#INFO/SOFTWARE

[daemonhxckergrrl]

Ahrah: @dragongirlcock encouraged us to tell you that we've recently made the permanent jump from Windows to Linux. Your post on the topic on top of the usual Microsoft bullshit was one of the catalysts to just do it now. We did play around with several different distros in 2013 in a dual boot system, so we already had a feel for a few different ones and what we prefer in a DE and whatnot. They were all Debian based, but then we happened to stumble across Garuda KDE Dr460nized, and aside from that we really like KDE Plasma, couldn't possibly pass up on a distro with that name XD Plus it has been nice having most gaming things working out of the box and generally saved us some floundering in figuring out what all we needed, bc things have come a long way since 2013.

We've been having bit of a time trying to learn the terminal and all, and have been running into miscellaneous issues, but it has been comforting to have more expirienced people we know look at them and go, "that problem is Weird wtf???"

Sometimes we'll go looking for info and the internet is like, "Ubuntu = Linux, especially if you're a newbie, and here's how to do things without having to touch the big scary terminal :) " and anything that might be helpful it feels like there's the expectation that you know everything already if you're on Arch. *angry dragon noises*

We feel like we've somehow happened to slip through the cracks of what people "typically" do or are encouraged to do when it comes to transitioning to Linux, why is this? Bc I feel that us having more of an interest in learning more shouldn't be that odd, it seems stranger to me that there seems to be a Windows vs Mac parallel with Debian vs Arch in terms of the general information available and expectations??? Also any recommentions on ways to just stumble upon things would be helpful. Bc sure we can got to the AUR, but you have to kind of already know what you're looking for.

hell yeah !!! welcome to The Community !! (programmer socks optional d: )

oooooohhh garuda !! recognised the name and is bc it's built atop arch !!

yeag, the ubuntu-as-default assumptions (which, annoyingly, even affects debian users sometimes) are frustrating. also the "commands scawy uwu" attitude (which also seems to include "just paste this magic command in the terminal dw it's totally fine :))))" from time to time) is frustrating as well.

i don't expect every single person to manually install arch, or like gentoo or smth, spend a week configuring it, and fuckign write an emacs port to run it as a full wayland compositor, but treating computers as Magical Boxes and users as Inherently Inept really gets my goat.

idk what good communities look like anymore bc i'm not part of any and solve shit myself or by asking friends/partners, but for arch, the official wiki tends to have most things well-explained. it's not a complete solution but it should help 🩷

in conjunction w/ the arch wiki, we use stackoverflow, man pages (documentation that doesn't require a website 7 months pregnant w/ javascript octuplets ? gooodddsss it feels good), package manager search, chaotic-aur (has most aur packages pre-compiled as an additional repo, so pacman can search and install them), tldr which is simplified man pages (very handy for example commands !!)

linux systems really are a thousand rats in a trench coat, so understanding what rats ya got helps but can take time. the best way round that is have a system you can break.

for like getting from ubuntu-coded to arch-coded, we're planning some GUIDEs that may be handy. wanna cover basic terminal and shell stuff, standard unix commands, what some of the bigger trenchcoat rats are and why.

until then, if there's any specific questions feel free to drop a message here or in DMs or wherever 🩷

[copia]

top tip for new gif people because i've seen a few recently (which is really cool) - tumblr will compress your gif to a width of 540px when you upload it. this compression won't retain as much quality as if you just resize it to 540px across in photoshop/whatever program you use. tumblr will suck the life out of your beautiful crisp 1080px gif whereas photoshop will do its best not to (resizing in vapoursynth or similar is ideal but that's not necessary and often too much effort for adults with real lives)

[deerest-me]

open question to metroid mutuals... ive never really dived into the internals of the prime games outside of sifting through extracted audio and texture files...

so my question is: how is level geometry stored? is there a fairly standard container / filetype?

basically, im wondering if there's a way to get the level geometry for frigate orpheon as a mesh file so i can do something fun with it in a radiation physics simulation software

bonus question: do you think the reactor is fission, fusion, matter-antimatter, or something else? i already have my opinion, but curious what others think

[wadudospeitaos]

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[queenbread]

I think my minecraft is dying

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[bmpmp3]

grabbing kanru hua by the collar. where is manual mode kanru. where is she.

[zaptap]

it's called the switch 2 because there's 2 deltarunes

[leftnipsdoodles]

lil update

i dont draw anymore tbh but I was tasked with creating official illustrations for my country's iaido association to be printed alongside the official translation of the standardised iaido kata

and MAN it took much longer than it should've and it was awful and im unhappy with the results and it honestly killed my joy for drawing lol

but im still happy that I got to do it, it was a huge honor bc iaido means so much to me

[across-stars]

(he's autistic to me)

[lilith-of-stardust]

ALSO. Software developers. I'm not telling you to stop making your ui nice and soft and colorful, but PLEASE make an easy toggle to a barebones setting for people like me who like my software in the brutalist style

[pandakong]

My Splotch Summer entry #2 - A rough but happy fish and worm on a string!

The original splotch below:

Splotch Summer is an event where I make and release paint splotches for anyone to turn into something new. @ me and use #splotchSummer if you participate!

[lex-artis-studios]

"I asked ChatGPT about my cat's last exam and labs..." Just stop. Jesus Christ on a cracker.

[arkhamm]

Does anyone know of a good notes app? Like one that never sends notifications and no ads and doesn't send any info anywhere or connect to the internet in any way. I want the notepad of android. Just something to type into and save it, preferably to a file that could be easily moved to another device. Maybe basic text formatting

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

It is genuinely a weird feeling to have been tracking AI development since 2014 and seeing all the people just find out about it in the past 4 years because the same people that will call you a horrible degenerate for going anywhere near AI are literally the same people who praise Tiktok for its algorithm and they don't even know. They don't even *know* what the algorithm is.

[sparkwithinme]

Continuing to take commissions! :D My post is XIV focused (and, yeah, I especially love drawing lalafells, but draw other races too, I swear,) but always enjoy drawing from other fandoms too. <3 (*loving look at her TAG!/TOS fandom <3*)

Sometimes when streaming on Twitch, I open up option for quick on stream doodles too! It'll be on my ko-fi/mentioned in chat by nightbot when I am. ^.^b Last, but not least, I have re-opened my full commissions too, just with the caveat that with life making me juggle so many things right now, they might face more delays than sketches. Check out information here!