#Fedora has the parts of #LibreOffice in the default install that I never ever use and lacks exactly the only part that I ever do actually use: LibreOffice Draw.

It is actually good. I try to be sometimes a cool kid and do something with Inkscape but the unfortunate truth is that I don't have talent for making visuals.

Most of drawings I've done last 10 years have ended up been made with Draw through exclusion process:

1. First I think that "this is THE day that I'll master Inkspace, I'm so excited". It should go without saying but yeah both experience and results end up being a nightmare.
2. Then I write these Mermaid and realize that the approach just plain does not work for me. I don't what it is but my thoughts both fly. I prefer writing code when it is actual source code going either upstream or production, not fake code with horrible syntax.
3. Web tools, well, not a fan, and this is universal but I often try them only to realize that I think best offline. They are horrible experience that I totally dislike from the bottom of my heart.
4. yED is kind of interesting but no.https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219383
5. LibreOffice Draw: OK I cannot say that I like this but I neither can say I dislike this so let's draw the damn picture. Not the most exciting task in my life, can't say I love this, but I get something done that I'm only mildly ashamed of.

This is it how it goes every single time.

Updated, added back a klog message and some cc spread. The bug triples boot time on at least some #AMD machine but I guess it does not matter 🤷

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20241021053921.33274-1-jarkko@kernel.org/

#linux #kernel

this quite a nice alt client for pass: https://github.com/timvisee/prs

KICK3 is quite bad. I already disliked previously in KICK2 the on-board effects, and it add only more of that cruft. Less features is also a feature I guess :-) ... and it looks damn ugly too. KickDrum is more fresh and the harmonic EQ is great in it: https://audija.com/plugins #Bitwig #BitwigStudio #MusicProduction

Could it be that #clevis has a bug that the following ends up failing unless the passphrase is non-empty?

sudo clevis luks bind -d /dev/nvme... tpm2 '{"pcr_ids":"1,4,5,7,9"}'

An empty passphrase can be created by the means of:

sudo cryptsetup luksChangeKey --force-password /dev/sda3

It is a totally legit configuration for NUC7CJYH, which I use for kernel testing.

#fedora

best thing #google has ever made is imho #keep. i use it organize all my patch sets etc.

my de-facto always repeated comment about Linux kernel and Rust ;-) It is how it is...

https://lwn.net/Articles/994778/

#Linux #kernel #Rust

This is how I've managed #patch change logs for some years already:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git/commit/?h=hmac-v6&id=b45ca8b0b88c265a77579d18b2fa8c297433560e

I just add three dashes to each patch to the empty space just before the change log. It's a trick I learned originally from Dave Hansen some years ago and have used since.

Wonder how others cope with the same problem.

#linux #kernel

#aerc user since somewhere 2022. it's great https://lwn.net/Articles/993498/ #email

For an outsider (not living in US) it is impossible to make guesswork who will presidential elections? I was in 2016 at north west of US when the Trump happened for the first time, and then everybody knew by a fact that Trump will not win, it is just plain impossible.

If you ignore who you would want to win, who do you think will win?

PS. Not worried of Trump because he likes how we rake our forests ;-) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46256296

15 minutes of #LinkedIn fam. I'm surprised that could even see this as I'm (obviously) not in that site. I guess that came clear also yesterday ;-)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paritytech_hailing-from-tampere-finland-jarkko-sakkinen-activity-7252660880637591552-XQ9D

#Tampere #Finland

Apparently the latest #LWN issue is across the board #Rust ;-) That said, I don't mind. My favorite tho was "Zapping pointers out of thin air", which is not exactly a Rust article but should be quite useful read also for the Rust developers (on the one and only Paul McKenney's talk).

https://lwn.net/Articles/993484/

Joan Cornella never disappoints.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAf0FKlvfId/?hl=en

I don't actually need but I mean :-) Can't get over these. Have been stalking them for couple of years already (with trousers on).

I do own MiSTeR FPGA so there is a "business reason" to get one.

https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/x86-64-programming-models

#Ardour is getting a tracker interface. Everybody says that #MIDI sucks in Ardour. I don't know because never used it. Maybe it is improving

I like to watch sometimes what Casey has been up to. Dude is the best show of #Linux conferences IMHO (no matter what the topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7cUnID7vFs

LGR's computers survived Helen for the most part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2qAfqGLE0

#IoT #security delivers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/robot-vacuum-yells-racial-slurs-at-family-after-being-hacked/104445408

Spent a fair chunk of the day digging into .deb packaging. Got the thing to build, which to be fair was no small feat in itself, HOWEVER the resulting .debs had no useful files in it - ok that should be an easy fix right?

Great now I'm running into trying to convince the dh (debhelper) system actually install the python wheel that gets built into the right place and actually put those bits into the package - and for the life of me I cannot find a good example and/or docs on this. To say it's frustrating is a bit of an understatement.

To flip this on it's side: I've had RPMs for this particular thing done 3 months ago, and didn't take nearly as long to figure out what it was trying to do.

*sigh*

Do I know any deb maintainers I can ask stupid questions of?