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elfprince

SethStorm666 Just don't use bare hands..... 😃

Sebastian

The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen 🇬🇧

SethStorm666

Reminds me of Mr. Bean where he has to greet the Queen at a reception of some sort. Then knock her out with a bow - head to head, litterally.

elfprince

SethStorm666 Yes, that was hilarious.

Sebastian

SethStorm666 There is also a considerable amount of invasive non-native species due to climat change or whatever.
I see here creatures hanging around that didn't exist here in my childhood.Like bugs...

SethStorm666

Sebastian good news for the flyswatter industry.

I just bite the bullet and bought Diablo 4 Ultimate Edition. It was 50% off on Steam. I saved $50 on that account - Lets see how bad the game is as all seems to claim. I did loved Diablo 3 and 2 and 1.
I'm that old that I recall it when the first Diablo game came out 😛

snowee

SethStorm666 I saw the steam sale too and was tempted to buy.
But I held back due to the poor reviews from its core fanbase.

Do let us know what you think of the game, now that it has been updated to Season 4.

SethStorm666

snowee I have played 2 hours now.

So far. Great graphic, sound and music. I really like how the new ability tree is made. Storywise from the 2 hours I have seen it's catchy.

BUT

I stumble on 2 big problems with this game. 1) Memory leak 2( connection to their server(s).
I have 32 GB RAM in my machine, after 1/2 hour, Diablo 4 will close with the message I ran out of Memory. Also even when I have 1000mbit/1000mbit connection it seems their servers can't follow up, which means the game lag time to time.
So I waisted $50 dollars -_-, well until they fix those two problems. But your money is better spend on BG3, Pathfinder: WotR or Hogwarts: Legacy.

EDIT: I played under 2 hours it seems, but close. So I'm going for refund.

Staudey

For those wondering why the Solus team is excited about the prospect of adopting modern tools provided by the Serpent OS project instead of the old Python stuff, here's an example:

Just now @sheepman4267 ran into an issue creating a new package. This is usually handled by a simple command, which downloads the tarball (or other source) and scans it for some basic structure which is then automatically added to the initial package recipe. One of the things scanned for is whether it looks "gnomey" (actual term in the code), that is, like a typical GNOME project. It does this by detecting whether it makes use of g-ir-scanner.
So far, so good and sensible.
The problem is that it does this by taking every file with "configure" in its name up to three layers deep in the directory structure, and scanning it line by line for the text "g-ir-scanner" and "g_ir_scanner". Now, while files called "configure" might often be part of the build system they can also be, say, image files (or anything at all really). This is exactly how it was in this case.
So the script tried to look for the text "g-ir-scanner" in this:
(yes, literally in this image)
Needless to say this didn't turn out well.


Checking /home/sheepman/Solus/packages/packages/q/qlcpluus/TEMP/qlcplus-QLC-_4.13.1/resources/icons/svg/configure.svg for use of g-ir-scanner
Checking /home/sheepman/Solus/packages/packages/q/qlcpluus/TEMP/qlcplus-QLC-_4.13.1/resources/icons/png/configure.png for use of g-ir-scanner
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/sheepman/Solus/packages/common/Scripts/yauto.py", line 405, in <module>
    p.examine_source()
  File "/home/sheepman/Solus/packages/common/Scripts/yauto.py", line 148, in examine_source
    if self.check_is_gnomey(f_path):
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/sheepman/Solus/packages/common/Scripts/yauto.py", line 389, in check_is_gnomey
    lines = makefile.read()
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen codecs>", line 322, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: invalid start byte
task: Failed to run task "new": exit status 1

To the credit of the older Python 2-based tooling it would've just silently converted the image into nonsense, which would've then been searched for the text and delivered a negative result. The newer Python 3 version is a bit more strict (boo!)
On the other hand the Python 2 tools also happily converted file names that used characters not in the limited latin-1 character set into straight-up garbage. For example this certificate file using Hungarian characters:

From: NetLock_Arany_(Class_Gold)_Főtanúsítvány.pem
Into: NetLock_Arany_(Class_Gold)_FÅtanÃºsÃtvÃ¡ny.pem

So yeah, people are quite excited for the non-Python Serpent OS stuff that has been built with correctness (and lessons from Solus' experiences) in mind.

brent

Staudey For example this certificate file using Hungarian characters:

From: NetLock_Arany(Class_Gold)Főtanúsítvány.pem
Into: NetLock_Arany(Class_Gold)FÅtanÃºsÃtvÃ¡ny.pem

So yeah, people are quite excited for the non-Python Serpent OS stuff that has been built with correctness (and lessons from Solus' experiences) in mind.

I felt this way when it was explained what was happening months ago (solus-serpent package partnership). My first instinct was--and still is--this will be revolutionary in many ways. The wheel is not being reinvented. It is being re-written is how I see it. This will be so significant.

SethStorm666

I remember those times with dial up and a lot of noise from the modem.

brent

SethStorm666
caption 4:

SethStorm666

Most have been a billion dollars business.

Sebastian

I would much prefer integrated sensors and AI for analyzing stool sample 🙈😂

Sebastian

So, I have a script that helps me archiving and scanning paper documents like invoices, prescriptions etc.
I use it for years now. Today I have figured out by accident that under a certain condition (a rather unlikely one, but might happen) it will overwrite an existing archived document with a newly created one. Have adjusted the script that this can not happen anymore. But now I am thinking: how often might that have happened in the past without realizing.
These kind of things drive me nuts. There is no good way to tell without manually checking 1000 pdf files.

brent

Sebastian Today I have figured out by accident that under a certain condition (a rather unlikely one, but might happen) it will overwrite an existing archived document with a newly created one. Have adjusted the script that this can not happen anymore. But now I am thinking: how often might that have happened in the past without realizing.

this all sounds like if you get one wrong thing in the rsync flags then surprise...what happened to you was good if you don't want clutter but it sounds like you wanted to keep multiple versions of the same document.

SethStorm666

It seems that github is down, which is unusual...

EDIT: Ah it's up again 🙂

Sebastian

@WetGeek So, you seem to be an experienced ebook-user. Maybe you can help me understand one thing: so, of course, page numbers don't make any sense, since they would be different depending of screen size, font and font size. But there is this position number. So I thought, this number must be helpful to find the same text passage across several devices/setups. But to my surprise, when I took the position number from my kindle paperwhite and searched for it with foliate for the same book, I was quite surprised that I didn't end up at the same position in the book. So, what am I missing here?

WetGeek

Sebastian So, what am I missing here?

I wish I could help you, but I have no idea. I read Nook books exclusively on 10.1" tablets using the Nook app from B&N, and I'm not where I can check right now, but I don't remember seeing page numbers displayed in it. Persentages are, and of course the search feature displays a position on a progress bar. The table of contents lists chapter numbers, but no page numbers, if I recall correctly. You make a good point, with respect to different font sizes, and so on, but I've never let it worry me.

Sebastian

By the way, I am still reading Red Mars, really like it. But I am a slow reader, I read only very seldomly (youtube keeps me distracted) and I am a non native english speaker. And heck, what shall I say: half of the book are landscape descriptions. Which I hate, in any language. And they require a very specific vocabulary, so there a re lots of things I look up, which slows me down. I mean, you can skip some words you don't know and still get the context, but when you have 10 unknown words in 5 sentences, man, you gotta look them up.
So far, I like kind of John Boone, this Tatiana lady and Arkardy.
Though I find it a bit unrealistic that if you chose(in a long process) 100 scientist to settle on Mars that they would start thinking about secession already on their way to Mars.

WetGeek

WetGeek no page numbers, if I recall correctly

Oops ... when I got near one of my tablets, I fired up the Nook app and was able to confirm that it does inded display page numbers. Sorry if I misled anyone about this. I normally pay so little attention to them, that I couldn't even remember for sure whether they existed.

But when I started the downstairs tablet (next to the chair I read in), the notification came telling me that the tablet upstairs (by my bed) was on page # such-and such, and asked would I like to change to that page, or stay where I was on this tablet? I'd seen that notice many times, but had forgotten about it.

Then, when I looked in the bottom left corner, the page number was indeed displayed. I don't know what will happen to the pagination if I change font size, but I suspect that Nook handles it somehow. When I okay changing my downstairs tablet to the page where I was reading on the bedside tablet, it's always accurate, and I'm pretty sure the font size is not the same on both. I use the upstairs tablet a few inches from my face (as I read myself to sleep), and the downstairs tablet on my lap. I'd be really surprised to find that they're the same.

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