@DavidCarlisle happy Saturday <3

ooh tally ho

@PauloCereda souldern.org/home/announcements/northern-lights-2024

@PauloCereda breakfast

@DavidCarlisle ooh lovely

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@mickep why the heck does latin modern make hyphen and hypen-minus have different sidebearings?

@PauloCereda not often visible this far south (I haven't seen them before)

@PauloCereda ooh no, secrets! We rabbits are bad with secrets that weren't shared with us!

@DavidCarlisle If you had asked me a week ago I could have passed the question.

@DavidCarlisle Good. I do not get the rationale behind this difference either, but I'm sure they had something in mind.

@DavidCarlisle The same seems to hold for the hyphen-minus in pagella and termes, but by far not as much shifted.

@Skillmon oh no

@Skillmon can you see private projects on gitlab.com/groups/islandoftex/texmf ?

@PauloCereda more secrets

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@PauloCereda Ohh, duck secrets!

@DavidCarlisle Nice photos!

@samcarter colour somewhat enhanced by the cameras, they were clearly visible by eye but phone cameras rather more sensitive to that spectrum than the humans, so the pictures look more dramatic than it really was, that collection were about half from me and half from people posting on a village group whatsapp chat last night:-)

@samcarter see matrix :)

No no more Europa-pa...

@mickep so will you be in the stadium watching?

@DavidCarlisle Nope, but we will get some extra kids watching here.

@DavidCarlisle I will have to edit the latex doc with the nice definition of \tt that I showed yesterday...

@mickep For consistency reasons, you should first come up with similar definitions for \bf, \it etc.

@samcarter \bf must be \mathbf{f}, and \it could simply be \tau.

@mickep You would make a lot of friends with these definitions! :)

@samcarter Oh, they were never supported in LaTeX, so not problems. :)

@mickep ... that's why people will be so happy to finally get some useful functionality out of these conveniently short macros!

@samcarter Indeed. And of course I do not need to mention \beq and \eeq or how they were defined.

@mickep They are on the same level of hell as \bframe and \eframe :)

@samcarter Hehe, is that beamer "shortcuts"? :)

@mickep Users are very creative in inventing ways to break beamer :)

@samcarter ooh twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1789279412145230165

@PauloCereda Haha! Great ad!

@samcarter how did you like Rings of Power?

@dedded I mainly use Windows-based tools on a VM ...

@PauloCereda if I log in I see two more projects, so I guess so... Yay, now the resident rabbit is happy again!

If I install Linux (Mint) on a 2nd SSD-card (the 1st one has Win 10); what happens when I turn on the PC?

@JosephWright Do you know if strings should have found it?

@cis if you install a bootloader on the second SSD (most likel GRUB) it depends on your BIOS settings which of the devices is set to be the primary boot device, regardless which one it is you can interrupt normal boot and select a different one for this system start, giving you a rather unpleasant choice which of the two OSes you want to boot. Another, more comfortable solution is to let GRUB detect other OSes (such that it'd get a boot entry for Windows), you can then select via [...]

[...] GRUB's config which is the default one, on each system start you'll get (I think by default) 10seconds to decide which system to start before it auto-boots the default (or hit Enter before the time to select the default).

@dedded PDFs are compressed as standard, so no

Just read up a bit on how to configure GRUB (or maybe Mint has sensible defaults, I didn't use it in years, and last dual boot system is long gone as well)

@Skillmon Oh, I was hoping that at the beginning there would be a query asking which operating system should be started.

@cis as I said, you can configure GRUB to do so, but don't expect the Windows boot loader to have sensible defaults... (or auto-enable you to do so)

@Skillmon Ok, i will look for a YouTube-Video or sth.

@cis With modern Mint I'd guess dual boot is a widespread use case, so most likely you can get a working setup from its installation process with the boot loader letting you decide which to use. But maybe you'll have to configure your BIOS to use the GRUB-device afterwards to actually get the correct settings.

@cis or you read in Mint's Wiki (and if it doesn't have the information and detail you need about GRUB, read the Arch Wiki, it's one of the best knowledge sources for Linux stuff I know of)

@cis most likely the Mint community has instructions to set up a working dual boot environment.

@cis first hit on my search engine of choice: linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/…

@cis GRUB can be configured and styled to look the way you want (within reasonable boundaries)... I have no idea what the defaults of Linux Mint look like, but I guess one can easily find a screenshot (no idea how up to date that would turn out though)

@cis of course it will (and I'm rather sure it's GRUB)

@Skillmon I heared 'GRUB' the first time... so can I book you for the installation? :()

@cis might as well be useful: itsfoss.com/guide-install-linux-mint-16-dual-boot-windows

@cis the Mint installer will guide you through it and most likely you never need to know it's called GRUB, but now you know and might be able to search for solutions to problems you encounter on your own...

@Skillmon Ah, nice. This is how it looks...

@cis just try to not break your existing partition table on the Windows SSD when you install Mint, so make sure to pick the correct SSD when you create the partitions for your Mint installation (or you WILL face data loss). Also: The article I linked to above recommends creating a SWAP space. Swapping on an SSD can degrade the drive because it may lead to many writes. If you have sufficient RAM you'll most likely never need a Swap partition, except if you want to be able to hibernate.

@cis yes, usually Linux installers will prompt you to set up a partitioning table and then ask on which of the partitions it should install what (bootloader, swap, OS, home directory), of those only OS and bootloader are mandatory, home can be the same as OS (maybe even boot loader can be the same, not sure, let's just say my setup is a bit off the norm and I haven't looked into more normal setups in a while)

Good evening :). I do not have time for a proper question at the moment but maybe anyone is aware if this (or similar) can be done with pgfplots (+ animate)? youtube.com/watch?v=ogUaTR9azms

@Dr.ManuelKuehner With the music use 'ffmpeg' maybe. Is highly recommended. At the end it is an mp4 (not a gif).

@Dr.ManuelKuehner PPS: But if you're bored, you can TEX a cookbook article about my last cooking video.

@cis Thanks for your response. I should have be more specific: No music :)

@cis I do not get the cookbook reference :)

@Dr.ManuelKuehner matplotlib.org/stable/api/animation_api.html, not sure whether it supports the rendering via PGF when you're creating animations though.

@Skillmon Thanks! Looks promising.

@dedded if it included example-image.pdf the alt text won't show, so test with example-image.png first, then viewers will show it, or add uncompress to the metadata options and you can then look in the pdf and see the /Alt

@dedded you need to use uncompress