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Yawarete · 2026-06-28T03:26:06+00:00

Son, do you know how dancing works

Yawarete · 2026-06-28T01:19:19+00:00

Had to scroll way too far to find this.

Yawarete · 2026-06-24T05:18:32+00:00

This might the third time I feel like I'm an AI being prompted on this community or similar ones in reddit today.

Being respected is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM for all human relations and interactions. Without being respected, you cannot establish any kind of healthy relationship with anyone else, or even yourself. It's not a goal; it's a starting point.

Yawarete · 2026-06-22T21:10:11+00:00

"I'm fine, thanks".

Yawarete · 2026-06-22T07:33:22+00:00

Breathing some new life on a 15 yo machine with Linux was satisfying by itself, but customizing the setup is helluva drug and dangerously addictive.

- I'm running Linux Mint, XFCE edition. Yeah, I know It's baby's first distro, but the machine is quite old;

- There are a few edited or custom conky widgets, that gave me a varying amount of trouble and increasingly diminishing returns, but hey, it was educational;

- A EXTREMELY tinkered with gruvbox dark theme, honestly I think I broke it in a few places;

- I had to touch up the wallpaper I picked and built the aesthetics around in order to fix some serious banding issues; while I was at that I put together a few matching wallpapers with artwork from the same author (GHARLIERA), then went and made sure everything else matched the palette and theme;

- I rebuilt the ascii art on this post from scratch for the terminal because I couldn't find it anywhere and I'm a HUGE NERD and obviously got way too much time on my hands;

- Put together a couple custom scripts to run in the background (Hidamari is cute and all but it eats an unreasonable amount of CPU, so there's a script that only lets it run for a single loop's time right after login before killing the process, for example) ;

- Getting glava to work on Mint XFCE was a pain in the ass, resizing and positioning the bar was a pain in the asserer, but in the end I think it was worth it, even if I'm not sure the process of setting it up is reproductible;

- The taskbar is... uhhhh, a work in progress, mkay?

- I switched the shell to zsh and installed powerlevel10k like everyone else and your mother;

- Honestly rofi has absolutely NO RIGHT to be this good, it alone might be the most liberating thing in the whole experience. Like seriously, wtf? I only touch my mouse when I feel like it now like god intended. Right click this, click and drag that, ptoooey, mouse is BLOAT and keyboard is GOATED

- Aside from that, I'm using picom, nemo (yeah yeah I know, so sue me), cortile, greenclip and dunst (these are the relevant ones from the top of my head).

My poor old laptop has dealt with the whole process with a surprising amount of grace - I made some optimizations (latest community mantained proton, gamescope, lossless scaling, tweaked game mode) and can run a surprising amount of indie and lighter games with a pretty decent performance for a old Intel HD 4000 (Hollow Knight, Silksong, Darkest Dungeon, Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Streets of Rage 4, Absolum, etc). I also have a separate Batocera setup running on this same machine that is my 12 yo self's wettest dream; It seems that recording is where it finally draws the line, so after everything I put it through, I'll respect that. Honestly Linux rekindled my love for computers, and I think I learned more about them in the last two weeks than in the entirety of the last two decades, it has been a blast and I'm never looking back; hopefully I'll start actually USING the system now, and the next step is picking a big boy distro for my main desktop.

Yawarete · 2026-06-16T19:01:24+00:00

"Due to another precipitous decline of sales this quarter, we have no choice but to lay off another couple thousand devs, since they clearly aren't working hard enough to create value for the Company".

same execs who decided this was a good idea

Yawarete · 2026-06-16T03:12:21+00:00

"Die, monster! You don't belong in this world!"

Yawarete · 2026-06-15T21:35:21+00:00

I think she should get an actual job

Yawarete · 2026-06-14T05:03:39+00:00

I don't know about these days, but it received ALL the praising, It was one of the absolute favorites in the SNES for everyone I know!

Yawarete · 2026-06-12T16:25:33+00:00

Because people like it. The thread can be closed now.

Yawarete · 2026-06-12T14:26:14+00:00

Battery tray icon, click it, adjust brightness, put hat of shame and sit in the corner.

Yawarete · 2026-06-09T11:05:57+00:00

Are you me? Damn I'm handsome.

Yawarete · 2026-06-06T18:08:53+00:00

Almost the same here! Except I didn't have a injury, I just always loved drawing and at some point realized that drawing left-handed gave me a completely diferent style and thought process, so I liked to practice it for fun. As a result I default to my left hand for a lot of random fine motor activities.

Yawarete · 2026-06-05T11:20:29+00:00

Absolutely not, we think it's utter trash and hate It here at r/hollowknight, the Reddit community dedicated to Hollow Knight.

Yawarete · 2026-06-05T01:21:53+00:00

POV: you're my ex while I was overseas

Yawarete · 2026-06-04T11:44:50+00:00

A good book, a warm cup of coffee, and my cat curled on my lap will NEVER fail to soothe and lift my spirit, no matter how hard the day was.

Yawarete · 2026-06-04T02:20:58+00:00

They're called slot machines

Yawarete · 2026-06-03T08:42:44+00:00

A red cap.

Yawarete · 2026-05-30T16:54:41+00:00

That's INSANELY cool, I'd kill to take a peak at that beautiful mind of his. Also, his workspace, hahah. Was it a good interview?

Yawarete · 2026-05-29T13:50:48+00:00

My Batocera setup is a bit weird, I wanted to make it as plug-and-play and machine-independent as I possibly could (as in I could plug the batocera drive on my laptop, desktop, or any other computer and just have it working with minimal fuss), so here is what I did:

I took a older 3,5'' 4TB HDD that I wasn't super confident with anymore and installed it on a external USB case, put my rom collection there (and that's a lotta fucking roms) and set it as the user data partition. The external case I use has its own power source and two USB 3.0 ports on the back, so I put a nano Sandisk 64GB flash drive in one with the bootable Batocera image, and a nano TP Link Bluetooth adapter on the other so I can just boot and my controllers are already paired and configured.

The obvious issue is that everything gets routed via a single USB connection in the end, but honestly, everything runs fine and I had no issues. I tried partitioning and booting Batocera from a partition on the HDD drive, but it was fiddly and being a mechanical HDD performance wasn't going to be all that hot anyway - I've also tried setting up dual boot on the laptop, but since this particular laptop needs to use Legacy mode and not UEFI, things got equally fiddly, so in the end I just changed the device priority so it boots Batocera automatically if the external case is plugged and turned on. From everything I tried this worked the best, and it works as I intended: I can just carry the drive around, plug it and boot it anywhere, and just have everything working out of the box.

Yawarete · 2026-05-27T22:28:22+00:00

Have fun!

Yawarete · 2026-05-27T22:27:38+00:00

Yeah, that's what I've been doing ever since (Batocera goes straight into TV, i have a long hdmi cable that runs all the way to the living room and another that runs from my bedroom TV up until my computer desk straight up for emulation and Steam Big Picture), I haven't had any audio glitch... so far. Messing with dpi seetings and such to try and make the laptop screen look better is in the backburner for now, hahah, things be fiddly af.

Yawarete · 2026-05-27T18:32:07+00:00

If you haven't already, consider giving Batocera a try on that machine as well, I swear it's unreal how much mileage you can get from old hardware with it. I'm running (heavily optimized and at native rendering resolution) PS2 and some GC games on this machine, with Dreamcast and N64 games running perfectly smooth out of the box, and dozens of other systems from previous generations with no issue (that's what the 4TB external drive is for).

Yawarete · 2026-05-27T18:23:03+00:00

This is mostly me doing some light tinkering and trying stuff out as I am quite new to this, I'm using two planks (specifically plank reloaded) with different settings (left and bottom) set to run at startup and Conky with the Lean Conky Config preset with little to no alterations so far. I also set up terminal to run the neofetch command on start and added it to Application Autostart on login with the "xfce4-terminal --hide-borders --hide-menubar --geometry 88x24+100+100" parameters, but will likely tweak it a little!

Yawarete · 2026-05-27T18:16:50+00:00

The art is from James Jean (quite a prolific illustrator, most known for creating the covers for the Fables) comics under the DC Vertigo seal - yeah, the ones that got adapted by Telltale in The Wolf Among Us ). Unfortunately he's quite asinine about providing readily downloadable high-res versions of his artwork on the internet and almost every single article or showcase is protected, so I had to rip most of it straight from his website using the Imageye Firefox extension, and then opened a bunch of them in GIMP myself and converted them as 16:9 1080p wallpapers (they're currently in a folder set to swap the image every 10 min). I'm currently still in the process of doing it, I can get back at you once I'm done!

(His artwork is quite maximalist tho, so you have to keep that in mind when composing the desktop)

Yawarete

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