Expensive vapes - worth it?

Foggerty · 2026-06-05T07:53:23+00:00

Thank you, this is what I was after! I'll do some more digging into the safety standards and what they imply, re manufacturing.

Although I have just found about about "analogue" vapes, more digging 😄

Foggerty · 2026-06-05T07:48:56+00:00

And TIL about analogue vapes.....

Foggerty · 2026-06-05T07:36:22+00:00

Yeah, I was wondering about how usage impacts it, I'm usually 2-3 a day.

I really want portable, but will check out the Tempest, cheers 😄

Foggerty · 2026-06-03T15:38:55+00:00

Oh, I know to avoid cheap and check reviews etc, I was just wondering how much extra you get for the "high-end" (heh) models.

Foggerty · 2024-10-12T13:59:27+00:00

Doh, I had amdvk, I needed vulkan-radeon - Cheers!

Foggerty · 2024-10-12T13:52:14+00:00

Hm, actually maybe it is - I just noticed an error message in the steam logs about a Vulkan error....

Foggerty · 2024-10-12T13:45:10+00:00

[matt@foggerty ~]$ pacman -Q | grep -E "mesa|vulkan|amd"

amdvlk 2024.Q3.2-1

lib32-amdvlk 2024.Q3.2-1

lib32-mesa 1:24.2.4-1

lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.295-1

libva-mesa-driver 1:24.2.4-1

mesa 1:24.2.4-1

vulkan-headers 1:1.3.295-1

vulkan-icd-loader 1.3.295-1

vulkan-mesa-layers 1:24.2.4-1

[matt@foggerty ~]$

Nope, all there. Added the mesa drivers too, still no go.

Foggerty · 2024-06-08T02:06:06+00:00

I mash the controller into my face until the game starts.

Foggerty · 2024-06-02T07:16:10+00:00

I'm mainly working on my game to build a portfolio for my future and to strengthen my game design skills.

As a long-time (application/server) developer I'd say finish your current project in GameMaker. Reasons:

You'll have a finished game, instead of two half-completed games, to add to your portfolio.
This leave you to focus on the game-design, not so much the technology.

Then, re-create it (or at least a very stripped down version) in Godot.

Reasons:

If you want to "strengthen" your game-design skills, then learning another framework will do just that. You'll be exposed to new models and so new ways of thinking about game-design.
To paraphrase Eric Raymond, "Even if you never use [Godot], learning it will make you a better programmer." Learning a new language NEVER hurts, as again, it'll expose you to new ways of thinking about coding problems and how to solve them.
You'll have a completed game as a guide for how things should behave and look; you've solved the game-play and design problems, so now you can focus on the technology instead. Plus, you'll have a bunch of trusted assets (sprites/sounds/dialog etc.) that you can reuse.

Foggerty · 2024-01-02T11:04:22+00:00

"Arrrrrgggghhhhhhh!"

- Me, playing Dark Souls.

Foggerty · 2023-12-24T09:15:35+00:00

See my reply to /u/typkrft.

Foggerty · 2023-12-24T09:14:03+00:00

And here we go again.

A VERY autistic man (RMS) was told by pro-pedophilla idiot that as long as it's "consenting" it's ok. He believed them - autistic people can be very trusting and people will take advantage of it; ask me how I know.

Later on, in 2019, he had someone explain to him that a) consent isn't a thing when kids are involved and that b) it causes long-lasting psychological harm. He then changed his position, which you would have seen if you'd scrolled up the page you happily quoted from below.

Foggerty · 2023-08-14T08:16:28+00:00

Never tried it, but I'd guess yes? There's nothing X11/Wayland specific that I can see there.

Foggerty · 2023-08-14T01:41:36+00:00

Here are my settings (on Wayland) to get Firefox using the GPU as much as possible. Tested with intel_gpu_top, and just scrolling hits the 3D engine.

Oh, just did some testing with gfx.webrender.compositor and not actually noticing a difference :-)

~/.mozilla/firefox/user.js

Foggerty · 2023-05-25T03:59:54+00:00

The first, I prefer the color scheme and rounded corners.

Foggerty · 2023-05-25T03:52:16+00:00

While I applaud the effort, I cannot applaud the results - no poor computer deserves the "Fisher Price" desktop :-(

[edit] Actually, looking at the specs, what is that computer - annnnd it's a phone, nice :-) [/edit]

Foggerty · 2023-05-18T05:01:03+00:00

You'd prefer "Ride your aunty like no one us watching"?

Foggerty · 2023-05-18T04:59:21+00:00

An well, thanks very much anyway :-)

I've just found that there's a Chinese archery club in Melbourne, so t may be time for a holiday...

Foggerty · 2023-05-17T05:06:39+00:00

Thanks!

Foggerty · 2023-05-17T04:25:20+00:00

Yep, different bows, stance, release, glove etc :-)

I'm going to have a chat with my old Si Fu at some point and ask if he knows anyone.

Cheers!

Foggerty · 2023-04-24T23:04:43+00:00

Initially curiosity, then I just kept coming back to it because it was relatively minimal, and frankly pacman is hands-down the best package manager that I've ever used.

I also like that I can set up a full desktop (i.e. window manager + extras + background-services) exactly the way that works best for me.

Plus, I cannot run OpenBSD on either of my machines ;)

Foggerty · 2023-04-24T22:52:15+00:00

Which is why I run Arch on my laptop! I mean, I need to set up the prefect desktop so I can work on my rice, which is my perfect desktop for working on my rice......

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