Notices by Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Happy to report that the wireframe teapot still works!

Sebastian Aaltonen finally finished his "No Graphics API" blog post! Which ends with a graphics API of course :) But it is like 150 lines of "API surface". Pretty cool. https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

“Helping Valve to Power Up Steam Devices” overview post from @igalia - they do a ton of work across the graphics ecosystem. Nice! https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

Seen in Unity office :unity:

On the internet, no one knows that a dog does all your code PRs

Nice: the rest of actual install was really fast, several minutes perhaps. Booting into actual installed OS just works, internet (wired) just works. I did not check audio yet lol :) 4/

Okay: Fedora site as a downloadable ISO and utility to write this into a USB stick. Then you can boot into actually working Fedora from that, that also functions as an installer. I like! I picked the KDE flavor of Fedora by the way. 1/

Uhh: From the booted USB, I start the installer. Since my Windows partition takes up all the disk space, it seems to only suggest to format it? I was expecting some sort of “ an we shrink your windows partition” option. 2/

Uhh: However! The same live OS I just booted into has a KDE Partition Manager app, so I’m going to use that to resize the windows partition.

That… just took four hours with no progress bar. Disk (fast SSD) was chugging at 20MB/s while resizing 2TB partition down to 1.2TB.

It worked! But four hours with no progress indicator. Not nice. 3/

A Linux noob (*) live-toots their Linux PC setup experience!

(*) I have used Linux as my primary OS in... the previous millennium. It was 1998-2000 I think, and was Debian 2.x, on a 486 with 4MB RAM and 80MB hard drive. But I have used Windows since 2001, and also Mac since 2006.

So! Let's try Fedora now, and see what has changed in all these years.

@vaidas I asked the internet which distro is “best”, got a thousand different replies, and so rolled a dice and picked this one!

Oh, so these AI slopbros are explicitly training on GPL code PRs, cool cool. The email asks for what I do think about this offer. Hmm.

@artificialmind as everyone knows, Unreal 1 had the first volumetric dog

RenderSettings.fog = true;
RenderSettings.dog = true;

Here’s a #playdate :playdate: game idea: use the crank to operate the bridge

@epilanthanomai my CPU today has more *cache* than my first PC had HDD space…

A standup meeting

Find 10 differences

(I'm sorry! Saw this jar of honey, and it reminded me of that album cover for some reason)

@thomasfuchs ...and books about programming languages like Forth on the Atari?

Trying to follow instructions in locating lawn mower boundary wire breakage… uhh do I really have to do this?