The Lounge 0001 [From the Beginning]

Very true.

Arch and Fedora were two I looked at. Heck I played around with Archbang for two months and then Fedora for about a month.

It was comparison between Tumbleweed, Fedora, Arch, and Debian where I tested each to see if they would work for what I needed. Fedodra was pretty close to being the one I choose. I really wanted to play in the rolling Distro though, so Tumbleweed won out for me.

I am do a bit a background investigation on the state of linux, what distros are out there, what has changed. It’s been about four years since I really took a look. Curious to see what I find out.

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so far am still kinda eh on the concept

find it interesting havent seen one that just has a different configuration scheme/backup or something where you can do like a rescue build on your own system, i mean most of the ones had seen seems like usually weekly builds pretty common for the install media/install package whatever, and then using the backup whatever restore configuration on the new build

obviously at some points stuff would still break like when a main thing forks and a new conf comes, or a name changes or whatever where they usually make guides how to fix that, to where you would have to fix that one config or whatever if you want it back

basically, why do they build the releases and not also release the thing that builds the releases(if they arent manually doing them or are incapable of creating a suite to do that)

but then the whole usual unix file system thing makes it more annoying as well, i mean in theory the programs are portable if you are willing to alias or link stuff, to have a separate like /home part, but with programs you dont usually need to care about, like if you have gimp2 or vlc whatever type stuff, assuming you arent actively using online functions and they arent using it either in the background, if you skip updates it doesnt matter in most cases, as worst case scenario is bug/crash, maybe some kind overflow exploit or something that someone would already have to have machine access to use some exploit from your old ass copy of vim

but things get complicated with global dependencies and libraries, but if you could present libraries locally or something. but thats the whole thing i guess with no set ‘system’ so that line between a ‘program’ you’re running and it being a function of the ‘system’ as a whole, or how things would work like installing packages, or what happens if you need 2 different versions of the same library, or say python

Finally got around to fixing this netbook up, 1ghz pentium M and … 760mb of microdimm ddr1. I’ve never seen this small of ram before physical size wise lol


Throwing on XP just because.

It’s too bad it’s not just a little bit newer otherwise it would be fun to see what it can do, but still neat.

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@dinscurge regarding the AMD/intel chips coming up I’m looking forward to see what happens, I’m probably not going to bother with them for some time unless there’s a really fast clocking quad core on either side for LN2 reasons.
Seems kindof like AMD may have gotten past the 5000 series clock wall of right around 5ghz, I’m pretty interested to see if the upcoming ryzen chips are going to scale past 5.5ghz or if it will be just like the current gen as far as hitting a brick wall really quickly past advertised boost. Or if PBO will be more unlocked as far as upper limits go.

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dunno would assume pretty good chance similar like only little bit left if you really wanna mess with it or you get a really good sample can undervolt or something, but dunno will have to see i guess. although seems like no one cares at all about power draw anymore, now that intel and nvidia are the ones just throwing caution to the wind and as much power as you possibly can pull, and seems like the entire next gens are just yea throw 35-50% more power at it. although stonks for the people that didnt listen to the non believers saying you would never need a 1000w psu when lookin at next gen nvidia might dethrone the 295x2 for power draw, be lol actually pulling like 6-700w at gaming load for like a 12900ks and a 4090

I can’t speak to how other Rolling Distro’s do there testing and builds but I can for Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed updates everyday Major Updates are once a quarter. Opensuse uses AI/Automation for testing the builds before release.

I removed a few things on Tumbleweed like: Libreoffice, Gimp, various other software. On updates even major Tumbleweed doesn’t go and reinstall them cause I have them removed.

Thing with Linux and this is an Linux - Where there is a will there is a way, you just have to get the information on how to do that. That’s typically where things can get tricky depending on how good is the documentation for that distro.

not done suse but for debian(cant even get an iso still maybe, have to install testing and then upgrade to sid? least how it used to work) then arch and gentoo are like daily/weekly builds of the install environments

but thats basically it, you are just supposed to update everything basically constantly or it will break and there will be probably no guide how to get it to work, but usually if you update very frequently will be a short guide of handfull of commands to correct a thing from some library name changed/have to pick one or some other one cause a fork, have to remove something then install a different thing

but dunno lol


did the updated text and added the 2 new reverse sort calculate modes, but prolly think on it a bit more and mess with the formatting maybe.

but the reverse order thing in general from doin a test pass on one of the lists seemed like def different behavior, but still was good mix where i looked. which pretty good start atleast, main idea being the behavior of the function changes as the input does, so just more options that are atleast fairly viable in which you would just try different ones if see a particularly poor result with one

other thing not even messed with yet, gotta think on it a bit, might reuse code path/rewrite the whole section for issuing commands, and have a section at the front where it detects if you are passing command to enter the loop for issuing commands, other wise just translate the command to a single string and then pass it to the new setup, where it parses the string to read the values, instead of directly reading the individual arguments from command line, and then a value for the loop where it will run once to do that command but not repeat

edit2: remembered was gonna add a command at some point to have a toggle for ‘scheduled’ mode maybe, which would set it so when you issue a command it will just treat the commands as if you put -a at the end where it lets the current file end before it switches to playing whatever, or shutdown etc, and can be at same time as scripted mode or not, just not 100% the verbiage gonna use is very similar ‘scripted’ ‘scheduled’ the first couple letters anyways

edit3:
got the scheduled stuff done pending some more testing,

added as a -sc -scheduled, and -ri -resumeinstant to toggle either way, also found a thing forgot to add before, exemptions for the newer; user, guide, stats etc functions from tripping the thing where it sets it back to manual mode if you manually issue a command

did the basic check the toggle in any direction/combination, checked the function

Woot for 3 day weekend. Using the time to chill by playing video games, writing, reading, watching a film or two.

lucky lol

i get a normal 2 day but tomorrow i gotta help cut down and process a big ass tree lol

Working at a law firm I get most of the US National Holidays off and paid, cause the courts are closed. Not all law firms pay for government holidays but my law firm does.

ye banks and stuff too prolly


might reformat help text or something idk, getting pretty big

Video Game News I Find Interesting:
Street Fighter 6 is using the RE Engine.

Why - The RE Engine is just one part of making a game but my goodness what it does is downright impressive. Have you looked at the Graphic Settings inside the Resident Evil 2 Remake? - It legit tells you what each thing does and shows you what it affects. That attention to detail is just on a whole new level by which all video games made for PC should be measured against.
This isn’t the first time the RE Engine has been used for a Multiplayer Game: If you’ve played Devil May Cry 5, guess what you are playing a Co-Op Game with a random person on the internet control a different character on the same map. I never had lag and I was amazed at how seamless this was.

Odd fact most people don’t know about me - Fighter Games were my jam for a long time. Including Street Fighter. Last one in the series I played though was Street Fighter Alpha 3. Street Fighter 6 has me very curious because it has an open world mode. I have questions on that like - Are they really going to let us possible make our own Street Fighter Character kinda like Soul Calibur?

I am also really curious to see if Capcom is just going to use the RE Engine for all of it’s games.

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nop but seen some games starting to do stuff like that, where shows like a sample pic with left and right halves, showing the setting, which pretty cool

least they arent just using unreal, rather there be atleast a few choices in game engines, bein whole monopoly thing/if they suck then everything would suck. and in general so far mostly only seen poor implementation of rt and stuff, and that theres no fall back option for reducing the load when it wouldnt do anything anyways, like when you see the edge of a top of car and its just a heavily distorted generic sky/lighting color in real life, and they are wasting time ray tracing the car when vast majority of the time the reflection is just the overall sky color like overlayed over the car color, that they dont do a test to see if the surface would actually have something in range to have a higher detailed reflection before they run the actual full pass full resolution reflection of nothing(if they did it correctly) or basically just lighting

would not be surprised if it takes atleast 1/2 if not the entire gen before they start to make games with reasonable surface textures/reflectiveness, and accounting for basic lighting conditions where you get relfections only when something is in range to be visible, under proper lighting conditions etc, and just do an approximation or just light/shading pass if there is no high detailed reflection in view

like if you were looking down at a pool at a far angle most of the time you see thru the water to the bottom of the pool, not a perfect painting of the background behind, maybe a real faded transparency distorted/blurr of some reflection but mostly seeing thru the surface and farther angle down you are looking the more up in the sky the reverse of the reflection,

alot of fiddly stuff to mess with i guess, surface color/textures, like a unpowered crt or lcd is alot less reflective in effect then those fake mirrors where its glass with the paint on the back to be shiny or whatever, because the black absorbs alot more light, eventhough they are very similar glass sheen on the front, the back behind color matters

but they had alot of issues with this stuff already in like dx10 and early dx11 particularly, like weird plasticy/sweaty/wet skin and stuff, basically that but dialed upto 11


did bunch work on remote function so far pretty good lookin now gotta do more testing tho all the functions, and test for a particular edge case:

was trying to get it to resolve as much of the command as possible without having to use ‘-argument’ formatting, edge case in particular is like n home alone 2 2 -a, the first one is always everything upto the first space so thats easy, final commands would always be right before the end of the string with a -, ‘-a’ ‘-arb’ ‘-rb’ etc, being i know every possible combination of those endings, only those specific ones pass as an argument else it could be the list name

trying to resolve that second 2 in the example above as being the number specified, for the n play mode where you say how many times to play from that list, by it being exactly before one of those end arguments, plus that space between it and the argument, and a space right before it; or a space before it and the string terminated right after it, and the play mode which would be given a number.

but thats pretty convoluted so if that works/prolly minor issues at a minimum


so far seems pretty good tested the `home alone 2` example worked fine

Slighting interesting TV/Film news Concerning 2000 AD Comics (AKA where Judge Dredd comes from) which is owned by Rebellion:
If you’ve been wondering what happen to the Judge Dredd TV Show - Short Version COVID and it’s still in the works.
As for other 2000 AD stories getting adapting for film or tv:
Rogue Trooper is being made into a film with Ducan Jones as Director

There is some more interesting bits when it comes to TV and Film, the CEO very bluntly said “Do we want the comics to be made into shows or film? Yes. However, we aren’t going to do it with people who don’t understand want 2000AD is.”

Which as a fan of 2000AD that is what I want to hear. I don’t want them to comprise with Hollywood to tone down 2000 AD stories or water them down for the masses.

Fun bit I did find out for the film DREDD, it was actually in Karl Urban’s contract that he had to always have the helmet on for the film. It was also in the contract for the people who produced the film. The CEO of Rebellion had it put in there because he was worried some executive would force for there to be a shot with Karl Urban without a helmet on so he made a legal binding contract to stop that.

Whatever team coded Windows 11 Taskbar/Windows 11 Shell did a very bad job and should feel eternal shame for how bad it is:

  • If you upgrade from Windows 10… which most people would, Windows 11 installs broken. Wait it gets better, you have to use command line to fix it. Wait it still gets better, Windows 11 doesn’t come with Windows Terminal Installed and uninstalls the previous version. This happened to me.

  • When you launch some games, the taskbar hard crashes repeatedly and exits you out of the games repeatdly as they launch.

  • The taskbar also just hard crashes when you reset the resolution of the monitor…

  • You can’t change the size of the taskbar unless you go into the REG EDIT, which you legit could break your OS if you don’t know what you are do.

  • The taskbar can only be on the bottom.

  • There is no option for small icons…

TLDR - Windows 11 taskbar problems are pretty serious. If you are still on Windows 10, just keep rocking on that till Windows 12 comes out in 4 years. Yes I expect Windows 12 to happen.

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did mine awhile ago mostly everything went okay other than more annoying stuff with locations of settings, still having the old control panel even for some stuff

til recently some update for .net framework does a thing and a update is broken but idk lol


also found a feature not a bug ™

forgot to put in to skip the first entry of the list(which is always the index number saying how many actual entries are in the list) when it restarts for the guide

so now gotta decide if wanna put in a message or something to say the list has restarted or somethin aswell as skip the number

Teaser for a Mega Post I am working on in the background:
I’m working a comprehensive media recommendation thread for TV, Films, Books, Audiobooks, Manga, and Graphic Novels.

What makes it special and unique from other similar threads/articles - The media I am recommending is all stuff I have personal consumed and they are all media that I feel & know don’t waste any of your time. Also it’s all non spoiler - I’ll give you the premise and why I think it doesn’t waste your time.

It’s a meaty post and is going to take a few weeks but I think you guys will like it.

you guys ded yet?

Well, kinda (exaggerated).
Caught the coof last week and tomorrow is supposed to be my last day in quarantine but I’m still coofing up some mucus and my nose is switching back and forth between stuffed and running every hour or so.
Gonna do another test tomorrow just to be sure.

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I hope you get better soon. it wasn’t fun at all back when I had it.

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Thx!
Could’ve been worse, though. Got over the worst part already it seems (and I damn well would hope so after ~12 days of symptoms). Cough and mucus production was much worse before, same with the stuffy/runny nose, and I had “mild” pain/pressure in my upper respiratory area which caused some shortness of breath - nothing serious but I’m still feeling that one, without the pain, though. And an overall feeling of exhaustion and mild muscle pain.
tbh, the symptoms were much worse after my 3rd shot.
weirdly enough, I never had any fever. more like 36.4°C tops (which is kinda normal for me).

What’s more annoying is that out of 5 weeks of business english course I missed like 4 so far (sick and then the rona). If I’m lucky I won’t get kicked out (min. attendance).

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