data1701d (He/Him)

“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

  • 6 Posts
  • 219 Comments
Joined 8 months ago
cake
Cake day: March 7th, 2024

help-circle









  • I don’t know about the hub specifically, but I have a One Touch portable external HDD that touts some of the same features. I’ve never had any particular problems with it - it’s just a normal USB mass storage device. The “special features” provided by the Seagate Toolkit (not available on Linux) seem like they’re done at the filesystem level.

    If you don’t care about encryption, it will most likely just work - format it however you like. If you care about encryption, there’s ways like LUKS or filesystems with FS-level support, depending on how much you care about interoperability with non-Linux systems. You might also be able to do something kooky like format it with Bitlocker on Windows, which I think can still be mounted on a Linux system; I was able to access my encrypted Windows partition from my Linux install on my Surface if I entered the key - I’m sure there’s a way to automate that part.




  • I came into Debian with that philosophy as well, but I eventually gave up on all native packages as I got tired of having to deal with the rotation of some testing packages.

    Honestly, 1 GB is an extreme it could get to, but most don’t because the majority of that initial 1 GB overhead is shared with other applications. Part of this is design issues in glibc preventing reverse compatibility with older glibc applications, and so applications need to have the right version of glibc with them to work. This adds some overhead, but is mitigated because many Flatpaks use the same glibc version.

    Also, to be honest, storage is cheap these days, and really, I think the ease of Flatpak is worth what becomes a pretty minor storage sacrifice.



  • In my personal opinion, the lack of GTK4 a plus - that makes it lighter and easier to port. Bonus points for their choice being OpenGL. That is technically a minus on theming, but I feel like one does not typically theme games, which often need to have their own style.

    I do concede that most people probably have GTK4 installed for something anyway, so if this application were written in GTk4, it most likely wouldn’t take up extra space on their machine.

    In addition, I don’t like GTK4 due to client side decorations and those kinds of applications overall just tending to be more GNOME-oriented. Now I wouldn’t call GTK4 the spawn of evil - I still use GTK4 applications when they’re the best tool for job, especially when it comes to Upscalr or GNOME Clocks. It’s just not my favorite GUI toolkit.