Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 4

@runevision yeah I’ve seen some scripts that auto-split the posts into replies

Maybe I should set up a cross posting script so posts on here get copied to BlueSky as well. Doesn’t seem that hard to do although images might be tricky. I’m getting a constant stream of new followers there despite not posting for ages so maybe I should give them something to look at. But then I’d have to check bsky for replies more often and I’m not sure I can be arsed. 🤔

@jonikorpi I’m working on the assumption that if they’re sufficiently drained of charge, they’re probably harmless

@runevision if evolution had thought of it, it would have been a winner

@lisyarus @SmallisBeautiful thanks, yeah in the past you only had undo which is simply not good enough for any serious layer-based editing tool

I might give GIMP another try from 3.0, since I hear layer effects are *finally* non-destructive. Whenever I’ve tried to use it in the past, beyond just generally disliking the UX which maybe I could get used to in time, the destructive effects system made it basically useless to me. Non-destructive layer effects have been the norm for decades elsewhere after all

@JeremiahFieldhaven @djlink it probably made sense as a decision 10 years ago but if it was happening today I don’t think it would. You simply don’t need new tech to get people interested in a game anymore

@Doomed_Daniel @TomF Merry is more choosy about his attention time but Pippin in particular is such an attention seeker; he'll follow people around all day and always want pats and play constantly. But he won’t let you pick him up for more than about 20 seconds and always settles near you but not on you

Our cats are very social but they’re not lap cats, nor do they like being picked up - something to do with missing out on human contact in their first few months (alley strays).

However Merry likes to sleep across my shins now in the night (no idea why that’s comfortable) and just now fell asleep draped across my forearm while I was patting him, leaving me in a really uncomfortable position that I of course could not move from until he was finished the nap. Ow

I love the temps & ease of install of the Thermalright Peerless Assassin CPU cooler I put in my wife’s new build, but I don’t love the subtle but noticeable fan whine. I’ve double checked they’re mounted in the right direction (no arrows on the fans, tsk), seems fine. May try shifting them a bit and if that doesn’t work, actually buy some decent fans - this cooler is very highly rated but also cheap as chips so I’m probably being a little unfair to expect Noctua / BeQuiet sound levels I suppose

@yora yeah I found one in my toolbox in the end

There we go, cooler is off and IHS is all nice and cleaned off with some IA. This was a good chip at the time, I’m sure I can find a use for it somewhere

@dougbinks I just found something in one of my toolboxes, maybe it came with the machine years ago and I just kept it & forgot about it

AHA in one of my toolboxes I found a weird L-shaped Philips head screwdriver which is extra long. I don’t know if this came with the prebuild or not, it was too many years ago. But my principle of keeping any tool I ever find has paid off

Ha, not sure how I’m going to get the old giant heat sink off my wife’s old board for storage. This was a prebuilt machine so I’ve never had to deal with it before. It covers its own mounting screw and while there’s a helpful hole drilled all the way through, I don’t have a Philips screwdriver long enough to reach all the way down - it needs to be about 14cm long (insert lewd joke here)

@misterdave I didn’t know about those, thanks

It’s a good job Windows isn’t voice activated by default otherwise it would probably be calling HR by now about me verbally abusing it.

Setting Windows up is mostly yelling “No! Piss off!” at the screen IME

Well, at least after all my sailor-level swearing today the new board / CPU / RAM / NVMe drive all seem to work fine. We’re both AM5 in the office now.

Now I’m just holding my nose and installing Windows 11, and seeing how far I can get down Marie’s giant list of things she needs reinstalling

@KeefJudge I guess they’re trying to prevent angled seating problems but this is the dumbest solution imaginable in 2024. Sure it worked with your Riva 128 when it was just a board with one little teeny fan on it but it makes zero sense now

This rant brought to you by cutting my fingers to shreds trying to get a spudger down there to press a stick latch. Ended up popping the latch off entirely in the end, screw that junk