outright malicious member. It’s like everything they did was to weaken EU: make it energy dependent on Russia, security depended on US, run their economy into a dead end (pushing ICE cars way to long and ignoring competition from China) all while laughing at everyone pointing it out to them. It’s also the main supporter of genocide inside EU. Fucking wankers.

Bye, EU economy!

Don’t be overly dramatic. The impact is estimated to be 0.5% GDP. This is a bad deal for EU for many reasons but it’s definitely not economy ending. EU will try to struck deals with other partners now and diversify.

The scary part is more how weak EU is now. It missed how dangerous Putin was to its security and it missed how dangerous depending on US for security was. China understood this but EU wasn’t able to react. It’s internally divided and unable to come up with clear plan on how to defend itself. I guess I’m being dramatic now but Russia sees all this and definitely will try to use this opportunity.

What kind of title is that? They agreed 15% tariffs. How is that avoiding tariffs?

Of course linting and formatting is not part of the language. Of course you can install extensions in some IDE that will handle it. Conan looks great but I never saw a project using it and when I was asking C devs about dependency management no one mentioned it. I checked dozens of GTK projects looking for some decent template to copy and didn’t find anything remotely “modern”. All projects I see simply use meson/ninja, install deps on system level, don’t provide any code formatting or linting guidelines. Most don’t bother with any modules and just dump all source code into 100 files in src. And I’m talking about actively developed tools for Gnome, not some long forgotten ones. For me the big difference between languages like C and Rust is that every Rust project uses the same formatting, linting tools, uses modules and proper dependency management while most C projects don’t. Because it’s old. Because a lot of C devs learned programming when it wasn’t a thing. Because a lot of C project started when those tools didn’t exist. You can probably start a new C project in ‘modern’ way but when I was trying to do it there were no examples, no documentation and when I asked C devs I was told that “you just do it like always”. In modern languages the default way is the “modern” way.

This is how you declare a new component in gtk-rs:

glib::wrapper! {
    pub struct MainMenu(ObjectSubclass<imp::MainMenu>)
        @extends gtk::PopoverMenu, gtk::Popover, gtk::Window, gtk::Widget,
        @implements gtk::Accessible, gtk::Buildable, gtk::ConstraintTarget, gtk::Native, gtk::ShortcutManager;
}

impl MainMenu {
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Object::new(&[]).expect("Failed to create `MainMenu`.")
    }
}

#[glib::object_subclass]
impl ObjectSubclass for MainMenu {
    const NAME: &'static str = "MainMenu";
    type Type = super::MainMenu;
    type ParentType = gtk::PopoverMenu;

    fn class_init(klass: &mut Self::Class) {
        klass.bind_template();
    }

    fn instance_init(obj: &glib::subclass::InitializingObject<Self>) {
        obj.init_template();
    }
}

This is how you declare a new component in Leptos:

#[component]
fn App() -> impl IntoView {

    view! {
   <div>test</div>
    }
}

That’s what I mean by “it’s not ergonomic”.

Interesting, I didn’t realize Vala was designed specifically to help with GTK. It could be a skill issue but I found the entire ecosystem really hard to understand. It’s like all documentation is written assuming you already know half of it. “Vala uses the GObject system”. Yeah but I’m just deciding which language to use to learn GTK, I don’t know what GObject is… Now that I understand it all better I would probably just use Vala and stick to GTK. Instead I switched to Tauri+Leptos+Thaw and it was a joy in comparison. Documentation was clear and I was just able to link my app to local framework code and debug whatever part I wanted. I was able to fix bugs in Tauri in first weeks of learning and I contributed quite a lot along the way.

I did some Lisp programming long time ago but I don’t touch it anymore.

By “C is so old” I mean it lacks a lot of features modern languages have. Proper linting, code formatting, dependency management, version management, virtual environments, modules. Yes, you can solve some of it with docker but it’s terrible compared with Rust for example.

By “it doesn’t translate well to Rust” I mean that GObject doesn’t translate well to Rust structs so you end up with weird structures split into multiple modules and terrible code overhead. Compared with modern UI frameworks it’s just not ergonomic to work with.

Yes, I know GTK supports multiple platforms but if I want to develop for desktop and mobile I had way better experience using Tauri+Leptos. It’s not just about having some bindings and some docs for it. It’s about how much effort does it take to set it up and figure out how to implement specific functionality. Good docs, good tools good compiler and readable code for the framework help a lot.

I read about Vala but a language that compiles to C seemed icky to me. I don’t know, maybe it solves all the issues that C has. Maybe I will give it a try one day.

I tried using GTK with C, JavaScript and Rust and the experience was always terrible. The tools, the documentation… C is just sooooo old and GTK doesn’t translate well to Rust. For me GTK is great for Window Manger level tools that need to be small, super fast and are fairly static (you don’t add new features do settings app or clock widget that often). I definitely wouldn’t do cross platform apps in it.

Same. I had to install it in a VM to do some Wndows specific development and it was very clean. I haven’t noticed any ads or intrusive popups. I never used Windows 10 but whenever I saw someone using it at work it was always extremely noisy with news alerts and other shit popping up all the time.

What about silly cone?

There are only two reasons to use something other than xscreensaver:

1. You need other input methods
2. You don’t care about security