Over a year ago. More specifically “March 20th, 2024” from the archlinux.org website.

Mostly the package manager and even the rolling distros’ packages being more outdated than arch everytime. AUR is also very nice to have. The only distro I found that did spike my interest alot was NixOS.

Oh, so someone did use it. Lol

I switched to Arch Linux for the memes, but now am unable to leave it. I’ve tried a few dozen distros, but none of them are as good as arch for me, I always come back to it. It’s like arch is my perfect distro.

What took them so long?

I am indeed leaning more towards them but I’ll look at what the others here say and decide.

Bluetooth is something I want, but probably not something I’d use everyday. Afaik the Accentum do have an AUX (or USB-C?) output for audio, which I could plug into my computer. So it is not an issue there.

Thanks for the recommendation. They seem like good solid headphones, though they don’t support bluetooth? While I would use the headphones mostly for gaming on my computer, I might occasionally want to use them for some other stuff, that might not have an AUX port.

I just checked them out. They are usually about 180-200 euros. So yes, slightly outside of my budget, but if they are worth it, 30 euros is not that big of a deal.

I mean, I don’t really need super low latency ones for gaming. They just shouldn’t sound horrible and the build quality should be decent. I was thinking of buying Accentum since it is a bit newer than the 450BT and is also within my budget. I found some new ones for ~120 euros. What do you think?

oh no! wasn’t bluesky decentralized and federated?!? how is this possible?!? /s

Let’s see who considers the Linux options when they see they can get the same machine for 200 bucks cheaper. I hope other brands start considering doing this too.

If you want a bit more detail, look at my edit. The functions to calculate the hot and scaled for content is now there.

No, it is not weird. Scaled, according to the docs, is like Hot, but less active communities’ posts get a boost.

Edit: here’s a bit more detail

The exact function to calculate the scaled rank is this one:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION scaled_rank (score numeric, published timestamp with time zone, users_active_month numeric)
    RETURNS float
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- Add 2 to avoid divide by zero errors
    -- Default for score = 1, active users = 1, and now, is (0.1728 / log(2 + 1)) = 0.3621
    -- There may need to be a scale factor multiplied to users_active_month, to make
    -- the log curve less pronounced. This can be tuned in the future.
    RETURN (hot_rank (score, published) / log(2 + users_active_month));
END;

The hot rank is calculated like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION hot_rank (score numeric, published timestamp without time zone)
    RETURNS integer
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- hours_diff:=EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc',now()) - published))/3600
    RETURN floor(10000 * log(greatest (1, score + 3)) / power(((EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (timezone('utc', now()) - published)) / 3600) + 2), 1.8))::integer;
END;

Is it me or does Soyjak use Windows?

Frankly, I don’t like dansup and his cocky behaviour. But if Sup ever does become reality, then it will be a real alternative. And no, Loops is not federated.

Rust can be a pain in the ass when you are writing the code, but once you wrap your head around its concepts, the pain will ease and you’ll appreciate them.

yes

Sup is one. It’s from the dev of Pixelfed. Unlike the other non-fediverse platforms the others mentioned here (XMPP and Matrix), it will use the ActivityPub protocol and will be E2EE.