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julianh ,

Bro wtf, I think it’s dumb not to vote too but you’re gonna call for eugenics? Even in the most generous interpretation where that’s a joke, you’ve gotta realize how bad a look that is.

julianh ,

Of all the things to take from windows, this is one of the better ones. Especially if it gets more info in the future. For less tech-literate users, a screen like this is a lot better than a hard to read dump to a terminal.

julianh ,

MIT license is useful for a lot of stuff that is traditionally monetized. Game development tools, for example. I don’t think a game engine could become very popular if you had to release your game’s source code for free.

julianh ,

Idk if it’s just me but I have pretty good hearing, so I can hear the high pitch tone CRTs make and it drives me crazy.

julianh ,

Oh neat, thanks for the explanation! That makes sense as most of my crt exposure for the past 10 years has been classroom TVs and museum exhibits.

julianh ,

There’s also general gatekeeping of their developer tools which restricticts ports of software, and not following standards properly (USBc, sms).

julianh ,

It isn’t cynacle to say the president is doing things to get votes. That’s the president’s job - to do things the populous wants. That’s what a representative democracy is. It’s good for the president to do things that people want him to do.

julianh ,

Hopefully HDR can get crossed off that list soon

julianh ,

It looks like it works in KDE 6, albeit a bit janky. Might be worth seeing if it works now, and if not come back in a year or so. wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support

julianh ,

You’re right - most media formats have support for metadata, which can include all sorts of things depending on how the image is created. For instance, most phones have an option to add location data to photos.

A lot of identifiable info like location data is usually an option you can turn off. And there are a lot of tools to remove metadata from files. A quick search brought up this, which seems fairly reputable (and open source, which is usually good for sensitive stuff like this).

julianh ,

Make that doubly avenged science.nasa.gov/mission/dart

julianh ,

Sounds like people with voting. They love to tell you how it doesn’t matter, and yet republicans put tons of effort into making it more difficult.

julianh ,

Yeah devs get to set the limit. (Source: am a dev w/ a game on steam)

julianh ,

No reason really, there’s just no point to set a super high limit if your save file is a 5kb text file.

Also valve does review the game and might not like an absurdly high limit, but I don’t know if they actually care or not.

julianh ,

I’ve actually moved away from vlc. It’s had some weird issues with videos that MPV doesn’t have. Plus, MPV has a much simpler interface which I like. I’ve also learned how to use ffmpeg to convert media so I don’t need that functionality from vlc anymore.

It’s still a great program though, especially for windows where there’s not many better options.

julianh ,

I think the way it’s set up puts it in a similar situation to the decompilations, like the Mario 64 PC port. As long as they don’t distribute pirated material or openly encourage piracy, I don’t think there’s much Nintendo could do.

julianh ,

Probably not, but so far they haven’t gone after any recompilations.

The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread (cdn.imgchest.com)

“Inspired” by the Square-Enix putting their foot in their mouth thread, I thought it’d be interesting to make a little thread about indie games. People always talk about wanting to try different, cheaper titles, but with how hard it is to get good gaming news and the state of advertisement/marketing, word of mouth tends to...

julianh ,

Distance is a criminally underrated racing platformer cyberpunk horror game. Worth it for the campaign alone IMO but there’s also multiplayer, a level editor with workshop support, two bonus campaigns, car customization, and a track generator.

julianh ,

Any reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?

julianh ,

Ungoogled chromium with some privacy extensions would probably be a similar experience.

julianh ,

Should be the screenshot key

julianh ,

Yeah, on my keyboard it’s just an icon so I forgot the actual name lol

julianh ,

Reaper. Great usability and decent Linux support out of the box (looking at you, davinci resolve). Generous free trial and a cheap one-time payment for a license. LMMS has served me well and is fine for basic stuff, but reaper is a whole other level, both in features and usability. I’ve heard good things about ardour too but have yet to give it a try.

julianh ,

www.reaper.fm

julianh OP ,

I’ve considered it, although it’d be a situation where it would probably just be the game code without assets (sounds, textures, etc.), since those are under different licenses. Also, it’s not really a “living” game like most FOSS games - once it’s released it will pretty much be in its final form. So if I make the code public it’ll mostly just be for reference.

julianh OP ,

I probably should, I do have a blog but don’t use it as much as I should.

julianh OP ,

No, I definitely want to do it. Just want to be forward about the limitations. But putting it up for preservation and reference is still really valuable imo.

julianh OP ,

Damn, really? You can’t just separate out the console-specific code? I wasn’t going to release on console for a few reasons but I’ll have to keep that in mind if I ever want to.

julianh ,

The thing with pushing stuff and it moving really fast was actually a bug in the steam release. It finally got fixed last November for the 25th anniversary update.

julianh ,

Half-Life and Portal had a huge impact on my life. In high school I was in the source modding community, so I’m probably too familiar with valve’s engines and games. I made a few mods, the most well known being hl2 classic, and it kinda got me into game development.

But needless to say, it’s a fantastic series. I had a chance to play alyx and it was nuts. It’s crazy how influential this series and its technology is on gaming as a whole.

And a fun fact: quake had a feature where level designers could make a light flicker with a pattern of brightnesses. There were some premade patterns you could select as well. These made it into the goldsrc engine, then source, then source 2 - so Alyx, Quake, HL1, HL2, Portal, Portal 2, and more have lights that flicker in the exact same way.

julianh ,

What web browser requires you to add a repo to install it on Linux

julianh ,

Oh weird, I suppose that makes sense for debian though where the goal is to be stable rather than be up-to-date.

julianh ,

How is the name ableist?

julianh ,

huh, I’ve never heard that term before. Idk if that makes the name ableist though, since it clearly means something else, unlike the switch from master to main for git, where that name was used in the same way as the offensive context. Also the word “gimp” has another more well-known meaning… which I guess isn’t that much better. Yeah idk maybe they should change the name lol.

How can I use a local LLM on Linux to generate a long story?

I’m interested in automatically generating lengthy, coherent stories of 10,000+ words from a single prompt using an open source local large language model (LLM) on low-spec hardware like a laptop without GPU and with i5-8250U, 16GB DDR4-2400MHz. I came across the “Awesome-Story-Generation” repository which lists relevant...

julianh ,

You can get a really cool, coherent story of any length you want by writing one or hiring a writer.

Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell

Developing interactivity is effort and an investment. Most developers put up a simple loading screen, maybe some text like rotating tips, and a loading indicator. Until 2015 a patent on interactive loading screens may have made developers and publishers cautious and decide against developing interactivity....

julianh ,

They’re not interactive but Spec Ops: The Line’s loading screens stick out to be. They start out as pretty standard tips and lore info, but then starts giving you stuff like the definition of ptsd, a fun fact about increasing suicide rates in the military, or just telling you you’re not a good person. Occasionally the normal loading screen is entirely replaced with a ghostly image.

julianh ,

I use a switch pro controller regularly on mint, so it should work. I believe support got merged into the kernel a while back.

If not, joycond also works (although it’s a bit janky in my experience): github.com/DanielOgorchock/joycond

julianh ,

Tbf I think the way its federation works is inherently incompatible.

I could be entirely wrong though

julianh ,

The war is already happening regardless of what the us does. Would you rather we just sit back and let Russia destroy ukraine?

julianh ,

I don’t think the propeties of semi conductors would be the biggest issue.

julianh , (edited )

Pixar made finding nemo, not disney. It was released years before the acquisition.

Edit: I’m mostly wrong. Pixar was collaborating with Disney at the time.

julianh ,

Huh, til. Thanks for the correction.

Capitalists don’t care if we burn (lemmygrad.ml)

I took it out of the meme to avoid seeming cluttered, but I must mention that they don’t just want USian corporations to have the monopoly. Renewables are at odds with capitalism and capitalists know oil is more lucrative than less labor intensive alternatives. Ted Reese makes a strong explanation for the lack of adoption of...

julianh ,

Wow! Imagine if China implemented a policy to prevent people from having kids, or had a giant monopolistic corporation that didn’t care about green energy! That would be horrible!

julianh ,

/bin, since that will include any basic programs (bash, ls, cd, etc.).

julianh ,

Someone already gave an answer, but the reason it’s done that way is because on Linux, generally programs don’t install themselves - a package manager installs them. Windows (outside of the windows store) just trusts programs to install themselves, and include their own uninstaller.

julianh ,

Mint would probably work for you. Some stuff is outdated, but it has flatpak which is a package manager with more up to date apps. If you’re willing to put in the time though, I’d recommend trying some of the more common distros out (Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora). You can use a liveusb to test them without installing.

Steam is available anywhere so that’s not a problem.

Discord officially only has a .deb package, so that’s only for Debian based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint). There are other options for almost all distros though - I personally use Webcord

Fl studio might be tricky - supposedly it runs through wine but you might have to do a bit of work. I’ve personally used Reaper and I works great.

julianh ,

These have both saved my ass on numerous occasions. Btrfs especially is pretty amazing.

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