m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@newt
My patched st doesn't have all that, but it has stuff that's actually useful today: support for colour emojis that isn't messy and sixel graphics which makes w3m suitable for lightweight web browsing — urxvt doesn't, why would I prefer it? It seems to me that some go above and beyond to use some software just because it's old. Take Wayland, if your video doesn't work well — it's a solid reason not to use it, but on my hardware it works perfectly.
@nik @scathach

@newt
> I'd probably continue with urxvt
I have a couple of very old ThinkPads lacking hardware EGL support and I'm using Xorg with st on them — no problem. I don't see the point in sticking with urxvt — it might seem minimal to some, but it isn't, in fact it has a bunch of legacy shit to make it compatible with some stuff from the 70s.
@nik @scathach

@newt
> Rust and GPU use aren't selling points, they are mostly irrelevant technical details
They sure aren't selling points, but they also aren't "Rust… 🤮 meh, won't use" for me — that is what I mean. The term having AI assistant is sure superflurous, the fact that it's in Rust and has GPU acceleration is… Does it work well? Fine, okay!
@nik @scathach

@dcc
Well, yeah, in my case it's the same card — as it's a laptop and it's all integrated audio, if that's not your case, yeah, it might be complicated, you might have to make a pcm plug that would use input from one device and output of the other, but in my case — I didn't have to do any of that.

@dcc
Just checked it here: https://www.onlinemictest.com/
It works 🤷
> and send the alsa config
Too lazy to clean it up, I swear to you, there's nothing of interest that is mic specific in there.

@dcc
Does arecord produce audible results for you? If so, it should also work in FF with apulse.
The only thing that comes to mind, there are model-specific fixed for snd-hda-audio.
This HP laptop, I'm typing this on, is pretty well supported it even has a LED to indicate whether mic is muted or not, but I have to pass "model=hp-led" to snd-hda-intel for it to work, maybe you need something like that too.

@dcc
> What does your asound look like?
Oh, it's complicated, but it's mostly related to switching to HDMI output, I did nothing special for the mic to work.
I've only tried it with the built-in mic as I only use it for video calls, I have my macs for advanced audio, but I'm pretty sure external one would work too.

@splitshockvirus
Maybe you should 😏
I mean especially if you're working out regularly.

@dcc
Yeah, I haven't tried this in months, but it used to work.
I stopped updating FF circa 124, they might've messed something up again, check this first, but input definitely worked with apulse.

@kirby @romin
I remained unsure for an hour or so, but then I knew it was you.

@kirby @romin
I wake up 🔁 Another Kirby alt
🤣

@splitshockvirus
Do you take any supplements to help the joints?

@newt
I agree, there is nothing that would make me choose Alacritty over everything else at all costs, it was the first Wayland-capable term I tried, it was good enough and I stuck with it.
But again, it already exists, it's in Rust, it's "GPU-accelerated", and it's marginally faster — why not?
@nik @scathach

@newt
I personally doubt that it even uses any directly, I think it just relies on what Wayland provides.
> how is the bestest terminal today better than urxvt from 2003
Well, at least it can render colour emojis that do not leave traces when you're scrolling. Some can do neat shit like inline images with sixel — and it doesn't make the terminal slow.
@nik @scathach

@newt
I'm using Alacritty with Sway only — if your hardware isn't capable of EGL, you'd certainly experience issues earlier than opening the term.
> how does rendering your terminal on a GPU improve things?
I don't know, I've never ever done a side by side comparison myself, it just feels fast and I stumble upon reports of it being fast online all the time — and it is attributed to GPU acceleration.
@nik @scathach

@newt
Agreed! I'm fine with both (and you're using Nix 😜), but we aren't picking darlings here, right?
I's probably add P9 and LFS to replace Nix and Gentoo and… I dunno, dwm — in addition to i3, to replace Sway.
@prahou @ammoniumperchlorate

@newt @nik @scathach
> A GPU is absolutely required to render this
Of course it isn't, man! I could run GLQuake on my 486 machine with Mesa's software rendering — one (!) frame per 6 seconds 😅
But if that hardware is there anyway — in absolute most of today's machines it is, why not use it?

@anathema @kirby
I wake up 🔁 there is another psyo^W^W^W^Wnew instance gets defederated

@newt @nik @scathach
Font rendering in modern terminal is order of magnitude more complex than it was back in rxvt days, when it was about displaying rows and columns of monospaced characters. Alacritty is both GPU-accelerated and in Rust, and I just don't see how it takes insane amount of time to "initialise the GL context", it opens the instant I release the keys bound to opening a new terminal 🤷