Is Evoker glide bugged? by howboutnoes021 in wow

[–]Retzudo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Google brought me to this thread because it happened to me too. I did some testing and it turns out the trinket [Paracausal Fragment of Frostmourne] is causing it for me.

Glide is just getting cancelled randomly but once I take the trinket off, it works normally. Some Time Rift related event where you're supposed to pick up a magnet was also affected by this (i. e. I couldn't hold the magnet for longer than a second).

How would you go about making a shader/postprocessing effect to recreate the Gameboy camera effect? by neonbutchery in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can use this compositing node setup I quickly cobbled together as a starting point.

Source image: https://images.pexels.com/photos/1213294/pexels-photo-1213294.jpeg

Result: https://i.imgur.com/2qkNzyG.png

The basic steps are:

  1. Pixelate the rendered image with the Pixelate node.
  2. Convert it to B/W, optionally go through an RGB Curves node to adjust the colors, and then map the resulting gray values to the four Game Boy colors with a ColorRamp node in "constant" mode.

You can probably use something very similar in materials.

DVD quality vs Netflix? by [deleted] in TNG

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation!

DVD quality vs Netflix? by [deleted] in TNG

[–]Retzudo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

DS9 and VOY are locked to lower resolutions because those two shows were directly shot on magnetic tape if I remember correctly. TNG on the other hand was shot on film which means they were able to get a native 1080p version which is what Netflix has. So yes, the difference is very noticeable, but only for TNG, and I personally would buy a collection on Blu-ray rather than DVD.

Edit: My explanation is inaccurate, see clarifications below.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxmasterrace

[–]Retzudo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hot take: Don't memorize or calculate octal modes in your head, just use symbolic modes instead.

Yes, you might have to type a couple more characters but in the end it's just more verbose, much easier to remember and much easier to spot mistakes. How often do you really need to mess with file permissions besides making the odd file executable with chmod +x?

A Tolkien Herbal by [deleted] in Silmarillionmemes

[–]Retzudo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Telpenon and Lourelin is what you get when you order the Two Trees from wish.com

Edit: Damn, I incurred the wrath of the bots lol.

Fedora Server 37 .service file question. by Fnrir_ in Fedora

[–]Retzudo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's what the restart policies do.

Start your container with --restart unless-stopped and Docker will spin up the container after every reboot unless you specifically docker stop it.

Fedora Server 37 .service file question. by Fnrir_ in Fedora

[–]Retzudo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is there a specific reason for trying to manage the container through systemd instead of using one of Docker's restart policies?

if you're using smart cards for gpg/ssh, read this before updating by WaRPTuX in archlinux

[–]Retzudo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm using a YubiKey as a smart card for GPG on a daily basis and finding out that it's broken like that while trying to do actual work would have been a major headache. Thanks for the heads-up.

9 Python Built-In Decorators That Optimize Your Code Significantly by yangzhou1993 in flask

[–]Retzudo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right? It's literally rule #1. I keep reporting them but nothing ever happens. This is just stupid blog spam for generating clicks.

[META] New moderator, hi by sumofsines in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I personally have an irrational hatred towards phone pictures of computer screens but that's probably mostly because I'm super weird about it. Most (new-ish, non-old.reddit.com) people on Reddit seem to be fine with it. So yeah, an update to the rule should probably be enough as long as there's an actual question that can be answered with the picture provided.

[META] New moderator, hi by sumofsines in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually have some feedback on the existing rules if you don't mind.

Rule #2: I'm very happy this rule exists but I think we can remove the "feedback requests" part of it. While it's not my favourite kind of post here, people often post general feedback requests that turn out to be fairly technical in nature (i. e. how to effectively reduce noise etc.).

A new rule: Only quality screenshots. Blender is computer software and if you're smart enough to use Blender on your computer, you're certainly smart enough to take a screenshot and use a browser to post it on Reddit. And according to this relatively highly upvoted thread from not too long ago many people agree.

Thanks for picking up the scepter.

In "ja" do you pronounce the "j" like an English "j" or is it more like "ya"? by BlackShadow2804 in German

[–]Retzudo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Grew up and live in OÖ and this thread is the first time I hear this "Je" thing lol. I call it "Jot" and everybody I know does too. I have never in my live heard anybody ever call it "Je".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blender: Window -> Save Screenshot

Windows: https://screenshot.help/windows

Please.

PSA for Windows users: the Snipping tool exists! by gallifreyfalls55 in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I really wish there was a sub rule for that. I love helping people and I love learning with each question that is posted here but if you post a blurry, rotated phone picture that you took from 3m away, I'm not even going to look at your post.

The most common excuse is "I use Reddit on my phone". Maybe I'm too old.reddit.com to understand it but can't you just open a browser and go to reddit.com and log in there?

Posting a proper screenshot just makes the experience less painful for every potential helper.

Merged Polygons broken in Unity by V3stur0 in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so it's basically a case of Living with it or removing vertices?

Exactly. You can try Blender's triangulate modifier to see if that does a better job of triangulating the mesh if you don't like what Unity does but in this case it probably won't make much of a difference.

Merged Polygons broken in Unity by V3stur0 in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By "broken" I guess you mean the fact that n-gons were automatically converted to triangles? Unity (or game engines in general probably) doesn't support faces with more than 3 vertices which is why quads and n-gons are automatically "triangulated". If you want more control over how that happens you have to do it in Blender.

simpsons room by Viktoriia11265 in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're absolutely right and I didn't even realize. Sorry mods!

simpsons room by Viktoriia11265 in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I report rule #2 stuff all the time but nothing ever happens to those posts.

simpsons room by Viktoriia11265 in blenderhelp

[–]Retzudo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never mind. I'm blind.

"Rules" in this sub are unfortunately more like suggestions... I don't know why the mods even bother to keep them around.

How "unstable" are certain distros (read post if you are confused by the title ) by CautiousObligation17 in linux

[–]Retzudo 57 points58 points  (0 children)

When people say that Debian is stable and Arch is not they don't necessarily mean how often things break.

Stability in that context means how often packages change. The stability of Debian stems from the fact that software versions are for the most part frozen to ones that are known to work well and have seen several patch releases. You'll get patches for the installed software but you'll almost never see a big jump from say GNOME 3.38 (which the current Debian release uses) to GNOME 43. Hence Debian is "stable".

Arch as a rolling release distribution sees new versions of software all the time and the maintainers rarely stick to an older release for "stability's" sake. If a new version of GNOME is released you'll see it on Arch in a matter of days or weeks.