Good to know. Well, $35 isn’t too much if it’s that good. I’m not in a rush since I have a couple games I want to finish first.

Brings back memories of me doing DDR on the ol PlayStation with friends lol

Feeling of power, control, like any rapist.

I ran across The Longing just yesterday. Looks unusual, fun, and chill. Seems like a good one to mess with over the holidays.

Well I guess I know what I need to buy next time it is on sale.

Could you type a little louder? I can’t smell this comment at all.

It would certainly be interesting to see if an OS written in Rust can end up being notably more reliable and secure. My curiosity is piqued by the features you mention.

Idk what the iso fuck up and I don’t code enough to appreciate whatever technical debt exists in either so I am probably sound like an idiot but…

Since I do infosec, the glaring issue for me is not being memory safe.

Well that is rather insidious. Crap. They probably understand the reasons for the GPL very well. Doesn’t mean they support them.

Is it not possible for Rust to optimize out unused functions as with C? That seems …like a strange choice if so.

I do use python quite a bit for scripting and backend, app, and I’ve used MicroPython a little bit, preferring C, C++ for embedded. It’s pretty great for what I need.

I might mess around with Rust out of curiosity anyway, though the downsides you mention make it less compelling for me, personally. I’m not a big fan of verbose languages (e.g., Java, though I have used it for some apps).

That sounds pretty great. I get sick of having to switch gears for every layer. As a hobbyist it is tough to remember five or six languages well enough when only coding something a few times a year.

Since I do embedded, scripting, web front and back end this is sure tempting.

I have been hesitant to try to learn yet another language (this would make…ummm… idk I lost count ages ago). But with all the hype I may break down and give it a whirl.

Via Google search for libharfbuzz, It’s a “text shaping engine” – https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

I then searched Fedora distro harfbuzz and got this – https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/harfbuzz

I would then go look for it in Nobara package manager and see if it needs updating or not and see what version it is running.

Another thing I would check is what version is standard in the supported distros. I’m guessing that list includes Fedora and Ubuntu and/or Debian. If the version they expect is different from what you have then we need a way to make the right version available. I’m not sure what is the best answer but I have a few ideas that I would try if it were me.

Man I tell you, apps that have one off install approaches like this are so annoying. I’ve run into this a few times. It just leaves me feeling dirty. Why can’t they just distribute an AppImage or rpm for Pete’s sake?

Since there are no replies yet I will take a stab that I hope will help get you closer and not send you off on a wild goose chase because of me being an idiot or something.

You may also know all of the following, if so sorry.

I run into Undefined symbol errors usually when some software is trying to call a function it expects to be in a library but the function isn’t because I have the wrong version of the library.

So yeah I think it may be a dependency issue.

The next thing is to figure out which package holds libharfbuzz so you can determine what version of that package you have vs what version is required by Davinci Resolve.

Something I learned about Nobara is that updating software has to either be done in the Nobara package manager or with a specific set of commands on the command line or you might break stuff (like I just did). It seems plausible that if you updated with a simple dnf update on the command line it may have caused issues.

Also… Are you installing Resolve from a Flatpak or …?

If he was powerful he would have been able to skip out on consequences. That’s what power makes possible. Simply donating to politicians is nowhere near enough. You need to have connections, leverage, relationships, etc.

Yeah he really should’ve known better. I have to think that if he came from money / influence the folks pulled strings to get him into MIT. I guess if his GPA was high then ok he is good at mathy type stuff. Otherwise, a guy can graduate from MIT with a D average lol. Anyway, it seems he didn’t really understand the intricacies of other relevant areas needed to get away with his scam, didn’t develop the connections and power, and didn’t think he needed to, I guess?

There is a difference between rich and powerful,perfectly illustrated by comparing this guy to any number of rich assholes who should be in jail but aren’t.

Maybe it would help to have some kind of boilerplate language and framework for contributing that other projects can make use of.

Totally. Everyone has a threshold of pain in the ass above which they don’t care enough to contribute.

Some want to contribute but find that having to use git, let’s say, is too big a hurdle, otherwise they’d totally contribute. Ok, so lower the barrier to entry. Make it less of a pain in the ass.

You don’t need to make it so easy that any idiot on earth can submit changes or the project will be flooded with bullshit probably. But for those who would otherwise be dedicated contributors but for that one thing, fix the one thing.

Why does it have to be documenting internal designs, architecture, and all that? Why not app user manuals or install guides or any of myriad other sorts of documentation?

Just because one specific scenario may not be suited doesn’t mean no scenario is suited to what op is proposing.

I mean first, what kind of projects are we even talking about, libraries? APIs? Apps? Command line tools? Etc?

Because the technical writing needs vary depending on what kind of project. They don’t all require coding skills for success.