Notices by Luis Felipe (luis_felipe@mastodon.online)

📢 The company that hosts my store is sponsoring a 15% off discount for the rest of the month, starting tomorrow, July 28, using the code FANFAVE15.

Check it out, maybe you find something you like:

https://um4no.creator-spring.com/

Purchases help me keep contributing to libre culture projects. Many thanks to all who have helped me in that way.

Note that the designs are libre cultural works. You can get them to print your own stuff:

https://codeberg.org/luis-felipe/guix-graphics

Enjoy :)

#gnu #guix #guile

Do GNOME users know whether the screen reader Orca can be given a more natural voice instead of the default robotic one? Or do you know a more ergonomic screen reader for GNU/Linux?

I've tried Orca in both Guix 20c8cbb and Fedora Silverblue forty-something but I haven't found options to improve the synthetic voice and [multilingual] reading...

#gnu #guix #gnome #accessibility #linux

@cwebber maybe this?

https://mastodon.online/@luis_felipe/113829448757559030

I think I'm going with this design for the list of channels in the Guix Channel Browser.

That's how the home page of the browser would look like. The resulting implementation will be available, eventually, in the example instance running at https://guix.deltaedro.org/ .

(if using a web mastodon client, right-click an image and open in a new tab to see full details)

#gnu #guix

As a Guix user I'd like to easily find unit and "time zone" converter apps in the package collection so that I can reduce my dependency on the web for such conversion needs.

Currently I know of two unit converters

+ GNOME Calculator (v 46.2)
+ GNU units (command-line program)

which I found by coincidence. For example, looking for "unit converter" gets no results (aren't they called that in English?).

Also, both programs could be easier to use.

Any apps you'd like packaged for this?

#guix

@tusharhero ha, thanks, I forget that Emacs is an OS because I always use it as a text editor :)

But I tried calc and couldn't understand how to use the unit converter. It is not for me 😄

I think I'll try packaging Cuneo, which seems more like what I'm looking for:

https://github.com/heidefinnischen/cuneo

As for a time zone converter, it seems no one has written one for the desktop. Maybe that's somebody's next project.

#gnu #guix #gnome #apps #timezones

Thanks @otterz and @vlkr . The key options to get sound in my case were these:

--preserve="^XDG_RUNTIME_DIR$"
--expose=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse

Just in case it is useful for anyone else, I was trying to run a game I wrote in Godot, and then exported for binary distribution.

The screenshots show the resulting guix shell command and a manifest with the minimum requirements to run the containerized game.

Thanks again for your help 🙂

Speaking of which, I'm working on a «Guix Channel Browser» that I forked from the Guix Packages Website to fix response times by using an independent database.

It currently covers most of the functionality of the forked website. But, as the name implies, the idea is to allow searching for whatever channels may provide.

If you would like to crash it, I published an instance at

https://guix.deltaedro.org/

which I'll update whenever I add more functionality.

#gnu #guix

Have you managed to get sound to work in contained guix shells? Could you please share how you did it?

Someone already asked in Guix help mailing list, but apparently there was no solution.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2022-12/msg00029.html

#guix #games #multimedia

📢 New Shepherd's Notebook in the store.

Use it to plan all the services you'll be contributing to Guix next year.

https://um4no.creator-spring.com/listing/shepherd-notebook-lod

I hope you enjoy it.

More information about Shepherd's logo and graphics in

https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/en/blog/2024/a-logo-for-gnu-shepherd/

As always, the graphics are libre cultural works. You can use them to print your own stuff.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd/graphics.git

#gnu #guix #shepherd

Hi @anthk ,

If you're referring to why Ubuntu if Artanis is a GNU project, and all that, I think it is best to talk to the project directly.

If you're using Trisquel and for some reason are having trouble building Artanis, maybe you could give Guix a try. Artanis 1.0 is readily available for installation there:

https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/artanis/

I use that version of Artanis myself in a Guix System.

📢 New Guile caps 🧢 in the store 🛒

If you feel like wearing the right hat when programming in Guile:

https://um4no.creator-spring.com/hats

Hope you enjoy them 🙂

#gnu #guile #scheme

@futurile I'm in favor of people calling them whatever they feel comfortable using.

But the Guix manual says that

«“Guix” is pronounced like “geeks”, or “ɡiːks” using the international phonetic alphabet (IPA).»

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Introduction.html

So I personally use "guix" to refer to "Guix users", and "guik" for the singular. And it works for me because it reads naturally in Spanish.

Estoy empezando un proyecto de desarrollo de software en español y la cosa se siente rara.

La mente está acostumbrada a escribir todo en inglés y ahora no sabe si escribir todo en español o solo algunas partes. Por una parte porque recuerda cómo los sistemas informáticos fallaban (o fallan) al pasarles datos con tildes, eñes, etc., por otra parte pues porque API, formatos, etc., están en inglés.

La colonización de la mente por medio de la [in]conveniencia... 🙂

#programación #español

In Guile Scheme programming there's this convention of adding section headings as follows (it is used in Guix, for example):

;;;
;;; Section Heading Here
;;;

Is there a command to ask Emacs to show me those headings as a table of contents, hyperlinked, so that I can have an overview of a buffer and easily navigate to its sections?

#guile #scheme #emacs #guix

📢 New Guix caps available in the store 🛒

https://um4no.creator-spring.com/hats

Or download the design to use it as you wish:

https://codeberg.org/luis-felipe/guix-graphics

(Purchases and donations greatly help me to keep contributing to libre cultural works.)

Now you can literally wear your Guix hats when doing Guix things.

Enjoy :)

P.S. Coming up soon: GNU Guile caps

#gnu #guix

I noticed slow interactions with the desktop today so I checked system resources usage. It turns out GNOME Shell is hording RAM again...

No good...

I'll dust off my sway configuration...

#gnu #guix #gnome #sway

? Ten Years of Guix, streaming live from Paris.

«Friday is dedicated to reproducible software deployment as a foundation for reproducible research workflows, with experience reports from scientists and practitioners, using Guix and other tools.»

https://10years.guix.gnu.org/live/

#gnu #guix #science #Guix10Years