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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Link returns “This site can’t be reachedThe webpage at https://files.catbox.moe/8g7agm.mp4 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.”.

    It seems to be working for me.

    Do you have a github or codeberg link?

    I didn’t think anyone would have interest in it so i haven’t uploaded it. After new year’s I could clean it up a bit and host it on github.

    Maybe we should add it to awesome-lemmy?.

    I think it may be e a bit too early for that. At the current state it supports dynamic fetching of the feed in the background (quite buggy), paginating and displaying long posts and displaying top level comments only. At the current state it’s quite enough for me to enjoy a few (more like a few dozen) posts, but definitely not anywhere close to “awesome”.




  • I went with chafa as it’s terminal agnostic and supports various modes.

    Then again, I’m not really sure a tui frontend needs high quality image rendering. Earlier I even considered going completely 1bit braille or just ASCII just so that the image doesn’t take all of the focus at the expense of the post body.

    As mentioned by another commenter, I believe opening the full image in an external viewer is a much better solution, not to mention easier to implement.



  • There is one named neonmodem overdrive but it is buggy.

    It really is buggy, iirc I couldn’t even get it to run properly.

    It also support discourse forums any plan for this?

    I really don’t have any plans (or even a name) for the app, as I’ve just started playing around with pythorhead yesterday. I just hoped posting a prototype or a proof of concept might spark a discussion and maybe inspire someone much more competent than me.







  • My model, and I believe all other, have a 4pin molex connector for the power and as many sata ports as the rack can handle (in my case 4). My “mobile rack” came with 4 rather long sata cables (about 30cm) so it was easy to fit them through an empty pcie bracket slot and I just had to buy a somewhat long 4pin molex adapter.

    The drives are practically internal, they are just located outside of the case in said “mobile rack”.


  • Yeah I keep running into similar issues when trying to build pretty much anything on windows; for stuff that can’t be ‘nicely’ configured & dependency-managed through an IDE, windows is pure pain.

    You seem to be right. It finally compiled successfully a few minutes ago, installed pygobject successfully, following the instructions and it claims the gi module could not be found, even though pip lists it as installed. I really don’t know how Windows developers deal with such things. Do they just avoid known bad libraries?

    As for installing Python itself; I think I’d stick with the plain installer from python.org, and afterwards, pip. In case of dependencies that are hard to get through PyPi, I think anaconda might be worth looking at as well: https://www.anaconda.com/download

    I’ve decided on following the exact steps in the wingtk guide, as my attempts to deviate from them resulted in quicker failure, hence installing it through choco.

    It really sounds like PySide would fit your use case better. Check out this website for a great starting point: https://www.pythonguis.com/pyqt6/ – the author also has an entire book on packaging PySide programs for cross-platform distribution.

    While I’m sure Qt may be a better option, this project is a companion app to my PhD thesis to make the algorithms discussed somewhat easily available to a somewhat general audience and is completely unpaid so I really don’t feel like learning a new GUI framework for it. Maybe I’ll make a quick and ugly pysimplegui UI for Windows users.

    Anyway, I’m sorry for ranting. Thank you so much for the suggestions and explanations! It’s really appreciated.



  • Tagging @cadekat@pawb.social as they’ve asked the same question.

    Last night i was failing because of some VS components missing (iirc cl.exe, which was actually not missing at all).

    Today, I’ve reinstalled Windows 10, to get a fresh start and follow wingtk’s guide. First of all it failed as “choco install python” (as mentioned in the guide) installs python 3.12, which does not include distutils.

    After that I’ve tried uninstalling python and installing python --version 3.10.11 with choco and got the same error as gvsbuild still defaulted to python 3.12, even after a few reboots.

    Not knowing how to clean it up, decided on reinstalling Windows again, and installing python 3.10 only. Half an hour ago the build process failed for some (probably) network related issues ( ).

    Currently I’ve installed a driver for the wireless card instead of using the built in one, and the build process has been stuck at “Opening https://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.51/pango-1.51.0.tar.xz …” for at least the last half hour.

    As for msys2, I haven’t went that route yet, as I can’t quite understand what it is and what it does. I can understand even less how to package a package installed with msys2 using either PyInstaller or nuitka, to have a (hopefully) single file executable, as I’m trying to distribute the app to my students, which are extremely non-technical.

    I wish there was something like Wine for Windows.