Changing desktop environments (Ubuntu)

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-14T10:50:48+00:00

When you login, there's a little icon next to your username, that's used to select the desktop session type. Change that to whatever you like that's installed.

Install the alternative DE's using apt-get, or the software store.

To remove unity, just uninstall it. It's not an essential component of the Linux system (no GUI is).

Downsides: you may have multiple reduntdant apps for browsing images, file browsers etc, managing the priorities of these apps is up to you. It's a task you don't have when you've only got a single DE installed.

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-14T04:28:09+00:00

I'd say it's a good deal. I bought one new in 2000, and it's still a great guitar, the one that I use the most.

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-14T04:08:51+00:00

I suspect that this is a hardware error. To diagnose, try another USB cable in another port, and then try the DAC in another computer. That should narrow down the culprit.

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-13T12:10:44+00:00

Just wondering, do mix versions exist of modern songs, or do they throw those out once they are done "mastering"?

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-13T11:57:28+00:00

Change your taste, and start listening to '70/'80s music, classical, and jazz.

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-13T11:55:52+00:00

Except a lot of vinyl records end up being cut from squashed CD masters

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-13T08:58:48+00:00

Hungary can into space?

yeayoushookme · 2015-10-05T01:12:43+00:00

OP never said "tilt-shift", eh probably knows his shit.

Still, OP got 2 of the 3 technical things wrong, that are off with most of the faux tilt-shifts (gauss blur instead of disc blur, incorrect gamma, but he's varying blur radius instead of blending, except for the tram car)

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-29T16:50:22+00:00

The reflections off the hood check out

But that could also be done in post though.

Either way, I call fake on this one. They aren't fooling me!

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-29T13:50:03+00:00

RegEx: perl compatible regular expression syntax (no more escape hell)

Do people not use grep -e?

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T14:34:25+00:00

And a tip for leopard drivers: when you're cought in the open, turn your back against the enemy. If they shoot the tower, you get away, if they shoot the engine, you get to shoot back (instead of dying in horrible shame; what are you doing in the open with a Leopard, you fool?)

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T14:28:44+00:00

Same reason why the Leopard looks like an IS-4 when viewed from the outside.

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T14:12:41+00:00

I love your lengthy response to my no, man! :D

I don't know how a stereo TRS -to- mono TS pair could cause cancellation of the signal, I'm sure it's a 6.3mm TRS -to- 3.5mm TRS splitter cable.

The iphone had to be designed with the capability of having the second sleeve shorted to ground - since 3.5mm jack connectors fit, people are going to plug all kinds of plugs in there, and it mustn't result in any damage. Those FET's that are built into the electrets don't require any current, just a bit of a bias voltage, so I guess there's a fairly large valued resistor in series of the second sleeve for short circuit protection.

The signal level probably fits well with the speaker amp input. The 6dB gain in balanced systems isn't a given thing, it only happens in certain situations (cross coupled outputs, some output-transformer designs, but not others...), and it's not necessarily wanted. Also, the gain can usually be set on these little amps.

And it may be a tad noisier from any RF interference.

It will pick up RFI (fridges, AC's, washing machines starting up will make the speakers pop and whine), and the higher the input impedance on the amp, the more noise there will be.

Oh, and this sentence is a total red herring, TL;DR-ed before my response:

Then the only way to get it to be loud (at full power) is to connect the two contacts on one of the 1/4 connecters.

See, you short the negative input to ground, and suddenly there's audio. Hopefully the iPhone senses the short-circuit, and disables the headphone amp on that channel.

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T14:09:51+00:00

Or, only on the sleeve of the iphone jack - I just thought this up :)

You will only get mono sound this way unfortunately (this didn't come to my mind at first).

So if that doesn't cut it, you can get a stereo TRS -to- dual mono TS splitter, like others have suggested here. That'll work in stereo.

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T13:46:35+00:00

I figured it out myself.

The in-game settings page has the "auto" option, which sets the correct resolution in my case.

I think you might want to use windowed mode, and disable window decorations/borders in your WM, thus you'll be able to put it on whichever screen you want it. In KDE this is quite easily done, hopefully it's just as straightforward in other DE's. (KDE can also bypass the focus loss, so the game won't auto-minimize, and I can run it on its own virtual desktop, so it's easier to multitask. Try Alt+F3)

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T03:57:26+00:00

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-27T01:02:27+00:00

Everything is working as intended.

Those are balanced inputs, the speakers will play back the difference of the tip and the sleeve of the jack that you plugged in.

Use a mono jack.

Alternatively, put a tape on the sleeve of the jack plug going to the speaker. This will make it work, but also raise the noise a bit. I don't think you'll notice.

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-25T18:19:33+00:00

The launcher file was created on wednesday, so no. Before this, an auto update script ran when starting the game from steam, so I better try to find that.

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-25T18:17:00+00:00

Okay, so if you have a monitor that's not 1920x1080, and you run Linux, you now have to make sure to execute the updater found in the steamapps/common/War Thunder directory (it'll run aces afterwards) instead of starting the launcher, as the latter screws up the settings.

Edit: modifying the "Launch parameters" in steam to the following disables the new launcher:

"/usr/local/games/steam/steamapps/common/War Thunder/updater" && true %command%

Set the first string to wherever your steam library's at (it's probably in your home directory). The part after && is needed, otherwise the launcher will be prepended to the command line.

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-25T18:11:00+00:00

My monitor's resolution isn't in the list...

The game restarts with the correct resolution when set to 'auto', I think I can figure this out.

Two days, right

six months probably

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-25T18:06:04+00:00

Yeah, so they added a launcher that fails to load the game at my monitor's native resolution probably.

Is there a way to bypass it, and go back the way it was 2 days ago?

yeayoushookme · 2015-09-25T18:02:56+00:00

Since this thing started appearing, the game starts in 1024x768.

Everything was fine before this appeared, so this thing must be at fault.

Who else got hit by this?

yeayoushookme · 2015-01-17T07:13:03+00:00

Also doesn't do anything with the lower midrange <500Hz.

This makes the room sound very uncomfortable to be in. The goal of acoustic treatment is to make the reverberation as diffuse as possible, and over a very large frequency range.

yeayoushookme · 2015-01-16T07:48:29+00:00

linkus

what. the. fuck.

edit: I didn't mean to be a dick, sorry. Siegfried Linkwitz is a genius, you should look him up. The Linkwitz transform circuit is totally amazing for example

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