The bingo one actually uses crossbeam channels instead of mutexes, so that’s nice. I haven’t looked too closely at it though.

I don’t think you can do too much about the Spectrum one if you want to keep the two threads, but here’s what I would change related to thread synchronization. Lemmy doesn’t seem to allow me to attach patch files for whatever reason so have an archive instead… https://dblsaiko.net/pub/tmp/patches.tar.bz2 (I wrote a few notes in the commit messages)

Just to give the reason for Rc<RefCell> in the current project. I’m reading in a M3U file and I’m going to be referencing it against an Excel file. So in the structure for the m3u file, I have two BtreeMaps, one for order by channel number and one by name. Each containing references to the same Channel object.

So basically it’s channels indexed by channel number and name? That one is actually one of the easy cases. Store indices instead:

struct Channels {
  data: Vec<Channel>,
  by_number: BTreeMap<u32 /* or whatever */, usize>,
  by_name: BTreeMap<String, usize>,
}

// untested but I think it should compile
fn get_channel_by_name(ch: &Channels, name: &str) -> Option<&Channel> {
  Some(&self.data[*ch.by_name.get(name)?])
}

Not for the built-in Eq derive macro. But you can write your own derive macros that do allow you to take options, yeah.

Do you have some public code you could link to that you’re having this issue with? There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution for Rc/RefCell, I think.

Whoa nice, I need to keep this in mind.

Meeeeh, that sucks though compared to iCloud. I haven’t tried it but it seems like it will upload only and not download, and it will not store the entire Photos database (including faces, etc.).

Would be cool if this results in being able to store the Photos library in Nextcloud. Not holding my breath though.

The article starts with a table of contents with the change highlights as the first item.

Sounds like exactly the right way to talk about physical buttons to me.

The proton prefix should not be created on the external drive, but in the Steam folder in the home directory, I’m pretty sure. Even with a second Steam game install location. Why is it not there?

I’m guessing proton is trying to create this symlink when it installs .NET

No, it is created when Wine initializes the prefix. It has absolutely nothing to do with .NET.

It’s not “c”, it’s “c:”

dosdevices/c: is missing I’m assuming is what you mean? That’s very weird, it is there in every wine prefix and should be a link to …/drive_c.

Proton is on a different drive than BG3, could that cause issues?

I don’t think so.

Try deleting the prefix (steamapps/compatdata/1086940). This should work completely fine out of the box. (Not sure if uninstalling the game deletes that already, just in case)

Now that I think about it, dovecot drops permissions for security reasons (login runs as the “dovenull” user). It’s probably not a good idea to try to circumvent that actually.

What do you mean by “more powerful” wrt CMake?

CMake is a turing-complete language with some APIs that Meson either doesn’t have an equivalent yet because it’s comparatively new (for example, until 2023, there was no built in way to get a relative path from two paths, and if you wanted that you had to shell out to an external program), or they aren’t going to add because it doesn’t fit their design.

Meson is (intentionally) limited in terms of extensibility, instead it tries to come with everything built in that you need, even down to specific library support like Qt, from what it seems like to me. For example, you cannot define your own functions, it ships builtin modules but does not allow other packages to provide their own (for example like KDE’s Extra CMake Modules), to name a few that I’m familiar with and why I was put off using it so far.

I have yet to see how actually limiting that is, going to try to move the project I’ve been working on for years that relies on some of these CMake features to Meson soon and see how it fares. But considering that big projects like GNOME use it all over the place it’s probably workable in practice, I’ll just have to rethink the existing approach a bit.

Is that considered bait?

Wasn’t it? Go’s build system is very much not what I would call an example of good design (exhibit A: load-bearing comments and file names).

Nice!

I meant that for my one IP address, I set it to have a PTR to multiple domain names.

Don’t do that, yeah. If set it should always point to one domain name, the canonical name for that host, and the domain name should resolve back to that IP.

Try Meson first, it should support compiling GNU assembly via the C compiler from what I can find. I’ve been using CMake for years because it is more powerful (finally trying out Meson though for a new project) but in contrary to Meson it is easy to use the wrong way if you don’t know what you’re doing. Meson is very clean in comparison, and also very easy to get started with. (And both these are absolutely better than autotools)

(If only c++ build systems caught up to Golang lol)

Terrible bait

Try this I suppose

userdb {
  args = username_format=%n /etc/passwd
  driver = passwd-file
}

And maybe similar with passdb and /etc/shadow?

What do you have your passdb set to if you don’t mind me asking?

The defaults. Doesn’t show up in doveconf -n.

Currently I have multiple PTR records for all the subdomains I’m using, which hasn’t caused problems yet…

Wait, what? PTR is set on an IP address, not on a domain name. It should resolve to the canonical domain name of the host behind that IP.

Your postfix is set to deliver to lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp so you need to create the socket there:

 service lmtp {
-  unix_listener lmtp {
+  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
     group = postfix
     mode = 0600
     user = postfix
   }
 }

(though for me the path is /var/lib/postfix/queue/private/dovecot-lmtp. YMMV)

What would you suggest I set the PTR record to?

Set system hostname, PTR, and myhostname to NAME.domain.com where NAME is a unique name that you made up (e.g. I have ‘polaris.dblsaiko.net’). This also makes adding more hosts later less awkward (as opposed to having the hostname be domain.com).