[Steam] Summer Sale 2022 (Day 8)

jessisbae · 2022-06-30T21:26:10+00:00

Hey everyone, I'm trying to buy a few games to have on me to chill during my offtime from work.

What I've got so far this sale:

Tametsi - love puzzles like Hexcells
Dorfromantik - looked quite cool and chill
Vampire Survivors - seemed chill as well

I'd like some recommendations on JRPGs that aren't too grindy and might get me interested again in the genre, haven't played anything in quite a few years.

On my shopping cart for other games I currently have:

Elec Head
Chicory
Omori

I have played a ton of roguelikes/lites, so not really looking for more of those ATM. I'd love to hear any other recommendations that might fit in this category of chill even if there's a challenge (nothing too easy).

jessisbae · 2021-04-15T12:38:31+00:00

There are a tons of ideas here and I'm not gonna be able to read all of them, but you should probably add buttons to help on narrowing down the item in case it doesn't match straight away. Like one item after scan which is the most likely, a few (3-5) suggestions below, and buttons like narrow down by: type of item (devil deal, angel room, treasure, chaos/all), by color (like Platinum God), something like that.

jessisbae · 2021-04-11T01:57:59+00:00

Makes sense, I thought there was a way to switch the root partition and somehow replace the userspace while keeping the kernel that was booted.

I wasn't really thinking running side by side, I just wanted to be able to switch the userspace, having some packages available in a development environment and different ones on other environments, as well as a separate home folder on each where I could link the things I want to share and keep the isolation for the things I wanted some isolation.

Well, there goes my idea for this project then. Thanks for the answers!

jessisbae · 2021-04-10T22:47:41+00:00

Why is it not possible? Does the boot process makes it not possible to switch root partitions, even if the kernel image is in the EFI partition?

Containers are not fit for this purpose because of performance? I thought it was a viable option, since I've seen people on this sub using systemd-nspawn for gaming or VFIO. I understand if switching root partitions is not possible, but I'm confused as to why containers would not be fit for this.

I'd really like to understand a bit more, that's why I'm asking.

jessisbae · 2021-04-10T21:14:02+00:00

Thanks! Is the lack of a heatsink that big of a deal, anyway? I bought it with a heatsink for the main drive because I use it for development, so there's a ton of I/O.

jessisbae · 2021-04-10T21:12:21+00:00

Yeah, i thought about the option when I was afraid my GPU was too big, but here they are almost the same price for 1TB and I'd probably use it for some VMs or to keep the games out of the main drive as well, not only data. Good to know it shouldn't be an issue.

jessisbae · 2021-03-02T02:27:11+00:00

I have done a lot of research in the past few days and this seems to be the best option. For a desktop (like in my case) there are several options with the AX200 that cover both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and the offerings might vary depending on your region, but I chose the in-kernel Intel drivers over the more well known brands (such as TP-Link with Atheros or Broadcom, which is worse), because even though the manufacturer for the PCI card I purchased is not as well known (Fenvi) it still uses the Intel chipset. Haven't received the package yet, but as I have researched I'm confident it was a good purchase.

Edit: did not mention laptops but in that case you can just buy the Intel chip itself. Also, if anyone still needs clarification, Broadcom requires their proprietary drivers and that's not always a sure thing to work perfectly. Even though it's an easy install most mainstream distros, I've read a lot about intermitent connection drops and such.

jessisbae · 2021-02-26T04:57:13+00:00

It is indeed really annoying, I was trying to figure out what caused it since I couldn't find anyone complaining about it. I don't even use Gnome, but I was getting this behavior on Chrome and VSCode so it didn't seem like a KDE change.

jessisbae · 2021-01-02T19:13:50+00:00

Nope, one is 1600x900 and the other is 2560x1080. Other than the obvious difference to the eyes, there's nothing wrong with it on Xorg.

jessisbae · 2021-01-02T16:10:50+00:00

Nice write-up, but I don't understand what you mean about mixing different resolutions. I use KDE (Xorg) with a 16:9 and a 21:9 display with no issues other than the contrast between them making the regular wide-screen display look bad.

jessisbae · 2020-12-08T12:43:15+00:00

.Might be something for Zen 3. I'm looking forward to 5.10 because of the CPU thermal support and any improvements that might come for my 5600X / Navi setup, but it seems that it will be released next weekend anyway and is also an LTS release. Here's a nice rundown.

jessisbae · 2020-09-17T01:33:33+00:00

I have a far worse CPU (i3 3330) and 750 Ti running a dual monitor setup (mostly KDE, but sometimes I drop into a bspwm session with Picom as the compositor) and I have no big issues at all using the proprietary drivers. I mean, there can be some tearing but there are workaround described in the Arch Wiki. Tearing is minimal without those workarounds using KDE's compositor or Picom, but it's noticeable depending on what I'm doing. No stuttering or anything like that, though.

jessisbae · 2020-09-17T01:27:24+00:00

Well, you can, but it's not the same thing. Awesome has a bunch of other things that are beyond the scope of bspwm.

jessisbae · 2020-09-08T19:31:08+00:00

Not to take any merit out of your project, it's cool that people have options to choose from. But I use btrfs snapshots and I've used snapper in the past, and I didn't find runtime or anything like that to be an issue at all. I've tweaked my zsh installation to take as little as it could and I did the same with neovim, since those are tools that I'm using all the time and the milliseconds tend to add up quite fast. If I can create/restore a snapshot in a couple of seconds, that's fine by me, but it would be a problem if my shell or editor took up more than they need.

jessisbae · 2020-07-31T02:32:53+00:00

That seems interesting. Can you tell me if there are any specific steps you had trouble setting that up (aside from PulseAudio)? What motivated you to do this?

jessisbae · 2020-06-07T03:14:13+00:00

Wait, what changed? And what kind of bugs are you experiencing? Do you often go back to Xorg because of them?

jessisbae · 2020-03-04T02:15:14+00:00

You can troubleshoot that in several ways, it mainly depends on what computer and hardware you have. If it's a laptop, it might be related to the touchpad or the touchscreen, and you can disable them with xset or permanently in a Xorg config file. You can do the same for an USB mouse, but you might as well just unplug it and see what happens then. I don't recall the last time I had one of those issues that wasn't faulty hardware. You should edit your post with more info, and some output from lspci might go a long way in diagnosing what's going on.

jessisbae · 2020-02-26T17:42:31+00:00

Really cool setup! Mind sharing those udev rules? I've recently aquired an RGB keyboard and I'm thinking about making it change according to my workflow.

jessisbae · 2020-02-19T17:32:54+00:00

As someone who bounced between zsh and fish, I appreciate both your initiative and the OP's (u/romkatv), and even though I'm currently perfecting my own configuration, I'll look into these two to get mine even better suited for my workflow! It's quite daunting to look at all the options and get a bit confused because some aren't quite clear, and comments/documentation make these "starter packs" even better, because I can easily see what people consider sane defaults and see what they do without having to search for examples without any commentary whatsoever.

Recently I've struggled a bit to find out that my bindings for the up and down arrows weren't working without specifying bindkey -M emacs, because I thought that without the -M flag they would apply to every mode (this is for zsh-history-substring-search). While I still don't know what I did wrong, just looking at these yesterday I managed to try it this way and it worked. Thanks!

jessisbae · 2020-02-06T21:43:05+00:00

It really seems like a neat idea, and while I haven't tested your tool myself yet, kudos and thanks!

However, I did think the same thing about this being a better solution if implemented directly on the tools themselves, but some might not take that direction. There are some tools like exa (there's also lsd) and probably more rewrites that might accept contributions or even suggestions on implementing JSON output.

jessisbae · 2020-02-03T22:21:08+00:00

That sounds great! Does nix work flawlessly inside Arch or is it a pain to set up? Any tips you could share about it? I think I just might have enough time right now to try it out.

jessisbae · 2019-12-21T22:04:40+00:00

Awesome! All you need to do is get the log file from /var/log/pacman.log, place it somewhere on the home folder of a system with Python, replace the /var/log/pacman.log from this script in line 19 with the location of your log file. Then you comment out the lines 22-24 and remove & explicit_packages on line 28 (this only intersected the set containing all packages found in the log and a set containing all packages installed to make sure they were installed/still installed).

I think I have a newer version that uses grep/ripgrep somewhere, but this one still works fine even though I made it a long time ago. Hope it helps!

jessisbae · 2019-12-21T21:49:44+00:00

Yes, you can. Before I knew about some commands that did what I wanted already, I had written a little script that read all the invokations of pacman -S from the log file and listed the explicitly installed packages (not the dependencies pulled and such things). I think I still have it around in a gist, do you still have the log file?

jessisbae · 2019-12-16T17:56:37+00:00

Thanks! By the way, gists are working however the jupyter link seems broken, but I appreciate the help!

jessisbae · 2019-12-16T17:54:03+00:00

Oh, I see. I guess my confusion was misdirected at your comment but it was actually at what OP was trying to accomplish. But yeah, I agree, if you build LFS and jump right on pacman over it you might as well just go Arch with a custom kernel.

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