Homebrew on Linux is also new to me. Aurora "recommends" homebrew for cli packages. I've always thought of Homebrew as an AUR-like setup. And I tried to use the AUR sparingly and always looked in the build file to make sure it didn't say something like "build malmare && log keystrokes && open backdoor." Admittedly, it would have to be egregious like this for me to catch any shenanigans, but at least I knew how to go through the motions. #Homebrew#AUR#Aurora
OK, I just checked, and you can totally look on the Homebrew website and link through to github and look for funny-business before you install things. I just have to add some diligence and stop randomly brewing things that sound fun. #Homebrew#Linux#Aurora
It seems I can use a cli app in a container (like midnight-commander), but I cannot use those container apps in my normal terminal emulator session, because it cannot access the container. I suppose this is why I need to get cli apps from Homebrew. So that is why cli apps from Homebrew, and then GUI apps from Flathub or containers (if in deb / rpm format). I'll try AppImages later. Need to focus on real work now. #Linux#Aurora#LinuxPackagingMess#Homebrew#LinuxContainers
I've been using just #Podman on my #SteamDeck, and both #Docker and Podman together on my main PC (also #Linux) perfectly fine - on #macOS though I've always particularly despised Docker bcos of its need for a GUI and how often that thing slugs and crashes on #Apple silicon. Never tried this before, but kinda tempted to just use Podman on my #MacBook, and live without Docker just to see how that's like.
UPDATE: So far, things seems to be working well (for my dev usecase)! I installed Podman (formulae) using #Homebrew, created the default Podman-managed VM, and started it. Like Docker, Podman definitely still needs a VM to run on anything not Linux, but unlike what I'm used to with Docker, this is nicer since it doesn't require a GUI app to handle that (you still can btw using the Podman Desktop app) and managing it non-graphically is super easy.
The only caveat is that you need to start the Podman machine/VM before you're able to use it, and unlike on Linux, it's not like you could create a service that starts the VM once upon boot. This is not an issue if you use the desktop app, but if like me you wish to only use the formulae, the simple solution is to set something up in your shell profile (in my case, a #Fish config) which checks if the Podman machine is running, and if it doesn't - start it, each time I open up a new shell/terminal session - which is how I normally use Docker/Podman anyway. This way, it uses up about ~830MB of RAM for the VM but that's fine since there's no additional RAM being used for a GUI app or the like.
I wrote a short guide on how to set up Podman on both Linux and macOS for anyone interested.
Look at this adorable new Sega Master System game!
Raphnet's Goblin Kart Racer is a Micro Machines style top-down racing game with responsive controls and really endearing jump animations and sounds when you go over ramps.
The plot is a uncessarily damselled ("On no, the local heroes have kidnapped the goblin princess! It's up to Braker and Booster to save the day with their trusty karts! uckle up and race through exciting obstacle courses to free all the princesses in Goblin Kart Rescue!"), but I'm nonetheless rather taken by this.
I’ve been meaning to make some of my #Textual apps installable using #Homebrew but it always looked like a bit of a faff because they're #Python apps. Finally, today, I cracked and took a proper dive in.
I'm making a new #homebrew#dnd setting. The mistake I felt I made last time was trying to devise an orgin from whole cloth for each playable race, which wasted a TON of time and energy while also confusing my players. So, herein I wish to ask: What playable races would you miss, if you joined my table and noticed their absence?
Humans, dwarves, halflings, orcs, goblinoids, and elves will all stay, but I am not sure about all the others.
This is another open ferment and this time I’ve skimmed the hops garbage off the top of the Krausen after the first day of fermentation . Guess I’m getting more and more serious about these traditional methods. Learning along the way.
When I check it tomorrow I should take a photo. Krausen at the early days is such a beautiful puffy thing - and then near the end of fermenting of course not so much.
"Since Homebrew is supported why not Macports too?"
Me: a MacPorts maintainer, "maybe because MacPorts actually builds things from source and Homebrew thinks its OK to just be a wrapper to installing a DMG?"
That's not building jack it.sh from source. I guess it does have a little smarts insomuch as it will determine if it is Intel or Apple Silicon (meanwhile, MacPorts still supports PPC/G4/G5/etc. vintage systems. Because: it actually BUILDS THINGS FROM SOURCE, it's not a precompiled binary distribution platform.).
What a bad joke Homebrew is.
Alas, LibreWolf's build instructions are uhhh, well they don't build on macOS, they cross compile from ???
Which reads: "Archived project! Repository and other project resources are read-only"
I sincerely have no idea how people on macOS build LibreWolf from source, from the project documentation itself. Homebrew, is of zero assistance, because Homebrew: also does not build LibreWolf from source.
This week I discovered two cool #CLI tools. #Homebrew, which I associated with MacOS, but is also available on Linux. This is basically Flatpaks for CLI tools. Not only do I get the latest versions of my favorite tools, it also keeps them updated. 🤩 #Just, a command runner inspired by make. I've been putting stuff into Makefiles, scripts, notes, ... but just has made me realize where it belongs. Comes with completion out of the box, so I'll always find that neat command I built again. 🥳
Brewing a Pilsner Urquell recipe today. Triple decoction and two hour boil. Excessive for modern malt but why not? And my Budvar triple decoction earlier this year turned out excellent.
Wish I could actually get under modified malt in NZ though
Nice clear wort. The color should be perfect after all that decoction.
Came out at 1.053 post boil (was 1.045 pre-boil vs 1.039 target). Super efficiency. Added 3L of water and got it down closer to 1.048/12°P. Going to be a big batch. Will put excess in a small corny keg. Not a bad thing
Does anyone have a good source for some really different and out-of-the-box #DnD#DungeonsAndDragons#5e#fantasy deities who aren’t just reskinned versions of real-world gods & goddesses? Or do you have a unique #homebrew#pantheon that you’d like to share? Looking for inspiration for a new setting and I don’t want all the deities to just be Mercury, Mithras, and Morrigan clones (again)
Does anyone here use #Homebrew on Linux? What is your reason for doing so? I understand why it's great for someone switching between #macOS and #Linux, but I only use Linux, I've played with it in #Toolbx and I haven't discovered why I should use it instead of #Fedora repos. What am I missing? 🤷♂️
The 'wild' cider is fermenting somewhat vigorously. Saw a little junk in one of the air locks.
The two that were from the overfill in the buckets have not taken off in the same way. They represent an overall mix except for the cider that went in the other glass which from the last squeezed apples only.
I'm home after 2 weeks and my #homebrew is ready to drink! Very dark brown, nearly black, with hardly any foam. A bit waterish (like #Schwarzbier), flavours of dark chocolate (like #Stout), smooth to drink. I'm only disappointed that there is neither color nor taste from the added beetroots. So I might reconsider the name "Beetroot Rising" ... #craftbeer#itsalwaysstoutseason@beersofmastodon
First wort hopping with homegrown Glacier hops, will finish with homegrown Tettnanger and Mt Hood. I'll be splitting the fermentation among my local wild yeast, Ebbegarden kveik, Marem berm and 34/70 lager yeast.