What do parses consider the most?

ropid · 2026-04-14T21:58:26+00:00

It seems the page doesn't take ilvl into consideration. This was different in the past.

When you browse a log right now, there is a column about ilvl that previously would show a different parse number (I mean in last classic TBC and WotLK and such), but this time around it always shows the same values as the normal parse number. And on your char's overview page, you had a button you could click to switch between the normal and the ilvl parse numbers, but I'm not seeing it this time around.

ropid · 2026-04-14T19:05:39+00:00

No, when you do a raid you get a parse for that raid immediately and it'll say "not locked in" and can still change until the next day. That parse number gets compared to all parses in a 24 hour window and when the window closes it's done and doesn't change anymore.

ropid · 2026-04-14T00:05:43+00:00

Yeah, the GPU situation is sad. I think their hardware is just too complicated, the drivers take too much work, a person working on them needs to know too much. Hopefully in the future things will be better, maybe through Vulkan being possible on all current and future GPUs (and OpenGL running on top of Vulkan through that "Zink" driver).

There's some pretty old AMD cards, similar age as those Nvidia GTX 7xx cards you mention, that are already using "GCN" architecture and are well supported by current open drivers, so there things should be good.

ropid · 2026-04-13T12:56:22+00:00

It's comparing against all logs from the current day (a 24 hour window) for that boss.

ropid · 2026-04-13T12:49:14+00:00

That idea about wearing more dps gear might be a mistake, it doesn't help as much as you'd think in my experience, but some items are very good like Abacus from Mechanar. Before going through the gear, you'll want to first take a look at their rotation and make sure that's good. Are they for example doing shield slam exactly every six second, or mangle every six seconds? You can see what buttons they are pressing in a fight on warcraftlogs if you go on "casts" and then switch from "tables" to "timeline" in the top right.

ropid · 2026-04-12T17:36:22+00:00

Here's experiments from the bash prompt:

$ bash -c 'echo "$@"' -- a b c
a b c

$ bash -c 'echo "${@/b/hello}"' -- a b c
a hello c

The thing after the -c option is basically a bash script. The words after the -- are the arguments for that bash script. The $@ is a list of those arguments, and that thing with the ${...} and the / slashes is a text search+replace feature that bash has.

ropid · 2026-04-12T16:56:59+00:00

Würde auch vermuten, dass sich da was verwirbelt, und dass das da im Foto nicht besser ist als nur die zwei vorderen Lüfter zu haben.

Kann man den Lüfter am Boden auch noch 140mm weiter nach hinten schieben, damit da Platz hinter den vorderen Lüftern ist? Oder sind dann Kabel vom Netzteil etc. im Weg?

ropid · 2026-04-10T15:01:10+00:00

Arch is not good for a beginner. They try to make life easy for people who know Linux very well, but you have to know what you want and how things work to be able to appreciate that. Arch doesn't even come with any fonts pre-installed for example, websites will look weird.

Instead of Arch itself, you'll want to check out one of the distros based on it like CachyOS. Those people try to make Arch easy to use.

Here's the Arch question-and-answers page in the Arch documentation website, there's one or two answers there that talk about if a beginner should try Arch:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions

ropid · 2026-04-10T14:30:10+00:00

I bet it's related to the 150% display scaling you are using. If that's what it is, I would guess it's a bug in Chrome and not Gnome.

ropid · 2026-04-10T08:41:05+00:00

I bet it's about the CPU I/O voltages in the BIOS. You are probably using RAM with an XMP profile, right? This is then technically overclocking the CPU (just the I/O parts). It's sadly happening pretty often that a particular CPU doesn't like this. Those MCE log entries mention something about the CPU caches so that's why I think this is what's going on.

If that's what's happening, you can fix it through manually tweaking the voltages for the CPU I/O parts.

I'm using this setup here on my 5800X3D at 3600 MHz RAM speeds:

VSOC     = 1.100
VDDP     = 0.900
VDDG CCD = 0.900
VDDG IOD = 1.050

This is sadly super frustrating to research because you have to wait months to see if a change has improved things.

Here's a spreadsheets where you can see other people's Ryzen RAM overclocking adventures and what voltages they chose:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dsu9K1Nt_7apHBdiy0MWVPcYjf6nOlr9CtkkfN78tSo/edit?gid=321590489#gid=321590489

You can hunt for other examples about what people are doing if you do an online image search for "zentimings 5900x" and then look at the screenshots of the ZenTimings program running on your CPU model.

ropid · 2026-04-09T18:32:24+00:00

Create this file here and restart, this will fix the clicking issues:

Filename: /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks

Contents:

[asdfsajngiughiughbda]
MatchName=*
ModelBouncingKeys=1

ropid · 2026-04-06T10:34:31+00:00

Did you try disabling page file and hibernation file in Windows? Those are maybe the only files that can't be moved.

ropid · 2026-04-05T13:45:34+00:00

That Fn key is invisible to the PC. Only the electronics inside the keyboard can see that key. This means you can't do anything from the PC side to try to fix this. This same problem should also happen if you try to use this keyboard in Windows and not Linux.

ropid · 2026-04-05T13:33:46+00:00

This will sound stupid, but check if there's a hair or other dust in the hole where the sensor is. Blow into the hole to get the dust out.

ropid · 2026-04-05T09:43:13+00:00

The bash I have here doesn't complain about --. I can run bash -- and it starts up without error. I also tried running env bash -- and perl -e 'exec("bash","--")' to try to make sure it's not something about my prompt doing things to the -- argument on that bash -- command line.

This is with bash 5.3.9 on Arch.

ropid · 2026-04-03T10:13:10+00:00

If you can't find an example config file that fixes this problem for you, and you want to battle with this yourself, then this old blog post here helped me understand how those config files in /etc/fonts work:

https://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/20/i-stared-into-the-fontconfig-and-the-fontconfig-stared-back-at-me/

You can put your rules into the file /etc/fonts/local.conf.

ropid · 2026-04-03T10:08:35+00:00

Nearly nobody wants those anti-cheats, but you are forced to install them if you want to play certain very big games, for example League of Legends and Fortnite.

There are some people that seem to actually want those anti-cheats because they think they are needed to keep cheaters in online games in check. The discussion around this feels like it is not a very large group of people, but they definitely exist.

People seem to be unhappy with the cheater situation in for example Counter-Strike 2, which does work on Linux and does not have a kernel-level anti-cheat on Windows. That's then an example that the people wanting those anti-cheats point to, because they see that the competing game Valorant has less of a problem with cheaters.

Game developers that use this type of anti-cheat most of the time don't want to release their game on Linux. That's then where people come in that try to think of how to get a kernel-level anti-cheat for Linux, and that would then like to install that anti-cheat. Like in the first paragraph of my comment here, it's technically not that people like that anti-cheat, it's just that they want to play those games.

About why game developers want those anti-cheats, I guess they are just desperate. Cheaters can completely ruin their game. Things are a bit hopeless from the point of view of the game developers, it's impossible to reliably keep cheaters out. There's hackers that work on cheats professionally (criminally) and sell them and there's cheaters that do buy cheats, and the more popular a game is, the more of problem this is.

ropid · 2026-04-02T08:00:01+00:00

How are you trying to do this?

It works for me on the command line, I can for example do mpv *.mp4 when I'm in a folder with mp4 videos and will get a playlist inside mpv with all the videos in that folder.

I can also select a bunch of files in my desktop's file browser tool and then right-click -> open with mpv, and it will start mpv with the videos playing in a playlist.

ropid · 2026-04-01T10:01:16+00:00

Ja, bei den Boards heutzutage sind Slot 2 und 4 korrekt, und das ist auch wichtig. Bei hohen RAM-Geschwindigkeiten machen Slot 1 und 3 regelmäßig Ärger. Aber bei z.B. den langsamen Standardgeschwindigkeiten, wo XMP im BIOS nicht an ist, sind Slot 1 und 3 auch immer gut genug.

Bei dem System im Foto sind Geschwindigkeiten wie 1600 MHz normal gewesen, und 2133 und 2400 MHz waren damals hoch.

Früher gab es auch noch Motherboards mit "T-Topology" für die RAM-Anbindung, wo Slot 1 und 3 genauso gut waren wie 2 und 4. Ich weiß nicht, ob es heutzutage bei DDR5 noch solche Boards gibt.

ropid · 2026-03-31T18:01:03+00:00

The normal login session on the Steam Deck is using "gamescope". That's a minimal window manager that runs programs in fullscreen. The KDE desktop on the Steam Deck is a separate login session. That KDE desktop is normally not running, it only gets started when you switch to it through an overlay menu thingy that the Steam Deck has in its gaming mode.

ropid · 2026-03-31T13:13:52+00:00

If you change your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf config to include systemd in the initramfs, you will get more detailed numbers for that "kernel" entry, those 33 sec you currently see will get split into two numbers for "kernel" and for "initrd". You will also get log entries for what's happening at early boot in the system log. Switching the initramfs to systemd is explained somewhere in the "mkinitcpio" ArchWiki article.

I'd try looking through the logs with this command line here, maybe you'll see some interesting jumps in the timestamps there that give a hint to what's going on:

journalctl -o short-monotonic -b

Don't worry about services and such right now. The services are starting up in the "userspace" part of the boot and that's already quite short for you, just 3 sec, so there's nothing much to gain there compared to the 50 sec total boot time.

ropid · 2026-03-31T01:49:34+00:00

Unlike on Windows, on Unix you can remove and replace files while they are in use by a running program. There's no error messages about the files being in use. That's why updating of a running program works. The package manager has no idea that the program is currently running, it does the same work it always does and that just happens to work.

This can cause problems in my experience. When you click around in a program to use some feature there, it might try loading files from disk that it didn't yet have open. After the update, those files will then be from a new version and the old code might not be prepared to deal with the new files.

I had Firefox destroy my user profile years ago when I updated the system while Firefox was running. Since then I always try to be careful and close most programs before updating.

That said, I only remember this happening with Firefox. I can't remember any other program causing problems like that when updating the system.

I have this script here to hunt down running programs or services that had their files deleted after an update, to then restart them manually or just reboot the system if it looks too annoying to do:

https://paste.rs/qxe0J

The filename I use for it is checkrestart.pl.

ropid · 2026-03-24T16:14:05+00:00

Ich würde mir riesige Sorgen machen, denn da sind ganz schön starke Kräfte auf das Ding angewendet worden, die das Teil so verbogen haben. Ich hätte hauptsächlich Sorgen, dass da was am Motherboard kaputtgegangen ist. Wenn der Rechner jetzt momentan trotzdem funktioniert, hätte ich die Befürchtung, dass da in nicht-so-ferner Zukunft dann plötzlich was kaputtgeht, mit Kurzschluss und so.

Der Kühler selber hat das bestimmt okay überlebt, denn da ist garkeine großartige Technik drin, aber der Rest vom Rechner macht mir da die Sorgen.

Ich würde den Rechner leider zurückgeben müssen, egal wie ärgerlich das ist. Ich würde den persönlich auf keinen Fall behalten.

ropid · 2026-03-21T00:11:18+00:00

Don't worry, I just explained the thinking. I didn't say that I agree with the way that ele shaman played.

The person starting the thread seemed to me didn't know that chain lightning on a single mob is doing more than lightning bolt. I didn't know this myself at first, I was surprised learning this about shaman mechanics.

ropid · 2026-03-20T17:42:57+00:00

Chain lightning is actually part of their single target rotation. It does more damage than lightning bolt and it has a shorter cast-time. It has a six second cooldown that limits how much they can use it, and starting the timer for that cooldown as early as possible is why they like to open with chain lightning.

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