rescue_toaster

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[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is a normal, regular task in dwarf fortress.

 

I'm relatively new to this game, having purchased it a few months ago, and I'm still not very good at it. However, I feel like I am slowly getting better on each of the characters, with the exception of the Watcher.

I'm trying to kill the Heart on all toons before increasing to A1. I can consistently get to the heart on the 3 other characters, but cannot consistently even get past act 2 on the Watcher. I'm not sure I've beaten the slavers once yet on the Watcher. Does anyone have any general tips for the Watcher? I know stance dancing is important, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this without just getting murdered.

My deck never seems to scale faster than the enemies in act 2 and 3. I rarely seem to have enough damage to make switching to wrath worthwhile with the amount of damage I will then take due to enemy attacks. But I can't sit back and wait for the ideal time to wrath as my deck never has enough defense to block turn after turn. It just seems like whatever I do, I can't kill the enemies before losing too much health and eventually dying after several floors and fights.

It's frustrating me that I cannot figure out how to play well with the watcher. I'm sure my card selection and turn by turn play is terrible still, but I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong to improve.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

As others have stated, it's a tiling window manager. Many, including me, prefer it to the usual floating window managers that most desktops use.

But I've been using sway since switching to wayland after years with i3. I see lots of hyprland hype, but i'm happy with my sway workflow and don't see anything about hyprland that makes me want to switch or even try it out.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All my pcs get names from sifl and olly show characters.

 

Am I an idiot or is theming completely broken? I cannot set or modify any themes besides enabling/disabling the Material You theme.

I had created a custom theme prior to the 0.2.1 version and had been using it since then. I just went in to try to modify the theme and cannot save any changes. I modify specific colors and click the checkmark in the upper right and the changes are not saved, as when going back in to edit the theme, the colors are back to what they were prior to me trying to do the edits.

Also, I cannot change to any other theme besides material you. Where are you supposed to be able to actually select the theme for light, dark, and amoled? The only way I can figure out how you might change the theme is clicking the + beside the theme in the manage theme menu and clicking on set to X theme. This then doesn't do anything.

I enabled the material you theme and then clicked apply, and then under customization there is listed light theme, dark theme, and amoled theme with material you listed below. But I can't modify these or change to different themes after disabling material you. I can go delete material you themes in the manage themes and these go away under the customization menu, and now the theme is back to the default indigo dark, and there doesn't seem to be anyway to change the theme except to the material you theme.

I also get occasional crashes when in "edit theme" and trying to flip the set as X theme.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Your fridge may be made from some steel that is susceptible to rust, and the paint protects it. When iron rusts, the iron oxide product is that red stuff, which is not protective and flakes away, revealing more material that can then rust.

Stainless steel has chromium which oxidizes before the iron, but chromium oxide is strong and forms a protective barrier preventing additional material from oxidizing. Though certain environments, such as high temperature or moisture can cause the chromium oxide layer to fail.

Practically speaking, i'm not sure what the best fix would be. If you could prevent oxygen from getting to the bare metal, that should prevent further corrosion.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I teach my physics undergraduates the basics of latex for writing. They usually figure it out. It's basically like writing some code. The biggest pain are graphs. And like a lot of code these days, chatgpt can help a lot.

If you just need to write basic text formatted using apa, you could find or create a template and give it to your students. Then they won't even need to think about the formatting cause the template will deal with it all correctly.

Oh, i should add, in that screenshot, most of that code creates the fornatting. Once that is set, your actual content with words and paragraphs looks mostly like text.

Start with a minimal preamble and start testing it out.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

He won a nobel prize for inelastic light scattering effect that is now named after him.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I bought a used worm drive skilsaw with the flip lever. It can be tough to adjust but its held up since i bought it many years ago.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah somehow I had never even heard this band. I'm checking out all their other releases too!

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bet black beans would work well in this recipe if your goal was to use this on something that didn't already have beans, like as a salsa for tortilla chips.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 134 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (19 children)

I'm a college professor. I'm very aware of textbook prices. Most students don't read the textbook anyway, even if its something you want them to read everyday.

For intro classes, I use openstax, which are available free online. For upper-level classes, I try to pick non major publishers, ie not pearson or cengage, with much more reasonably priced books.

My version of this meme would be the prof begging the students to actually read the book he/she picked out that is free or cheap so that they are prepared for class and the students rolling their eyes and instead just going to chatgpt or chegg...

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I also switched to fossify's camera app at the same time since google's camera didn't respect fossify as my default gallery.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I recently switched to fossify's gallery app. So far, so good. Seems to do what i need.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by rescue_toaster@lemm.ee to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca
 

So our neighbor's cat has been visiting us for a while, so I decided to build this ramp so that she could more easily get into and out of our yard. I'm not much of a woodworker, but was happy with how this turned out.

It's made almost entirely from cedar fence posts. Nearly 18 feet long (3 fence posts end to end with the dog ear tip cut off). Ripped cedar planks into 3 for a frame/support to prevent flexing. Posts are pine 2x4, and go 18 inches into the ground, which was the majority of the effort, since our ground is like cement...

 

Upon logging in yesterday, my fps was complete garbage. Spent several hours trying different wine/proton versions. Eventually after some internet searching, it seems that WoW's in game graphics setting for Auto Detect graphics card wasn't actually using my graphics card. Changed this to my graphics card instead of auto-detect, and fixed immediately...

not sure exactly what changed. I think I had it on auto-detect forever with no issues, though I'm not certain, as I've never even really looked at that option in the graphics settings.

I run linux, so maybe its a wine/dxvk specific issue.

 

How does one change the terminal that Gnome Files uses when opening a directory in terminal using "Open in Terminal"? I'm trying to change the default to foot.

All my searching has led to

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

  Selection    Path                             Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        auto mode
* 1            /usr/bin/foot                     20        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/footclient               10        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/koi8rxterm               20        manual mode
  5            /usr/bin/lxterm                   30        manual mode
  6            /usr/bin/uxterm                   20        manual mode
  7            /usr/bin/xterm                    20        manual mode

which I can select foot. But Gnome Files does not seem to respect this.

I've also tried directly editing

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec foot

where the default exec option is x-terminal-emulator. This also does not work.

 

So I migrated from i3 to sway. Had a python script that I found on the internets that did this, and really like the functionality. Figured I'd give an attempt at making my own script in bash. My programming skills and bash scripting aren't great, so I had chatGPT help me with some syntax. Thought others might be interested so am sharing here.

#!/bin/bash

# this script moves a container to an empty workspace
#  and switches to that workspace

# Define list of available workspaces
all_workspaces_list=(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)

# get workspaces currently being used
used_workspaces=$(swaymsg -t get_workspaces | grep -oP '"name": "\K\d+')
# create a list from used workspaces
used_workspaces_list=($used_workspaces)

# Check for first of all_workspaces_list not in used_workspaces_list
for workspace in "${all_workspaces_list[@]}"; do
    if [[ ! "${used_workspaces_list[*]}" =~ "$workspace" ]]; then
        free_workspace=$workspace
        break # stop loop after finding first available workspace
    fi
done

swaymsg move container to workspace number $free_workspace
swaymsg workspace number $free_workspace
 

New debian user here. I'm using sway and have a script in my waybar config to look for upgrades and indicate if any are available. However, it typically doesn't find anything because I first need to run a sudo apt update first.

I don't really want to figure out someway to do a sudo through this script and was curious how gnome finds updates without me needing to enter a password.

It looks like I can use unattended upgrades to do the apt update.

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

though I don't want it to do upgrades until I do a sudo apt upgrade after being notified of upgrades. I created a 02periodic file in /etc/apt/apt.config.d as indicated, but I only included the lines

APT::Periodic::Enable "1";

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";

Will this run an apt update every day for me? Is there any issue I'm unaware of in doing this? Thanks for any help!

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