I’m going to go out there and say it, I really like GNOME. I know that a lot of
people don’t. Whatever. I’m usually on hardware fast enough that it can handle
this beast of a DE. But, having just installed it on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon with a
nice WQHD display, I was a little irritated that the only 2 display scale
factors were 100% and 200%. Which is to say, “too tiny for most people without a
microscope”, or “dangit now I can only see like 5 characters on the screen”.
Basically, I needed 150% scale factor. This is how to get it.
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Recently I set up a fully encrypted Linux install alongside Windows using LVM to
encrypt the / and /home partitions, as well as swap. This all went fine
and dandy until I realized I had been a little greedy and given root nowhere
near enough space (I was trying to horde it all for the /home volume). So, I
had to figure out how to shift that space around. This, for my own memory, is
how:
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So, this is going to be one of any number of posts out on the web about setting
up a dev environment on Linux, but it’ll be good for me as reference in the
future. This is going to cover setting up Ubuntu 19.10 on a ThinkPad X1C (7g),
dual-boot with Windows 10, with both OSes fully encrypted at the partition level
(full-disk encryption is technically impossible since we’re splitting the disk
for Windows and Linux).
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In the application I work on most of the time, we pass a lot of data from Rails
to the React frontend by writing constants to the window object in the
browser. Testing this can be a bit of a pain though.
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I’m in the process of moving from OS X to Ubuntu (via WSL2) for all of my
development work, and ran into an odd behavior with a zsh function I use all
the time to diff my current work against the master branch, that it turns out,
is caused by the case-sensitivity of the Linux filesystem (unless I’ve
misunderstood things).
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Every now and then I need to build up some complex hash/JSON data in Ruby to
feed over to a JS frontend. I tend to work slowly and iteratively as I push the
nesting deeper, which helps me find mistakes before it gets too complicated…
but sometimes that doesn’t work.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is great (so far). I like having a full Linux
distro right here on a Windows machine. Pretty often though, I need to copy
text from my shell into my clipboard (say, to add an SSH key to Github). It’s
not immediately clear how you should do that from WSL.
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Carozzo Ronah, aka Iron Mask
On Tuesday, 10 September, I went to see Gundam F91 with my best (Freedom
Fighter) Gunboy Thom, who is one of the hosts of Mobile Suit
Breakdown, and Allie, another regular guest on the
pod. After the movie we went back to the studio and recorded our thoughts on the
movie. In general, we really liked it (at least, we thought it was a masterpiece
in comparison to the clusterf*** that was Gundam
NT),
but in the course of our conversation we stumbled across the monstrousness of
the movie’s main villain, and how his being a ‘cyber newtype’ is used to
emphasize that.
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About a month ago I sort of went off on Twitter about how different RPG dice
systems lend themselves to different story territories, and then got into a real
good conversation about it with Devin Preston.
Devin is I think the only other person I know of involved in the TRPG scene with
a background in Lecoq theatre (which is where the term ‘territory’ comes from).
I’ve been thinking about this since, and I wanted to expand and refine the idea
some more. Let’s go!
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An early Okawara concept painting of the Zaku in front of the
Gundam’s head
I’m currently rewatching Mobile Suit Gundam, following along with Mobile Suit
Breakdown’s ongoing journey through the series
providing historical and cultural context and background. At some point in my
rewatch, it occurred to me: both MSG and Battlestar Galactica both came out
in 1979, and have an incredibly iconic villain robot with a glowing red,
single sweeping eye. The mono-eye.
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