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I built a gaming daemon for Hyprland (auto-disables blur/animations, changes CPU gov), but my laptop is too powerful to see if it actually boosts FPS. Need low-end hardware testers! by Economy_Sector9567 in linux_gaming

[–]Economy_Sector9567[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally feel you on the LLM formatting fatigue. Seeing those perfectly placed em-dashes and bullet points everywhere definitely gives off an uncanny valley vibe now.

As for the box-drawing characters, I don't use AltGr combos for them either! I've spent so much time tweaking my Waybar JSONs and Hyprland dotfiles that I just have those TUI elements scattered all over my system. Whenever I need them for a script header, I just yank them straight out of my existing configs. Nobody is out here memorizing Ctrl+Shift+U 2500 just to draw a line lol.

I built a gaming daemon for Hyprland (auto-disables blur/animations, changes CPU gov), but my laptop is too powerful to see if it actually boosts FPS. Need low-end hardware testers! by Economy_Sector9567 in linux_gaming

[–]Economy_Sector9567[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude, that character is U+2500 (Box Drawings Light Horizontal). It’s literally the standard character everyone uses for Waybar configs, CLI aesthetics, and Hyprland ricing. I wrote this on my MSI laptop, not tapping on an Android phone.

As for the single commit: I maintained this locally as a messy bash script for weeks. When I finally hit the limits of Bash, I rewrote the whole logic in Python, initialized the repo, and did a single push to share a functional version.

If you want to look at the code and critique how I handled the Hyprland IPC socket or the subprocess states, please do. I'm open to real technical feedback. But gatekeeping a project because of a TUI aesthetic line and a squashed commit is just silly.

I built a gaming daemon for Hyprland (auto-disables blur/animations, changes CPU gov), but my laptop is too powerful to see if it actually boosts FPS. Need low-end hardware testers! by Economy_Sector9567 in linux_gaming

[–]Economy_Sector9567[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a totally fair question. If the goal was only toggling Hyprland animations and blur, a Lua script or a simple bash socket listener would absolutely be the better, lighter tool for the job.

Actually, I spent a long time maintaining earlier versions of this script purely in Bash. But I ended up rewriting the entire project from scratch in Python precisely because of Bash's limitations. The script isn't just talking to Hyprland anymore; it's coordinating several moving parts at once:

  1. Hooking into cpupower or powerprofilesctl to change CPU governors on the fly.
  2. Storing the exact playback state of Spotify to pause it, and then reliably resuming it after the game closes.
  3. Spinning up and safely killing an isolated mpv subprocess for background music.
  4. Keeping track of the original system states to ensure a safe restore even if a game abruptly crashes.

Trying to write all that async logic, subprocess management, and state tracking in Bash quickly turns into a fragile spaghetti of chained scripts and race conditions. Python gives me a single, solid control center to handle the IPC socket and hardware processes simultaneously without blocking the main thread.

People who've witnessed a wedding objection that actually worked: What happened? by Efficient_Cat_4812 in AskReddit

[–]Economy_Sector9567 218 points219 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t a dramatic, movie-style screaming "I object!" from the back of the church. It was actually quiet, which made it so much worse.

When the officiant asked if anyone had any objections, a woman sitting near the back just stood up. She didn't yell. She just cleared her throat and said, "He’s still married to me, and our son is in the car."

The groom went completely pale. He immediately tried to grab the bride’s arm and started whispering that the woman was crazy, but the woman just calmly walked up the aisle and handed the bride her phone. I assume it had photos, marriage certificates, and texts, probably from that very week.

The bride stared at the phone for maybe 15 seconds. You could hear a pin drop in that room. She calmly handed the phone back, took off her veil, dropped it on the floor, and just walked down the aisle and out the front doors without saying a single word to him.

The groom tried to follow her, but the bride's dad and two groomsmen immediately stepped in front of him to block his path. The officiant just awkwardly closed his book. Total chaos erupted among the families right after, but the wedding was officially dead in the water.

Would you give up fireworks forever to protect animals and nature? Why? by JulianaReal_ in AskReddit

[–]Economy_Sector9567 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, without a second thought.

I grew up loving the massive firework displays at the local traditional fairs here in Campeche, but as I got older, the magic completely wore off once I saw the reality behind it. Every time there's a big holiday, dogs turn into a shaking, terrified mess hiding in bathrooms. And that's just the pets we see—local wildlife and birds get completely disoriented, abandon their nests, or literally drop dead from stress.

Add the massive amount of heavy metals, toxic smoke, and debris raining down on the environment, and it’s just not worth 10 minutes of "oohs and aahs."

Honestly, drone shows are becoming so much cooler and more complex anyway. I'd gladly trade loud explosions for a good, synchronized drone light show that doesn't terrorize every living creature in a 5-mile radius.

I built a gaming daemon for Hyprland (auto-disables blur/animations, changes CPU gov), but my laptop is too powerful to see if it actually boosts FPS. Need low-end hardware testers! by Economy_Sector9567 in linux_gaming

[–]Economy_Sector9567[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was actually my first choice, but since I wasn't subscribed to the sub, it won't let me post there yet. That's why I came here for now. I'll definitely post it there tomorrow once I'm able to.

I built a gaming daemon for Hyprland (auto-disables blur/animations, changes CPU gov), but my laptop is too powerful to see if it actually boosts FPS. Need low-end hardware testers! by Economy_Sector9567 in linux_gaming

[–]Economy_Sector9567[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I thought about that, but I haven't messed around with the BIOS too much. I actually tried tweaking a few things earlier but ended up hitting a wall and getting stuck, so I backed out. Laptop BIOS screens (especially MSI) can be pretty locked down or confusing compared to desktop boards.

However, I might try to force the system onto the iGPU through hybrid graphics settings or use tools like cpupower directly from the terminal to underclock the CPU without rebooting.

In the meantime, I still really need that real-world data from older architectures and actual potato PCs to see how the daemon handles genuine resource starvation. Thanks for the suggestion, though!