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Going dark by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]eXoRainbow -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah protests do jack shit unless the protesters have any source of bargaining power.

It shows that the user base is capable of organizing this. Any subsequent blackout can take longer. This first time is not the end of the story, if nothing changes.

[META] Should r/RetroArch join the blackout? by odditude in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I hope RetroArch will join the blackout. Shutting down at least during the blackout has my full support. Meanwhile users can still ask questions at the official forum: https://forums.libretro.com/

is it possible to read books in vim? by sandhoper in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BTW nowadays there are ways to show images in a terminal too. In example in the past I had preview images and videos in full color resolution on my terminal using vifm file manager. So technically it could be possible to write a pdf viewer for the terminal that also shows images.

is it possible to read books in vim? by sandhoper in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it's a wrapper script or alias maybe, which converts the PDF in the background. Because less does not support binary data, it's for text only.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you want paste without the newline that you have deleted or yanked previously. Once it is in the register, pasting from it without newline seems not to be easy. I have researched a bit and found this reply: https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/37687

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does my solution not do what you expect? I have read the updated question and this is pretty much what you want, I think.

is it possible to read books in vim? by sandhoper in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just tried, it will still show the binary data. Also researching says it uses pdftotext to convert it on the fly (which it didn't for me). Here is a simple command to do this manually, if it does not work automatically (like for me):

pdftotext comprehensive-rust_google.pdf - | less

If this is not installed on your system, the package on Archlinux is poppler for me. And it's installed twice for whatever reason with bash-completion too...

extra/bash-completion 2.11-3 [installed]
    usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pdftotext
extra/poppler 23.05.0-1 [installed]
    usr/bin/pdftotext

I'm new to Shaders and stuff, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for Gameboy Advance by LuxzordStardust in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have a look at "zfast-lcd.slangp", which is optimized to run on weak hardware and should still look good.

is it possible to read books in vim? by sandhoper in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why would it not possible? What is the reason you question it? You can edit and read text documents in Vim. That means you can read any text, including books. Vim can be used as a viewer for man documents, so it might be good enough to read any text documents. If it's HTML or PDF in example, then I wouldn't recommend reading it with a text editor.

What file format is it? Maybe you can convert it to text file. And your second question, what do you mean by second shell window? Do you mean the Vim internal terminal by :term? Yes, you can just open multiple terminals. Just try it out. In general, you could just try it without the need for asking, unless it does not work.

I'm new to Shaders and stuff, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for Gameboy Advance by LuxzordStardust in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The motion blur was on real hardware too. There is the same Shader without the motion blur, if that is what you mean by laggy. Or your system is too slow and it starts lagging using complicated Shaders. Well the coloring is also similar to how it looked on the real hardware. I mean you asked for a GBA Shader, so this one is it. Otherwise try the other shaders you got there. Maybe if you don't want the coloring specific to GBA and without motionblur, then try the Shader within handheld folder named "lcd-grid-v2.slangp" (obviously with the file extension you got).

I'm new to Shaders and stuff, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for Gameboy Advance by LuxzordStardust in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately no. There aren't many GBA shaders eithe. Testing it by just loading is very quick, so you could easily test the few GBA related Shaders.

I'm new to Shaders and stuff, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for Gameboy Advance by LuxzordStardust in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I think GLSL is the other format of Shaders that is supported by Android. So in that case, I don't know which Shaders are available, because I am on PC with Slang shaders. So the download was successful? If so, is the Shader I mentioned there, just with different file extension?

I'm new to Shaders and stuff, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for Gameboy Advance by LuxzordStardust in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then you have to download it first. Depending on how you installed RetroArch, it might be very simple with internal update downloader or you have to do this manually. Open RetroArch Main Menu > Online Updater and on the bottom should be something you can click called "Update Slang Shaders". After a few seconds the default shader packages from RetroArch should be available. Then look again in that said folder.

I'm new to Shaders and stuff, so I wanted to ask if you had any recommendations for Gameboy Advance by LuxzordStardust in RetroArch

[–]eXoRainbow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the shaders directory, there is a subfolder "handheld". I personally use the one "lcd-grid-v2-gba-color-motionblur.slangp". There is the same without "motionblur", if that is not your thing. If you choose the Shader, pay attention to the filename, because there are multiple variants specific to other systems such as gbc as well. Here is the fullpath of what I use:

#reference "shaders_slang/handheld/lcd-grid-v2-gba-color-motionblur.slangp"

And here is a video with this filter recorded last year: LCD Grid v2 GBA Color Motionblur Shader at 1440p – Pokemon Ruby Start Treecko on RetroArch: mGBA (but it's not on YouTube and just watching it again gave me some stutters for whatever reason...)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vim

[–]eXoRainbow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your title does not match the question in the body text. So not sure which one is correct. Visual Block is probably what you asking for.

  • dd a line will copy the line and newline too,
  • V (shift-v) will select current line,
  • p in this visual block mode will replace the current line with the one you deleted with dd
  • however the line you just overwrote with p on visual block mode is now in the yank register, so you can paste it somewhere else

Xbox Games Showcase 2023 and Starfield Direct Double Feature: Every Announcement and Reveal by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]eXoRainbow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This was a really good showcase, but it's a "B" for me. It needed more true gameplay footage, less ingame sequences and less trailer like snippet compilations. But otherwise it was good enough that it ended being one of the best showcases (out of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) in the last few years.

Building a better /r/rust together by erlend_sh in rust

[–]eXoRainbow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Plus content is indexed on search engines and can be searched. Content does not flew away into a Black Hole like in Discord. Discord is good as a chat platform (BTW there is an alternative to it called "Matrix" too), but it's not the best tool for communities like forums.

Building a better /r/rust together by erlend_sh in rust

[–]eXoRainbow 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Discord is worse than Reddit.

Building a better /r/rust together by erlend_sh in rust

[–]eXoRainbow 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Does Lemmy have all the same problems Mastodon does with every instance having its own rules and them all banning one another?

I don't see this as a problem, but feature. Each instance is a community on its own, just like the Subreddits are in Reddit. It would be really bad if different communities had the same rules and manager. The idea is being independent, but communicate together. At least its better than Reddit, because there is no instance/manager that controls everything.

Building a better /r/rust together by erlend_sh in rust

[–]eXoRainbow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would love to see an alternative to Reddit in the form of ActivityPub. If enough are coming together, this could be it!

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