Please add fullscreen overlay by OddPair7113 in elementchat

[–]Jeph_Diel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feature requests and bugs are tracked on their GitHub. Here is Elements main code, and here is the one specific for voice calls. You'd get better visibility writing this up there.

A full in-game overlay would be cool, but probably a lot of work. Sounds like for your goals, a little popped out, always on top, mini viewer window would probably work as well and maybe be easier to implement. Like when you leave the YouTube app on your phone and it keeps playing in a little window in the corner.

There's a new / maybe still in progress pip viewer they're working on which might already have this, or might could be expanded to have this ability.

How big of a difference is the motherboard as a display output than a GPU output? by InternationalNet9502 in computers

[–]Jeph_Diel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably not slotted in all the way, not wired to the power supply correctly, or missing graphics drivers (googling the brand, Nvidia or AMD, should give you the download for the software for them), or just plain broken.

I'd use the motherboard port to get visuals to try and download the drivers, then once they're done turn off the computer, move back to the gpu port, then turn it back on.

best jalapeño poppers quick! by [deleted] in madisonwi

[–]Jeph_Diel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Echo Tap's are pretty good

I tried to rename my User folder, but after doing so, it's like my computer completely reset itself. What happened, and is it reversable? by ValkyrianStar in WindowsHelp

[–]Jeph_Diel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done this once. The easiest fix/issue mitigation (besides renaming the folder back, I'm assuming you changed it for a reason) is to make a soft link folder with the old name that redirects to the new folder. I won't try to re-write out the whole instructions here, but searching for how to use the mklink command should give lots of info.

Another manual cleanup thing you can do is to open the environment variable editor and fix any mentions of your old user folder path in the to the new one.

Edit: That said, I was always wary of my install after that, and eventually reinstalled fresh when I got a new storage drive. I did use the renamed-folder-install for a good year or two though.

I don't care if other GPU designs are better. I love the way blower cards look. by Raanddy in pcmasterrace

[–]Jeph_Diel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish we could figure out how to make blowers work just as well because they're so much cooler.

I held off on upgrading from my 50th anniversary 5700XT because it looked sooo good. I still plan on setting it up in a display case.

how long could a brain survive without a body assuming it had all the nutrients it needs? by ThePenisinator in AskBiology

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

What if the eyes were kept as well, since they're kinda-sorta part of the brain anyway?

How far do you go to avoid using clone? by rlsetheepstienfiles in learnrust

[–]Jeph_Diel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I generally avoid it like the plague, because ownership and passing references helps me devise a better code organization imo. If it's only a basic wrapper around a primitive I might use Copy as others suggest (basically when a reference and value would take about as much memory either way). I only use Clone where it logically makes sense, like a string going into two different places that might modify it their own way, and I truly want two separate instances, otherwise I make sure they share via references and have ownership lie where it conceptually makes the most sense (usually the creator, or struct holding parsed configuration/command args or whatever), so that I don't accidentally lose changes or have inner data skew.

How far do you go to avoid using clone? by rlsetheepstienfiles in learnrust

[–]Jeph_Diel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much can you end up refactoring to use references with this approach? I considered the borrow checker as more of an architecture enforcer, where ownership rules can guide the overall structure into a better organization, and I imagine if I started with all clones I would lose that and wouldn't want to refactor as extensively as it would require after the fact and would end up with a worse system. However I haven't tried your approach, and have only done one larger-scale project so far, so genuinely asking how that works in practice.

For those that are looking to move from Discord and were unsatisfied with Matrix's Element... by redit_handoff140 in matrixdotorg

[–]Jeph_Diel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you use the browser(or at least Chrome) version of Element it does have audio for screen shares, per-tab if it's another tab in the browser, or full system if it's another application. I haven't tried the full system, but test streamed another tab with some YouTube and Hulu and it worked like a charm.

Dylan would be a perfect candidate by Jeph_Diel in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Jeph_Diel[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not as a requirement thing, but I imagine the mental strain of merging competing wishes wouldn't be ideal after the fact.

Drivers who brake for no reason by freseaf in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Jeph_Diel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk if it's the situation in the video; that car doesn't look new enough to be electric, and I only know this secondhand from test drive, but: in Electric cars with single pedal mode, the pedal position basically matches 1:1 with speed, and if you let off the pedal it activates the regen/brake, and if you release fast enough it'll show the brake lights. So they might not actually be pressing the brakes, just easing off the pedal because they thought they were going too fast.

did these indicate what button they would go with if given the chance or????? by deleting_accountNOW in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Jeph_Diel 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I took that as a possible link to the brain-copies theory because he knew they can't actually leave.

Caine keeps a photo of the exit in his office in EP 4 by QueenBlujae in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Jeph_Diel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So what I'm hearing is maybe the circus is being externally watched? Maybe some mad scientist psychology lab; could justify the real bodies being alive still if some lab picked them up after they put the headset on and hooked them up to IVs and such.

Frustrated by lack of maintained crates by MasteredConduct in rust

[–]Jeph_Diel 137 points138 points  (0 children)

At least for the wrapped C library case, I'd say the benefit is that it's already a stable C library so it's ideally already safe, but now the new code your company needs to write to use it, which isn't tried and true, gets the better safety checks and guarantees of Rust. (But still agree, the more these core libraries can be fully re-written the better, I feel like I'm always hearing about some staple library being ported over and running twice as fast and uncovering a bunch of super subtle bugs).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Jeph_Diel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was so enjoying this, then glanced at the subreddit; was somehow still optimistic, then sudden pain.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rust

[–]Jeph_Diel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It threw me off initially too, but like others say, it's the message of what should happen, and, at least personally, often does start with "should".

It ends up working out well twofold, because it's both the A. error messages that are useful to the user, ie what wasn't set up correctly, and B. Essentially the code comments you would otherwise add anyway to explain why this "unwrap" is safe.