I wish there were something to translate video essays into short form blog posts. I imagine the hard part would be extracting good images from the video to supplement the generated text.
@aeva Sounds kind of related to scene change detection which AV1 and H.265 AFAIK rely on heavily? I vaguely remember hearing some mentions of potentially using AI there as well.
@aeva superTux! shattered-pixel-dungeon is also pretty fun. And the whole host of older roguelikes (nethack, crawl) in ncurses and graphical variations. osu-lazer is also packaged if that is your jam.
huuuuuh does linux still require feeble boot passwords typed with meat hands for full disk encryption, or can I use my laptop's secure boot TPM thing somehow? What's the state of the art for hiding your porn^H^H^H^H proprietary trade secrets on #NixOS?
@aeva Not sure about TPM but looks like there are options for Yubikeys and FIDO2 keys in the LUKS NixOS module, including an option called "passwordless".
@aeva@viraptor Hmm... does it work if you add the "stdenv" package? That is essentially the equivalent of what debian used to call "build-essential". I think it at least used to be present in nix-shell by default though...
@aeva@viraptor The NixOS approach is to run nix-shell -p cmake pkg-config sdl2 clang which drops you in a shell that has the given packages in PATH and from there your usual cmake workflow should Just Work. If you are missing tools, exit that shell and recreate it with said tools added to the list.
Further down the line you'd usually create a shell.nix or flake.nix to describe the build environment declaratively so you don't have to list all the packages every time.
@aeva I vaguely remember reading about GNOME being the default desktop in the NixOS live image because KDE did not have some feature in time for a package freeze deadline some years ago. Hilariously enough, I most of the active people I've talked to seem to be using KDE on their NixOS setups these days.
desktop OS are still terrible at cleaning up leftovers of uninstalled software, there's just way too many places apps have permissions to write into I guess. always a bunch of time to track and delete them.
i recently got a new toy! it's a (civilian) miniature drone helicopter directly inspired by the (military) flir black hornet drone helicopter
it doesn't have a FLIR sensor but otherwise seems (from declared characteristics) very similar in design and handling. also it costs $100 instead of $100,000
fascinating. the Ocarina of Time PC port has an option to speed up how long it takes for king zora to scoot out of the way, but it lacks an option to slow it down
It's a tiny bit annoying to share files between a linux host to a windows guest.
Right now, I have a firewall-protected samba server that can only be connected to from my VM to share files but I don't love this. When I tried webdav sharing via spice, though, the performance was too slow and a bit annoying to work around.
@Taffer That sounds like Fun edge case territory tbh. For example a fair number of older GPUs don't support textures larger than 16384 x 16384 (regardless of VRAM size) so that needs to be worked around if you want a GPU-accelerated canvas...
I don't actually have time today to work on any side projects, but I thought I'd run through the basic setup steps for MonoGame aaaand
./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame
bash: ./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame: cannot execute: required file not found
... which required file ._. ???
I think this sort of thing means it tried to dynamically link something and failed. I run into this whenever I try to run loose builds of Linux games on #NixOS, but idk what to do about it.
@aeva It's amazing how bad the experience with runtime linker errors is on NixOS given that they happen with literally every prebuilt binary. In this case I would usually start by dropping myself into a basic dev shell: 'nix-shell -p stdenv'
@aeva 1. Was that wrong dotnet perhaps referring to an old ld.so that had been garbage collected? (and your executable invoking that as its interpreter akin to an incorrect shebang in say, a python file) 2. is the one that should be easy to figure out with ldd and LD_DEBUG=libs
Just cleared out my folder of in-progress files as they had all languished there for too long and obviously weren't meant to be. I'm left with a photo of a lemur that I thought looked boopable and NOTHING else 😮
@eclectech@greenpete I am not aware of such a possibility, but I imagine it would not be too difficult to write a tool that reads them and generates a Godot scene to match, depending on the set of features you need to get across.
ActionScript to GDScript conversion is trickier but also possible if you wanted to really avoid doing that by hand.
@aeva@oblomov Maintain GPU servers? Yes, that task somehow fell to me when we got a couple of them for my research group.
Listen for fan noise changes? Well, I do check the actual logged in users first, but the fan noose is a bit of a running gag since we determined that yes you can in fact tell when a render job starts or ends based on the noise even a decent distance down the corridor.
@aeva@oblomov Listening to changes in the fan noise from the corridor across from the server room is how I determine whether someone is using the GPU servers at work or if it is safe to reboot them for updates.
