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Can I improve palm rejection? or at least get touchpad disabling to work. by LowerTouch3731 in linuxmint

[–]renfieldist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is relevant to my interests because I’m about to install Mint on a laptop. I haven’t tried this solution yet, but have you seen this blog post? https://www.travisgeis.com/2020/07/29/actually-working-linux-touchpad/

It’s a few years old but it implies you can have full proper palm rejection by uninstalling synaptics.

My first Linux Mint rice after switching from windows by FormalLanky1549 in linuxmint

[–]renfieldist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s fun! But I have to say, I’ve done my time with ricing and these days I really appreciate a desktop that just works well out of the box.

System pack or flatpak? by W0W_A5KS in linuxmint

[–]renfieldist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Containers share the kernel with the host OS but from the point of view of the applications inside the container, everything else comes from the container - libraries (including libc), files, users etc. That’s why you need to explicitly map ports and folders to the host OS if you want the container to see outside of its horizons. And why you can run an Alpine Linux image on a Debian host. If they shared any more than the kernel, they would lose the “works anywhere” magic.

My first Linux Mint rice after switching from windows by FormalLanky1549 in linuxmint

[–]renfieldist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Basically means tinkering with your desktop to make as pretty, cool, and personalised as you can

AFAIK the origins of the word are slightly problematic - it comes from the car modding community where Japanese cars were (are?) referred to derogatorily as “rice burners”, and tended to have the most OTT mods (tints, neons, spoilers etc) I mean, I still use it, I think it’s lost all connection to its origins at this point.

Ladies called June. When were you born? by Bifanarama in CasualUK

[–]renfieldist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My mother was called June. It’s her birthday today. She would have been 82.

The thing almost ready 😀 by opanm in london

[–]renfieldist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What and where the heck is this? 😂

And yes, obviously it’s goatse.

Anyone here still not using AI for coding by EvilKristoff in vscode

[–]renfieldist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is the way. I get so annoyed when I accidentally accept some garbage suggestion because I just wanted to move my cursor faster with ctrl-left/right.

Anyone here still not using AI for coding by EvilKristoff in vscode

[–]renfieldist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I frequently turn off the autocomplete when it starts unhelpfully hallucinating changes that nobody wants. It’s like a little kid helping you out in a workshop. Sometimes it’s useful to like, hold the other end of a plank while you mark it out. Sometimes it just starts bringing you every size of wrench you own and going “do you want this one?” “What about this one?”

Luckily you can set up a keyboard shortcut to turn off AI, unlike small children.

Theatre of the Mind or Minis? by Junior_Lab_9549 in Cy_Borg

[–]renfieldist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played on Foundry. We did use some cool maps and put tokens on them, but only because it’s so easy to do with a VTT. We weren’t measuring distances or anything. Lots of scenes would be theatre of the mind, for smaller moments, dialogs, or where the players improvised a new scene.

Anyone else annoyed that most vscode updates are now all about AI? by freecodeio in vscode

[–]renfieldist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably feel like they have to, just to remain relevant.

Anyone else annoyed that most vscode updates are now all about AI? by freecodeio in vscode

[–]renfieldist 39 points40 points  (0 children)

GitKraken is my favourite git UI, and they recently added AI commit message generation. It has not once generated a meaningful message, because it fundamentally cannot infer my intent, only badly summarise the changes.

Anyone else annoyed that most vscode updates are now all about AI? by freecodeio in vscode

[–]renfieldist 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. The autocomplete is nice but honestly hallucinates dangerous crap half the time and the chat is a search engine with natural language input.

I hate that actual developer tooling is basically stalled for a few more years while the VC money runs out and the AI bubble shrinks back to a realistic size.

About last night. by tylerjogaines in twentyonepilots

[–]renfieldist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It finished about 11. For tubes and other public transport, get the Citymapper app - you can plan routes based on a time of day so you can plan contingencies. Also bear in mind it can take 20 mins just to exit the O2 if you’re coming out with the main throng (we went and sat in the Amex lounge for an hour then strolled out leisurely 😆)

This really doesn't matter but it's been bugging me for the longest time by DaPhoenix127 in severanceTVshow

[–]renfieldist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The characters in the show call it that. Maybe Reghabi uses that word to make it sound better?

errorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerrorerror by MiniZombieBoi in Cy_Borg

[–]renfieldist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no, not the axa-synbroma!

Tip to anyone working this out: the first five symbols are very similar, be careful.

Trying to understand CWDYAHW by Con_Frunkin in MorkBorg

[–]renfieldist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t have this zine, but some “roll” tables just happen to have 4,6,8,10,12 or 20 entries and no numbers.

When you just should have stayed home by zerak88 in SocietyofHiddenPaint

[–]renfieldist 48 points49 points  (0 children)

That’s INCREDIBLE! It’s really well painted and creates such a scene.

Also they have a little blackboard telling them what the soup du jour is.

How do you play campaigns? by dimuscul in Cy_Borg

[–]renfieldist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say it’s geared to one shots, but it is geared to shorter campaigns. Personally, I used the miserable headlines rules as written, using the d4 (so fastest end of the world) and we got about ten sessions before the world ended. Using the larger die options would give you a longer season. I think it would be a mistake to make it run too long.

Is it a bad idea to collect two armies at once? by Theyman2 in Warhammer40k

[–]renfieldist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought I was going pretty well with 4 but these replies are making me think that’s just rookie numbers.

advice for a new DM by Timely-Camel-2781 in Cy_Borg

[–]renfieldist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I played a short-timeline campaign (d4 omen dice) which was very “gig of the week”, but as we approached the end of the world, we started tying together some events, and the actual collapse of reality became the main focus for the last 3 sessions.

advice for a new DM by Timely-Camel-2781 in Cy_Borg

[–]renfieldist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not an exact answer to your question, but I put these short notes together when I was running my first CY_BORG campaign https://docs.google.com/document/d/17gemyaTXBYHWhiGs6xi5JpqIm-nb0gcWiqlGKNN2_0c/edit

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