brenticus

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brenticus,

It’s a good philosophy, to be sure. It doesn’t take many migrations to realize that keeping your files in open, easy to read formats is preferable.

I also use obsidian, but I do sometimes worry that the linking and metadata will be difficult to work with in the future when the software goes away. It’s all there in the files, but my vault is slowly linking together in interesting ways that rely on obsidian functionality.

brenticus,

It’s tricky for sure. The plain text is great, and all the functionality is built off of plain text (even the canvas!), but replicating the functionality isn’t trivial by any stretch of the imagination. Migration is easier because of the text files, but will it be as easy to see the links between notes? Or query all the notes I need more detail in? Or map it all out visually?

I think reimplementing the core obsidian functionality in a FOSS clone would be fun… except I already have a queue of projects and not a lot of time, so here I am complaining instead 🤷

brenticus,

I think all my suggestions are elsewhere in the thread, but I do want to point you to a couple sources for public domain books that are more readable than a lot of other sites.

standardebooks.org - Mostly cleans up and formats Project Gutenberg sources to make them more readable. Fixes typos, fixed formatting, properly uses ebook features. Very handy.

www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html - Similarly cleans up and formats public domain sources to make them more readable, but has a lot of more obscure stuff. Especially good for weird bits of philosophy, theology, and esoteric stuff, but also just another good source to check if standard doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

I think someone else mentioned Anna’s Archive, but that one’s more than just public domain books. I’ve only used it a couple of times when I wanted to buy an ebook but the author/publisher set it to a price I wasn’t okay with.

brenticus,

I installed steam by going into my discover app, searching for steam, and clicking install. This is how I get most things, excepting a few appimages I downloaded that just work. I change my settings via GUIs that came with KDE. The only extra configuration GUIs I installed were pavucontrol (just like it for some reason) and protontricks (for doing weird stuff with games most people never need to do).

I don’t know what distro/de/wm you’re using right now but what you’re saying doesn’t need to be the case. Linux desktop is honestly working better than windows for me lately.

brenticus,

The discover store comes with KDE nowadays. GNOME has a similar store. Most recommended distros will preinstall one of those two. Ubuntu has a similar snap store, I think.

I guess the steam flatpak is unofficial. Works, though. Very simple, lazy solution. Could have gone through the fedora repos, too, where they’ve gone through the effort of repacking the deb for their users.

Dunno what your package manager problem is. Don’t even know what you’re running. Mine works fine, and certainly better than the windows store 🤷

Appimages sure aren’t recognized as system apps. They’re basically like an exe on windows. I’d rather manually add my rare appimage to the menu than go through the installer hell windows has.

Your point seems a little silly because, honestly, my experience is that developers have largely made the Linux desktop experience so simple and stable that it works better than any windows machine I’ve used in the past decade. I’m sorry this hasn’t been your experience, but in the last couple of years I’ve pretty much only needed to open the terminal because I want to, not because I need to.

brenticus,

Uh, I kind of assume you’re trolling at this point since a) you got notably more unpleasant in a hurry, and b) if you think exes work the same way every time you have lived a weirdly blessed life.

I hope you sort out your package management problems sometime but this has clearly gotten unproductive. Cheers!

brenticus,

40% are verified as at least playable on the steam deck. Another 40% seem to have no rating at all.

74% are at least gold tier in user ratings, which basically means they run fine.

brenticus,

Have you ever followed a group account?

It’s basically that, but with what sounds like some functionality to make them easier to create and find for users of their app/server/API.

The couple I’ve seen boost my posts in the wild seemed more like bot accounts that just boosted what they saw in the hashtags I used, but it sounds like some of them are probably a bit more curated.

brenticus,

Areweideyet is super out of date. It shows that rust is pretty IDE at this point, but the ecosystem has changed quite a bit. Most notably racer has been replaced by rust-analyzer basically everywhere, and most code editors can trivially hook into it for extensive LSP support.

I’m debating making a PR to update stuff but the maintainer looks pretty inactive. Also the changes would either be pretty extensive or replacing the whole thing with “yep.”

brenticus,

This is the most literally me chapter I’ve read of anything ever.

brenticus,

Apothecary Diaries vol 10: Super good volume. I was worried at some points early on it would be a bunch of boring farm tours or something but instead there was tons of interesting background information and a really tense climax.

Konosuba vol 2: In my gigantic backlog of LNs I bought this seemed like an easy one to knock out. Love Konosuba, and love Natsume’s work in general. Always a riot.

brenticus,

I’ve happily paid $70 CAD for games significantly shorter and smaller in scope than Shadow of the Erdtree looks. Plus I’m wanting to jump back into Elden Ring anyways and I more than felt like I got my money’s worth the first couple of times. So $56.16 CAD (what my receipt says it cost me) is pretty much fine for that.

This might be a weird take, but I don’t really care whether I’m paying for a new game, a DLC, a microtransaction, or even a gacha pull. If it seems like it’s somehow worthwhile, whether that’s by fun or hours played or novelty or whatever, I don’t really worry that much about what form it takes. This usually means I just buy new games (how often is a microtransaction at all reasonable to pay for?) but I don’t really worry about DLC pricing if it looks good.

brenticus,

SMTV nailed the general gameplay for me better than any other SMT or Persona game, so I’m interested in better performance on PC and what looks like a semi-functional story. Despite all its flaws I’ve been wanting to play through again, this would make that feel less wasteful.

… But I do wish I didn’t need to rebuy the whole game.

brenticus,

Honestly? I just let the hype train roll me into the steam store. Not gonna pretend it was a smart decision, certainly not gonna advise anyone else do it.

What were the serious technical flaws at launch? I remember some performance issues but nothing super serious.

brenticus,

Every time I spend four hours figuring out how to get one tiny little thing working better in vim I find another even smaller issue that I desperately need to dig in to, and thus my actual personal projects never get worked on. I should just give up and call “tweaking my vimrc” a hobby.

brenticus,

Maomao is a pretty good reason to not day drink, hard to argue with that outcome.

brenticus,

I use Shosetsu for the couple of WNs I read. Took a bit of effort to set it up the way I like but it’s been working well for me since then.

For LNs and other books on my phone I typically use the Kobo app so that it (poorly) syncs up with my Kobo reader, but the experience isn’t anything great. For the few mobi files I have around I’ve used calibre to convert them to epub to read on my Kobo. There are a lot more options for reading epubs on android than mobi files, but I’m not super familiar with them.

brenticus,

I finished playing through with a friend a few weeks ago. Act 3 wasn’t notably more buggy than the rest of the game for us, and most bugs we came across were fixed by a quick restart anyways.

Great game, highly recommend even if it’s probably overhyped to some extent. We clocked over 100 hours in our playthrough and still want to keep playing.

brenticus,

Ruff is super nice, the speed increase means that I no need to wait a second after saving a file to make sure my linter or formatter don’t confuse me.

Python packaging is kind of a mess where each tool that solves a problem also feels like it bogs down the process. It doesn’t help that I need multiple tools to manage both my python and package versions. It sounds like uv isn’t far enough along for me to bother with yet, but it also has a goal and team behind it that make me optimistic that this isn’t just another packager to throw on the pile.

brenticus,

I can see normie memes sprinkled into this community doing well. Satire does well and people are often not super serious in the comments.

This… is not a normie meme. Weirdly well animated, though.

brenticus,

I only just started season 2 of Mashle yesterday but I’ve read the whole thing and love it. It’s goofy fun and the anime captures the vibe perfectly.

Also the new OP is the most aggressive earworm I’ve ever encountered. My brain has been on a BLING BANG BANG BLING BANG BANG BLING BANG BANG BORN loop for, like, 20 hours now.

brenticus,

Well this was a stressful way to start the day.

brenticus,

Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade vol 7: Exordium was super good. It ended up hitting so many emotional points and it set up the finale wonderfully.

I also started on Apothecary Diaries vol 10 but didn’t get as far into it as I was planning. Enjoyable as always, though. Chue’s a goof.

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