Tech Nerd Ramblings

[azurbanclucker]

Don't judge me, I've never heard of Lua.

it's a lightweight embeddable scripting language. Really easy to learn and can do some decent heavy lifting. It's used a lot in game dev and in rapid prototyping. WOW and Roblox leverage it for skinning, and lots of mobile games too. all table based, to keep the codebase light and easy to use.

For example, these declarations are functions used further down in the code to define syscalls and render a visual result.

For this bar graph

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Ooooh I see. It looks pretty nice and user friendly.

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

It's like a cross between Python and Javascript.

 

[notabitail]

Don't judge me, I've never heard of Lua.

I've heard of it but never really knew much about it. Only really seen it mentioned by VLC and I think Kodi.

 

[azurbanclucker]

It's like a cross between Python and Javascript.

Yeah, take all the regex ability out of python and you have lua. That's a bit of an oversimplification but you get the general idea.

 

[Sally PB]

I have an iphone question. It's an SE (I think) from 2022, bought a few months ago. I can't switch to another phone.

Yesterday I was in the garden, exchanged a few texts -- some with pictures -- with a neighbor. At some point, the sound stopped working. I put the phone in my pocket between texts so I could pull more weeds. No little swish noise as a new text came in from the neighbor. Hubby texted me that lunch was almost ready. No "hubby text sound" and he yelled down to me from the house, "Hey! Your phone isn't working! Lunch is ready!"

Battery was at 31%.

Went in to lunch (and grumpy hubby). Had him text me, text delivered, but no sound. I shut it off, restarted it, and the sound came back.

Any idea why this happened?

 

[notabitail]

I have an iphone question. It's an SE (I think) from 2022, bought a few months ago. I can't switch to another phone.

Yesterday I was in the garden, exchanged a few texts -- some with pictures -- with a neighbor. At some point, the sound stopped working. I put the phone in my pocket between texts so I could pull more weeds. No little swish noise as a new text came in from the neighbor. Hubby texted me that lunch was almost ready. No "hubby text sound" and he yelled down to me from the house, "Hey! Your phone isn't working! Lunch is ready!"

Battery was at 31%.

Went in to lunch (and grumpy hubby). Had him text me, text delivered, but no sound. I shut it off, restarted it, and the sound came back.

Any idea why this happened?

iOS bug, maybe?

There's also a switch on the side you could have bumped on it, especially if you don't have a case. That switch will mute the device (and unmute it).

 

[FrostRanger]

Firefox's new translate feature is working well. Found a really cool radio network via radio browsercs website that has a variety of hard rock and metal stations, unfortunately the network is based in Russia and thus the site is in Russian. Firefox's translation feature though allows me to navigate the site easily and discover some really cool stations (including some with subgenres I never even heard of)

 

[FrostRanger]

Should also clarify that even though I say Firefox, I am specifically using the zen browser which is based on Firefox. I've been really liking it, I was worried that the side tabs would be slow and buggy but it's honestly been more responsive than firedragon (which is based on librewolf which is a privacy hardened fork of Firefox that ships with garuda Linux by default), I like it a lot more than I thought I would. Only issue is I need to figure out how to pin more of my extensions to the sidebar (specifically bitwarden) but other than that it gets a solid A from me

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Firefox's new translate feature is working well. Found a really cool radio network via radio browsercs website that has a variety of hard rock and metal stations, unfortunately the network is based in Russia and thus the site is in Russian. Firefox's translation feature though allows me to navigate the site easily and discover some really cool stations (including some with subgenres I never even heard of)

This is awesome.