e0qdk

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks. I finally managed to get him this morning! Just barely won though. 23 HP left, Estus flask empty and used an Ember for healing late in the fight... One Ashen flask left. Used the Pestilent Mist strategy in combination with Sunlight Spears and Tears of Denial (which triggered twice, I think, during the fight) -- cast using Crystal Chime+5 and unequipped my sword to stay under the 70% weight threshold. 8 Estus / 7 Ashen Estus split. SL143. Ring of the Sun's First Born, Morne's Ring, Sage Ring, Estus Ring. Dragoncrest shield (for fire defense) + Crest shield (for Dark defense) that I meant to switch to for the second phase, but didn't. Armor was a random collection of whatever seemed like it might help -- most significant piece was the Winged Knight Armor; I look really goofy. Started game as Deprived and played early game as Dex fighter before switching to mostly pyromancy mid-game. Highest stat is currently 40 Faith -- I did some grinding to get there from 35 to free up a ring slot for an earlier strategy that didn't work. (The 3 guys who drop down on top of the Archive are worth about ~21K souls each with my best grinding gear equipped and are vulnerable to Rapport -- best grinding location I've found so far.)

I'm sure the guys who live and breath this game will be like "Lol, git gud scrub" but it's my first playthrough and I'm just happy I managed to pull it off at all. :p

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Still getting my butt kicked by Dark Souls 3. The end is in sight though. I've already beaten the final boss of the base game, but I'm going through the DLCs. Finished Ashes, but still stuck on the M. boss fight in the Ringed City DLC. (I'm too stubborn to just skip it -- or, well, I have been so far, at least...)

Edit: I did it! Finally beat DS3!

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I have a 1050 Ti running the 580 driver under Linux Mint; it works fine.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm still using DDR3 in some of my systems, so there's probably someone out there who could make use of it -- finding them may be a challenge though.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  • Star Fox 64
  • Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • GoldenEye 007
  • Super Mario 64
  • Star Wars Episode I: Racer
  • Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
  • Perfect Dark

Is that right?

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

In a lot of cases, the distinction doesn't really matter. If it does in a particular application, I'd probably prefer words to make the nuance clear -- but an arrow to cloud + arrow to disk/folder may be appropriate for some of the cases if an icon is required too.

In GIMP 2.10 on my system, there's a small difference between Save and Save As's icons. I think they added a pen over the hard disk the arrow is pointing towards -- presumably to indicate re-labeling? The difference is just barely visually distinguishable on my screen though. There's also an Export option (which has no icon, despite it being something I use a fair bit more than many of the other File menu commands) and a "Send by Email..." option with pencil over some paper with lines on it (presumably lines of text that's too small to be distinct).

xed on my system has an arrow pointing at a line for Save and an arrow with a line plus 3 dots over it for Save As. Only the Save icon is on the toolbar; the other is in the File menu. I've actually never noticed that distinction before, and if I weren't actively looking for save icons in the software I have installed right now, I don't know if I'd have ever noticed...

LibreOffice still has a (very stylized) floppy disk on the toolbar for Save and no icons whatsoever in the file menu on my system.

KolourPaint uses an arrow pointing into the drawer of a filing cabinet in the toolbar, and a much more squashed version of that in the File menu -- along with something additional (a partially filed in text box to indicate relabeling?) above the Save As variant in the File Menu.

Not sure if I have any other software that I still use regularly which has a Save icon... (My browser just uses text without any icons for save from File menu or via right click menu.)

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 15 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Down arrow pointing to a line, box, folder, or similar. Icons like that are what I've seen most commonly in software that has an icon for saving over the last few years.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

First time I recall ever having to call 911 for what I thought was an emergency was when I heard breaking glass followed by seeing smoke pouring out of an apartment complex across the street late at night. No alarms were going off, which was weird. I was in a bit of a mild panic when I called them, and blanked hard when they asked me for my phone number. They must have gotten it from caller ID fine though since they were able to call me back later -- but I felt really stupid to have blanked on that... By the time the fire truck got there, the smoke was already long gone. In retrospect, I should've recorded a clip with my phone -- but I wasn't expecting it to just go away. When I was called back, I went out and explained what I'd saw and pointed out the location. They couldn't find anything amiss, but after discussion concluded that what I'd probably seen was someone vaping (out of sight) in the (open air) hallway. They weren't sure what the glass was, but I found shards in the street the next day -- I think someone chucked a bottle into the middle of the road.

I've had to call 911 a bunch of times since then ("911" shows up on 28 different days in my journal), including for myself twice to get to a hospital. The first time I had to call 911 for myself I couldn't find the keypad on my smartphone to enter "911" since it had gotten shuffled to somewhere I wasn't expecting in an update. I found it eventually, and thankfully the issue was just my first panic attack rather than an actual heart attack...

Most of the rest of the times I've had to call were about traffic accidents (or sometimes for people who seemed to have lost touch with reality) while living in an apartment in a downtown area. Worst was when someone was not moving, covered in blood and lying in the middle of the road after a car crash. An ambulance came and took him away about as quick as you could hope for in such circumstances, but looking at him lying there... that guy was probably already dead. Police were out there for hours afterwards with tape blocking off the road and photographing the scene and everything.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can probably find a way to make it work as a setting, but you should try to come up with a plot if you want to tell a story. Who are your characters? What do they want? What's stopping them from getting what they want, and how do they deal with that? What will make the reader/player care about what happens to your characters in this post-apocalyptic setting?

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As another data point for you: it's not just piefed. I'm seeing no link over here from reddthat (lemmy) either -- just an image and body text (i.e. the TL;DR).

What did mbin do with images and links?

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
 

I had some free time this weekend and I've spent some of it trying to learn Go since mlmym seems to be unmaintained and I'd like to try to fix some issues in it. I ran into a stumbling block that took a while to solve and which I had trouble finding relevant search results for. I've got it solved now, but felt like writing this up in case it helps anyone else out.

When running most go commands I tried (e.g. go mod init example/hello or go run hello.go or even something as seemingly innocuous as go doc cmd/compile when a go.mod file exists) the command would hang for a rather long time. In most cases, that was about 20~30 seconds, but in one case -- trying to get it to output the docs about the compile tool -- it took 1 minute and 15 seconds! This was on a relatively fresh Linux Mint install on old, but fairly decent hardware using golang-1.23 (installed from apt).

After the long wait, it would print out go: RLock go.mod: no locks available -- and might or might not do anything else depending on the command. (I did get documentation out after the 1min+ wait, for example.)

Now, there's no good reason I could think of why printing out some documentation or running Hello World should take that long, so I tried looking at what was going on with strace --relative-timestamps go run hello.go > trace.txt 2>&1 and found this in the output file:

0.000045 flock(3, LOCK_SH)         = -1 ENOLCK (No locks available)
25.059805 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=3691, tv_nsec=443533733}) = 0

It was hanging on flock for 25 seconds (before calling clock_gettime).

The directory I was running in was from an NFS mount which was using NFSv3 unintentionally. File locking does not work on NFSv3 out of the box. In my case, changing the configuration to allow it to use NFSv4 was the fix I needed. After making the change a clean Hello World build takes ~5 seconds -- and a fraction of a second with cache.

After solving it, I've found out that there are some issues related to this open already (with a different error message -- cmd/go: "RLock …: Function not implemented") and a reply on an old StackOverflow about a similiar issue from one of the developers encouraging people to file a new issue if they can't find a workaround (like I did). For future reference, those links are:

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