Fr0styMatt88

So one of the things I didn’t expect when I had a detached retina…. no darkness in that eye. The big flashing and swirling blob of light was there whether my eye was open or closed, day or night. I could look at it and identify shapes like when you look at clouds.

Many, if not I think most actually blind people don’t see blackness. I’ve read many stories about varying levels of visual ‘hallucinations’. In the absence of input the brain will come up with stuff (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucination...).

Honestly gaming with either is feasible. HDR in general on the Linux desktop is just in an early phase. I think AMD is just better supported because it’s the hardware the Steam Deck runs on and the fact that AMD is way more open-source friendly.

I’ve seen people on Reddit report issues with both types of card, so it’s really just try it and see for your particular setup.

Just not if you’re interested in HDR and have an NVIDIA card :( (yep it’s improved heaps, I’m just impatiently waiting for the next new feature branch release past 560.35.02 that hopefully fixes colour desaturation in HDR).

Also, I’m really curious how Big Picture can be so broken on NVIDIA. It’s a webview driven by Chromium AFAIK, does general Chrome suffer the same?

In all seriousness though, everything else is pretty amazing. Proton is awesome.

This gets at something I’ve thought about a lot as a software dev.

Making a game engine is a very concrete task, in that you can map out the steps and many of them are well-defined.

On the other hand “make a good game” kinda isn’t. Which I think is a big reason why coders gravitate towards the “start making an engine” route and then fall down it :)

The developers I admire and look up to a lot are the artists that fell into programming. I think they’re the best when it comes to being a successful lone / indie dev for games. Everyone notices art, but you don’t notice programming unless it goes wrong or you know the tech behind what you’re looking at.

If you haven’t already, check if OpenRGB supports it.

I remember everyone saying that CDs were rated for 100 years but disc rot seemed to kill that idea.

The scarier thought I've had -- if a black hat had discovered this crash case, could it have been turned into a widely deployed code execution vulnerability?

Yeah it’s pretty awesome overall. I think the issues are from a few things on my end:

- I’ve upgraded through a few iterations starting with Plasma 6, so my dotfiles might be a bit wonky. I’m not using Home Manager so my dotfiles are stateful.

- Could be very particular to my dock setup as I have two docks + one of the clock widgets.

- Could be the particular wallpaper I’m using (it’s one of the dynamic ones that comes with KDE).

- It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s related to audio somehow as I have Bluetooth set-up for when I need it.

I’m sure it’ll settle soon enough :)

On latest NixOS unstable and KDE + Wayland is still a bit of a dumpster fire for me (3070 + latest NV drivers). In particular there’s a buffer wait bug in EGL that needs fixing on the Nvidia side that causes the Plasma UI to become unresponsive. Panels are also broken for me, with icons not showing.

Having said that, the latest is a pain on X11 right now as well, with frequent crashing of Plasma, which atleast restarts itself.

There’s a lot of bleeding on the bleeding edge right at this moment :)

I loved the Affinity Suite, but it’s such a shame that Linux isn’t supported or that it isn’t provided in a Wine-friendly distributable (a regular installer executable rather than a Windows App Store package).

For me it’s “I swear I feel like I’ve gotten the exact same TOTP code not that long ago!”.

What’s the actual likelihood of seeing the same TOTP code from different apps at different times?

What about those ones that get sent out in phone messages?

What do you mean by “not shipping on the choice you made to ship”? Do you have an example?

Really fascinating thoughts.

I think this is a great point. When looking at ‘best practices’ for constructing robust parametric models I keep thinking “this is so much like software engineering where the programming language is the CAD system” (as an aside, I’ve tried OpenSCAD but found the rendering UI waaay too slow even with simple stuff to be usable for me).

So as a model builder you end up trying to build these higher-level abstractions into your model, where the parameters are your top-level interface.

I think CAD is so much like programming in those ways, although I could just be biased since I’m a software engineer.

I was subscribed to Shapr3D and had been using their parametric beta before switching to Linux and even in that fillets would mess up what I could do with my models afterwards.

The impression I’ve gotten while learning FreeCAD is that making a CAD ‘just work’ is incredibly difficult and the commercial packages probably have a lot of very messy workarounds and heuristics in place to work like they do.

I will say that the FreeCAD weekly builds have made massive strides; I believe the toponaming fix is in the latest mainline weekly now and Ondsel have been contributing great work back from their branch as well.

I’ve been playing around with the weekly version and using the OpenDark theme. It looks pretty slick.

It seems like a really exciting time for open-source CAD (hopefully!).

Man I miss Microsoft Soundscape (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/soundscape/), although it has been open-sourced.

As visually-impaired I can't really make use of stuff like street signs that much. I mean, I _can_, but I have to be really conscious about it and I've never really gotten good at it. With Soundscape, you'd wear earbuds and it'd read you out the street names as you were approaching them, but the street names would be read out from the correct direction using spatial audio that was also head tracked.

So for the first time I felt like I could start using way more cues to build that map in my head. Unfortunately I discovered it far too late because about a year (I think) after I started using it, it was discontinued. Would love to see a fully device-local version of something like this.

Okay just in case someone who knows reads this. Why doesn’t Youtube Premium background play work with members-only videos?

Became a member of a channel with spoken content and can’t even lock my phone when playing a member’s only video.

Posts and complaints on this go back years, with zero explanation from Youtube as to why this is, if it’s intentional or a bug, etc.

Not the OP but I think they don’t because it’s more profitable and makes a more addictive experience for the user.

Think about it - an app can directly influence the amount of matches you get. Show your profile to everyone at the beginning, a fair number of matches. Not paid yet? Show their profile to fewer people, then when you think the user is about to leave, ramp up the visibility for just enough matches to keep them hooked.

User just paid for the Gold tier? Increase their profile visibility… Not too much though, you want to create that dry spell so you can repeat the cycle and get them onto the Gold Plus tier.

For-profit dating apps are essentially gambling apps.

Thank you for showing up, it would be great to hear more of your input. #1 is so, so key. Dating apps made me feel terrible about myself and invisible (“why am I getting no likes?” — for context I’m a guy).

It wasn’t until I realised I had no idea who my profile was actually being shown to that it all started to make sense and I realised that’s the lever that apps can pull to make money.

Fundamentally though I think your comment about human behaviour is spot-on and at the end of the day my belief is that dating is something you just can’t short-cut with technology. Parabox of choice and low investment are garbage-in, garbage-out so to speak. You can’t ‘Uber Eats magic food box’ dating.

Does anyone know of a similar list like this but for medicine? This is awesome.

For me they’re like a whitish-purple (intensely purple) but bright like any other regular light. About as bright or only slightly dimmer than the objects that glow from them.

I have been curious in the past about how much of it is that effect (ie- how much further away from the ‘visible’ UV spectrum I can actually see). It’d be interesting to know.

Fellow aphakic here, can confirm. I never knew what people were talking about when they said blacklights, they just look like a real bright intense pinkish/purple light.

I only realised one day when I noticed that some kinds of lights looked really dark through my glasses but really bright when I took them off.

So much this. I use Shapr3D on my iPad, my Macbook and my Windows desktop. I often need to export STLs or 3MFs for 3D printing from one to the other. On Windows, iCloud is an absolute trainwreck. It'll often get stuck on a single file and not update anything else. You never know when it will update. You actually never know when the iPad or iPhone is going to upload to iCloud. It's frustrating. There's no way to force it.

Obsidian is worse. I have an iCloud vault and often files will get duplicated for no reason on Windows.

If the iCloud app ever gets updated, the update notes are obtuse at best. Actually, I don't know if it's ever been updated since I was forcibly switched to the Windows Store version of it.

I don't understand the rationale at all.

One other thing — people losing their vision can have visual hallucinations when awake as well - it’s called Charles Bonnet Syndrome:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucination...

Oh yeah absolutely. I mainly do notes in my personal life, coding is a whole different thing that I’m still in the process of figuring out lol

The way I’ve come around to digital tools is that I consider them a different, externalised type of memory augmentation. They give us another type of memory.

If someone interrupts me and asks me to do something that I can’t attend to right then, there’s two options (assuming I want to do the thing):

- Hold it in my working memory until I’m able to fully context switch or put mental effort into transferring it into long-term memory

- Immediately note it down, then make no further effort to remember it

The same applies for random ideas that might pop into my head that are unrelated to the task at hand.

I'm going through my own journey with this at the moment, the thing I keep telling myself is that "this item will have a better life somewhere else" and "my house isn't a landfill". It's tough though.

Plus selling stuff is a full-time job really and it's annoying AF if it's not your day job. So I guess the question is - are you going to ever sell it? If not, then it doesn't really matter if it's expensive, it's just taking up space.

I’m with you on this one, but I also have nystagmus in both eyes. I’ve been curious but also somewhat apprehensive about stuff starting to rely on eye tracking and whether these edge cases will get handled.

Probably best for me not to be an early-adopter in this case :)

Edit to add: Can confirm that Apple stuff is amazing with accessibility, so I’m not surprised there are alternative input methods. My main thinking towards the future is around how nystagmus and foveated rendering will interact. That’s a giant and fascinating research topic I imagine.

I feel like note-taking is improving my personal life since I decided to embrace it.

I’ve always had the bad habit of “Sure I’ll do that for you!”, then meaning to remember and forgetting about it. I was that person that you couldn’t rely on to follow through with stuff.

I over-estimated my own memory in the moment and yet at the same time I was too afraid to really embrace note-taking because I was worried that if I started relying on notes, would that make my brain weaker?

I decided to try and dive in, after all I owe it to the people I know to be better at this.

It’s actually had the opposite effect on my memory - I find the action of taking the note makes the memory more solid and frees space up in my head to get back to other things.

For me, being able to use scribble on my Apple Watch is what made it feasible. I have a notepad on my wrist and can discreetly write notes whenever I need to.

From there, they go to Drafts as my inbox. At night I can glance over them; some will stay there as to-do items, some will be sent to Obsidian for longer-term storage and others might be deleted or end up as reminders, etc.

It’s great. It bridges that gap between my working memory and long-term storage really well.