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Buddahriffic

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  • I'm cleaning today (with back pain) because someones coming to see the place

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  • Any brush can be a toilet brush, you just need to stick it in the toilet. I have two, the second one looks like a dish brush but I got it because my main toilet brush doesn't reach everywhere at the bottom because it's too round/big.

  • Art & writing

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  • Plumbing issues? When I had one of those at my last place, it just had an attachment for the tap to get the water and another hose that drained into the sink. My current under the counter dishwasher is the exact same setup, it just taps into the inlet and drain under the sink instead of over it. The only physical change to the pluming was replacing the tap nozzle, which I put back without issue when I moved out (might have even given them a new screen when I did so).

  • Art & writing

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  • I bet early adopters will just end up with a robot that mostly just lives downstairs, occasionally making it to the top, but usually failing on at least one stair before it gets to the top and loudly clattering to the bottom before going to sleep for an exponentially increasing time (so that people can use the stairs between attempts).

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows

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  • Yeah, I can say that covers most of the "troubleshooting" I've had to do with games that don't work. I usually go in thinking "uh oh, maybe it's time for me to have to check a bunch of proton versions, this will be a pain" only to see that it's trying to run it natively and switching to proton at all resolves any issues.

    The only other thing that comes to mind is that I use dvorak and something about the way keyboard layouts are handled means it tries to "preserve" the bindings when I switch layouts in game, so it keeps the messed up QWERTY keys but dvorak layout even when I switch (and can tell it's switched from typing things like in chat). Most games let me rebind the keys so I just need to go through the bindings, hitting the key currently bound each time as if I was using QWERTY and it rebinds. Though I suspect that due to the "preserve the layout" behaviour that keyboard input is handled specially by proton and maybe I can tweak settings to get the desired behaviour (ie, changing layouts in game means I want the bindings to change).

  • Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows

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  • It is a translation layer, but the bit you added "to native code" sounds like you're misunderstanding what translation layer means.

    Games use a collection of APIs (DirectX is a set of APIs, but there's others to handle offer operations like network access and such) to interact with OS functionality, and also receive communicarion back from the OS (the windows message loop). Proton and wine are implementations of those APIs that translate the API calls to their equivalent in linux, as well as setting up their own message loop that translates messages from the linux kernel and UI system into their windows equivalent before sending them to the registered windows messaging loop functions.

    A simple example would be if a function header in windows looks like int32 SomeFuncWin( int64 index, char* name ), but looks like int32 SomeFuncLinux( std::string name, int64 index ), then the translation would be something like:

    int32 SomeFuncWin( int64 index, char* name ) {std:string TranslatedName( name );return SomeFuncLinux( TranslatedName, index );}

    So it doesn't change/translate any of the code of the program itself, it just provides the environment that behaves exactly like a windows environment by translating the "hey could the OS do this for me?" requests from windows to linux. Note that not all translations are that simple, there might need to be more processing on the values, missing arguments might need to be filled in, irrelevant arguments ignored, sometimes data needs to be translated to another format, etc.

    The speed ups can come from improved efficiency in the underlying implementations (which Vulkan has, as I understand even using a translation layer from DX to Vulkan in windows can result in better performance) or having fewer services running in the background.

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  • I'm more fond of "String that is too..." being displayed in the UI and then a tooltip with the full string being displayed when you mouse over the string in the UI.

    Or winamp had a marquee that you could click and scroll manually, I liked that method too.

  • Stop

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  • The spelling is fine, it's the grammar. Corrected version: "If you wish to drink sake and fuck, stop here."

  • Stop

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  • Then bring a backhoe, too. And a lawn mower. And a level.

  • What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

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  • I really like the theme song for Dan-Da-Dan.

    Naruto/Boruto had some good ones over their runs, too.

  • What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

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  • You. You have. You have me.You. You hate. You hate me.

    The song is a German pun, a delightful example of German humour.

  • And that's how Leola Root was introduced

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  • Picking up a bunch of new crew until they end up with a new mission of figuring out how to get around the galaxy quickly so they can make visits to each other not require generational ships.

  • card game shop

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  • Then you come in with basically an expertly placed, "what if medical science has no solution to their uncontrollable stench?"

  • OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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  • You think a quarter of people are suidical or contemplating it to the point of talking about it with an AI?

  • Study Boldly Claims 4K And 8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes, But Is It True?

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  • Yeah, when I got my most recent GPU, my plan had been to also get a 4k monitor and step up from 1440p to 4k. But when I was sorting through the options to find the few with decent specs all around, I realized that there was nothing about 1440p that left me dissapointed and the 4k monitor I had used at work already indicated that I'd just be zooming the UI anyways.

    Plus even with the new GPU, 4k numbers weren't as good as 1440p numbers, and stutters/frame drops are still annoying... So I ended up just getting an ultra-wide 1440p monitor that was much easier to find good specs for and won't bother with 4k for a monitor until maybe one day if it becomes the minimum, kinda like how analog displays have become much less available than digital displays, even if some people still prefer the old ones for some purposes. I won't dig my heels in and refuse to move on to 4k, but I don't see any value added over 1440p. Same goes for 8k TVs.

  • We gotta be more encouraging

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  • You've gotta either interest someone with the knowledge to pursue it or actually go to the college and gain the knowledge yourself. Because the truth is, unless you can motivate someone to do your thing, your thing isn't going to be as interesting to others as it is to you, even if it would be revolutionary. There's a good chance the idea relies on phenomena that only exist because of a lack of understanding (if you aren't able to go from idea to proof of concept), or maybe require a solution to a very hard problem just hiding below the surface.

    Plus, even with the motivation, if you don't know enough to do the thing and aren't in a financial position to control the operation's finances, there's a good chance you'll be discarded once you are no longer needed, which in this case is once they understand your idea. That "sorry, not interested" might actually be a "go away, this is interesting but I don't think you'll add anything more to this, so I'll do it alone".

    So instead of thinking "this is cool but I have no idea how", think, "what do I need to learn to better understand my idea and its execution?" Hell, even being able to break it up into discrete and complete steps would be a great start because then you can start hiring out those different steps if you can't do them, without having to give away the whole thing.

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • So what? I'm tired of shit aimed at the lowest common denominator and won't comment as if I need to appeal to or be understood by those who can't be bothered to learn a bit about things that play a major role in society.

    They are tired of hearing about linux? Well I'm tired of hearing about whining about windows, plus I blame their inattention for enablong the enshitification in the first place because windows would be much better if more people were willing to look at alternative options. A lot of shit would be better if that were the case.

    Though usually I don't bother engaging at all and only really engage when there's pushback saying it's hard (I found it less effort overall than installing windows and getting it to a state where I don't hate interacting with it so much), or these kind of arguments that imply because it's not as accessible a lot of people, it shouldn't be brought up or something?

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • Yeah, "just use Linux" is equivalent to "I'm tired of hearing about windows shit" and a bit more polite than, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA".

  • "I used to be with it"

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  • Yeah, those were CDs. I don't think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I'll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.

  • "I used to be with it"

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  • Yeah, it's probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it's been drinking.