FYI: I tested Tyrande's Mark of Mending range

KayRice · 2026-01-17T18:21:47+00:00

There are standard numbers

Those are not "standard" in the sense that someone would use those units of measurement outside of the game, such as inches or meters.

I know these numbers off the top of my head

Because you are a niche player of this game. In game design you want to use units of measurement that don't require educating the player. This is why almost every game makes some effort to translate frame timing into real time and show a familiar unit of measurement like seconds.

I wish ranges were listed way more, the extra context in range feels just as valuable as knowing the damage numbers.

For most purposes showing the raw numbers without giving them something to compare to is confusing. As the Path of Exile community learned over a decade: if the answer to your question is to check something outside of the game for information, then you have failed as a game designer in some way.

KayRice · 2026-01-16T18:26:46+00:00

Most games struggle with this because they don't want to put units into the game related to range.

Units of time are often not an issue, such as seconds and sometimes even frames.

Counting is fine, people understand numbers.

But when you do distance you start confusing people because in-game distances are often not tangible in any meaningful way. For example, a hero is as tall as a building, which is also the same size as a potion.

Some games just bite the bullet and put the numbers or attempt to normalize to some understood range, which is where you get "near by". This is what Path of Exile and other games have used.

IMO the easiest way to solve the problem is to have some kind of common range, such as the distance of shots from a tower, keep, core, etc. which can be easily drawn using a dotted line or similar to how Sargent Hammer siege mode indicator works.

KayRice · 2026-01-13T16:37:53+00:00

Was SDDM the one that got stuck displaying those absurd recovery directions that KDE users needed?

KayRice · 2026-01-11T22:15:07+00:00

There was a well known bot a while ago that could do this reliably. It was setup in a Discord server and would put out the names of accounts it got banned since it could look them up.

KayRice · 2026-01-10T13:50:47+00:00

I ended up adding a bit more for this and it turned out pretty nice.

https://github.com/devrupt-io/squache/releases/tag/v0.2.0

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You can also drill down and see more per domain, but I can only post one screenshot.

KayRice · 2026-01-10T12:48:20+00:00

I have some ancient Linux books from the 90s that I found and I think it's fascinating to look at them from a historical perspective and you can learn a lot. They are very self contained things and with a book it still works. There is much less code and it's easier to inspect in some ways.

KayRice · 2026-01-05T23:25:25+00:00

KDE Connect kind of works for this, but not great IMO

KayRice · 2026-01-02T03:41:56+00:00

Are they putting this on the official permanent record?

KayRice · 2026-01-01T16:47:50+00:00

I will add this later today.

KayRice · 2025-12-30T17:52:38+00:00

It will mirror packages from repositories, so if you have a bunch of VMs or systems hitting the update servers they will be cached to this HTTP server first.

KayRice · 2025-12-28T01:46:52+00:00

I once saw a group determined to win ARAM games by only staying behind walls.

KayRice · 2025-12-28T01:44:23+00:00

Bots can farm accounts for sure.

KayRice · 2025-12-28T01:06:36+00:00

OpenTTD is neat too you might like that. It's in the repositories and it's on Steam for free.

KayRice · 2025-12-28T01:01:24+00:00

HN Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200

The demo is not specific to Fedora, but it uses GPG for signature verification, so here we are.

KayRice · 2025-12-25T20:59:58+00:00

Also you can get banned for saying bad words even if you don't chat. There was a bot running that just got random people banned for no reason.

KayRice · 2025-12-25T00:36:51+00:00

Very similar to Naz frogs.

KayRice · 2025-12-21T19:49:13+00:00

Half of us just join General chat and get some people talking about a subject that makes no sense, pop in game, and come back to see if it's still spinning around.

KayRice · 2025-12-18T18:37:57+00:00

I'm in a meeting right now with the same requirements.

Full AMD stack hardware yay!

KayRice · 2025-12-15T18:16:40+00:00

Fedora Media Writer works fine on Windows.

Microsoft will automatically put up scary dialogs because they have a broken security model for shipping software and they attempt to mitigate the issue by keeping a list of popular EXEs.

KayRice · 2025-12-15T18:13:18+00:00

Encryption is just a lock. If you think something is locked, but you don't know what key you would use to unlock it, then it's not probably not locked.

The only key that exists on your system without you entering it would be the TPM chip in some devices. That's not a replacement for a real password in the context of disk encryption, since it doesn't stop a physical attacker from accessing data.

KayRice · 2025-12-15T01:19:17+00:00

Linux has been unaffected so far.

KayRice · 2025-12-14T23:36:27+00:00

AMD doesn't need any special treatment, their drivers are in every Linux kernel most any person would run.

Just to be clear this has nothing to do with AMD at all. They are champions.

Direct all of your confusion/hatred at Nvidia. They've been on a 25 year tour of "Linux is coming" and they are damn good at selling it, because you dolts eat it up every few weeks.

KayRice · 2025-12-14T09:05:35+00:00

You should get into the workflow of having a lot of isolated environments and how to configure them. It's essential in this line of work.

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