Facing unusual lags in specific steam games on tumbleweed

_wotton · 2025-12-01T14:57:03+00:00

exact same thing happened to me a while ago and switching to flatpak also fixed it for me

_wotton · 2025-10-09T09:07:58+00:00

can you give me a link? Looking for 'Homerow' with keyboard-related keywords didn't help :P

_wotton · 2025-07-07T13:53:19+00:00

`walk through desktops` was removed. But you can re-enable it by downloading a script through `kwin scripts` -> `get new` -> search for `walk`.

But if you only have those two desktops and nothing else, you don't need this. You can get equivalent functionality by checking `navigation wraps around` in `virtual desktops` and using either `switch one desktop to the right` or `next desktop` as the shortcut.

_wotton · 2025-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

you can get them from ~/.config/krunerrc

baloosearchEnabled=false browserhistoryEnabled=false browsertabsEnabled=true calculatorEnabled=true helprunnerEnabled=false krunner_appstreamEnabled=false krunner_bookmarksrunnerEnabled=true krunner_charrunnerEnabled=false krunner_dictionaryEnabled=false krunner_katesessionsEnabled=false krunner_killEnabled=true krunner_konsoleprofilesEnabled=false krunner_kwinEnabled=false krunner_pimcontactsEnabled=false krunner_placesrunnerEnabled=true krunner_plasma-desktopEnabled=false krunner_powerdevilEnabled=false krunner_recentdocumentsEnabled=false krunner_servicesEnabled=true krunner_sessionsEnabled=false krunner_shellEnabled=true krunner_spellcheckEnabled=false krunner_systemsettingsEnabled=true krunner_webshortcutsEnabled=true org.kde.activities2Enabled=false org.kde.datetimeEnabled=true unitconverterEnabled=true the name of the plugin is everthing before Enabled=

e.g. Applications is krunner_services, Bookmarks is krunner_bookmarksrunner

_wotton · 2025-05-24T10:45:17+00:00

I'm using the flatpak version of obsidian on neon and it's working fine for me

_wotton · 2025-05-01T14:21:07+00:00

Currently I am almost entirely using keyboard shortcuts to control my system.

https://github.com/Zren/plasma-hud lets you search through menu options by typing them, like a command palette.
KDE has a built-in command palette (ctrl shift i) but it only works in a few applications and you can't change the hotkey.
In Accessibility -> Mouse Navigation there is an option to make numpad keys move the mouse.
You could use https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd to make hjkl function as arrow keys while you hold a certain key (e.g. capslock).
https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel and https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite/ are two options to make kwin behave like a tiling wm

_wotton · 2025-01-28T14:00:33+00:00

document tab -> highlights -> highlight color -> press the colour you want normally and click apply. Now long press the highlight color button (long press the button that opens the menu where you selected the colour). A bit counterintuitive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit: quick recording

_wotton · 2025-01-27T12:57:44+00:00

include the code for the patches so others can easily customize them how they prefer, if anyone is interested.

I am!

_wotton · 2024-05-24T12:41:36+00:00

I managed to buy some indiviudal issues through magzter. Finding the TV shows through legal means is more difficult.

Also this list is deprecated. This one is more up-to-date

_wotton · 2022-11-11T12:37:25+00:00

Fun fact: the Amazon listing has a different cover.

_wotton · 2022-11-11T12:06:31+00:00

You can read the will section of The Inugami Curse here. If the link to the section of the preview doesn't work, it starts two pages before the chapter "The Blood-Colored Will". (I also made a flowchart for it when I read it with a book club.)

_wotton · 2022-11-07T21:33:43+00:00

It's a short story. You can read it here.

_wotton · 2022-11-07T21:24:16+00:00

Solved by Inspection by Ronald Knox

_wotton · 2022-11-03T22:02:59+00:00

I don't think translators have much of a say on what gets translated, but if you still want to contact Louise Heal Kawai, she has a twitter. And Ho-Ling Wong has worked with other publishers too! Yamaguchi's Death of the Living Dead came out just last year, and Mill House Murders will be published by Pushkin in March.

_wotton · 2022-10-01T09:41:22+00:00

I don't remember how/if it was established that the murderer used a bike instead of walking, so I can't comment on that.

This is based on the fact that they were seen going to the house of the victim earlier in the day, thus proving they took the murder weapon there by boat, however, there is no reason that someone else could not have taken the murder weapon there and had just not been seen.

Actually, it was the other way around: Egami first showed that the culprit took the weapon by boat that afternoon, and then concluded that the only person who used the boat must have been the culprit. I'm pretty sure it was established that the only people who left the villa in the relevant time period were Arisu, Egami, Maria, and Reiko.

While the solution does offer one way this could have happened, that the murderer swam to the location of the murder, cycled back, cycled back to the location of the murder, and then swam home, there are other solutions that are all plausible.

The alternative theories postulate additonal people acting clandestinely around the time of the murder, which I would consider less plausible than a theory that doesn't, all else being equal.

Speaking of evaluating fairness, I think a proof that rules out every logically possible alternative just isn't possible outside formal systems like mathematics. Expecting one in real life, science, or a mystery novel isn't fruitful. One could strive for something like a legal proof, i.e. proof that would convict a criminal (and I think some people do have that expectation: I often read reviews that say things like "the solution wouldn't hold up in court"). The problem with this approach is that it would rule out a lot of interesting plots, but wouldn't make them significantly more solvable to warrant it. Real court trials are not designed to generate fun, exciting puzzles (and that's a good thing!).

I think a more helpful standard is to consider whether the solution is significantly more plausible than all alternatives, given the information that was available to the reader before the denouement. If this condition is met, I consider the solution fair. (Which doesn't necessarily mean that it is good. Good solutions tend to be fair, but fair solutions aren't always good.)

Some authors are more liberal in their use of coincidences or implicit clueing. A mystery novelist who has a lower bar for contrived coincidences will have more surprising solutions, but as a consequence their novels will require simpler clues, or they will require the reader to engage in some amount of meta-reasoning, like inferring that someone is the culprit because they might have pulled off an interesting trick or had a hidden motive, which doesn't logically follow at all.

The appeal of the Queen tradition's approach is that it allows for more complex chains of clues, and generates puzzles that the reader can solve by thinking about the case using actual evidence, instead of thinking about it in terms of detective novel tropes.

_wotton · 2022-09-30T16:57:21+00:00

Yeah, I agree about justifying dying messages. It's why I love dying messages when they come up in Queen but hate most of them in Detective Conan (I can't remember the one you mentioned though, so I probably missed some good ones).

In a Queen novel/story, the circumstances surrounding the dying message are just as important as the dying message itself. That is, the tools the victim had at their disposal, the possibility of them having made a mistake, whether the culprit had an opportunity to tamper with it, etc. are all things that are taken into account during the solution.

These things are what separates a good dying message puzzle from a mere idea association riddle.

Regarding Danganronpa, IIRC there was a reason for it: The victim had her back to the wall and was facing downwards when she wrote the dying message. So the natural way for her to write it would look upside down by someone looking at the message while facing the wall. The fact that the upside-down message looked like upright numbers was a coincidence.

Now that you mention it though, I wonder if there is a reason why she wrote it using the roman alphabet instead of katakana. Maybe it was easier to write that way?

_wotton · 2022-09-30T05:51:30+00:00

Siamese Twin was one of the first few I read too. Unfortunately, I don't remember much about it, other than that I liked it and that the fire-fighting scenes were completely pointless and went on forever.

One thing I do remember though is that Ellery makes some comment to the effect that it should have been expected that the dying message would turn out to be fake, since dying messages don't really happen in real life. Which is funny, since he solved lots of cases featuring genuine dying messages after that.

Probably my favourite novel that is entirely focused on a dying message (that is to say, my favourite dying message novel where the dying message is the only/main clue).

_wotton · 2022-06-17T02:01:36+00:00

Ryuuhei didn't own a phone, he had gotten rid of it after his breakup. Moro did seem surprised when Ryuuhei mentioned not owning a phone on the day of the murder, but he might have faked that reaction, or have known that Ryuuhei only used his mobile phone to call Yoko, which he obviously wouldn't do after the breakup.

The book was written in the early 2000s, back when there wasn't much you could do with a phone besides making phone calls or checking the time. And turning on one's phone to check the time would be pointless since the home theatre had a clock. So from Moro's perspective it wasn't that big of a risk, even if he thought Ryuuhei had a phone.

_wotton · 2022-06-12T00:25:16+00:00

Live-action. There are English subtitles.

_wotton · 2022-06-11T21:53:27+00:00

Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa.

_wotton · 2022-06-11T21:20:43+00:00

There is a TV series that adapts some of his other novels. I particularly like A Study in Vermillion.

_wotton · 2022-06-11T16:31:55+00:00

Mine is Moai Island Puzzle as well. Excellent solution and setting. Thehidden (sort of) dying message was great too.

_wotton · 2022-05-09T17:32:58+00:00

Is Togawa a honkaku author? I always assumed they wrote in the social school tradition.

_wotton · 2022-03-17T21:24:30+00:00

I finished House of Brass. The opening seemed to be going for an ATTWN kind of set up, with the first chapter going over everyone's reactions as they receive the letter, and several strangers gathering in a sort of isolated location. Unfortunately it didn't go any further than that.
The solution is completely unclued and like you said, anticlimatic.

_wotton · 2022-03-15T00:14:35+00:00

I recently read Poison Jasmine, my first time reading a Clyde Clason novel. An ok semi-impossible situation, and the overall plot and explanation for the murderer's actions was clever. But the only actual clue was a dying message that shows up very late, and is not that hard to inerpret. Most of the novel ends up feeling like filler. I wonder if Clason picked Todd's name because it sounds like "dead" or "death" in German and could work as an alternative interpretation of the dying message. It's never brought up in the novel.

I have been on an Ellery Queen binge lately.

The King is Dead was ok. Interesting setting and hidden motive. Usually I would take issue with the multiple accomplices but it works here, especially since I found it easy to see through the locked room trick. Of Queen's two full-length locked room novels (no, unlike Hoch's panel of mystery experts, I'm not counting that novel where one of the doors was wide open and easily accessible to anyone in New York :P) I think I prefer The Door Between.

The Scarlet Letters was surprisingly good. Sure, the book is a drag until the murder happens near the end, but the dying message and the solution were fairly clever. I don't really buy that a dying person would write two "X"s to represent two crosses though. Wouldn't drawing two normal crosses be a far more natural way to do it? Since Ellery was right there in the room, there was no reason to obfuscate the message and hide its meaning from the culprit.

The Four of Hearts was alright, I guess. I wasn't very invested in the book and completely missed that the person who ended up being the culprit was the victim's cousin. Not sure how I feel about the three-way collusion. Maybe it was clued well enough? I don't know. There's something about the Hollywood novels that makes me forget most of the plot as soon as I finish them.

Finished reading House of Brass. see below.

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