Notices by aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@cwebber great news everyone! I am not dead today :D

(referencing https://www.reddit.com/r/blackcats/comments/f2l0a7/black_cat_bring_good_luck_found_on_tiktok/)

I needed a basic timer on Linux and so in installed gnome "clocks" via the program "software". This works fine for that purpose, but when you open it it greets you with the time in your "current location". It gives me new york for some reason and I do not live in new york, and my time zone is set as America/Chicago so I don't know how it came to that conclusion. Naturally there is no setting exposed to change this. What.

I googled it, found a forum thread that describes sorta the same problem, but it seems to come down to it needing some location service I don't want, and there might be a setting for it in the gnome settings, and i don't want to have gnome settings installed and any ways my lunch break is done and I need to get back to work so that's as much attention as I can afford to give gnome Clocks's eccentric location divination.

oh and specifically it's not just new york that it picks as the default location but Farmingdale new york, which according to wikipedia makes this a very reasonable default for exactly 8,466 people

@cwebber how's it fare with stuff like images?

@cwebber can i use bloblin to store all my binary blobs 👉👈🥺

#kde is doing this real cool thing where if I hover the mouse over scribus or krita, the cursor shrinks. idk where to even begin with that one

i really should keep a list or something of all the irritating foibles of software i use regularly, because i'm not exactly sure where KDE currently sits relative to gnome in "problems solved" vs "problems created" ratio

imagine if your hands sometimes shrink by 50% but it only happens while you try to draw

oh my god it's fucking wayland of course it's wayland OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE SAID KDE WAS THE GOOD WAYLAND YOU FUCKING LIARS

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/09/cursor-size-problems-in-wayland-explained/

everyone who told me to switch to KDE because wayland is good actually you just have to use the good wayland which is KDE and not gnome? i feel betrayed, and also i now have significant doubts about your attention to detail and general observational skills

if you really hate someone, don't get them a 3D printer, get them into linux

my hands shake at how shit this all is

if i had enough money that i didn't have to work a real job i absolutely am in the vulnerable state of mind that would think doing a hard break away from both x11 and wayland is somehow a good idea, but since i have a mortgage and a painful connective tissue disorder i am somewhat forced to value my own time, so i think i'm going to just paint tonight instead

ok I installed a half dozen desktop environments and mate is the only one that didn't make me feel like something was horribly wrong upon opening it (incidentally, I don't think it supports wayland, but it was smart enough to set the dpi scale to 200% instead of 100% so I could actually read anything right away) so I guess I'm gonna just run that for a while and see how it feels.

true wayland has never been implemented

ironically all of this is framework's fault, because if they either put a slightly better or slightly worse screen into this laptop such that it wouldn't have needed fractional dpi scaling, then i probably would only be hating wayland only about half as much

@davidrevoy @eq @cwebber @dannotdaniel which tablet monitor should christine get? also did you play Visions of Mana?

@cwebber for another option, bmp has a "Huion Kamvas"

@cwebber having just made the switch I highly recommend it. I have no regrets for buying a cintiq, but I've heard there are other much more affordable options available now. I've heard "gaomon" and "xppen" recommended recently as more affordable alternatives, though I have not used either myself.