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sinbad

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Greybeard. I’ve made engines (Ogre3D), devtools (Sourcetree, Git LFS), now games, Unreal Engine tools & plugins. Baker, coffee nerd, Cat Dad. He/him

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sinbad, to random
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Just watched a Let’s Play of an in progress game and it was immediately obvious they were using Lumen even though the lighting didn’t look particularly special. You could tell by the subtle flickering blotches and the frame rate struggling with otherwise basic visuals.

Lumen is really impressive tech but unless you really need it I don’t understand why people turn it on. I keep trying it but on mid level hardware it makes basic scenes either struggle for frame rate or flicker too much.

sinbad, to random
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Bleh, Git 2.45 broke fresh clones of repos using git-lfs because they disallow post-checkout hooks by default, this broke my overnight game builds. https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/5749

Should be fixed in Git 2.45.2 apparently, but the temporary workaround is to define the env var GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE=false during clone

sinbad,
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I know many people don’t like git-lfs because they got burned; unless you set it up juuust right from day 1 it can be a real ballache to fix up later. But we’ve been running it for 7 years now with very few issues, including locking integration with UE. We host on Gitea. Just be super careful when you set it up because changing a file from being tracked in “raw” Git and tracked in LFS after you’ve added it is the biggest most common problem people have. Other than that it ticks along

sinbad,
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@bitinn I ran it on Unity for 3 years, it was actually easier because you didn’t need locking as much

psychicparrot42, to unrealengine
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Been playing around with some RC truck physics in Unreal with Chaos. It's gonna take some hackery to get them where I want them to be, but it's a good start I reckon. 🤔 #UE5

A small blue remote control monster truck drives around a test course, doing a few jumps and going over some bumps. The course is very basic and only intended to test the suspension and car physics code.

sinbad,
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@psychicparrot42 looks really good!

sinbad, to animals
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Pip has had a busy day

sinbad, to random
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Hearing that Recall is exclusive to Copilot+ machines with NPUs is a an extremely good reason to never buy a Copilot+ machine with NPU

sinbad,
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Honestly almost everything coming out of MS right now screams GTFO but I really don’t want to have to deal with Linux on the desktop (barring everything else, UE is just worse there). Apple already disappeared up their own arse years ago so that’s not an option (and again, UE is worse).

I’m going to have to make Win11 work for at least a few years and just be 100% on my guard for BS and lock it down to a known decent state.

sinbad,
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@lritter 3 years is a long time at my age

sinbad,
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@lritter @julienbarnoin for the record I’ve run SuSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, but only 2 on the desktop. Both times I spent too much time faffing about with small issues with mainly sound and display problems when I had work to do. I spent a lot more time searching Reddit for corner cases than I liked.

Plus, no Affinity tools is a bummer.

The main thing is I want an OS to gets out of my way and doesn’t require me to spend time fussing with it, and that’s the opposite of my experience

sinbad,
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@lritter @ca1ne at this point I don’t care what the reason is, I just have shit to do

sinbad, (edited )
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One thing Linux proponents responding to this need to understand is that time is my most valuable commodity. I’m an old man in tech terms, I maybe have a decade tops left in me, and my body is fecked so I can’t spend evenings and weekends hacking anymore (without causing myself damage).

I don’t consider fussing with an OS to be good use of my time. And if it’s not 100% as functional for my current project setup, thats a bad investment.

If I was 25, sure. 😉

sinbad,
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Also once I’m finally retired and don’t have more pressing things to do with my limited time, I’m sure it’ll be much more of a fit. Provided my brain is still up to it

sinbad,
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@julienbarnoin I haven’t tried it, but literally everyone I know who uses UE seriously and has tried running Linux as a primary OS has warned me off it. There are still many edge cases and it’s not a 1st class citizen for Epic. It might work casually but it’s always the last 5% that screws you in a production environment

sinbad, (edited )
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It’s not like I’m wedded to Windows, I’ve had Linux servers forever and ran Mac only on the desktop for a bunch of years until Apple forgot the lessons they learned while in the wilderness and got high on their own supply again. It just has to not waste my time, I don’t care about the OS, it need it to just disappear and let me get on with real work

sinbad,
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@kwramm When it comes down to it I only really have 3 things I need Windows for: UE, Affinity and testing the game (because most players are on Windows). If I was doing any other kind of dev it would be easier

sinbad,
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I think no-one under 45 should be allowed to work on an OS, or at least decide direction & features. The OS is the plain white bread of the computing system, it should be boring and unsurprising. It's not the place to make your mark, or impress people with the intention of starting a glittering career. It needs to be so dull that no-one even knows it exists, and the people making it need to be of a type to get quiet satisfaction from that. OS's that want to be noticed are a bane of computing

sinbad,
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@gilesgoat A very very long time ago I started my tech career in mainframes, and there were loads of 50+ engineers who were both extremely quiet and non-attention seeking, but made absolutely sure that things were done the right way, because that equipment was expensive & slow so screwing up an overnight session with a silly mistake was a huge deal. Everything had to fail safe, and recover / continue on its own or you got a stern talking to. I miss those folks

sinbad,
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@kwramm I hear Rider works well, which is great. It's close but just out of reach unless you really want to put up with the gaps

sinbad,
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@frankreiff that’s ok there are plenty, we just need people not to make them worse (which everyone seems to fail at)

sinbad,
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@jpab you can qualify by being mentally 50 😉

sinbad,
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@Doomed_Daniel He also stopped being an engineer a long time ago so disqualified himself on that front. I think engineers who keep doing it into middle age+ are the ones best suited to understanding that job

sinbad,
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@dzamir Unreal Engine

sinbad, to random
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Thinking about subscribing to Edge again. I did for years and years, then I switched to an iPad sub for a while which was kind of cool but I let it lapse a while back. I’d probably go physical again despite the clutter, my iPad is an ancient potato now and I don’t feel like buying another

Is Edge still good? I’m getting old-man nostalgia about when games writing was good and people got paid properly and didn’t have to do weird Internet shite to live and then get laid off by IGN

sinbad,
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@Bobbins @ALWyvern Good enough for me, thanks

sinbad,
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@Bobbins @ALWyvern thanks; I kinda feel like I should sub to put my tiny insignificant shoulder into slowing the Internet boulder rolling down the hill of games writing, but that’s reminded me that I think I saw a copy in my library once so maybe I’ll quickly check that out before signing up for 6 months

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