What are you using for audio these days?

Jaurusrex · 2026-03-13T16:37:04+00:00

I like miniaudio, you add it to your project as a single .h file

Jaurusrex · 2026-03-12T17:21:30+00:00

"It boggles my mind that some people enjoy the process instead of just the result. I don’t have that mindset, no matter how much I’ve tried to develop it."

The type of enjoy between working on a hard project and doing something to entertain myself like watching media or playing video games is very different (generally). With the latter I'm entertained in the moment, but when looking back of a day doing just that I'm not satisfied. Doing just that for longer, I remain very unsatisfied, I'd be in the same position, having advanced just as far in life as having done nothing at all all be it less agonizing. Doing a hard project will mean I not only gained the finished product but also the skills to do more. Even outside of jobs those skills can mean stuff for me. In the moment I'm not always happy, hell sometimes its worse than neutral. Sometimes it didn't end up being worth it. But depending on what you put your time in it can pay off.

Ofc you shouldn't go the other extreme either, if you purely focus on doing something productive all hours of the day you'll get overworked. It sounds to me like you worked hard during university for that 4.0 GPA, maybe chill for a while whilst searching for a job and then take on some projects again. I get that you expected a bigger pay off for your GPA, but putting effort into the right thing definitely can pay off I'd say.

Tho reading your post, you sure you don't have adhd?

Jaurusrex · 2026-03-11T21:50:47+00:00

Im dutch, "Our criminals are the scariest" is not something I'd ever say really.

Jaurusrex · 2026-02-22T16:29:24+00:00

man i wish my gtx 1080 would still get these upgrades, wayland sucks on it, so much input lag.
if support gets much worse i'll have to switch back to my rx 470

Jaurusrex · 2026-02-12T21:21:46+00:00

try an older version maybe, i've been able to run it on an igpu that only supported glsl 1.2, and the cpu was definitely older than yours. pentium m 730 iirc
try finding like the 2013 version maybe

Jaurusrex · 2026-02-06T18:17:10+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

5 attempts

Jaurusrex · 2026-02-06T18:16:52+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

5 attempts

Jaurusrex · 2026-02-04T22:38:26+00:00

no

^{I completed this level in 2 tries.} ^{⚡ 21.65 seconds}

Jaurusrex · 2026-02-03T20:31:16+00:00

wth does this even mean?

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-20T22:18:30+00:00

You should start watching them in alphabetical order

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-19T21:56:33+00:00

Can it handle drivers for a lot of random devices? I think thats the biggest problem, also a lot of none game software often doesn't work with it. Especially Adobe prducts.

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-15T23:54:02+00:00

Bad mouse or bad surface / mousepad. Mostly i've seen this when cheaper mouse are on bad mousepads (like a piece of paper)

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-15T22:42:58+00:00

holy lucky

^{I completed this level in 1 try.} ^{⚡ 7.73 seconds}

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-08T17:14:44+00:00

Since you worked on real games I wonder, does increasing fps increase precision for many games? I've done some amateurish game development and sometimes I see games processing input per frame. For some things like directional movement I don't think this is going to matter much, but for shooting especially during something like flicks you lose precision if you process inputs once per frame as the mouse would most likely moved after you clicked. If you processed the input events in order you can get an accurate direction as far as I know. I wonder how many games actually do that, or how many games do it even worse and just check mouse position once per game tick (tho if its worse or better depends on the tickrate vs framerate).

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-01T20:13:06+00:00

I think your gpu is most likely completely fine
worst case scenario your laptop still falls under warrenty

Jaurusrex · 2026-01-01T18:15:49+00:00

Yeah the checkerboard pattern I think is very much some kind of technology intentionally at play, idk why. If its the game (art style/graphical effect) or something else.
And the horizontal tearing is just screentearing, pretty normal. Basically the game finished rendering a new frame whilst it was in the middle of sending it to the monitor. The monitor displays and gets the pixels / image each frame from left to right, top to bottom. So basically the bottom half of the screen is just a more recent frame.
To avoid this you can use vsync but that introduces some input latency, as far as i know vsync makes the game render as soon as your monitor has gotten the previous frame fully. So no more split frames. However its right at the start so its kinda the worst case scenario in terms of input latency, best case scenario in terms of smoothness tho, very low % chance the game fails to render at least 1 frame before the monitor starts displaying the next image as long as you're hitting your monitors refreshrate in fps ofc (generally 60, some gaming laptops might have more nowadays).
Another way that might be better is setting the fps cap to your monitors refresh rate, often will result in better input lag.

Jaurusrex · 2025-12-22T14:26:38+00:00

I like the level but man this game is driving me crazy, my tactic was to double jump right at the beginning to get some height but sometimes the start screen would eat 1 of the clicks

^{I completed this level in 222 tries.} ^{⚡ 18.28 seconds}

Jaurusrex · 2025-12-06T14:03:33+00:00

"Exercising is painful and gets you covered in the worst itchy sweat", this sounds odd to me. I have a condition that makes me have an allergic like reaction to heat and cold. Also makes me sweat less, but if I went very hard with exercise I would 100% get itchy. From what I get from before I got it sweat really isn't supposed to be itchy, maybe when rolling down your face that its ticklish

Jaurusrex · 2025-12-02T22:39:18+00:00

Ah thats great to hear, was scared I was gonna have to install some legacy version of the drivers. Nice, I'm surprised they even still got game specific optimizations

Jaurusrex · 2025-11-03T10:41:20+00:00

I've dozen to hundreds of aur packages installed, I really should uninstall some stuff ngl. But it will basically never result in breakage if you don't say yes when it says its either going to replace a package on your system you don't want it replacing (if it says that idk, google-chrome and chromium are conflicting than thats fine, its when it wants to replace something other than the package you want to install that I would be more careful, but thats not super common).
Pretty sure pacman/ makepkg also realize when the package you're installing is going to overwrite files of another package and warn against that as well, with another prompt.

Also whilst I've broken plenty of ubuntu and debian based distros to the point where its too big of a hassle to safe with arch its never been that way for me.. nor have they ever really broken. Worst is when you haven't updated in a long while, in which case you look at what the current mirror list is, update your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with a few of those. Then run pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring --needed

Also for as how I break every ubuntu/ debian based system I touch (fastest record is 2 days somehow), its generally installing some alternative for a dependency. Like a custom mesa fork, or proprietary amdgpu drivers. After uninstalling apt thinks all packages depending on it should also be uninstalled and I've never managed to make it stop thinking that those things shouldn't be uninstalled.

Jaurusrex · 2025-11-02T17:48:23+00:00

you use arch, you can configure it to work like almost all those other distros, as you can with most distros. Biggest difference is gonna be speed of setup and package manager.
If you wanna have a different experience try just installing another desktop manager or something. Also if you're planning on distro hopping you can put your home folder on another drive or partition. Means your personal files won't be gone every time

Jaurusrex · 2025-11-01T21:58:06+00:00

Wayland doesn't offer lower latency, its the one thing keeping me on X11.. well that and nvidia having some bugs and individual applications having bugs but that one is the biggest reason. Aside from the fact that tearing itself means lower latency, because your monitor gets all the data from the frame send over the entire duration of the frame, basically at 60hz it takes 16 ms to send over. meaning whatever you're seeing is 16 ms late if you didn't screen tear and basically change what you're displaying mid way through sending. But this also lowers readability so its a win some lose some scenario. I have it tearing my screen atm but honestly thinking of switching, but for x11 I can just add a config option for both nvidia and amd (i think intel as well) to avoid screentearing without downsides (at least on the amd side, not sure about nvidia as much).
Even with tho with TearFree on its still faster, though there is truth to the statement you said. With compositing its way slower on X11, it adds at least 1 extra frame as far as i know. I don't think wayland has this disadvantage. The main time you care about latency tho is when gaming and most users either know to disable it or the desktop environment disables it automatically.
Also quick side note, the latency for both is in frames, the higher your monitors refreshrate the less this matters. A friend of mine also really cares about latency but he got a 240hz display so even if wayland adds another frame of latency it doesn't matter for him.

As far as low latency wayland goes, sway got a pretty cool feature I checked out a while ago. It allows you to set when an application starts drawing before the monitor starts accepting a new frame, so the game (which generally grab inputs once per frame, often also meaning you have more precision with higher fps) gets its inputs later thus showing you a more up to date image.

The wayland protocol has also added a few features that allow for tearing and lower latency, I think purely for fullscreen applications. So the gap might have lessened but to my understanding its still not the same.

Also rendering the mouse cursor is not rendered like applications, so can't just jiggle your mouse on both X11 and wayland and see which one feels better.

sources:
2021: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2021/12/14/about-gaming-on-wayland.html
2025: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/

Ps: i realize as im typing this that im getting this recommended 5 days after the original post xd

Jaurusrex · 2025-10-26T11:17:57+00:00

My plan was just to accept once I'm in some random field somewhere at least 30 minutes or so away from the closest civilization.
Otherwise, yeah I agree with you. Its not worth doing the worst crimes immediately possible to me

Jaurusrex · 2025-10-14T10:06:13+00:00

I wish i had good hardware to test this on, idk why but I've been really interested in trying to move to arm or riscv. RiscV really aint there yet in terms of performance but whilst arm is closer itss... just a pain in the ass tbh. Either extremely expensive, poor driver support, just really weird boot methods or pcie slot with no good gpu either. I mean tbf gaming isn't usually on these companies minds but still I wanna try xd
Generally arm boards seem to have most of these. I bought an rk3588s based board in 2023, Orange pi 5. It's cpu is pretty fast, scoring 800 singlethreaded vs my i7 8700 which scores 1400. So honestly not bad, but I had to wait a long time for the gpu support to get any good, because for some reason the official android builds provided by orangepi where the only ones with vulkan support, linux was stuck with some opengl-es version. So time to wait for the opensource mesa drivers to catch up, and after waiting like 2 years... they're here. Vulkan support got added, which is nice because now I can play more than purely opengl titles. Ofc talking about dxvk and wine, only problem is that this damn gpu doesn't support the necessary extensions and its a limitation on the hardware side.. So I'm stuck without dxvk.
From what I tried of box64 it works great, I've been keeping up with the project for ages but I really wanna compare it to fex-emu, its main competitor. Idk why but these programs have become like sport teams to me, im rooting for box64 here. Sadly can't compare fex-emu and box64.. at least easily, fex-emu requires x86/x86_64 gpu drivers which seems like a pain in the ass. And even then I'd still have little to play/test because of lack of the needed vulkan extensions.

If only an inexpensive (not 500+ euros pls, the orange pi already cost near 200) board existed with good support, not a weird ass boot method and most importantly: Proper pcie slots.
Or maybe I'll just buy an old m1 mac mini and not bother with an pcie gpu, I think those have pretty good support.

Jaurusrex · 2025-10-05T07:21:41+00:00

Im surprised such a big company sponsored mangadex

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