brenticus @ brenticus @lemmy.world

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Got a fancy new Timemore Sculptor 078s grinder this week. Noticeable upgrade from my Baratza Encore, but I'm still working on sorting out grind settings and general methodology. Static is definitely more noticeable now, hot loading is a new concept for me, still sorting out what the RPM settings are doing, etc.

Was at a farmer's market where Catfish Coffee was selling bags so I've been drinking their Sunny Side Up roast this week. It's a "normal" tasting light roast, I've never gotten any super exciting flavour profiles out of it, so it's actually kind of nice as a way to play with the new grinder. I can play around quite a bit and still get a pretty solid cup of coffee, but I know it well enough that I can sort of tell whether I'm doing better or worse.

Usually I hate this, I'm using man for a reason, but sometimes I'm scrolling through a novel-length man page thinking that maybe most of this information needs to be anywhere else.

Almost certainly the person doing their assignment, my ricing very rarely has any applicability outside of the specific config files I'm tweaking.

If I would stop spending so much time modifying (read: breaking) it it probably would be more productive. I love the ergonomics of my setup.

But also wouldn't it be cool to add just one more fancy widget to my already janky-as-fuck eww bar? No? Well I'll do it anyways.

The reason you don't see a lot of love for Manjaro is because your experience isn't quite typical. Manjaro is notorious for taking Arch and making it less stable. It's mostly Arch with some defaults and software to make it easier to set up, but the few cases where it drifts from Arch tend to cause more issues than if you just used Arch directly.

Current focus is Whalefall since it's due back to the library at some point. Read a little when I first picked it up, trying to read the rest this week.

Also working through The Invincible Shovel manga. Read three volumes, I'll probably read the rest this week. It's stupid. I love it.

Varies wildly depending on system, but I generally try to make sure there's some sort of large conflict that they're trying to solve which usually has a few smaller conflicts involved. In DnD those smaller conflicts are often combat, but in Forged in the Dark games there's more variety.

It's rare that the big thing for a session is combat unless I've set up some sort of boss battle, but hey, sometimes the players want to kill things, I'm not gonna stop them 🤷

I spent a whole sick day blasting through a good chunk of the games a while back. It's weirdly fun. I basically just bought it for the pin pull game that always infuriates me in ads but spent several hours getting all the stars in the parking lot game instead.

Logseq is a great alternative. It's very much not a clone, though. It has a different paradigm on how it views notes and the functionality isn't exactly 1:1.

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 🤷

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.

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.

https://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.

https://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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.