@felis_catus_domesticus @avoca

The problem is that the mobile space is a hellhole of closedness and incompatibility. Also, economies of scale truly suck for any kind of hacker-friendly device. Just look at the cost of something like the GPD Pocket or the MNT Reform.

The ARM platform itself just kinda sucks — not because of ARM themselves AFAIK, but because there's no universal hardware standard. Every little device is a bespoke engineering snowflake and it's hell to develop truly open software to run on it. Just look at the Replicant project, the only truly and fully FOSS Android build. The most recent device they have fully working is the Samsung Galaxy SIII. OUCH.

Also, dadgum has Apple made everybody into a pudding brain when it comes to technology. The family members who literally taught me programming as a teenager can't be bothered to look through their iPhone settings program to change something.

#ERMAGHERD.

#Ermagherd... I can't believe it.

I just did rm something *

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At least it was just my ~/Downloads directory. XD

WOW, #Signal just made #Sway completely crash. #ermagherd

#Electron #SwayWM

Ok, https://iamb.chat is a seriously cool command-line matrix client.

God knows what the 600+ #rust dependencies are for, but #YOLO

(Come at me, #rustbros. I actually kinda like your language, but YOU have to be the one to look yourself in the mirror and say "Yes, I shipped a *command-line* utility that had 600 dependencies" and somehow not break down into tears or manic laughter. #ERMAGHERD)

#rustlang #Matrix #chat #iamb

Finally got something to compile with cargo on my pinebook pro (600+ dependencies, #ERMAGHERD!!)

The trick was to pass -j1 to cargo. That forces it to compile everything in serial and greatly reduces the RAM restrictions.

Oh, and (lol) make a temporary directory (I made mine /tmp2 as somehow Armbian will make /tmp some kind of RAM disk, even if you remove the tmpfs line from /etc/fstab) and also pass --target-dir /tmp2

Kind of annoying when tools assume /tmp has many gigabytes of capacity when it's a RAM disk on most Linux distros nowadays. But hey, it's easily fixable, and if I did have many gigabytes of RAM, I guess I'd rather have the temp files stored there anyway.

#rust #rustc #PinebookPro #4GBRAM