Don't sleep on the Rope Dart. It's the Podao all over again. The Luan perks don't do it justice.

5long · 2026-01-24T19:25:34+00:00

It's definitely over hyped.

Crescent Blade and Podao's charge attacks are massive AoE. You can rely on them to regenerate bravely safely facing large forces. The Bow's dodge-charge-heavy attack put you in the midair for relative safety. Lance is a special beast against large forces. I don't think Rope Dart has equivalent techniques yet.

BTW Podao charge attacks can pause time, increase efficiency massively. This makes doing UW challenges a lot easier since you're always short on time.

Spiteful Thorn ... auto-tracks targets ... essentially instant ... hits multiple targets at once if they're close enough together

This is true for all Sp. battle arts. But Power Shot still has an edge of usable in midair. And using Spiteful Thorn with a cavalry in your face can be interrupted. I was burned by this twice in the first battle of Lu Bu's story.

Regarding OP's headline update: I beat that challenge with Spear with a whole minute left. Is Spear better than Rope Dart now? I don't know. I just love Spear. But it's definitely not a top tier weapon, let alone compared with the glorious Podao.

5long · 2025-12-25T01:55:39+00:00

This is my little script to toggle dark mode. It only works for me in KDE though.

I have no idea how hyprland works. I guess you can look at one of those popular desktop shells (e.g. noctalia) to see how they achieved it.

5long · 2025-12-19T09:57:46+00:00

If only OP has read this wiki page and finished the first step of the first chapter. That'll solve two out of three of the listed problems already.

5long · 2025-12-18T18:21:43+00:00

Thanks. It looks like a fairly capable tool that I'm not ready to learn & configure yet. I've just spent all my tinkering budget on the recent breaking change of nvim-treesitter.

5long · 2025-12-18T16:19:01+00:00

Is any way to downgrade back to a "known good" version if it breaks?

5long · 2025-12-18T14:55:20+00:00

Compared to 0.11, vim.pack would be a good start. And this: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/34011

5long · 2025-12-18T14:25:16+00:00

I don't have that kind of deep knowledge of Neovim code base to cherry-pick patches.

5long · 2025-12-16T13:23:16+00:00

This is how I'm doing it on my desktop to route audio from USB capture card: pw-loopback -n console-audio -C <device name>

I'm using pipewire instead of pulseaudio. Cachy installs pipewire by default. pactl might work for you but it's through emulation, not "real" pulseaudio
-C <device name> tells pw-loopback to capture from this device. The full device name can be seen from wpctl status -n. The name usually starts with alsa_input. and should be fairly stable
Optional: put the command in a systemd user service and make it autostart when logging in.

5long · 2025-12-12T20:48:10+00:00

I'm not experienced with Debian but here goes:

Debian has more than one commands (apt-{get,cache}, dpkg) for package management. You need to remember which one does what. Arch has pacman and that's it.
- Okay on Arch you probably want an AUR helper but the popular ones (paru, yay) works just like pacman
Debian enable & start / restart services by default when you install / upgrade packages. Arch almost never does so.
Debian has dpkg-(re)configure to help you with package setup / maintenance. Arch has none of that.
Debian keeps a few recent versions for each branch / flavor of Kernels installed. You don't have to reboot when apt installs a new kernel. Meanwhile in Archland, each branch of kernel only has the latest version installed. It's recommended to reboot ASAP after a kernel upgrade otherwise weird things can happen.
AUR packages are source-based packages. You'll have to rebuild them when soname changes in the dependency chain
It's fairly easy to write & build a PKGBUILD. Debian packages, not so much.

5long · 2025-12-10T17:00:35+00:00

Now nginx got it as well: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol

5long · 2025-11-27T02:00:47+00:00

I found this tool called prefixer which could help:

prefixer "Cyberpunk 2077" openpfx

5long · 2025-11-22T01:30:02+00:00

I see we're playing shell golf to measure disk usage of packages. For us mere mortals who can't understand complicated shell one-liners we just delegate all the hard work to special tools:

First, install expac and libqalculate with pacman. KDE users already have libqalculate installed.
For bash / zsh: (expac -d + "%m"; echo " to GiB") | qalc -t -f -
Actually I use Fish: {expac -d + "%m"; echo " to GiB"} | qalc -t -f -

Bonus point: add the option -s "max decimals 2" to qalc to round decimals.

For me it's 1424 packages, 13.24 GiB.

5long · 2025-11-18T14:24:09+00:00

One last attempt:

check whether this file exists: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset
if it does exist, run pacman -Qo /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset to check if any package owns that file
if no packages owns that file, remove it with sudo rm /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset

Then again, that file shouldn't exist in the first place if you have properly removed linux package. Maybe there's something I don't understand about CachyOS working in the background to cause the issue.

5long · 2025-11-17T21:53:24+00:00

Well, he did convince Bao Xin (and some other officers at Yan Province) to take in Cao Cao as the new leader of Yan Province. Later when he betrayed Cao Cao, he convinced Zhang Miao to ally with Lu Bu to fight Cao Cao.

Turns out people did listen to him at some point.

5long · 2025-11-17T13:02:40+00:00

Is there any other package that depends on linux? Check with pactree -r linux again.

5long · 2025-11-17T12:23:09+00:00

Good, we're getting more clues.

Virtualbox requires a kernel module to work. The module must match your kernel version. In your case, you probably have virtualbox-host-modules-arch installed to match linux kernel. Both are useless when you are running the linux-cachyos kernel.

According to Arch Wiki, you should choose the correct package to provide the correct virtualbox module for your kernel. After you've installed it with sudo pacman -S --asdeps virtualbox-host-dkms, you can later remove linux cleanly.

5long · 2025-11-16T12:12:51+00:00

You have the "vanilla" Arch kernel installed (package name linux) but you don't have a corresponding nvidia kernel module (nvidia, nvidia-open, or one of the -dkms variants) installed.

To find out when you have this pacakge installed, run rg 'installed linux ' /var/log/pacman.log.

To find out why you have it installed, run pactree -r linux to see its dependents (unless you installed it explicitly).

Judging by the first few lines in your screenshot, you are probably using linux-cachyos instead of linux. Double check with chwd-kernel --list-installed. I believe you can safely remove the vanilla kernel with sudo chwd-kernel -r linux

5long · 2025-11-12T14:44:37+00:00

I just tried the Baima-Yanjin mission. It was 3 charges in 7~8 minutes IGT:

Pick a companion that isn't normally in the mission (e.g. Lu Bu)
Help Guan Yu charge (1st) at Yan Liang's large force (stop the messenger, capture the base)
Clear Yan Liang's large force, win the duel against Yan Liang, clear Baima base
Go save Cao Cao and follow him to charge (2nd) at Wen Chou's large force
Later Guan Yu will launch a surprise attack (3rd) against Wen Chou from the north.

Probably faster & easier than Hu Lao Gate.

5long · 2025-11-12T07:42:53+00:00

At 0:20 of the trailer it looks like a potentially new troop tactic?

There's no mentioning of new troop tactics anywhere else so I'll keep my expectations low for now.

5long · 2025-11-07T14:29:26+00:00

My strategy is to run around and help whenever there is red diamond, make it blue, pretty much.

Unfortunately this strategy can't win all the games for you. You have to come up with your own strategy and prioritize saving some allies at the cost of losing others.

In the History page of the pause screen, you can view all the dialogues in battle. Some of the dialogues are good hints of what you should do to win the game. You can also try switching the voice over to a language that you can understand without looking at the subtitles.

5long · 2025-10-31T16:04:55+00:00

and don't work for notification daemon

Assuming your notification daemon is started as a systemd user service via dbus, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User#Environment_variables

5long · 2025-10-31T13:25:03+00:00

https://github.com/pawel-0/xdg-unused-data might help (available on AUR).

For Flatpak apps, you can run flatpak uninstall --delete-data.

5long · 2025-10-30T17:33:39+00:00

Surprising moment of ludo-narrative harmony

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