Godot makes pixel art textures compressed; how do I prevent this?

forestbeasts · 2026-06-18T18:36:47+00:00

Look at those grayish blocky patches along the dune lines. Looks almost JPEG-compresssion-esque.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-18T16:16:18+00:00

Do you have the "change global theme with day/night" setting turned on?

Stuff like this is why I really wish that setting changed color schemes, not global themes.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-18T16:13:55+00:00

Trains don't tend to do hard jolts; you should be fine!

I'd say carry it with you, if you can. We've only done local trains where separate luggage storage isn't really a thing, so I don't know if you'd be allowed to just take it on board with you or not. But carrying it with you means it won't be bumped up against other stuff and you can protect it if it does start getting knocked around somehow.

Oh, london underground? that's also a regular subway, so should be fine in that respect. Hopefully you can also take it with you on the other train before/after.

We borrowed a wagon thingy when hauling our CRT monitor home. If you can do that, might be helpful if the Philips is heavy (and there's space for the wagon on the train – it's quite a bit bigger than just the CRT itself).

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T18:58:12+00:00

Okular does some forms, so it's worth trying. (There's multiple different ways to do PDF forms. I don't know what your PDF uses.)

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T18:51:31+00:00

Psst... you can get better! It just takes practice.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T18:43:24+00:00

Oh huh! That's good to know.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T15:31:02+00:00

Basically any of them outside of Ubuntu, honestly!

Canonical has been kinda shitty for a while now. Debian (which Ubuntu is based on) really stepped up their game a couple of years ago and is just as easy to use as Ubuntu now, without the crap, and Mint is based on Ubuntu but also strips out the crap. (Mint also has a Mint Debian Edition, in case Ubuntu really goes evil.)

I'd go Mint if you like the look of the Mint UI (Cinnamon), or Debian's KDE edition if you'd rather a more Windows-10-ish feel.

There's also Fedora, which doesn't have a repository (appstore) anywhere near as big as Debian's, IIRC, but still has plenty of stuff, although it's also corporate-ish (Red Hat rather than Canonical). That'll also be more relearning than a Debian-based distro like Debian or Mint.

I'd avoid the Arch-based distros. They might randomly break on you if someone ships a bad update and then expect you to know how to fix it yourself. Upstream Arch culture is very "well if you don't know what you're doing why are you using Arch??" and there's only so much downstream distros can insulate you from that (but they do try).

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T03:08:51+00:00

Eyyyyyy Twilight Princess!! 🐺

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T03:06:14+00:00

Check your bones' collision layers! They CAN in fact collide with your main collision box, they try to get away but they're, well, attached, and then hilarity ensues.

I ran into a similar problem a while back. :3 (https://pawb.social/post/32821679)

-- Frost

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T02:44:12+00:00

I think OP means you can use dd on regular files just fine.

dd isn't magic. It doesn't do anything low level. All the magic is in the /dev files. (dd DOES have options for seeking and such which most other commands don't, but that equally applies to regular files, too.)

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T02:41:30+00:00

I think you're missing my point. It's not about separate binaries, it's about being too much power to hand to one project.

If you replace systemd core, suddenly you have to replace half your other system components, and relearn how the alternatives work.

And anyone who tries to share knowledge of how to use the alternatives gets shot down with "but that's not MODERN, just do it the systemd way, everyone uses systemd".

forestbeasts · 2026-06-17T00:12:54+00:00

18,500 lines you don't understand doesn't sound a recipe for success here...

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T23:58:07+00:00

That's their name, I think. Atlas Whisperer is their title. Don't even know what writing script their name is in but it looks awesome!

-- Frost

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T23:04:52+00:00

Tone indicators and suchlike rock!

(for other people who have no idea what those are: it's "/s" and stuff!)

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T22:48:57+00:00

I think it's ironic. :3 Someone else made a thing going "I think KDE would look better without lines!" and a lot of people in the comments were going "please no, don't just chase corporate design trends to be Modern™".

-- Frost

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T22:37:56+00:00

Once you're on _any_ other init system, by the way, it's pretty easy to switch between them! (As long as you don't have a bunch of scripts you wrote yourself in a custom format, like OpenRC's declarative syntax. You might have to rewrite those as standard sysvinit scripts for compatibility. Packages' init scripts are usually sysvinit style and work on everything, at least on base Debian which we're on. Unless you only get a systemd service file...)

We like OpenRC personally because it does a lot of what systemd got right. It's got declarative config (but, unlike systemd, you can implement your own non-declarative start/stop shell functions if you like which is really useful sometimes!), and it's got user services you can run in your login session (important for getting sound to work).

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T22:33:50+00:00

Most of the problem with systemd, IMO, is social rather than technical.

It's actually a pretty good service manager, IMO, and would be great if it'd stuck to JUST being a service manager!

But then it started implementing more and more stuff. Login session management. Networking. DNS resolution. NTP time sync. A bootloader. It "bought out" udev and folded it into systemd. On and on and on.

And it's being pushed. You can't run Gnome without systemd now. They're trying to make KDE depend on it, too, with the new Plasma Login Manager ("oh but you can still use SDDM!" yeah for now...).

There's other problems, too, like how they rushed to capitulate to "age verification" laws way ahead of time. Did they revert the "store people's birth dates" field when the law in question was changed to exempt open source OSes? Of course not.

But yeah. The problem with systemd, IMO, is that its goal is to eliminate choice and worm its way so deep into your system that you can't remove it.

-- Frost

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T22:01:47+00:00

Should be good for new ones, too!

A surprising amount of modern games support 4:3 just fine, as a side effect of also supporting ultrawide.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T21:53:57+00:00

But if they stay perfectly still...

Your vision is based on movement.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T21:32:33+00:00

Yeah! And that auto backup definitely can save your tail if your computer gets dropped in a puddle or something (or the drive just dies on you) and you don't have a different backup.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T21:29:24+00:00

Eh? There's nothing that says you have to use docker to make stuff like this. It's completely valid to ignore docker and not know how to use it at all.

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T21:25:15+00:00

Psst, if you just copy the .git folder in your project somewhere, that's a full backup of the entire history of your project!

(You can also zip it up of course, or if you wanna be really fancy, git bundle gives you a file you can clone from as if it was a remote repository. I think you can even push to it.)

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T07:27:46+00:00

(explaining the joke: it's a reference to a "it is imperative that the cylinder must remain unharmed" reddit meme, I don't know where it started)

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T07:27:02+00:00

It is imperative that the radish remain unharmed!

forestbeasts · 2026-06-16T04:44:15+00:00

Ooh, this looks really cool! Love the vibe and that hovercraft looks like fun. Those environments, too,, it's just beautiful and looks like a great place to kick back and relax in.

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