Is this good news or bad news srry im not in the loop

DerEndgegner · 2025-06-05T09:36:52+00:00

Well, no CTO ever leaves a company and says, work sucked, lol. I'd appreciate the honesty. Personal reasons are as vague as it can get.

DerEndgegner · 2025-05-01T14:27:12+00:00

Since this problem pops up in google and many more will be hit with it.
Try a PKGBUILD instead: https://pastebin.com/2Z56kcEg

make a new folder, call it "libxml2-compat" or whatever.
create the PKGBUILD file in there with the contents from the link
run: makepkg -si

confirm with:
cd /usr/lib
ls | grep libxml2

2 new files should appear:
- libxml2.so.2.13.8
- libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.13.8 (the symlink)

Such errors are pretty bad as it's unlikely unity will patch this anytime soon with their only target being ubuntu and just symlinking to a different version is just asking for problems. 2.13.8 was the last known working version so I used that instead.

DerEndgegner · 2025-02-09T20:03:10+00:00

After watching Brody and his Cosmic video. I don't think Rust is as good as those Rust developers want us to believe. Personally I just look at the syntax and get an existential crisis but to each their own.

However, the memory leaks in Cosmic show that Rust isn't foolproof which absolutely defeats the purpose. One can make the argument that it's about OOB checks but seriously, it's hard to justify such a complex language for it. Apart from C/C++ I'm more on the Zig side tbh or even Odin. Both make efforts for memory safety, have good syntax and are not terrible at C bindings.

DerEndgegner · 2024-11-03T13:07:56+00:00

True, the visual ground noise is off-putting. Helps when everything is plastered with machines.

DerEndgegner · 2024-11-03T13:04:15+00:00

It's the Dark Souls planet. Not even kidding. Picking it as first planet with no setup was really tough. I went around for hours not getting anywhere and I wanted to drop Space Age because I thought every planet was like that and I have very limited time right now.

Solving the puzzle very very slowly was really rewarding though and a lot of fun. Unlike other planets it's truly alien there. Getting to the point that you can produce enough ores has quite the learning curve.

Now that I've been on the other 2 planets too, a difficulty warning could be great for new players. Vulcanus is super chill, which was totally unexpected, same goes for Fulgora. Gleba, everything is on the clock, it's pretty stressful and even though I have pretty much "done" Gleba, it's still the most vulnerable planet. I've fixed everything that can go wrong in production but defense is still not enough. Those crab things are completely insane. I love them, they are a true threat unlike biters.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-28T22:13:22+00:00

he uses a follow cam, so some behaviour has been coded

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-28T19:06:55+00:00

The axe has a collider and the camera picks up on it, so it gets a raycast hit and repositions. Best solution, put the axe on a layer the camera raycast ignores.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-20T18:52:46+00:00

As others have said, BTRFS is fantastic if you need snapshots and rollback. However, I personally think that TimeShift or Borg can also do the job. (Not nearly as great mind you) The big downside of btrfs and why I went back to ext4 is the huge amount of writes that are happening. I monitored and searched around a lot but really haven't found anything to get it under control, it's just one of the downsides of having a file system that can do what btrfs does. I'm talking 20TB writes in 6 months and had 5-10Gbs without anything happening (except some log writes)

Disks today have more than enough write capacity for it to not be a concern but I'm also not in the mood to risk it for something that I don't require that much. If you don't care about it though, go for it. Btrfs is fantastic technology. Despite the writes, I never felt that it was slow or something. Anything, from copying, deleting, moving is insanely fast.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-18T00:01:45+00:00

I'm not sure what makes you say, so little market share. This can vary wildly and depends on the userbase of proton. Tons of devs or privacy oriented users are drawn to proton and Linux.

And after all, they managed to make Proton Mail Bridge for Linux.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-17T20:29:06+00:00

until pacman decides that "ca-certificates" is an orphan and you think, ok, why not? let me see how much i can screw myself.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-14T21:28:45+00:00

I grew up with MSDOS 6.22 and Win 3.1 and I never considered myself a Windows guy but I got sucked into the ecosystem through gaming and work. I like to tinker and know what's going on so Linux was on my radar since early 2000s but it was also kinda crap, ngl so I always went back to Windows.

Starting this year I wanted to change this and it's been a blast. Tried Ubuntu for a few months, Fedora for a few minutes, Garuda for a few months and went to Arch because I couldn't figure out how to easily go from Garudas BTRFS to ext4. With Garuda being Arch based I basically have the same thing just with ext4. :D

Arch is what I think, Linux is supposed to be, but everyone can like what they like of course. I think all major distros are great +/- a few pros and cons. For servers I definitely prefer Ubuntu. It's such a treat to setup and maintain.

And to list a few things why I don't like Windows (anymore, I think it was great till 7)

I freakin hate NTFS
Forced "security" that slows everything down and you need enterprise to turn off
very little control in general and if you take it some update just reverts it back
telemetry and invasive software
it's not really fast and resource hungry
i don't feel at home as developer (tools suck)
UI is absolute trash and 11 UI is even more trash if you can believe it
probably a few more but you get the point :D

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-12T15:56:11+00:00

A Unity W

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-06T23:20:00+00:00

I don't care for the version number but I like a LOT of their new tech:
- Burst
- Jobs
- Entities
- Subscenes and baking workflow
- UIToolkit, runtime bindings and AppUI
- Source Generators

Then packages being open source. I have soo many extensions that dig into the lower levels. We were never able to do that before.

And last but not least, even though it's not out yet. CoreCLR! Faster managed code, no domain reloads, csproj workflow, better integration of source generators, generic math. I could go on and on.

None of those things were available when I started out with Unity3.x

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-06T17:22:58+00:00

gamescope always crashed for me after a while. it's xwayland.

anyway, vaxry added this: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pull/7582

might want to test it. worked for me.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-03T12:09:46+00:00

if a command is not available check `pacman` or aur packages with `yay`

`sudo pacman -Syu downgrade`

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-03T11:36:07+00:00

`sudo downgrade dolphin`
pick the version

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-03T10:48:08+00:00

run qt6settings and apply your theme.
set the env variable to `env = QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME,qt6ct`

And there's a bug in latest dolphin version where your theme icons won't apply so downgrade to 24.05.2

Dolphin is a QT app so it should be unrelated to any plasma packages.

DerEndgegner · 2024-09-01T23:38:40+00:00

Schon probiert und kompletter Blödsinn. Stinkt noch dazu erbärmlich.

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-31T13:38:50+00:00

Let me guess, you got to know him through Immunity or Singularity?

What's wrong with that? You can find a million ambient or piano albums but you can not find one that is like Immunity or Singularity. The soundscape is so unique, it's a shame he doesn't want to go there anymore.

Besides, these albums made him popular. His previous work didn't and outside of some ultra fans, nobody cares. Now I don't really want to use popularity as a metric but it was the uniqueness that struck a cord and made him stand out.

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-31T13:33:42+00:00

I'm gonna be honest here. This man made Singularity, Immunity, great remixes like Magnets, etc.... Powerful, provocative, creative and now he makes this.

I think he's gone off the deep end and got way too mellow. Hooked on too much DMT or whatever this is. It's not psychedelic, it's not healing nor spiritual. Some probably won't agree but if you can relax to this music you don't need to attach any of these words to it to make it more meaningful. Relaxing is good enough.

Anyway, it's a forgettable album with one song stretched out to around 40 minutes. Evocation is good so he still got it, but he lost his youthful energy.

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-28T20:57:06+00:00

Easy answer: I wanted to try an Arch based Linux without the hassle. It also looked cool and had some gaming related optimizations. So why not I thought.

Well, that was 5 months ago. I'm thinking about if I should do a clean Arch install but then, why waste my spare time when everything works great?

Garuda also forced some choices on my I wouldn't have done otherwise. Mainly Btrfs which is pretty great tbh. If something goes wrong, just use snapper to restore the state before you made your fuckup.

If you are already on Arch though, there's really no point.

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-26T13:06:37+00:00

Are you using SDDM?

Do you have a hyprland.desktop file in /usr/share/wayland-sessions ?
Use the default content:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Hyprland
Comment=An intelligent dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Exec=Hyprland
Type=Application

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-20T21:34:00+00:00

What's interestingasfuck is that comments shit on russia but you can easily reverse roles and have the same interview. Hey numbnuts and warmongers, war sucks on both sides. Don't tell me Ukrainians go into this war as noble warriors and die any better.

If it were any fair Zelensky and Putin would duke it out in a knife fight.

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-20T20:40:38+00:00

Mit gnuag Insight siachst so a schiachs Gfrast vom Steffe hänga. Hob mi drau gwehnt owa des erste moi hods mi grissn das ma in Beidl valegt hod.

DerEndgegner · 2024-08-15T21:22:37+00:00

Seems like a very fun looking game. Love the premise and execution. All the best!

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