Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View Midi-In's full-sized avatar
🤔
Thonking

Midi Midi-In

🤔
Thonking
  • Poland
View GitHub Profile
@PJB3005
PJB3005 / linux_sucks.md
Last active April 9, 2025 17:27
Summary of all problems I have with the Linux Desktop

Linux Desktop Issues

This is basically my manifesto of why Linux sucks and I keep using Windows as a desktop OS. This is both as a developer platform and end-user targeting.

Look: I would love to be able to use Linux as a daily driver. KDE is amazing and they clearly put far more effort into the desktop experience/UI than Windows (just the volume mixer alone). There are simply far too many underlying and infrastructural problems to the Linux desktop that none of KDE's great UI changes can make up for. I want Linux fanboys, developers, etc... to stop sticking their damn head in the sand about these issues and admit that Linux is still decades behind in some basic infrastructure. This shit can't get fixed if people refuse to admit it's broken in the first place, which some people are far too happy to do.

Desktop App Experience & Developer Tools

Windows has far better desktop apps than Linux, and thanks to WSL, I have all the CLI apps of Linux too. While I do believe KDE Plasma is a much better desk

msys2 vs msys vs msysgit
MinGW doesn't provide a linux-like environment, that is MSYS(2) and/or Cygwin
Cygwin is an attempt to create a complete UNIX/POSIX environment on Windows.
MinGW is a C/C++ compiler suite which allows you to create Windows executables - you only
need the normal MSVC runtimes, which are part of any normal Microsoft Windows installation.
MinGW provides headers and libraries so that GCC (a compiler suite,
not just a "unix/linux compiler") can be built and used against the Windows C runtime.

DX7

image

Note: One of the algorithms is incorrect due to a missing operator. Need to update the image. Will have to get on that soon.

These are the original 32 algorithms as used in Yamaha DX7.

The later Yamaha FS1R and Yamaha SY77 may have compatibility with these algorithms, but that's beyond the current scope. The FS1R contains 88 algorithms, while the SY77 contains 45 algorithms.

@timvisee
timvisee / falsehoods-programming-time-list.md
Last active April 28, 2025 06:11
Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

  • There are always 24 hours in a day.
  • February is always 28 days long.
  • Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).
@aallan
aallan / mac-vendor.txt
Last active April 11, 2025 08:31
List of MAC addresses with vendors identities
000000 Officially Xerox
000001 SuperLAN-2U
000002 BBN (was internal usage only, no longer used)
000003 XEROX CORPORATION
000004 XEROX CORPORATION
000005 XEROX CORPORATION
000006 XEROX CORPORATION
000007 XEROX CORPORATION
000008 XEROX CORPORATION
000009 powerpipes?
@Fusl
Fusl / gist:3a708b8c32c9d5264fa0
Last active February 4, 2025 11:00
Streaming audio output from Linux (Pulseaudio) to Windows
# Windows (receiver) side:
.\ffplay.exe -nodisp -ac 2 -acodec pcm_u8 -ar 48000 -analyzeduration 0 -probesize 32 -f u8 -i udp://0.0.0.0:18181?listen=1
# Linux (transmitter) side:
pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=remote
ffmpeg -f pulse -i "remote.monitor" -ac 2 -acodec pcm_u8 -ar 48000 -f u8 "udp://RECEIVER:18181"
pavucontrol # Change the default output to the Null sink or move single applications to this "output" device.
@joepie91
joepie91 / vpn.md
Last active April 25, 2025 13:58
Don't use VPN services.

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

  • A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
  • A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
  • There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.
@protrolium
protrolium / ffmpeg.md
Last active April 27, 2025 21:52
ffmpeg guide

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

You can get the list of installed codecs with:

anonymous
anonymous / gh-backup-starred.sh
Created February 5, 2015 16:57
Backup starred GitHub repositories
#!/bin/bash
user="CHANGEME"
pages=$(curl -I https://api.github.com/users/$user/starred | sed -nr 's/^Link:.*page=([0-9]+).*/\1/p')
for page in $(seq 0 $pages); do
curl "https://api.github.com/users/$user/starred?page=$page&per_page=100" | jq -r '.[].html_url' |
while read rp; do
git clone $rp
done