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  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlUnderappreciated `top`
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    10 days ago

    Yeah, I especially don’t understand it here, because it’s a graphical tool. You don’t have to keep backwards compatibility.

    Even if you’re worried about people depending on the format that’s being piped, you could keep only the piped format stable. We have the technology.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlUnderappreciated `top`
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    10 days ago

    Yeah, I would often just grab htop because I had no idea how to read the CPU usage out of top.
    For example, for me it says:

    %Cpu(s):  0,4 us,  0,4 sy,  0,0 ni, 98,8 id,  0,0 wa,  0,3 hi,  0,0 si,  0,0 st
    

    Now that I look at it, I can guess that us and sy are supposed to be user and system time. And I guess id is supposed to be idle.
    I have no guess what the other numbers might be, though. And well, I would often like to see the CPU usage per core.
    Now I know that I can just press 1t and get effectively the same view as in htop.

    I might learn top’s filtering workflow, too. But so far, I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep <process-name> and then kill <pid>, which isn’t particularly more cumbersome, so will see…




  • If we leave realism aside for a moment, though, the difference is that:

    • a carry slot limit restricts how many distinct kinds of items you can have, whereas
    • a carry weight limit moreso forces you to leave behind duplicates of items or to e.g. make a choice between heavy armor vs. having auxiliary items.

    It depends on the game what’s more fitting for the overall design, but yeah, ultimately you want to prevent the player from optimizing the fun out of the game.
    Having very heavy armor or dozens of healing potions can be boring, since there’s no risk anymore. But having one of each different kind of item can also kill the fun, because having the perfect solution for every situation is just as boring.



  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhats the worst game mechanic?
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    14 days ago

    I’d argue that rather than carry weight, the real culprit is shops where you can sell stuff. If you knew right away that junk is not worth picking up, because you can’t sell it, then you wouldn’t pick it up. And then the carry weight limit can do what it was designed for, which is to make you strategize what equipment to bring along.


  • I can’t really sell this as a solution, as it requires quite a lot more involvement than a simple configuration file should, but I use Nix Home Manager with Plasma Manager for this.

    This is part of the tooling you’d use on NixOS, but you can use it on other distros, too, and it generally works fine (although I’m not sure, if the current version of Plasma Manager still supports Plasma 5, in case you’re still on a distro with that).

    Basically, it allows you to define e.g. keyboard shortcuts like this:

        shortcuts = {
          ksmserver = {
            "Lock Session" = [
              "Screensaver"
              "Meta+Ctrl+Alt+L"
            ];
          };
    
          kwin = {
            "Expose" = "Meta+,";
            "Switch Window Down" = "Meta+J";
            "Switch Window Left" = "Meta+H";
            "Switch Window Right" = "Meta+L";
            "Switch Window Up" = "Meta+K";
          };
        };
    

    It then fucks up the formatting, so that it looks like KDE expects, and throws it into ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc.
    (KDE does actually have a text-based config, it’s just borderline unusable.)

    Well, and you can do this with lots of other Plasma options, too. Here’s their official example: https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager/blob/trunk/examples/home.nix




  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoOpensource@programming.devWhat's up with FUTO?
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    19 days ago

    Damn, I’ve had technological disagreements with Mr. DeVault in the past. Obviously, I did not assume those to mean I’d disagree with him on everything, but it still feels surreal to read an entire post where I’m fully on board with everything he writes (and appreciate all the info I did not know).

    Cool to see that he’s fighting the good fight.